[Xerte-dev] Re: Goal

[Julian Tenney]

OK, I think I'm being persuaded.

We need to arrive at a consensus around the new stuff. Maybe 'advanced' is a better section name for the connectors than 'connectors', or maybe it's just a case of think about automating some of the stuff that is correctly configured by the form. The 'displaytext' child really confused me: I had no idea what to do with it, and I know that for some people, that will be very off putting, so it's remembering the FWS mantra, and trying to apply the predictable consistent usability stuff to make it as simple and straightforward as possible. Documentation and examples will be useful as well.


-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 25 April 2012 10:53
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Goal

Yes, I think we did. The only thing missing at the moment, and I am  
working on that is a button in the management.php of XOT to  
add/replace a page in one of the templates.

But, that was NOT the only reason to do this in my opinion. Now all  
the model files are the same whether they are used in XOT or the Xerte  
pagetemplates or as pageWizard, and we can translate them and maintain  
them....

Having done all this, we now have the OPTION (not obligation) to add  
the models Johnathan created to XOT (We don't have to, and a user can  
do that him/herself through the management page.)

Also we still can create an visual clue that some of the pages require  
a better understanding of the whol rpoject than just fill in the blanks.

The users we spoke top so far are  VERY enthousistic by all the  
possibillities they now get from XOT and had to do in Xerte firts.

Also, and that was part of the goal as well, it is now easier for a  
person not in the core team to create models and be able to  
maintain/translate them without redoing all the tedious editing/adding  
them to the general xwd's etc....

Tom



Citeren Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>:

> Have we achieved the goal we set out to of making it easier to build  
> / manage a collection of models  for an administrator wanting to  
> adding his own models? This was one of Ron's requests: has it been  
> achieved?
>
> In other words, with the tools that Tom and Jonathan have built, is  
> it easier for you to create the xwd of your choice, or was it easier  
> when you just had to copy sections of an xwd in a text editor?
>
> A serious question.
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