[Xerte-dev] Re: Getting the page name and title to work in Xerte individual page templates

[Kemp Johnathan]

Nope,

I did manage to do that one as well but it was not the cause of the
problem, see my posting on the Developer list for the answer :-)

JK

On 14 March 2012 09:51, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:

> Not the
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> if (someCondition = true)
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> banana skin? That still gets me from time to time…
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Kemp Johnathan
> *Sent:* 14 March 2012 09:50
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Getting the page name and title to work in
> Xerte individual page templates
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> Sorry I did not get a chance to reply yesterday, I was too busy banging my
> head against the wall over some page templates that refused to work in XOT.
> The answer turned out to be a simple and obvious one, but it cost a lot of
> time before it became obvious what the problem was.
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> I don't know my way around the source code so this will have to wait for
> now. However it this approach is possible it has the advantage of being
> able to be introduced retrospectively after the launch of the individual
> page templates.
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> I hope things ease off for you in the near future.
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> Kind regards
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> Johnathan
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> On 13 March 2012 14:24, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
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> I’m struggling for time to be honest, things here are pretty mental. BY
> all mean have a look in the source code: you’ll need the
> mdm.forms.callfunction to call one function in a form from another form,
> there are examples in there,
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Kemp Johnathan
> *Sent:* 13 March 2012 13:56
> *To:* Xerte Developers Discussion List
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Getting the page name and title to work in Xerte
> individual page templates
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> At present in the desktop xerte with individual page templates, Xerte gets
> the page title for display in the TOC and top left corner of the screen
> from the "title" property of the page icon and not from the "name" field of
> the xml data.
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> Attempts to pass this data over at runtime have so far failed, resulting
> in incorrect page titles displayed and unidentified being displayed in the
> toc.
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> Would it be possible to modify the code that handles the xwd files so that
> it wrote to the page icon's "title" property, the data for the xwd "name"
> field on closure of the xwd form. If that was possible it would solve all
> the runtime problems as the title property value would match the xwd data
> name value. If the "name" property of the page icon was also set to data
> for the xwd's "name" field then this would also help the developer as the
> project tree would also reflect the page name from the xwd data.
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> Kind regards
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> Johnathan
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