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

[Tom Reijnders]

I am not sure I understand the solution completely (I understand the  
issue though) but I/we can have look Jonathan. It would be good to  
tackle this one as well.


Citeren Kemp Johnathan <johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com>:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I hope things ease off for you in the near future.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 13 March 2012 14:24, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Johnathan
>>
>>
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