[Xerte-dev] Re: Hide from menu

[Ron Mitchell]

I was finding it a bit of a chore testing the youtube changes in the test
server page types example so have just added a menu connector as the first
page of that LO using the listed pages option to only show a button for the
first page in each section.
http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=22

 

I had tried using the menu navigation option in lo properties but with 70+
pages that didn't quite work! ;-)

 

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 01 May 2012 16:47
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Hide from menu

 

Thanks,

 

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp
Johnathan
Sent: 01 May 2012 16:41
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Hide from menu

 

The menu connector page offers the following features

 

By default it lists every page in the project, irrespective of whether it
has a page ID or not.

 

You can if you wish as an alternative to the default supply a start page ID
and the menu will then list all pages in the project from (and including)
the start page onwards. Additionally you can supply an end page ID and the
menu will list only up to (and including) the end page. Pages listed as
start or end pages must be given a page ID. So you could easily set up menus
such as "all pages from page 5 onwards", "all pages up to page 8" only or
"pages 5 through 8".

 

As a further alternative you can supply a list of page IDs, entered one per
line in a text box (like entering bullets in the bullet page) This will
construct a menu only of the pages listed. 

 

By combining the different types of menus you could have a project set up
like the following

 

Title page

Contents menu (selected pages being the menu page for each chapter)

Chapter 1 menu (using a start and end page id to bracket only the pages in
this chapter

Pages 1 - n of chapter 1

Chapter 2 menu (using a start and end page id to bracket only the pages of
chapter 2

Pages 1 to n of chapter 2

 

etc.

 

In any example above where a page ID is specified then that page must be
given a page ID.

 

I think this pretty much covers any combination of menu that anyone might
want.

 

Kind regards

 

Johnathan

 

On 1 May 2012 11:55, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi,

 

I'm going to add a new optional property to every page: hideFromMenu.

 

It will hide pages you want hiding from the menu generated when you use the
menu navigation: it means you can create a menu of n items, where each item
has m pages in it.

 

Before I do that, it seems this is also relevant to connectors: Jonathan,
have you already done anything to facilitate this?

 

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