[Xerte-dev] Re: Hide from menu

[Kemp Johnathan]

I think that for most of the connector pages it is probably most
appropriate to default to having the navigation buttons disabled, but I
think for the menu page it probably makes more sense to have the navigation
buttons enabled. Unlike the other connector pages the menu page can offer
connections automatically and is less likely to be used in situations where
you might want to limit the learner to following one of the options offered.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 2 May 2012 07:37, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hmm. But how to get back to the menu!
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Ron Mitchell
>
> *Sent:* 01 May 2012 17:13
> *To:* 'For Xerte technical developers'
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Hide from menu
>
>
>
> 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
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>
>
> I had tried using the menu navigation option in lo properties but with 70+
> pages that didn't quite work! ;-)
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [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,
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<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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