[Xerte-dev] Re: Connectors

[Ron Mitchell]

The only additional thing that springs to mind right now is whether there
can be a check whether the project is a pages/page wizard project and in
that case the pageList control isn't used and the old manually added pageID
is used instead. I guess Jonathan is best placed to know whether that would
work and what would be involved.

 

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 November 2012 09:12
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Connectors

 

We need to figure out how we are going to deal with the connectors.

 

Summary

- We want to use the new pageList control in the wizard to allow users to
create and use linkIDs behind the scenes. Users will simply select the name
of the page they want to jump to from the pageList control. The pagelist
control writes the linkID of the selected page to the attribute's value.

- This means re-working the connector pages to use the linkID rather than
pageID (I don't think this is hard / lengthy)

- This brings a big improvement to the connectors in toolkits.

[so far so good

 

The same thing would also work with a page templates project in standalone
xerte. Project's could still be round-tripped to toolkits and back again.

[so far so good still]

 

Problem

The problem is with the page wizards. When using the wizard there, there is
no way of getting a list of pages in the piece, or generating linkIDs for
them, so this approach won't work. Now there are many problems, because the
page wizards share the code with the page templates models.

 

Considerations

Xerte standalone is pretty much at the end of its life. 

Hardly anyone uses page wizards in standalone xerte.

 

Before we discuss options, is there anything else to add to this summary?
Please keep comments short and to the point so that we can get a clear sight
of the problem and the options we have available.

 

 

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