[Xerte-dev] Re: Start page/ deep linking

[Smith, John]

Yes your last paragraph is exactly what i was thinking www would do but just wanted to be sure before i commit code.

At present xenith has a method which is passed a parameter. The parameter is checked against linkIDs, then pageIDs (just in case) and then if its numeric will be assumed to be a page number.

Will try to get it committed tonight so that we can test it with existing stuff.

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:


Are there a range of slightly different things here?

I know there's code somewhere to allow an author to hold down shift when clicking play in the editor to jump straight to the selected icon - which presumably uses linkID in some way

and we also have a javascript call that can be added as a hyperlink to jump to a another page within an LO either by page title or pageID which is to change to linkID

But the way I expect the deep linking will be used is:

Both Authors and viewers can share a direct external link to a specific page by appending &page=x to the public url. e.g. a viewer see's an LO and thinks page 5 will be of interest to a colleague and can now send a direct link to that page

Authors will have access to see and append linkID=x to a specific page as a more reliable link e.g. will still work if page order is changed e.g. only authors will have access to the linkID's to be able to create specific links like this

both page=x and linkID=x make use of an oninitComplete function in the .rlt and xmlengine.swf and a getURLParam function in rloObject.js

I don't think play.php has any bearing on these methods of deeplinking apart from perhaps the cause of the links not working in IE via play.php even though they work when the LO is outside of play.php e.g. index.htm?page=x

Ideally we need play_html5.php to work in the same way e.g. a viewer can use play_html5.php?&page=x and an author can use play_html5.php?&linkID=x

HTH
Ron

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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 Ron Mitchell
Sent: 15 November 2012 19:07
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Start page/ deep linking

In the flash version I set it to work with the following:

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=159&linkID=PG1352114465620

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=159&page=3

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=159&pageID=advanced

Sounds like pageID might not be needed anymore but can't see there being any hurt in including it.

Reminder: all the above work in all browsers apart from IE :-( (see previous thread for more info)

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 15 November 2012 17:51
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Start page/ deep linking

Id like to get this into xenith sooner rather than later as it'll be great for testing purposes when we need to reload the player after editing the model.

Anyone have an idea of how the link ID/page no will be passed to the php page and subsequently into the engine? By page= or similar parameter or within the URL? Would rather write once and have it just work when the editor stuff is written.

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII

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