[Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties

[Pat Lockley]

I think there is a big case for an API to be honest - allows a lot of
stuff to happen

but that's just me

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Yes.
>
> I don't think many people have done anything, but accessing the raw data easily is really useful if you want to start messing with it, putting into other formats etc, so if it's not on the properties tab, as long as it's available (and you can find out how to get it) that's OK. I found it very useful to build the mobile stuff we played around with.
>
> So you might have a sequence of API-like calls, i.e.
>
> http://server.com/toolkits/getInfo_1234
>
> //returns info to tell you what you can expect and in what format, or what params you can use in your request for the data.
>
> Can XML *always* be output as JSON and vice versa? I suppose you can always crunch what you get for the format you need, but better to get what you need straight away,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 29 October 2012 13:25
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties
>
> Also, would JSON export be more useful / as useful as XML export?
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> WordPress has a theme supports function, so I am thinking of having a
>> list to indicate the tabs per template, or something similar
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 1, 2 & 3
>>> Personally I don't think it's a necessity that the same tabs exist
>>> for all templates but I suspect it's easier to just display a message
>>> like 'This property is not relevant to this template' than it is to
>>> change the code to dynamically change tabs based on the template in use.
>>>
>>> 4
>>> Increase the properties window size and display 'This property is not
>>> relevant to this template' for Xerte templates?
>>>
>>> Just my quick thoughts...
>>> Ron
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
>>> Lockley
>>> Sent: 29 October 2012 12:48
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] 1.9 properties
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On the properties panel there are several options which are sort of
>>> xerte specific - XML and media and quota for example.
>>>
>>> Some of the new templates aren't XML, so XML makes no sense - and the
>>> media and quota code is very xerte specific.
>>>
>>> Would people think
>>>
>>> 1) all off these options should exist for all templates?
>>> 2) should tabs exist even if the functionality doesn't?
>>> 3) what sort of message should it say
>>> 4) what if I have scope for an extra tab?
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