[Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties

[Julian Tenney]

Is there a wiki?

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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 Pat Lockley
Sent: 29 October 2012 14:13
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties

are we allowed to? *semi serious question*

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> OK!
>
> -----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 14:12
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties
>
> or we could use the community website
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Well, what things would it address: we should make a list somewhere
>> (titanpad?)
>>
>>
>> -----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 14:09
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties
>>
>> Happy to give it a whirl - could I ask for a roadmap in return :)
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Agree. Tend to think you'd be an excellent person to write it!
>>>
>>> -----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 13:58
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties
>>>
>>> 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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