[Xerte-dev] Re: Idiots guide wanted to add optional property to wizard

Tue Apr 30 10:00:16 BST 2013

Obvious to us maybe. What about a Suggest a Feature button linking directly to a specific forum to drive them in?

Are the forums getting much use or do they conflict a little with the dist list?

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

The forums are an obvious place on the community site for users to pipe up,

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Idiots guide wanted to add optional property to wizard

Thats a good point actually. We're coming up with all this great functionality but what does the end user want?

Should we have something on the community site, a wishlist type thing, where they can suggest their ideas?

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Is deeplinking something else that needs to be able to be turned on/off or simply controlled by navigation type?

Maybe only the end user knows the answer to that?

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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 Smith, John
Sent: 30 April 2013 09:37
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Idiots guide wanted to add optional property to wizard

Ron got in first, and with some good reasons which gives us another question. Can you skip ahead using &page=xxx without any checking and should you be able to in all situations?

Is deeplinking something else that needs to be able to be turned on/off or simply controlled by navigation type?

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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

Julian
it's already in place and works great! (See the conversation between John and I re Articulate resume functionality etc) However it does need to be an optional property because there are some LO's where you wouldn't want it to be possible to skip direct to specific pages even if pages have been viewed previously. Not just because of non-linear navigation settings but also simply because of context etc. Having this under author control makes sense.
HTH
Ron

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Idiots guide wanted to add optional property to wizard

Add it as an optional property to the learningObject section of the xwd.
Then the author can enable it, and the end user can make use of it. I think I got confused / distracted by the conversation about adding proeprties to each page, you don't need to do that in this case, right? Just one tick box for the author to say 'Enable bookmarking' and then if ticked, your code can run.

As far as old LOs go, there aren't any HTML5 old ones as such - so you could push it in there and have it always on for HTML5 content without any wizard settings? I take it wouldn't work in the flash version (that's fine).

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Idiots guide wanted to add optional property to wizard

Too much confusing terminology....

In my mind it needs added to the wizard so the creator can add it to the LO?
Is the wizard not the editor?

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

So you only need to add it to the LO then?

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Idiots guide wanted to add optional property to wizard

If you turn it on then it adds an extra resume=xxx parameter to the url.
This can then be bookmarred to resume later...

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

This is going to be a property in the wizard? I'm not sure I follow... a property in the wizard for end users?

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Sent: 26 April 2013 15:40
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Idiots guide wanted to add optional property to wizard
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Hi,

I have hashtag deeplinking working now in such a way that partway through a LO you can bookmark your page and return to that page at a later date. It appends the page number as a hash which overrides any other deeplinking options set. I'd like to get this checked in so that I can have a clear out of work-in-progress.

I want to make this optional though so as not to affect any existing LOs.

Can anyone tell me how you add optional properties to the wizard or point me in the general direction of any instructions? Any suggestions as to the name for this optional property also welcome or anything else that comes to mind?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
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