[Xerte-dev] Re: use of info tag in xwd forms

[Julian Tenney]

What's the problem in a nutshell?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: 04 March 2013 22:18
To: Xerte Developers Discussion List
Subject: [Xerte-dev] use of info tag in xwd forms

On the 4th December I posted to the developer list an issue with the xwd forms relating to the use of the "info" tag.

The inclusion of an info tag in the xwd form can result in space being allocated above the info tag for the display of the last few properties in the xwd form definition, but the properties are not visible in the form. You can however confirm their "presence" as the mouse pointer responds to them if moved over the input fields.

You can test this out in Xerte (or XOT) by creating a page using one of the Connector page types. The info tag has been used in these pages to link to a pdf help file that is hosted on the Xerte community web site, but the "language" flagged form properties are no longer all editable, due to the presence of the info tag.

This is a pity as the info tag could be used to provide a link to an external document that gives the Author useful additional information to assist them in making the best use of that page type. e.g.
*         Information about what the page is designed to do
*         Instructions on what the properties in the form are to help in completing the form created by the xwd file;
*         examples of actual uses of that page type in real projects.
*         examples of combining this page type with other page types to achieve a particular pedagogical approach
*         guidance as to how accessible the page is with respect to particular types of user, or what features the page has as optional properties to provide additional accessibility
However at present if the "info" tag is used then the ability to edit the language flagged elements of the page is compromised.

Is this something that is intended to be addressed before the next release of Xerte / XOT?

Sorry to be a nuisance, but it seems such a potentially useful feature it seems a shame not to be able to use it.

Kind regards

Johnathan




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