[Xerte-dev] Re: How to display page id?

Wed Nov 27 16:04:12 GMT 2013

The link to page functionality should cope, because it just builds a list of page titles, and their IDs, it doesn't care what the ID is. Changing the ID later will screw it up though.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 27 November 2013 16:00
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: How to display page id?

I like the fact that the LinkID is automatically generated but I think that to do some clever things (like grouping pages into sections - like Ron2's example) it would still be nice to be able to change this to a different format, hence the reason for retaining PageID... It lets you call the page 'Section1Page3' for example rather than PG1366967268944. That way you can parse all the page titles to check that every 'SectionX' page has been complete...

Or should we just show that field and then allow it to be changed? Will the "Link to Page" functionality in the Wizard cope with that?

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 3:52 PM
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: How to display page id?

> In saying this I am assuming that changes to xwd files are no longer being updated to desktop Xerte.
If anyone is updating it, it isn't me.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: 27 November 2013 15:50
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: How to display page id?

XOT automatically creates a unique id for each page as it is created, shown in the xml for the page as linkID. A typical value might be linkID="PG1366967268944". However this information has to date not been displayed to the page Author or to anyone viewing the learning object. As this value was not available to the author I added the PageID attribute to pages so that connections could be specified for the connector pages.

As I have indicated in a previous post, PageID became redundant for XOT once Julian implemented the Page Link feature, so I removed the PageID attribute from the XOT Connector pages, as there were two versions of the xwd form definitions for the connector pages, one for XOT and one for Xerte. Since there was only one form definition for each of the non-connector pages I left the PageID in as an optional attribute to retain compatibility with Xerte.
If there is any plan to make a unique identifier visiible to the author  / reviewer then it might be appropriate to use the unique identifier created by XOT and to dispense completely with the PageID attribute.
In saying this I am assuming that changes to xwd files are no longer being updated to desktop Xerte.
Kind regards

Johnathan

On 27 November 2013 14:05, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk>> wrote:
Sounds like you could benefit from a full solution which keeps the comments with the pages etc. It shouldn't be too hard to build such functionality onto the exiting peer review...