[Xerte-dev] Re: New editor

[Julian Tenney]

> We could kick start that before and after the online meeting?
Yes, sure. One of the things we will need to look at in the Apereo work is to make it clearer how things get done, so we ought to just know where to log feature requests, issues, wish list stuff, etc.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 07 August 2014 10:52
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New editor

The ability to hide pages or turn pages on and off in each of the templates would be very useful. Many people are used to doing this in tools like Moodle as well as more dynamic date/time based or interaction based conditional realease.

We can already do conditional release to some extent in the xot template by using the historic option and turning off some or all of the navigation on a particular page. I've done this in f2f training to 'release' the next pages/section/activities once everyone in the group is ready to move on.

I've also used this to effectively hide pages for remote access LO's e.g. set navigation to historic (or hide the table of contents icon via css if you want the usual linear navigation) and then hide the next button on the last page you want to show. Then move any pages you want to hide down the tree beneath that last page and back again when you want them to show.

Importing from other projects has always been something people ask for - again many are familiar with this from Moodle or PowerPoint etc

A couple of weeks ago I was doing some testing of the new editor and liaising with Tom and John and we discussed where best to list issues as well as wish list items and suggestions etc. We concluded that github was probably the best place but we need to use the tagging features there to categories and keep each task itemised rather than all mixed up  in longer descriptions. Perhaps we use this kind of discussion format on the dev list in combination with itemisation on github?

I've been making local notes for the moment (issues, wish list, ideas etc) and plan to find some time to dedicate in September. We could kick start that before and after the online meeting?

Cheers
Ron

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: 07 August 2014 09:50
To: xerte at pgogywebstuff.com<mailto:xerte at pgogywebstuff.com>; For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New editor

I thought about that in bootstrap so you could have a course home, a course start date and then automagically drop new weekly pages into view as the course progressed. Be very easy to add that.

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 Pat L (pgogy)
Sent: 06 August 2014 17:01
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New editor

page conditional release could be interesting?

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
I just wondered if it would be a useful for if people were adding content to existing projects that were already being used. So you could keep new pages hidden until you’ve completed them. No idea if it would actually be used though, it was just a maybe it could be useful comment.

Ignore my preview from current page comment - apparently you can already do that by doing Shift – Preview


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<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy)
Sent: 06 August 2014 16:19
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New editor

We've mumbled about a copy page option before - the media is the issue
You could also have page library files as well - so maybe one consistent home page for all your pieces
Not sure what "hidden" page gives you, if only you can see it?

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
I’ve just been having a proper play with the new editor Tom and John have been working on and it looks great.

It started me thinking about other new features that could be useful in the future - although I’m sure you have enough to be going on with finishing it as it is!

I was looking at Captivate last week and it had the option to preview a whole project or preview from a particular point. I could see that a similar ‘Preview from current page’ option could be useful when editing a page towards the end of a large project in Toolkits.

I was also wondering about the potential for pages you add to be on/off so you could, for example, work on adding extra content to an existing project without having to make a copy. Some kind of check box next to the page list to show which pages would appear when published. I know you can kind of do this with preview / publish but something more obvious to show what content is live and so it’s not as easy to accidentally publish the wip to the live version.

Also, importing pages from other projects you’ve made – more complicated but I could see it might be something that people would use.


The new editor looks really good though, I can see that it will really interest those who wanted to feel like they can more easily customise the standard pages.

Fay


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