[Xerte] Working with Templates
jventola at verizon.net
jventola at verizon.net
Fri Aug 15 00:23:08 BST 2008
Congratulations on 2.0. It looks great.
In the Help file is information on "Creating Models and Templates" that
speaks of saving an icon as a model and never mentions templates. What
is the difference? There is also a section on creating templates for dynamic
use, with the data in xml files. But there is no section I can find about using
templates to build your lessons.
I am a user. I have found a wonderful wizard called "pageTemplates" which
is an xtp file. When I double click that, I get all the tools I need in an Insert
drop down. Surely, this is the palce to start. But there is no documentation.
And I do not understand the workflow at all.
I open the xtp fileand create a new rlo file in a folder. The xtp seems to add
a bunch of other files in my folder. I do some work. I go to save it. There is
no SAVE AS only SAVE. (I guess that is because I am in the wizard?)
So I save and close and find myself in the basic Xerte editor. Now I can
save the rlo with any name. I learn that all that stuff from the wizard is in a
framestore. So save and close the rlo.
Now what? How to I get back to edit my project? Do I work with the rlo file?
Do I keep loading the wizard? Do I use the stuff in the framestore?
I need a nice screncast showing how to use a template--from an author's
point of view. Aimed at the newbie, it could even start from a clean install of
Xerte and should include saving and reloading. If it then covered SCORM
publishing, it would give the newbie a good start.
(The free jingproject.com might provide an easy way to create and publish
such screencasts. I use the plural because I hope to see many from
generous users of Xerte.)
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