[Xerte] Editing products of templates?
Lockley Patrick
Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk
Tue Jul 15 09:46:53 BST 2008
Hi again,
There should be the scorm 1.2 version somewhere on the site as well.
Apologies for only giving the link to 2004.
I've just generated a scorm 2004 package and got no password prompts?
Uploaded and worked as expected into WebCT (using ie7).
I'm not sure how the xerte code creates the zip - but I am sure it
wouldn't password protect without asking for a password.
Is it possible that your local zip software is set by default to provide
a password?
Pat
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Sent: 14 July 2008 19:29
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
Thanks for the offer. Before I mail you the file, I need to clear up
something.
The test suite at the site you linked seems to be for Scorm 2004,
whereas our WebCT is only Scorm 1.02. Could that be the problem?
Unfortunately, the wizard does not let me choose the Scorm version. Is
there a way to tell which version the wizard is packaging?
Another clear problem is firefox. I tried running some scorm packs I
had uploaded and run before within WebCT. In Firefox 3, even the one
from eXe reported lack of content, though it showed the table of
contents. When I ran that from IE, it still worked fine.
I also discovered that when I tried to unzip my scorm locally, I could
see the files, but it was expecting a password. I'll have to see if all
scorm zips are password protected, or only the ones from that wizard.
Date sent: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:31:40 +0100
From: "Lockley Patrick"
<Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
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> Well the innards aren't my part of the world (I'm helping to extend
> the xerte template into an online xerte suite).
>
> I think you'd be ok cutting and pasting template xml, I wouldn't want
> to cut and paste normal xerte xml.
>
> Have you the scorm test suite?
>
> http://www.adlnet.gov/downloads/downloadPage.aspx?id=277
>
> I use that to test my packages. It's a bit fiddly but it tells you
> pretty quickly why they don't work.
>
> If it's a small zip (shall we say under 8 meg or so) email me and I
> can test (please don't email it to the list though).
>
> Cheers
>
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> jventola at verizon.net
> Sent: 14 July 2008 16:18
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> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
>
> Thanks, Pat.
>
> That helps a lot. It sounds like merging is pretty tough at the
> moment--cutting and pasting xml sounds daunting since you have to keep
> the proper structure.
>
> My new problem is that the unit I prepared with the pages template and
> published as scorm will not load into WebCT. That could be a problem
> at the college, although I was able to load scorms that I made without
> using a wizard.
>
> Over the weekend I looked up xmlx and sawmill--Xerte has some
> intersting innards.
>
> Jim
>
>
> Date sent: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:48:15 +0100
> From: "Lockley Patrick"
> <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk>
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
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>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sorry for the delay on this one as it's more advanced than I'm used
> > to
> > :)
> >
> > The RLT - Holds all the code and complicated actions to allow the
> > xml to work when ran in the player.
> > The XWD is a Xerte Wizard - this configures the page types of the
> > wizard The XML is the data made by using the template and wizard
> >
> > If you open the RLT, it will use the XML file to populate itself -
> > changes are saved then saved to the XML.
> >
> > The XML needs the other two parts to make sense of it. Xerte
> > normally opens and saves RLOs - but this is when you've not set up a
template.
> >
> > If you want to do two different things (features wise) make two
> > templates (a basic file set is one RLT, one xwd and one initial XML
> > - only the XML will change as the user develops it).
> >
> > Merging across templates would involve cuting and pasting XML at the
> > moment.
> >
> > I'm not sure on the file types - an XTP is all the files a template
> > would need (it's a zip file renamed).
> >
> > Hope this helps (Julian will be back next week with no doubt a
> > better answer).
> >
> > Pat
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
> > jventola at verizon.net
> > Sent: 11 July 2008 19:50
> > To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > Subject: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
> >
> > Executive Summary: After I make a lesson with a wizard (template?)
> > how
>
> > do I edit it in full Xerte and merge it with another lesson?
> >
> > I finally got around to exploring the Xerte install folder and
> > discovered Wizard/pageTemplates.xtp. Wow. Wonderful. Where has
> > this been all week? With this wizard, I can do just about
> > everything I need including a quiz with individual feedback.
> > Brilliant.
> >
> > But I do not understand templates in Xerte. I need an overview.
> > Usually, you load a template and use it to make and save a new
> > document (as in Word) and the resulting doc is editable in the
> > application software. So I would have expected to end up with an
> > rlo
>
> > file that I could then open in Xerte. But the template interface
> > can only save another template.
> > (That's bearable since I can just publish it or package it.) But,
> > say
>
> > I want to change a propety like streaming or loop or play on the
> > sound. I cannot load the file into Xerte except as a template and
> > that template may not offer the option. If I close the template, I
> > see Xerte, but I do not have my lesson to edit--only the logic of
> > the
> wizard.
> >
> > I haven't gotten around to models yet. Maybe that is how you do it?
> > And is that how you merge stuff created with one template into a
> > presentation begun with another? Suppose I had two templates, each
> > of
>
> > which makes doing something I want in one lesson easy. How do I
> > manage that?
> >
> > Similarly, what are all the filetypes of Xerte? In the Xerte folder
> > I
>
> > see ico files for rlo, rla, rlm, and rlt--not to mention xlm and
xwd.
> > And the pageTemplate is an xtp file. Is this explained anywhere?
> >
> > Thanks again for the help.
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