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Fri Oct 16 15:50:31 BST 2009

That doesn't surprise me! That could well be the best tact.

Cheers
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:45
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Setting up an LDAP string is about 5 minutes. I've found most systems people can be bribed with coke or cake.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:42
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Current Page

Our Blackboard only authenticates locally. When we switch to Moodle over the next year we'll either be using LDAP or Shib.

Adam
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 Adam Read
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 tel: 01752 636700 ext: 5673
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:21
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How does your moodle or blackboard do it?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:18
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Hi Paul

Yes do please! It'd be much better from an administrative point of view to create accounts in a database.

I suppose I should probably just pluck up the courage and ask Computing Services if they'll let me authenticate via our Active Directory....
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 Adam Read
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 tel: 01752 636700 ext: 5673
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Beckwith
Sent: 16 October 2009 10:34
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Hi Adam,

We are currently in need of a solution for this too, we would like to authenticate against an existing mysql database. Maybe we could put our heads together on this? I'll have a look at the code this afternoon and let you know how far I get with it...

Cheers,

Paul

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: 16 October 2009 08:26
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Ah, I thought they might be a simple authentication against users stored in the database. I guess I could code one?

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 Adam Read
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 University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

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 tel: 01752 636700 ext: 5673
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 15 October 2009 18:43
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It takes LDAP by default if you use index.php

if you want you can use integration.txt to write your own system, demo.txt to use no authentication, or switch.txt to run a crude hard coded system.

Or there is a moodle patch.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Adam Read
Sent: Thu 15/10/2009 15:38
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Current Page
Thanks Pat

No, I don't want to use LDAP. I left all the LDAP fields as default which I presume means it's not trying to authenticate that way?

Or am I missing the fact it'll only authenticate using LDAP?

Adam
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 Adam Read
 Learning Technologist
 University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

 aread at marjon.ac.uk<mailto:aread at marjon.ac.uk>
 tel: 01752 636700 ext: 5673
 Room 566, Kirby Cudmore Building
 twitter.com/adamread<http://www.twitter.com/adamread>

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 15 October 2009 15:20
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Current Page

LDAP installed?

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Adam Read
Sent: Thu 15/10/2009 11:23
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Hmm I've installed XOT on ISS (at http://elearning.net.marjon.ac.uk/rlo/ ) and ran through the full setup without problems. However when I try to login using my admin account (which I specified in the setup) I get a "The website cannot display the page  HTTP 500"  error.

Anyone experienced this? Any suggestions?

Thanks

Adam
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 Adam Read
 Learning Technologist
 University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

 aread at marjon.ac.uk<mailto:aread at marjon.ac.uk>
 tel: 01752 636700 ext: 5673
 Room 566, Kirby Cudmore Building
 twitter.com/adamread<http://www.twitter.com/adamread>

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 October 2009 10:53
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rootIcon.currentPage

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Beckwith
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:54 AM
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Subject: [Xerte] Current Page

In .rlt we have an event handler for onOpenPage.

We need to know the "current page" that we are on so that we can update page titles and a progress bar. We currently have: extXML.firstChild.childNodes[rootIcon.getPageIndex()] which is always returning "0" or the first page...

How do we extract the current page number? Or current XML generated page that is being displayed? (from template.xml)

We can get the total number of pages (childNodes) from extXML.firstChild.childNodes.length but not the current page being displayed.

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