[Xerte] Developing xerte models from toolkits .rlm files

Thu Sep 10 14:27:22 BST 2009

Dear "Richly deserved award winning Xerte team",

If I have understood your reply you are referring to the Xerte online
tookits installation where you could find the models in

c:\xampp\htdocs\xertetoolkits\modules\xerte\parent_templates\Nottingham\
models

if you were using the Xampp installation.

I think I have effectively started working with the same set of files
but by creating an empty Xerte template based project and looking in the
models folder of the project.

However both sets of .rlm model files provide the same problem - they
are based around templateData. For example the getPageID script in the
accNav model contains
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pageIcon = icon.parentNode.clip();
myXML = new XML(extXML.firstChild.childNodes[rootIcon.getPageIndex() -
pgOffset]);
pageIcon.templateData = myXML.toObject();

rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);

itemCount = pageIcon.templateData.accNav[0].nestedPage.length);

panelWidth = pageIcon.templateData.accNav[0].panelWidth;
_____________________________________________

This needs re-working to use in a non-template based Xerte project -
unless I am missing a trick here :-)

For example I changed the above to the text below, in an attempt to get
the code to reference back to the Xerte icons rather than an external
XML file supported by a wizard.
_______________________________________________
pageIcon = icon.parentNode.clip();

//myXML = new XML(extXML.firstChild.childNodes[rootIcon.getPageIndex() -
pgOffset]);
//pageIcon.templateData = myXML.toObject();

//rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);

//itemCount = pageIcon.templateData.accNav[0].nestedPage.length);
itemCount = icon.parentNode.findChildNodes('name','protoPane').length;

//panelWidth = pageIcon.templateData.accNav[0].panelWidth;
panelWidth = icon.parentNode.attributes.panelWidth;
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My original question was based on the assumption that the models might
first have been created as Xerte models and then the scripts modified
for use with external xml and a wizard file.

If these .rlms are all that is available then any pointers as to the
easiest way to use them in Xerte without using a template, so that full
scripting capability can be retained, would be welcomed.

Kind regards

Johnathan

Johnathan Kemp
ICT Development Coordinator
Connexions Staffordshire
www.cxstaffs.co.uk <http://www.cxstaffs.co.uk/> 
01785 355714

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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: 10 September 2009 13:05
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Developing xerte models from toolkits .rlm files

Dear "Award winning" xerte team :)

The RLMs are all in the
download,modules/xerte/parent_templates/Nottingham/models

You can add xerte content on one page templates.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Johnathan Kemp
Sent: Thu 10/09/2009 13:02
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Developing xerte models from toolkits .rlm files

Hello Xerte Team,

Unless I have failed to understand something, it is not possible to work
in Page Templates and have access to the power of the underlying Xerte
icons e.g. for scripting.

To try and get the best of both worlds I started to reverse engineer a
Xerte model from the accordion .rlm file, loading it into Xerte as a
model and then trying to work my way around all the references to
template data etc.

Then it occurred to me, that perhaps in the initial development of the
page templates perhaps the Xerte models had been created.

So my question is, does a set of Xerte models exist, equivalent to the
set of .rlm files used by pageTemplates, that would work in Xerte rather
than requiring a related template file? 

If so, are they available for downloading?

This could save a lot of time in trying to re-engineer the models from
the current .rlm files.

Kind regards

Johnathan

Johnathan Kemp
ICT Development Coordinator
Connexions Staffordshire
www.cxstaffs.co.uk <http://www.cxstaffs.co.uk/> 
01785 355714

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