[Xerte] Exported Toolkits RLO running locally

Fred Riley Fred.Riley at nottingham.ac.uk
Thu Feb 25 14:22:20 GMT 2010


Thanks, Pat, that's the assurance I was after.

Fred

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of 
> Patrick Lockley
> Sent: 25 February 2010 10:57
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Exported Toolkits RLO running locally
> 
> I made a fresh template using the "Xerte Online Toolkit" type 
> this morning and exported it and it worked fine.
> 
> There was an issue with the vpt, as a specific example, which 
> will be addressed on the main site later today.
> 
> Obviously the device you run the template on will need flash 
> installed, and you'll need to accept the warning on security 
> warnings if you run it outside of a localhost environment, 
> but bar those, yes, it will work fine, as it does, without 
> the need to rename files.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fred Riley
> Sent: 25 February 2010 10:35
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Exported Toolkits RLO running locally
> 
> Ok, thanks, but this was only a test, and I understand that 
> it's a special case. Can I be assured that, if a LO is 
> created in Xerte Toolkits, it can be run locally offline by 
> exporting it as a zipfile and opening index.htm in a browser, 
> without the need to rename files?
> Thanks. 
> 
> Fred
> 
> Fred Riley
> Learning Technologist
> School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of 
> Nottingham
> Vcard: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/about/fr_uon.vcf  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian 
> > Tenney
> > Sent: 25 February 2010 10:21
> > To: Xerte discussion list
> > Subject: RE: [Xerte] Exported Toolkits RLO running locally
> > 
> > And also rename vpt.xwd to template.xwd
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick 
> > Lockley
> > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:17 AM
> > To: Xerte discussion list
> > Subject: RE: [Xerte] Exported Toolkits RLO running locally
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Hi Fred,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Fixing it on the main site later (this doesn't affect anyone other 
> > than us).
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > When you extract it, can you rename template.xml to be 
> vpt.xml, then 
> > it'll work.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Pat
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick 
> > Lockley
> > Sent: 24 February 2010 21:32
> > To: Xerte discussion list
> > Subject: RE: [Xerte] Exported Toolkits RLO running locally
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > They are - well they have done when we've tested it. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I'll have a look tomorrow
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ________________________________
> > 
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Fred Riley
> > Sent: Wed 24/02/2010 19:37
> > To: Xerte discussion list
> > Subject: RE: [Xerte] Exported Toolkits RLO running locally
> > 
> > It is published, Pat, up and running at 
> > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_298. It's not 
> important that 
> > I get this one to run offline, I was just testing. As you might be 
> > aware, a number of our Nursing colleagues have created RLOs in 
> > Toolkits so I'm after knowing if they can be packaged and 
> run offline 
> > successfully.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Fred Riley
> > Learning Technologist
> > School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of 
> > Nottingham
> > Vcard: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/about/fr_uon.vcf
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > > [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf 
> Of Patrick 
> > > Lockley
> > > Sent: 24 February 2010 17:02
> > > To: Xerte discussion list
> > > Subject: RE: [Xerte] Exported Toolkits RLO running locally
> > >
> > > You need to publish it, before you download.
> > >
> > > We had an internal one do this yesterday, but when I
> > downloaded it it
> > > worked fine?
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > > [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
> > Fred Riley
> > > Sent: 24 February 2010 17:00
> > > To: Xerte discussion list
> > > Subject: [Xerte] Exported Toolkits RLO running locally
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > The Properties | Export tab of a Toolkits LO says:
> > >
> > > "A zip file export will package (but not delete) your
> > project into one
> > > zip file. If you then open this file, the contents can be used to 
> > > deploy your project on any webpage."
> > >
> > > To test, I downloaded an object created a while back on the UoN 
> > > Toolkits installation (don't know the version, sorry), 
> extracted it 
> > > preserving directory structure, and opened index.htm in
> > Firefox 3 and
> > > IE7. In both cases the preloader loaded but that it was 
> it - just a 
> > > blue bar on the page, no LO visible. Any diagnosis? Does
> > owt need to
> > > be tweaked? No big.
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Fred Riley
> > > Learning Technologist
> > > School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of 
> > > Nottingham
> > > Vcard: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/about/fr_uon.vcf
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