[Xerte] templatePath problem in Page Templates with Desktop Xerte 2

[Dave Burnett]

This is all highly un-researched, just indirect references I found in the archives:


"You need to distinquish between template path and FileLocation when running in toolkits, as the two locations are different. 
FileLocation is the folder where the xml file is; templatePath is the folder where the rlt is. 
Locally, the two are the same."

I did a search in a local copy of XOT and found this in rloObject.js:

var templatePath = rloFile.substr(0, rloFile.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
================

I'm guessing .rloFile refers to the domain path to the .rlo on the server.

So my shot in the dark is you have to make sure templatePath is pointing to the folder where your .rlt is located (not the .rlo), as it looks like it defaults to above).


Dave




From: maryann at moberg.com
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:36:10 -0500
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] templatePath problem in Page Templates with Desktop Xerte 2

We've been using the page wizards to create learning objects that we then load into a flash wrapper application that creates a menu of them so that the user can select them as desired.  

Everything works fine with the wizard created pages when run directly in the browser.  



All xerte pages that are created by hand rather than by page templates work fine when run in our wrapper and also when published and run on their own in a browser.  

The problem comes when we run an rlo file containing wizard-created pages from our flash wrapper - it can't seem to resolve "templatePath" in order to find the panel.swf that I reference. 



We can't find where templatePath is being assigned.  Looked around on the wiki page the source for xerte.swf but couldn't find it.

 
Here's the line from the one of the page template rlm files:


        <DIS tabIndex="-1" id="panel" name="panel" x="-300" y="20" type="ext" url="templatePath + 'common/whitePanel.swf'"><![CDATA[]]></DIS>



Tried substituting "fileLocation" for it but that didn't work.  


What did work is just removing "templatePath"  from the url like this:
        <DIS tabIndex="-1" id="panel" name="panel" x="-300" y="20" 
type="ext" url="'common/whitePanel.swf'"><![CDATA[]]></DIS>

Here's how we're loading the rlo file in our flash wrapper:


        this._parent.attachMovie('Xerte', 'myRLO', 0).init('DABB.rlo', 230, 80, 1020, 640);



In short, we've figured out a way to edit the rlo files so that they work in our wrapper but then they don't work outside of it.  

Hoping there's a way to get the same file to work in both situations.



Thanks!!
ma





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