[Xerte] Re: Problem Getting Started with Page Wizards - for attention of JK

[Kemp Johnathan]

Hello again Deborah,

I have just noticed that you are the same Deborah who posted about Narration
problems.

The support for narration is provided at a project level rather than a page
level. Most pages have a narration property that allows a sound file to be
attached to the page, but the code that handles this is not in the page but
in an Entry Frame that is placed as the first icon off the interface.

Page Wizards gain Narration support by the inclusion of a Narration.rlm
Xerte model file, which is attached to an Entry Frame at the start of a Page
Wizard based project, This file can be downloaded from the Page Wizards page
of the Xerte wiki. However I have not updated the narration model yet in the
light of your recent discussions as I am waiting to see how things bed in
with the changes. Once I am sure the changes have finalised I will look at
their implications for the narration.rlm file that is supplied for use with
the Page Wizards.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 2 March 2011 13:19, Kemp Johnathan <johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Have you seen the posting I made about 9 minutes ago? I wonder if our
> postings have crossed.
>
> Looking at your latest picture It looks like the wizards are installed
> correctly as they are listing in Xerte.
>
> However your second image suggests to me that you have created a page using
> a page wizard, but that you are then trying to open it by opening the folder
> you created it in and directly opening the .rlm file.
>
> What you need to do is close Xerte.
>
> Now open Xerte and open the project folder (it has a .rlo extension) by
> default when you do File / Open in Xerte you will only see .rlo files
> listed.
>
> Once you have the project open you should see the interface icon in the
> project tree with at least a single ordinary page icon as this is the
> default structure that Xerte creates when you create a new project. If you
> have added any Page Wizard based pages you will see them also listed in the
> project structure. The icons look the same as the page icon, but have a
> "dot" or "circle" on them that denotes they have a wizard attached. Just
> double click on the page icon to open the wizard.
>
> When you create a page based on a Page Wizard the .xcp file for that Page
> Wizard is unzipped by Xerte into the folder you selected. Hence you can see
> in your ...pages\title page folder the Xerte model file, the Xerte wizard
> file and the xml document file. Xerte continues to use the Wizard file and
> the xml document file, but the model file is only used by Xerte when you
> first create the page as it uses it to copy the icon structure of the model
> into the Xerte project. Part of this process includes writing the correct
> templateData path to the model. So if you open the page wizard based page
> from Xerte it should work fine. However since the model file remains
> unchanged by Xerte the templateData path value is not updated. So if you try
> to open this it will open in Xerte but when you click on the Page Icon Xerte
> will collapse to the task bar as it cannot find the associated wizard and
> xml data files.
>
> I have just had a message displayed that you have made another posting to
> the list. So maybe things are working for you now. If not the above may be
> useful to you. Whatever the exercise will have done me good :-)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 2 March 2011 12:55, Deborah Delin <admin at strivney.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> It is very kind of you to take the time to spell out the instructions
>> again.  I had actually done exactly what you said.
>>
>> I am confident the wizards are installed correctly (see screenshot).
>>  Maybe I have the files in the wrong places although I followed instructions
>> to the letter.....
>>
>> From what you say Xerte isn't setting the templateData path correctly:
>>
>>  FileLocation + 'pageDataFolder/pageDataFile.xml'
>>
>> Maybe it's my folder structure:
>> Project folder contains Xerte file (grey square blue globe), Common folder
>> and Pages folder
>> Pages folder contains Title Page folder
>> Title Page folder contains Xerte Model, Xerte Wizard and XML document
>>
>> It would really help me if you could tell me what the icon looks like
>> which is supposed to open the wizard and what the wizard screen should look
>> like - i.e. is it the same as the Template Wizard /Online Toolkits screen?
>>
>> I am really sorry to be such a nuisance and hope you will bear with me.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Deborah
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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