[Xerte] Re: Help: having created 3-4 pages, additional pages are blank

[Ron Mitchell]

Hi

I look after the sandpit and was able to check your LO. This is not a text
length limitation it's actually a common mistake where you've added an image
and sound page and added the text but no image. With this page type at the
moment if you don't add an image the text won't show either. So either add
an image or copy and paste the text into a text only page an that will solve
the problem.

 

That said you do seem to have a lot of text on some of these pages and so I
wonder if one of the navigator pages would be a better choice to break the
content down into smaller and more navigable chunks?

 

HTH

Ron

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 03 March 2011 10:18
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Help: having created 3-4 pages, additional pages are
blank

 

No, here's no limit in text, but if you re pasting in text from other
sources, it's been known to carry unseen characters into the text that can
break the XML when the file gets saved.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 03 March 2011 10:08
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Help: having created 3-4 pages, additional pages are
blank

 

No limitation I know of.
More likely the text that is not displaying has some characters that are not
being encoded properly.
e.g. if you want to test the limitation theory, take some of the previous
text that *is* displaying and copy it into the next page that is not
displaying.

  _____  

From: S.W.Tapper at exeter.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:42:43 +0000
CC: T.KilnerO'Byrne at exeter.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Help: having created 3-4 pages, additional pages are blank

Hi 

Can anyone tell us if there is a limit to the amount of text that can be
posted onto a page or into the learning object as a whole? Are there
differences between the Sandpit version we are using and and a real
institutional installation?

 

Promting this: a colleague and I are trying the Xerte Sandpit and seeing if
some existing materials can be re-packaged easily.

http://xerte5.techdis.palepurple.co.uk/play_7170 

Adding two more paragraphs of produces a blank page. I had a similar result
testing this separatly on another computer (unfortunately that example was
lost - Xerte had been running slowly and I lost the screen I was working on
and it hadn't saved). Blank pages produced sometimes had the word 'null' on
them.

 

We have yet to try this on the desktop version.

 

I realise our example is extremely text heavy and not ideal use of the
system, but it could be important; and frustrating if an academic reaches a
limit with text.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Simon

 

 

_____________________

Dr Simon Tapper
e-Learning (Education Enhancement)
University of Exeter
710 Laver Building
North Park Road
EXETER
EX4 4QE

Tel: 01392 725718

 

 

 


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