[Xerte] Re: Help getting started using / editing interactions

[Tom Reijnders]

It seems that what you're looking for is Jonathan Kemps' excellent Page 
Wizards. They allow template based creation of pages (page by page ) and 
Xerte level tweeking afterwards.

See http://wiki.xerte.net/index.php5?title=Page_wizards

Op 23-3-2011 12:48, Peter Rainger schreef:
>
> I've used Xerte templates before to create some really good materials. 
> However, I'm trying to move onto creating some bespoke materials and I 
> seem to be coming unstuck.... I've tried two approachs as follows....
>
> 1) Once I've created a Learning Object using the templates I'm unable 
> to open the final learning object XML in Xerte editor (as opposed to 
> the template wizard), doing this would allow me to make small tweaks 
> to the layout and presentation of page and additional media etc. Is 
> this supposed to be possible - or is it too tied in with the templates?
>
> 2) Taking the other approach I create a very simple page-based 
> learning object in the Xerte editor (manually so to speak). Then I 
> think I'd like to add one of the interactions that the templates 
> already do so well.
>
> - Taking a very simple example like "orientation = orient" I try 
> importing a Model to the object.
>
> - The model imports and I'm able to launch a wizard specifically 
> interaction by double-clicking the top-icon for the interaction
>
> - I add some data and save the wizard, close the wizard and I am 
> returned to the Xerte interface
>
> - The data seems to been saved as a separate XML file _orient rather 
> than in the XML of the object I'm working on
>
> - When I preview / publish the object a page is created for the 
> "model" bu not content is loaded into the final output !!!
>
> This means I'm stuck moving beyond the template prescribed content OR 
> forced to code very simple object and manually re-create all the 
> interactions I need which were in the templates... which isn't worth 
> me doing...
>
> Any help, tips or suggestions or pointing out my misconceptions would 
> be very helpful :-)
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Pete
>
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