[Xerte] Re: PDF guide on the WIKI appears not to be working

Wed Mar 23 17:57:25 GMT 2011

Thanks Tom for your kind words regarding the Page Wizards, it's always good
to know that something you have worked hard on is appreciated.

Sorry about the broken link, I'm not sure what has happened there. The link
to the previous issue of the guide is still working and the only differences
should be the descriptions of any Page Wizards that were added in the last
release. Meanwhile I will see if I can re-upload the current documentation.

I have recently updated the Page Wizards to incorporate some updates to the
models made in the PageTemplates versions of the pages as well as an
additional page. I am just waiting for some bugs with one of the
PageTemplates page models to receive Julian's tender ministrations so that I
can duplicate the fix into the Page Wizards. Once I have done this there
will be an updated release of the Page Wizards and an update to the
Documentation.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 23 March 2011 16:47, Peter Rainger <
Peter.Rainger at geneticseducation.nhs.uk> wrote:

>  This PDF guide on the WIKI appears not to be working? Can someone email
> me a copy?
>
>
> http://wiki.xerte.net/index.php5?title=Image:Guide_to_installing_and_using_Page_Wizards.pdf
>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Pete
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Peter Rainger
> *Sent:* 23 March 2011 16:21
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Help getting started using / editing interactions
>
>
>
> Finally cracked it!
>
>
>
> When installing a Model / wizard I had assumed you could save the files in
> the same folder as the main folder containing your learning object…. instead
> I needed to create new sub-folders for each new model/wizard added to the
> object!!
>
>
>
> It would be useful to make this explict on the WIKI somewhere. As the
> message "the folder is already in use" was not clear enough as I thought
> "yes that’s ok its in use for the object I am working on"
>
>
>
> Pete
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Peter Rainger
> *Sent:* 23 March 2011 15:50
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Help getting started using / editing interactions
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I'm using the JK page wizards and importing them as I mentioned in attempt
> (2) below…. but to no success.
>
>
>
> I can't get the data to load into the published object only the holding
> page for the interaction, the interactions themselves won't appear?
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Pete
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Tom Reijnders
> *Sent:* 23 March 2011 11:59
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Help getting started using / editing interactions
>
>
>
> 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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