[Xerte] Re: media upload - docx support

[Julian Tenney]

You could. There is a new 'newWindow' page type specifically for opening resources you load up through upload in a window you can control the size of.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 27 May 2011 11:01
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: media upload - docx support

Ah - so I could still link to animated gifs and therefore include them in a learning sequence. Sounds good.

A

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 27 May 2011 10:58
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: media upload - docx support

Media upload is for the things that don't work in flash

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Yes. Animated gifs don't animate in flash. I think.
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
> Sent: 27 May 2011 10:53
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: media upload - docx support
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> I notice in the allowed uploads that gif files are allowed.
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> I always assumed they weren't - certainly I've never got an animated gif to
> work in Xerte much as I would like to.
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> Or is it that gifs are ok but animated gifs won't work?
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
> Sent: 27 May 2011 09:51
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: media upload - docx support
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> Are you using the management page for this? Not sure if the default settings
> have changed since previous versions of XOT but as I've just setup a new
> install I quickly tested docx upload and it worked fine. Not sure if the
> following will get truncated but these are the default settings in 1.6 for
> [The allowed upload types for the Media and quota page are]
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> text/xml,application/msword,application/x-shockwave-flash,image/jpeg,image/pjpeg,image/png,image/gif,image/x-png,audio/mpeg,application/vnd.ms-excel,application/pdf,application/vnd.ms-powerpoint,video/x-ms-wmv,text/html,video/mp4,video/avi,audio/wav,text/plain,video/quicktime,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
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> HTH
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> Ron
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
> Sent: 27 May 2011 08:55
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: media upload - docx support
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> Hmm, tried adding:
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> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
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> ·         and - application/vnd.openxmlformats
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> restarted IIS and cleared cache, but media upload still returns an invalid
> file error?
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 26 May 2011 15:50
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: media upload - docx support
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> You add the mime types to the management page: Site, server settings.
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
> Sent: 26 May 2011 15:48
> To: Xerte discussion list (xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk)
> Subject: [Xerte] media upload - docx support
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> Hi all
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> I'm using the media quota via on XOT (accessing through the LO properties
> menu) to upload exercise documents that I want students to download while
> they work through the learning object. I notice the file uploader will
> accept a '.doc' file but not a Word 2007/2010 '.docx'.
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> Is there a fix available to tell Xerte to allow for .docx uploads? All of
> our students and staff are running Office 2007 or newer so there are no end
> user compatibility issues there.
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> Cheers, Adam
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