[Xerte] Re: media upload - docx support

[Pat Lockley]

Once uploaded via the media page, you can click on the item and it
will give the the URL, so it's relatively simple to build the HTML

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: Xerte discussion list
> 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.
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> A
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> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: media upload - docx support
>
> Media upload is for the things that don't work in flash
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> 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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>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> 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
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> 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
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> 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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