[Xerte] Re: XOT "Upload a new Template" button not working

[Pat Lockley]

Adding a model via the website wouldn't work anyway?

Dev-list time?

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Yeah, I would add it to your modules/xerte/parent_templates xwd file, and then put the model in models, any common in /common and effectively modify the main template rather than creating a new template just for one more model.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 29 August 2012 10:10
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: XOT "Upload a new Template" button not working
>
> Hello,
>
> I would guess that the code behind that button works with the old model format, but not the new one.
>
> If you ftp to modules/xerte - you can add the model by putting the files into that
>
> then you need to edit the originaltemplatedetails table in the database
>
> Pat
>
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Julien CHEZEAUX <julien.chezeaux at scassi.com> wrote:
>> Hello all!
>>
>>
>>
>> Trying to make a new model available in XOT, I created a new template
>> with Xerte (Page Template).
>>
>> Then I created the new model (indeed, I cloned and modified the
>> slideshow model).
>>
>> Then I updated the template.xwd, following this guide.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now I have a template that suits me, and I want to get it usable in XOT.
>>
>> So, reading the previous Xerte mailing list posts on this topic, a
>> created a zip file containing the template, that is:
>>
>> *         mytemplate/common/*
>>
>> *         mytemplate/languages/*
>>
>> *         mytemplate/media/*
>>
>> *         mytemplate/models/* (-> with my modified copy of slideshow.rlm)
>>
>> *         mytemplate/thumbs/*
>>
>> *         mytemplate/mytemplate.rlt
>>
>> *         mytemplate/template.xml
>>
>> *         mytemplate/template.xwd (-> updated to define the new model)
>>
>>
>>
>> But, as some other people here, I am stuck with the template upload
>> button in management.php, which doesn't do anything, neither giving me
>> any error message.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to resolve this problem, or a different way to import a
>> template in XOT ? Maybe manually copying the files on the file system
>> and updating the database ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom Reijnders reijnders at tor.nl wrote on Wed Nov 23 10:20:37 GMT
>> 2011:
>>
>>
>>
>> It is not trivial to create a correct zip file form an existing XOT
>>
>> installation:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. Create a folder  to hold the template
>>
>> 2. copy the files from modules\xerte\template\<templatename>  to that
>> folder
>>
>> 3. copy the files from modules\xerte\parent_template\<templatename>
>> to
>>
>> that folder
>>
>> 4. rename data.xwd and data.xml to template.xwd and template.xml
>>
>> 5. zip the folder created in 1.
>>
>>
>>
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