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

Thu Aug 30 13:24:28 BST 2012

Hello all!

Thanks a lot for your help. I managed to get it working with Julian Tenney method (modifying the Nottingham xwd in order to insert the model in the template).

Furthermore, following Pat Lockley advices, I copied my template into the parent_template directory and modified the originaltemplatedetails in the database, and so I got the template name listed in XOT user interface. I can start a new project with this template, but it is impossible to insert an object in it, I guess the link between the database entry and the rlm template is not working. Anyway it doesn't matter because I got the model working with the original template.

Thanks also to Johnathan Kemp for the instructions on how to create the new model, I did it right before reading your message but it's always a good thing to have all the details gathered.

Now it's time to create content!

Julien Chezeaux

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De : xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] De la part de Julian Tenney
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Objet : [Xerte] Re: XOT "Upload a new Template" button not working

Probably. It might be a discussion for October. It would probably be possible to piggy back on Tom's work re: modularisation to make it easy to add new models to a template and rebuild a big xwd from all the small ones on the server, rather than in the standalone (it's PHP, right?)

-----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 10:21
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: XOT "Upload a new Template" button not working

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
> To: Xerte discussion list
> 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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