[Xerte] Re: Upgrading XOT to 1.7 versus a clean install

[Julian Tenney]

You can:

Keep the folders from the old install
Make new learning objects in the new install,
Copy the data.xml and media folders from the old LOs over the top of the new LOs you just created
Update the URLs in moodle.

60 isn't too many, but enough for an hour's work or so. If you've got the two ftp windows open, it's not so bad. I do this quite a bit when I want to move stuff from one owner to another.

Pat might have some better automagic way.

There aren't any database changes planned, so in the future it should be an 'over the top' update.

A lot of the issues Dave Goodwin noted were fixed.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Prior
Sent: 06 February 2012 10:15
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Upgrading XOT to 1.7 versus a clean install

Hi all,

A quick update on where we are at with our install at Bath. Our developer has said (citing http://www.palepurple.co.uk/blog-xerte-online-toolkits) there is no clear or simple upgrade path from our existing install (I think v 1.5) to 1.7 and if there is he is currently doesn't have the time to familiarise himself with what is needed due to other commitments (we are upgrading to Moodle 2 this summer).

He has, however, agreed to do a clean install of 1.7 from the SVN. My question is what would we need to do for this to work - we currently have upwards of 60 Xerte learning objects created using our current install, which are embedded into various Moodle courses. Presumably we would need to save these (how?) and then re-upload them into the new 1.7 install and then update all the URLs in Moodle?

cheers

Julian
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Division for Lifelong Learning
University of Bath
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