[Xerte] Re: FW: exporting from sandpit and importing to our own XOT installation

[Pat Lockley]

I don't recognise that error message on the play page, so not sure
what version of the code they are using (and sadly no idea why an
export wouldn't work)

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Alistair McNaught
<Alistair.McNaught at heacademy.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I picked this up from teacher list but it more properly belongs in here so
> any ideas? I’ll ask Oli to ensure he’s subscribed in here to pick up the
> answers.
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> A
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> From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits
> [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Oliver Haslam
> Sent: 19 January 2012 12:05
> To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: exporting from sandpit and importing to our own XOT installation
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>
>
> Hi
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> We finally have our own installation of XOT and I’d like to transfer the LOs
> I’ve made in the sandpit to our own version of XOT. But I’m having a few
> problems. Any help would be very gratefully received!
>
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> I can export from the sandpit as a straightforward “zip export” without any
> problems. And I can import the .zip into our own version of XOT okay but
> when I try to play the newly imported LO I get an error message saying
> “ERROR: The file modules/Xerte/parent_t” and it won’t play.
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> So I tried to export from the sandpit in different formats to see if that
> works. When I try to export as a “Zip (local) export” or as a “SCORM +
> metadata export” I am immediately logged out of the sandpit and taken to the
> login page:  http://xerte5.techdis.palepurple.co.uk/
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> I can export from the sandpit as a “Scorm export” but when I try to import
> the .zip into our own XOT I get a message saying “Upload checkFile transfer
> has failed.****Only Xerte templates are currently imported.” And can go no
> further.
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> Perhaps our version of XOT is not installed/configured correctly? But it
> seems the sandpit is not happy either...
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> Any suggestions?
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> Oli
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