[Xerte] Xerte upgrade and API

Wed Mar 7 12:53:39 GMT 2012

I’m faced with a similar request – has anything changed in the last couple of months re upgrading to latest online toolkit?
What is the current guidance on upgrading and protecting existing assets?

Thanks

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 12 January 2012 12:26
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte upgrade and API

If they care about internationalisation

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 12 January 2012 12:22
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte upgrade and API

Comparing the two folders

If file size different then replace

That would just about do it

Should people wait for 1.8?

On 12 Jan 2012, at 12:19, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
That’s a good start: the engine and wizard, and all the models and .xwd files, particularly the Nottingham template ones. That will fix all end-user bugs, and bring your templates up to date, and fixes probably 95% of all things that have ever been fixed.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 12 January 2012 12:13
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte upgrade and API

I guess in this case it might be a whole lot easier to just determine  which individual files to replace that will "fix many bugs".
The engine swf?

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From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com<mailto:patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:07:42 +0000
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte upgrade and API
You could hack a move by copying user-files but you'd lose the project name, shares, plays, status stuff

You could have some mangling with templatedetails and templaterights to help, but it'd be a bit nasty

On 12 Jan 2012, at 12:02, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com<mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>> wrote:
Pat, is the users view in XOT created dynamically or is it in the db?

e.g. could you go to the server, rename the USERFILES folder, upgrade/reinstall,  then name it back?

From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com<mailto:patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:56:06 +0000
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte upgrade and API
There are two new tables in the database, but one does nothing unless you want it to, and the other is optional.

The ldap table facilitates multiple ldap hosts in a neater way before, but is only use if the sitedetails table lacks LDAP

The sessions table can be used if you want to, but the code that uses it is commented out by default (it is in config.php)

Code can be replaced and the database remains the same. You can ignore the new tables if you want.

On 12 Jan 2012, at 11:36, "Murray, Kevin P" <K.Murray at kingston.ac.uk<mailto:K.Murray at kingston.ac.uk>> wrote:
All,

My Academic Development colleague has requested that I upgrade our Xerte Online Toolkits to the latest version as he says it will fix many bugs.

Unfortunately the upgrade isn’t that straightforward as the database schema has changed between versions. I hit upon the idea that my colleague and the other users should export their modules from the old version and import them into the new. My colleague can do this for his learning objects but as regards the other users he is not so sure about.

What I require is either an API or a backend export program which would let me export all the learning objects from the back end and then re-import them into the new version. I have seen any documents describing how Xerte Online Toolkits is put together so although I have looked around the backend PHP code it seems non-trivial to write my own.

Has anyone either documented an API, written a backend export/import program, or any other suggestion on how to do the upgrade?

Kevin

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