[Xerte] Re: Glossary, video, visibility issues in HTML5 preview and deployment
Tom Reijnders
reijnders at tor.nl
Fri Oct 4 10:09:05 BST 2013
Greg, I got this email yesterday! So, sorry for the delay.
Several remarks:
- I had corrected the Glossary. There is no need to remove it.
There shouldn't be a limit in Xerte. There our however several limits in
php.
The most important one being memory_limit, as the zipfile is built in
memory. (I changed that in the upcoming 2.1 release)
You can change that in the php.ini file of your XAMPP/MAXOS
installation. I don't know by heart where php.ini is located inside xampp.
Let me know if you have other questions?
Tom
Op 1-10-2013 19:48, Greg Reader schreef:
> Thanks, Tom. I removed the glossary entirely and will go with abbr
> tags to add them in on a page-by-page basis. Also noticed that I left
> that video page at the start (since removed), so I guess it was the
> appearance of a blank screen was a bit of a red herring. After these
> changes, I still could not export a deployment so I started to work
> through some of the pages and noticed that once I deleted the larger
> video pages (2 references to the same video, the video being ~60MB)
> the deployment went fine. There is another video in the LO at about
> 40MB in size that I left in without issue.
>
> Do you happen to know if there is a set limit at which XOT is not able
> to compile an export? Would it tend to be a single file over a certain
> size that would cause this type of issue rather than the total size of
> the project?
>
> -Greg
>
> *???:* Tom Reijnders
> *????:* ?Tuesday?, ?October? ?01?, ?2013 ?1?:?35? ?AM
> *??:* Xerte discussion list
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> I found two mistakes in the Glossary, Bunk and I already forgot the
> other one (they had a Term, but no definition)
> Furthermore, the first page is a textVideo page without a video (the
> video now says 'Select a video') and xerte tries to find out the type
> of 'Select a video'by looking for its extension, which obviously
> doesn't exist.
>
> So try this one, and select a video on the first page, and check what
> works and what doesn't work. Let me know if I can help you further.
>
> By the way, if you copy this data.xml into the project, be sure to
> copy this file over preview.xml as well!
>
> Tom
>
> Op 30-9-2013 23:27, Greg Reader schreef:
>
> Thanks for the quick replies. Attached is the data.xml file for
> the LO. Reducing the number of entries does allow the resource to
> load but doesn't seem to affect the other issues. I've been moving
> between machines, one Win7 but using MAXOS and the other Win8.1
> using a local XAMPP setup, for development. I don't have any
> knowledge of xml so am a bit at a loss for troubleshooting.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Reader
>
> Windows ???????
>
> *?? ?:* Greg Reader
> *????:* ?Sunday?, ?September? ?29?, ?2013 ?7?:?20? ?PM
> *??:* 'Xerte discussion list'
>
> I am in the final phases of completing a LO in XOT 2.0 and I have
> run across an array of issues that I am hoping someone may be able
> to help me solve. I moved this resource from Captivate to Xerte
> and would hate to have to move it back at this point.
> A bit of background first: The resource is for language learners
> who will not be connected to the internet so the final deployment
> is planned to be via USB flash memory. The includes a large
> glossary of terms (100+ terms), video (mp4) and audio (mp3). As it
> will be on flash, higher quality video and audio is preferred.
> HTML 5 is also preferred as we may deploy online at a later date
> and want users with Apple devices, such as iPads, to be able to
> access the resource.
> At the start of the project I added the text and images and all
> appeared to preview fine. I exported a SCORM 2004 deployment to
> demonstrate the resource and it too ran fine in Moodle 2.2. I then
> added the audio and all still seemed alright.
> Adding the video, however, brought about some unwelcome changes.
> The video will be embedded in multiple places as it is used for
> different parts of the instruction. The video would play fine once
> but afterwards it would not load (nor would it load on subsequent
> pages with the same video). The video is also on a quiz
> interaction page, on which it appears to be embedded twice (two
> video players appear stacked on top of each other).
> At some time during this, the main template disappeared during
> previews. Page content does appear, and unticking the
> visibility:hidden box during debug in browser brings the template
> back. I believe I have seen this posted previously so I am not
> focusing on this issue here but perhaps it is relevant.
> Finally, when I expanded the glossary (which also initially played
> fine) to include all terms, it seemed to break the LO. When I try
> to preview the LO, the template does not appear nor does the page
> content. Changing the visibility in browser debug does bring back
> the template but not the navigation buttons or the page content.
> Also, when I tried to export the LO it no longer sends the files
> to a zip; rather, it creates an empty zip file and puts the files
> in the USER-FILES folder for the project.
> One other point to further confuse is that if I change the default
> engine to Flash, much of the resource shows up properly.
> Any ideas? I was hoping to demo this for final vetting in two
> weeks but in this state it is unusable.
> Thanks for any help that can be provided. I can attach xml or
> other files if that is required for further digging.
> - Greg Reader
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