[Xerte] Re: quick question re bullets page with new editor

Fri Mar 13 12:45:13 GMT 2015

Cheers John
that was just a test/demo page. I'm working on an LO to use during a webinar
next week and using the opportunity to test the latest code at the same
time. A bit risky but at least it makes a bit better use of all the time
testing.

I'll share the finished LO more widely during and after the webinar.

BTW I've implemented an rsync script on a few installations now which backs
up all project xml files each hour into separate hourly based sub folders so
that in any 24hour period there's always a recoverable pair of xml files no
older than hour. This is obviously triggered by cron and the paths will vary
by system but at some point we'll have to discuss whether this should be
included in some way.

Ron

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: quick question re bullets page with new editor

Hi Ron,

I like that animation in your Learning Object, i'd have never thought of
doing that with the bullets page...

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
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[xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
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Sent: 12 March 2015 17:16
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: quick question re bullets page with new editor

Hi John
overlapping messages again so my last reply will arrive before this one.

Yes it's definitely the editor changing the line breaks. Thinking out loud
perhaps on the bullets page we can change the model to build on <p> tags or
perhaps define a custom tag e.g. <build></build> and change the model so
that it builds based on that tag?

We had some recent discussion about whether the bullets page should be
deprecated and if a custom tag is the best idea perhaps we could depregate
it but enable building of lines of text on any page.

Here's a copy of the test I was doing in prep for a webinar next week. It's
almost animation! ;-)
http://training.mitchellmedia.co.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=35

Ron

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 12 March 2015 16:17
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: quick question re bullets page with new editor

Hi Ron,

The new editor should simply be building the data xml file and structuring
it in the same way as the flash one did. If that is the case then it is the
page model rendering the page that is at fault...

What I suspect is most likely is that extra line breaks are being converted
to <p> tags or similar html stuff is being inserted by the new WYSIWIG areas
and the model itself can't cope. It's also similar to the way when you paste
html for a table into the old flash editor like

<table>
<tr><td>...
<tr><td>... etc

You get all the extra carriage returns as whitespace at the end... you need
to put it in as

<table><tr><td>...</td><td>...</td><td>...</td><td>...</td> etc...

These problems with the models are probably going to be more common in the
interim since the models are having to parse a lot more data (html tags,
formatting etc) that they haven't been seeing in the past as the flash
editor didn't insert them...

If you find any good ones though then it would be great if you could log
them as issues.

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A250, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow
Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA

Please address ALL support requests to hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk where one of the
School Learning Technologists will pick up the job. This will ensure that
all jobs are completed as promptly as possible.
________________________________________
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
[ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk]
Sent: 12 March 2015 16:03
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Subject: [Xerte] quick question re bullets page with new editor

Hi all
a quick question re the bullets page with new editor - should that still
work in terms of the build-effect e.g. show line 1 then line 3 then line 5
and so on and if so what's the trick?

I can see the timing adjustment having an effect but all the text is showing
instantly and then it's building blank lines so it's almost back to front
but perhaps I'm doing something wrong?

Cheers
Ron

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