[Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

Wed Oct 7 15:00:29 BST 2015

What's the file size of each of those files?

In the workspace with the project selected what does the middle column report as the project size?

If the wmv is playing when you view the LO it's probably playing via a local browser plugin and not the built-in xerte player.

The xerte player will only play .mp4 (or .flv if using the Flash engine option). Other video formats should not really be uploaded direct to Xerte and rather embedded from a streaming service. Generally this is better anyway e.g. streaming rather than downloading.

Even if your file upload limit is set higher than the individual file size when you are exporting it's the total project file size that you need to take account of and the server resources and server memory_limit setting can also have an effect on the ability to export or not. 

Is the LO public that we can view?

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Harding, Julie
Sent: 07 October 2015 14:32
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

Hi

Yes that is the file in question but for some reason the .wmv version of it loaded ok but it is the MP4 quicktime file that is giving the JSON error which we want to use. I can try deleting the wmv and uploading the mp4 again if you like to see if that works but I am sure we tried that first?

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 07 October 2015 13:35
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

What large file are you referring to? That file named JaneJoanne.wmv isn't an mp4 so will not work reliably. Can you remove that and try export again?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Harding, Julie
Sent: 06 October 2015 11:43
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

Getting there. One final video to go and:

What does this mean please? It is a large file but IT Support increased the file size for upload so am within that limit?

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Harding, Julie
Sent: 06 October 2015 11:08
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

Yeh – renamed all the linked files and relinked them all in Xerte. This looks a better picture:

Hopefully will all zip up ok now?

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 06 October 2015 10:41
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

It’s a bug with spaces in filenames, I fixed it recently for the properties panel to properly reflect the usage, but the export code needs patching as well

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Harding, Julie
Sent: 06 October 2015 10:33
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

Images are now ok but links and videos are not

Have checked out the media access in the properties and:

How do I rectify this as they are all needed and plenty more below the screenshot? Is something happening during the zipping up as when I extracted the zip files they are all present in the media folder so am slightly baffled again now.

Sorry!!!!

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Harding, Julie
Sent: 06 October 2015 09:51
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

Yes Ron – spot on!! It would have been easier to send the embed code for their VLE but I think we have solved it now. The images are not in the media folder on our web server, not sure how that happened as you have to use the upload image part in Xerte, but anyway – hopefully a simple fix but nice talking to you all again!!

Thanks as always for your prompt responses and help J

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Sent: 06 October 2015 09:40
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

Is this for learning futures?

If the "external parties" upload to their own vle's etc the LO's should work fine.

If they extract and view locally that should also work fine in most browser or in IE if they click to allow blocked content. There isn't any way to avoid that prompt in IE when vieing offline.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Harding, Julie
Sent: 06 October 2015 09:29
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

It works brilliantly using the iFrame code inside Moodle but we do unfortunately need to get it working for external parties?

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From: Pat L (pgogy) [mailto:info at pgogywebstuff.com] 
Sent: 06 October 2015 08:46
To: Harding, Julie; 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

Have you extracted the export from the zip file?

Sounds a bit like your running it from inside the zip

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From: "Harding, Julie" <Julie.Harding at oldham.ac.uk> 
Date: 06/10/2015 08:37 (GMT+00:00) 
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3 

Hi

Everything is working brilliantly thank you. I like this version and found it really easy to work with and only touched on a few of its many features but we are just having trouble running from the index file. I have selected the HTML option rather than Flash on the Xerte settings but here are the 2 errors. (We are working on a college network here but I did save it all locally on my C drive)

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 06 October 2015 08:34
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

What happens exactly? I’m a bit confused by ‘active x controls in explorer’, what do you mean? 

What js errors do you see, and when?

Can you post screenshots? Tom knows the export code the best, but will need a bit more info to figure out what’s going wrong.

Is everything else working OK?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Harding, Julie
Sent: 06 October 2015 08:31
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

Hello

We have upgraded to Version 3 and I am having trouble with every form of export with active x controls in explorer, java script errors etc. I need to publish my learning object on our college webservers so other people can run and download it as part of a project we have taken part in I have used the archive one and offline with no success. . Can someone please assist?

Thank you

Julie

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 08 September 2015 13:40
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

Upgrading is the best option for most organisations. Exporting and importing into a new install isn't practical or necessary for organisational installations with lots of existing LO's. Just follow the upgrade instructions and obviously back-up first then test before restoring access to everyone.

As Julian says very few issues with existing projects especially if already version 2.1.

HTH

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of robb
Sent: 08 September 2015 13:09
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: upgrading to version 3

Yes, LO's made in XoT 2.x are 1 on 1 compatible with LO's in XoT 3.0
You just need to export the LO's as zip and import the zips in XoT 3.0

I have used this on a new server. The old server had XoT 2.0 installed. The new server has XoT 3.0 installed.

However, I have not tested an udate from XoT 2.x to XoT 3.0 on the same server. Maybe Tom can respond on that?

regards,
rob 

Op 08-09-15 om 12:27 schreef Oliver Haslam:

Hi

Before I ask our IT folks to upgrade XOT to version 3, can I be reassured there is backwards compatibility? i.e. Will LOs we made in version 2 still be editable and usable in version 3?

AIso, is there anything in particular we need to be careful of when upgrading?

Thanks

Oli

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