Re: [Fle3-dev] Managing Knowledge Types - Strange behaviour?

[Cormac McClean]

Hi Tarmo,

Thanks for the quick reply! That's some turnaround time for a bugfix, 
albeit a very minor one. It's another example of the power of Free/Open 
Source Software.

I'll download and install the update from subversion - even though it's 
only a cosmetic problem, I'll be encouraging my students to create their 
own knowledge type sets (based on software design methods that they've 
come up with) and I don't want them to be confused by the ids.

Before I do the update, I need to export my course and the new knowledge 
type set. Can you please tell me where the exports are stored? I can't 
seem to find it. (I've done imports before, but not an export). For 
example, I select the course I want to export, click on the Export 
button, and then nothing obvious; the same with the Knowledge Type Sets. 
I'm doing a trawl through both the server's and local disks for .zip 
files and /or course/kts titles, but nothing appears. Should I get a 
pop-up menu asking me where to save the exported file? (Maybe it's my 
firefox configuration?).

Kiitos!
Cormac.

P.S. I've just realised I should probably be using Savannah for bug 
reports. I'll do that in future.

Tarmo Toikkanen wrote:

> Hi Cormac,
>
> Thanks for the detailed report - I wish more people were this
> thorough. :) Anyway, there is no functional problem - all the types
> you changed are stored and used correctly.
>
> What actually happens is that when you change the abbreviation of an
> existing type, its id is not changed. And when you create a new type,
> the id is copied from the abbreviation. The problem is in the page
> that displays the type information - it should show abbreviations, but
> it's showing ids.
>
> I've corrected this now, but as I said, it's only a cosmetic problem
> and isn't visible to normal users. You can get the latest version from
> SVN if you want - it's not broken at this point as I've only done
> minor fixes to it. Later this fall I'll break it good when I migrate
> from dtml to zpt, but I'll do that in a branch as well, so the trunk
> should stay in pretty good shape.
>
> On 19.09.2005, 10:04:37, Cormac McClean wrote:
>
> > However, I've noticed that when I created a new knowledge type set by
> > editing an existing one, the original note names are retained. For 
> > example,
> > I decided to create a knowledge type set called "Plan and Reflect", 
> > which
> > might help me plan a lesson (not what Fle3 was created for, I accept, 
> > but
> > I'm really just playing around with it). I based it on the Design 
> > Thinking
> > Types, and created notes called: Lesson, Outcome, Explanation and so 
> > on. I
> > went through the three stages (occasionally saving and returning to it
> > later), and at the matrix stage I clicked all of the boxes except for 
> > the
> > first column and find that I now have the following inconsistency:
> > Lesson (lesson) (can start a thread)
> > Can be followed with: context, challenge, idea, info, eval, org, sum,
> > reflect
> >
> > Only the last note type is mine, the remainder are from the Design 
> > Thinking
> > Types.
> >
> > I'm using Fle3 1.5.
> >
> > Attached is a snapshot.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Cormac.
>
>
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