Re: [Bodington-developers] New IMS CP and Leeds developments on HEAD

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Peter Crowther wrote:
> New for your delectation and delight:
> 
> - Improved content package export and modification.  Correct namespace
> used for the 'lang' attribute; namespaces accepted for the 'lang'
> attribute; modification of the basic properties now correctly updates
> the metadata and tidies up any previous screw-ups.  UHI, you'll want to
> grab this I think - XMLRepository and a big chunk of the
> BuildingSessionImpl changes are related to this.

Nice one. Any progress on the upgrade script?

> - Creation and edit dates and usernames are stored on resources.
> They're not displayed yet.  Expect an email from Leeds shortly opening
> up a discussion on where they could be displayed.  Logic for updating
> the last edit date and user is centralised in
> BuildingSessionImpl::noteEdit().

I see you're only recording updates for "properly" written bodington 
tools that do their work though sessions (assessment tools ;-). What are 
you recording the dates for? Managers or users?

> - Deadlines are now expressed as a date and time rather than just as a
> date.  Parsing and rendering of deadlines is centralised in Facility
> (sorry!) - parseDateInput and outputDateInput are the methods to look
> at.  Creation templates have been modified to render using these new
> methods, so an alternative mechanism such as the Weblearn JS calendar
> (or going back to one input box) could be implemented simply by changing
> these two methods.

Looks like a nice improvement.

> - When displaying MCQ results, the display can now be ordered by the
> user's alias.



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