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General: Yikes, I can't get my HTML to work - help please

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    • CommentAuthorjohnlawton
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2008 edited
     
    Hi

    I have built a simple 2 minute flash movie which is the entire course.

    The only tracking stuff that I need the LMS to do is as follows:

    * The HTML page that contains the Flash movie (index.html) needs to tell the LMS that the course is “incomplete”.

    * Then, within the movie, there is a button that must be pressed for the course to be shown as “completed” – pressing this button is the only way to complete the course. To achieve this the button in the movie loads a page called agree.html

    That’s it – nothing else – no clever book marking, time stamping or scoring. Just incomplete and completed.

    I don’t want to do this from within Flash if I can avoid it. I just want some nice simple HTML and JavaScript code. This is what I’ve got so far, for the agree.html:

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    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />


    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" name="mm_scormRTI" >
    // define global var as handle to API object
    var mm_adl_API = null;

    // mm_getAPI, which calls findAPI as needed
    function mm_getAPI()
    {
    var myAPI = null;
    var tries = 0, triesMax = 500;
    while (tries < triesMax && myAPI == null)
    {
    window.status = 'Looking for API object ' + tries + '/' + triesMax;
    myAPI = findAPI(window);
    if (myAPI == null && typeof(window.parent) != 'undefined') myAPI = findAPI(window.parent)
    if (myAPI == null && typeof(window.top) != 'undefined') myAPI = findAPI(window.top);
    if (myAPI == null && typeof(window.opener) != 'undefined') if (window.opener != null && !window.opener.closed) myAPI = findAPI(window.opener);
    tries++;
    }
    if (myAPI == null)
    {
    window.status = 'API not found';
    alert('JavaScript Warning: API object not found in window or opener. (' + tries + ')');
    }
    else
    {
    mm_adl_API = myAPI;
    window.status = 'API found';
    }
    }

    // returns LMS API object (or null if not found)
    function findAPI(win)
    {
    // look in this window
    if (typeof(win) != 'undefined' ? typeof(win.API) != 'undefined' : false)
    {
    if (win.API != null ) return win.API;
    }
    // look in this window's frameset kin (except opener)
    if (win.frames.length > 0) for (var i = 0 ; i < win.frames.length ; i++);
    {
    if (typeof(win.frames[i]) != 'undefined' ? typeof(win.frames[i].API) != 'undefined' : false)
    {
    if (win.frames[i].API != null) return win.frames[i].API;
    }
    }
    return null;
    }

    // call LMSInitialize()
    function mm_adlOnload()
    {
    if (mm_adl_API != null)
    {
    mm_adl_API.LMSInitialize("");
    // set status
    mm_adl_API.LMSSetValue("cmi.core.lesson_status", "completed");
    }
    }

    // call LMSFinish()
    function mm_adlOnunload()
    {
    if (mm_adl_API != null)
    {
    // set status
    mm_adl_API.LMSSetValue("cmi.core.lesson_status", "completed");
    mm_adl_API.LMSCommit("");
    mm_adl_API.LMSFinish("");
    }
    }

    // get the API
    mm_getAPI();
    // -->
    </script>
    </head>

    <body onload="mm_adlOnload()" onunload="mm_adlOnunload()">
    <p>Thank you.</p>
    <p>You have completed the course. </p>
    <p>Please <a href="JavaScript:(self.close())">close this window</a> or navigate to a new location. </p>
    </body>
    </html>

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    I’ve created the imsmaniest.xml file and it seems to be dragging in the correct files into the LMS.


    And that’s it. But it doesn’t work! The movie opens and plays, the agree.htm page opens, but the tracking is non-existent.


    So, do you think you can help.

    It would be very much appreciated and worth a beer or two!

    Ta

    John :-)
    • CommentAuthorjohnlawton
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2008
     
    Hmm, I think I may have added this to the wrong forum - sorry, please feel free to flame me - or even help me!

    Ta
    • CommentAuthorphilip
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2008 edited
     
    i have a tutorial doing almost the exact same thing:
    http://pipwerks.com/journal/2008/05/08/adding-scorm-code-to-an-html-file/

    you should be able to download the demo files and tweak them (or copy/paste the tutorial code) to meet your needs.

    note: your life could be made easier if you switch from the old-school ADL SCORM wrapper to the pipwerks SCORM wrapper. :wink:

    - philip
    • CommentAuthorjohnlawton
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2008
     
    Thanks for that, I'll take a look when my brain has cooled down - I think a beer is in order!

    Ta

    John

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