[Building Sakai] Exporting/importing contents with the Lesson Builder tool

[Matthew Jones]

Hi Bernardo,

As part of the work for supporting IMS content packaging in Lessons (CP,
the older format) we added an option which will import .html files into
Lessons as text rather than as html files in resources. This happens if the
mime of the file starts with "text/". This was a request from a local
client who wanted this feature as almost all of the resources imported over
were in .html.

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/LSNBLDR-311

The specific change is in revision 133009 but you'd probably need to use
the rest of the branch or pull in the other changes. This change isn't yet
merged into the trunk of Lessons but we did test quite a bit with both CP
(at least those exported from melete and some public ones) and CC files to
ensure both still worked correctly.


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Hedrick Charles <hedrick at rutgers.edu>wrote:

> How are you exporting and importing?
>
> The normal approach for copying between two sites uses duplicate site or
> import content from site in Site Info. This should preserve everything in
> Lessons.
>
> I conjecture that you are using Common Cartridge export and import.
> Unfortunately the Common Cartridge format is a "lowest common denominator"
> approach, which does not preserve all aspects of the lesson. In particular,
> Common Cartridge has no way to specify that at item should be shown inline
> rather than as a link. So this is the best I can do given the format.
>
> I've considered making an extension to the format. Unfortunately the
> format isn't really designed to support extension, so changing it is
> technically a violation of the spec. I may end up doing it anyway, as an
> option the user can request, but probably not for Sakai 10.
>
> On Feb 11, 2014, at 3:38:49 AM, Bernardo <bgarcia at pentec.es> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We're trying to move some Lesson Builder contents from a site to another.
> The export works alright, but when importing every text is transformed into
> an html file, so our well structured lesson becomes a succession of links.
> The content is there, our concern is the display. Here you have an example
> of what I mean:
>
> Original lesson:
> <image005.jpg>
>
> Imported lesson:
> <image006.jpg>
>
> Is there any workaround or known solution to this problem?
>
> Thanks and regards.
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