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Hello All

I am very interested in using auto view. I installed it yesterday on 1.9 running on OS X server. Install went fine when i create a file in autoview none of the editing buttons show up. Below is my screenshot of the problem.

(Site admin : this image now seems to be broken, so has been removed)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Warren

(Edited by Tim Williams - original submission Friday, 11 July 2008, 03:19 PM)

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I had a similar problem on a linux server. It turned out to be because the permissions were not correct after I extracted the files. Check and make sure that the directories all have executable permission set for users. I'm not sure why, but the archive I downloaded didn't have them set correct.

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Hi Steve

Thank you that fixed it....One more thing, now every time i open the file to edit it, it prompts me that the language has not been set, any ideas?

Thanks again for the help.

Warren

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Been away a lot recently, catching up.....

The permissions you get when extracting files from a zip file are more a function of your system that anything in the archive.

Unix tar files will preserve the full file permissions and ownership (although file ownership will be ignored if you the decompressing user doesn't have setuid privileges) of the archived files, as far as I know zip files don't do this, or at least not to the same extent. So if the user account you use to decompress them doesn't have the correct defaults for the webserver, you may need to adjust them manually.

I have tried using tar.gz files for other modules in the past, that would allow all users permissions to be set in the download. However, that tends to elicit complaints from windows users who don't know how to handle them. It also doesn't help that IE will strip of the .gz part of the file extension when downloading them.

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I am not sure what's happening but I cannot see the option of Autoview from the Activity list. I have another moodle with autoview in another server and I have all settings the same way, permissions, etc.

I have even tried to copy the autoview folder of the other server on to this new one and that's a module that never appears.

Any ideas why this is happening? Permissions for folders avedit, db, templates and vrresources are set to 755 and the rest of the files for 644.

Thanks

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Sounds like it hasn't installed. Did you go to http://myserver.com/admin on your server after copying the files into the moodle/mod directory ?

Also, when you look at

Modules>Activities>Manage activities

in the site administration, is AutoView listed ?

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Dear Tim

I just did what you said I went to my http://myserver.com/admin and voila!! some tables were created. One of them mentioned "Autoview" as success. So, I assume that for some reason this process did not occur before when I installed Autoview.

The only thing is when I look for Autoview in Add an Activity, it doesn't appear as Autoview but in brackets as [modulename]. When I go to Modules>Activities>Manage activities

Autoview is listed but settings are in the format of [config...] etc.

I opened that option and the normal autoview comes up and it's functional but again the name is between brackets [modulename]. I suppose that's fine or it's there a way to change that format?

By the way, is there any way you can add a kind of table below the slides for notes or instructions (as an option) for transcripts/ instructions about an exercise or refer to bibliography while the presentation is running?

Thanks Tim

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You have to explicitly visit /admin with your web browser to get the installation to work, this is the same for most moodle modules and blocks. You also need to do this when you install an upgrade of a module.

If you are using an older release of AutoView then you need to copy the language files across as well, this is a file called autoview.php and the default english version should be put in lang/en_utf8 in the moodle installation.

The most recent autoview releases now have the language files as part of the module, so this copying operation shouldn't be necessary, just check the file permissions of the autoview/lang/ directories.

There is no explicit way to add a table at the bottom. However, you could do one of the following :

1) If you add a PDF slide source, this will cause the printable slides button to appear at the top. This doesn't necessarily have to be identical to the flash based slides and can have extra information.

2) Add subtitles to the presentation (you may need to upgrade to a newer version of AutoView for this function). Adding subtitles will cause the transcript button to appear on the left. The transcript is created from the presentation subtitles. The subtitles could also be used for extra notes, rather than an actual transcript.

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Thanks, forgot the execute part but so far read and write access allowed me to see the buttons. I don't know if I will run into issues later but I am glad to see it is working.

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