Archive for How-to
29 January 2008 at 5:10 pm · Denny Dedmore · How-to, List, SumTotal
You are probably aware that emails sent thru the ToolBook ListServ is sent as raw unformatted text and seem to force a word wrap at 72 characters. This has the unfortunate side-effect of breaking really long URLs, such as the ones to the ToolBook Knowledge Base Articles.
To remedy this problem, SumTotal has implemented a new shorter URL that you can use when referring to them in emails, such as those you send to this ToolBook ListServ.
Read more »
17 January 2008 at 8:04 am · Denny Dedmore · How-to, List, SumTotal
Another Mini-Lesson has been incorporated into the Knowledge Base:
Read more »
17 January 2008 at 8:03 am · Denny Dedmore · How-to, List, SumTotal
Another Mini-Lesson has been incorporated into the Knowledge Base:
Read more »
17 January 2008 at 8:02 am · Denny Dedmore · How-to, List, SumTotal
Another Mini-Lesson has been incorporated into the Knowledge Base: How to set focus to a field or button in DHTML.
Read more »
9 January 2008 at 12:10 pm · Tomas Lund · How-to, List, Publications
Just wanted to let you know that I have written a new blog Article called: Dynamic HTML: HTML tables in ToolBook. It describes how you can dynamically draw HTML such as Tables etc in ToolBook HTML.
Read more »
29 December 2007 at 9:50 pm · Denny Dedmore · How-to, List, SumTotal
Programmatically setting or getting the text of a field using the Actions Editor would seem to be straight forward - you just manipulate the Text property of the field object.
However unlike a regular text field, a single select listbox and multi select listbox field function a bit different when it comes to setting or getting the text using the Actions Editor. In fact there is no Text property for the single select listbox and multi select listbox fields available in the Actions Editor. Instead there is a ItemText property.
Read more »
29 December 2007 at 9:48 pm · Denny Dedmore · How-to, List, SumTotal
Instead of requiring a user to click on a button, it is possible to also allow them to simply press the Enter key.
Read more »
20 December 2007 at 5:13 pm · Denny Dedmore · How-to, List, SumTotal
CONDITIONAL SCORE LOGIC: The Score button in ToolBook will provide you with the ability to show the user their current score. For many of you this will be enough to meet your needs. Others will want to go a step further and perform different actions depending on the score.
To do this you will need to use the Actions Editor within ToolBook Instructor to analyze the score, and then set up some conditional behavior to occur based on that score. You will need to be familiar with the Actions Editor in order to implement this type of solution.
Read more »
20 December 2007 at 7:27 am · Denny Dedmore · How-to, List, SumTotal
Have you ever wondered exactly how the Array feature of the Actions Editor worked….how it really differed from the OpenScript version?
Convinced yourself that you can’t do multi-dimensional arrays in the Actions Editor? Well you can, and you can read about it here:
Read more »
4 October 2007 at 8:28 am · Denny Dedmore · How-to, List, SumTotal
Ever wondered how to hide/show certain objects at very specific times as a media file plays within the UMP? To do this, you would use the Time Marker feature of the UMP.
Read more »
Next entries »
