There is a beautiful solution to dial a phone number, using an analog modem, adding just one simple line in a ToolBook OpenScript. Have a look on my website: “How to implement a phone dialer in your Toolbook application, all versions”. From now no need anymore for the tbkcomm.dll.
I’ve just published a new article on mobile learning on the iPhone in my
blog. Here is a direct link to the article:
http://www.toolbookconsulting.com/blog/entryid/14.aspx
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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.
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Another Mini-Lesson has been incorporated into the Knowledge Base:
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Another Mini-Lesson has been incorporated into the Knowledge Base:
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Another Mini-Lesson has been incorporated into the Knowledge Base: How to set focus to a field or button in DHTML.
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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.
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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.
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Instead of requiring a user to click on a button, it is possible to also allow them to simply press the Enter key.
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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.
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