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Re: Efficiency, use param in key?


Hi Chris,

Christopher_Dant@jackmorton.com wrote:
Rob,


[name sounds familiar, Authorware? Director?]

Authorware and CBT development for many, many years! I've presented at TAAC
and written articles over the years, but have we met? Your name seems
familiar - we met at TAAC at Snowbird, perhaps?
Yep. I remember you - just did not if that was you. I was working for MACR at the time (QA Engineer). It was a good time :)

I remember a talk on what was later to become extreme programming. I remember you and your partner talking about spiral/iterative development. Great talk!



First, people who storyboard their projects are some of the smartest
people :-D

Amazes me that some DON'T! But then again many people think PowerPoint is
sufficiently interactive for self-paced training.
yep



Second, I am not too clear on the desired outcome.

This is part of a pre-publish/QA utility that checks that all of the assets
a program needs are present. This way some poor person doesn't have to look
at every screen simply to confirm that it's media is present before we burn
10,000s of CDs (and we've got a project now with > 2200 screens and ~4000
MP3 files).
And you want to keep this under control?  :)


Can you show the output you are trying to achieve?

Ah.. you just want a list of assets and to ensure all the names are
lowercase

Right. The output is just a text file of all the files of that type. This
file is in turn used to move those files, copy them, etc. An excerpt:
1a03001.mp3
1a03002.mp3
1a03003.mp3
1a03004.mp3
1a04001.mp3
1a04002.mp3
a01ba.0030.02.q1.mp3
a01ba.0030.03.q3.mp3
a01ba.0030.04.mp3
a01ba.0030.05.mp3


You don't need the elaborate match. In your match="/" you set up
everything to be fed to the template directly above. So all you need is:

<xsl:template match="file_audio">

I want the result to contain each file only once.
I like to separate out all the bits and pieces like my example. That way you have one list of each type of asset, perhaps built from a directory(s). Then just reference by ID in the storyboard. It makes for easy reuse and gui development.


I don't understand why you need to get the media assets all at once. For
a storyboard that I have in mind you would want to keep the asset with
the frame. Can you elaborate on what you need.

I took a moment to visit your site and think I understand your question.
There's an altogether separate process for accessing the filenames during a
course's runtime. The snippets you shared, perhaps from your liveSTORYBOARD
product family (?) were awesome though, and suggest that though our
approach may be different, we had to solve the same basic problems.


Chris, you can contact me offlist if you want more specific stuff as it
relates to a MACR product.

Will do, since we may actually be neighbors and I may need help on some
upcoming projects.
Are you in the San Francisco office? For some reason I remember you being out east.

I definitely would be interested in working with you. I think you would really like the livestoryboard tool. You could use the XML to drive the entire project and get several types of reports (workflow/staging). Or you could transform the XML out into flat files to drive the project and create reports from that.

We are looking for good pilot projects to work with and refine to their needs. The service (excluding consulting or custom templates if you even need them) would be free until 2003. We have a few large clients and a couple small ones using the product now. Everyone loves it! I really don't think there is a better browser based editor out there.

I see your office is in soma. We (my fiancee/partner/former-dreamweaver-software-engineer and myself) have a live/work loft a couple of blocks away from Pacbell park. Maybe we can meet up for coffee or something? Or perhaps I can demo it for you at our place or yours.

What do you think?

best,
-Rob



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