Annotation of loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Ambiguous_Reference.tex, revision 1.1
1.1 ! bowersj2 1: \label{Ambiguous_Reference}
! 2: This error message has come up when a user tried to look at a resource
! 3: in the publication space, while the viewer is not currently in a
! 4: class.
! 5:
! 6: LON-CAPA's resources are rendered very dynamically, reacting to the
! 7: class the viewer is in, where in a sequence they are, whether they've
! 8: finished other problems correctly, how many times they've tried a
! 9: problem... all of these things are stored as part of the information a
! 10: course keeps track of about a student. When viewing resources that
! 11: depend on this information to determine how to render them correctly
! 12: while not actually in a course, LON-CAPA cannot really determine how
! 13: to correctly render the resource.
! 14:
! 15: Rather then simply refuse to show you the resource, LON-CAPA will try
! 16: to make reasonable guesses about how you want to view the resource. In
! 17: order to warn you that this is not a definitive rendering of the
! 18: resource, LON-CAPA displays the warning ``Could not handle ambiguous
! 19: resource reference'' to warn you that it's guessing about the
! 20: resource.
! 21:
! 22: For the same reasons as LON-CAPA cannot ``correctly'' determine how to
! 23: render the resource, you will not be able to correctly interact with a
! 24: resource viewed with an ambiguous reference. LON-CAPA logs a student's
! 25: interaction with a resource in the course information, so if you are
! 26: not viewing the resource from inside a course, LON-CAPA has nowhere to
! 27: store information about whether or not you've gotten the problem
! 28: correct, how many tried you should be allowed, etc, so all input to
! 29: the problem will simply be discarded. To test the problem, use your
! 30: \textbf{Construction Space}.
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