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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}.