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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: 
1.2     ! www        15: Rather than simply refuse to show you the resource, LON-CAPA will try
1.1       bowersj2   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
1.2     ! www        30: \textbf{Construction Space}.