Annotation of loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Authoring_Responseparam_Parameter.tex, revision 1.3
1.1 bowersj2 1: \label{Authoring_Responseparam_Parameter}
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1.2 vandui11 4: If \textbf{responseparam} appears, it should be inside of a response
5: tag. It defines an externally adjustable parameter for the question,
6: which the question can then use to allow other users to customize the problem
7: for their courses without changing the source code of the problem.
1.1 bowersj2 8: Possible attributes are:
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10: \begin{itemize}
11: \item \textbf{default}\index{default}: required. Specifies a default value
12: for the parameter.
1.2 vandui11 13: \item \textbf{name}\index{name}: required. Specifies an internal name for
14: the parameter.
15: \item \textbf{type}\index{type}: required. Specifies the type of parameter:
16: \textbf{tolerance}, \textbf{int}, \textbf{float}, \textbf{string},
1.3 ! damieng 17: or \textbf{date}. Additional constraints for the type can be specified by
! 18: adding an underscore and the constraint name to the type, for instance
! 19: \texttt{int\_pos} means \textit{strictly positive integer}.
1.2 vandui11 20: \item \textbf{description}\index{description}: string describing the
21: parameter. This is what is used to talk about a parameter outside
22: of a problem.
1.1 bowersj2 23: \end{itemize}
24: \textbf{parameter} is exactly the same as \textbf{responseparam},
25: but should appear outside of a response tag.
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