course-specific layout CSS not recognized?

Tobias Grasse

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Sep 8, 2014, 4:33:41 AM9/8/14

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Dear all,

we have several courses in our OO 9.3.5 system that were migrated from an OLAT 7.x installation. All of those are set to use a course-specific layout css file which is placed at the course folder root. Now I want to set this for a new course created in OO 9.3.5, as the docs tells me: Course details view > Settings > Layout.

In the old courses, the CSS file is selectable in the drop down:

However, the new course does not give me this option:

Both courses have a valid (W3C-checked) CSS file at the course folder root. I realize that this is a very basic question, but I’m dazzled why this does not work. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Tobias

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Florian Gnägi

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Sep 8, 2014, 5:44:28 AM9/8/14

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Hi Tobias

We removed this feature because you can break the entire GUI if you don’t know what you do. We kept the mechanism of custom CSS but you have to copy to the right place in the course resoruce folder as a system administrator.

The way to go for most cases is to implement various course layouts as part of your theme. Normal authors can then choose form the list of predefined course layouts, e.g. one or each institution on your installation. This is much better because you can be sure that users don’t break the layout. If you create such course layouts, just add a folder “courselayouts” to your system theme and in there create a folder for each course theme you want to have. For each course theme provide a main.css and an iframe.css file and a preview.png so users will know how your course theme looks like. The main.css is added to the main window while the iframe.css is added to your content that is running in an iframe.

If you still want to do you own per-course thing, there is a hidden feature. Create a folder “courseCSS” in the course folder and add a file main.css and iframe.css. Both files are needed.

Note that with OpenOLAT 10 you will have to redo your themes as most CSS classes are not valid anymore and you will have many new elements in a course that could possibly be styled.

Cheers

Florian

Am 08.09.2014 um 10:33 schrieb Tobias Grasse <gra...@onlineradiomaster.de>:

Dear all,

we have several courses in our OO 9.3.5 system that were migrated from an OLAT 7.x installation. All of those are set to use a course-specific layout css file which is placed at the course folder root. Now I want to set this for a new course created in OO 9.3.5, as the docs tells me: Course details view > Settings > Layout.

In the old courses, the CSS file is selectable in the drop down:

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However, the new course does not give me this option:

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Both courses have a valid (W3C-checked) CSS file at the course folder root. I realize that this is a very basic question, but I’m dazzled why this does not work. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Tobias

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Tobias Grasse
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gra...@onlineradiomaster.de
+49 345 5523586
mooc.onlineradiomaster.de
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