Exercise Student File Uploads?

[Alex Hagopian]

Hi there!

I'm trying to add an input field to an exercise that allows students to upload their work as a PDF. I've been referencing this section of the documentation: https://pretextbook.org/doc/guide/html/topic-interactive-exercises.html#short-answer-exercises

I've had no success so far adding the @attachment attribute. 

Could anyone share the correct syntax for this, or provide a link to a working example? 

Thank you for your help!

Alex

[Andrew Scholer]

Here is a live example:
https://runestone.academy/ns/books/published/PTXSB/rune-26.html?mode=browsing

Source:
https://github.com/PreTeXtBook/pretext/blob/cd3e16f4d4f7011fa55bb1d1dd33ac4e9e126a75/examples/sample-book/rune.xml#L4895

Andrew

[Alex Hagopian]

Is there any way to locally render the file input button or is this only possible with Runestone hosting? 

I'm only able to view a text area. 

<exercise label="test-question" attachment="yes">

<statement>

<p>

Testing file upload.

</p>

</statement>

<response />

</exercise>

[Andrew Scholer]

The button is not rendered in a non-Runestone HTML build because the option makes no sense if there is no server infrastructure to handle the upload.

Unfortunately, yes, that means there is no way to preview the page outside of setting up a Runestone server to build it on.

[Alex Hagopian]

Ah, I see. 

Thanks for your help!