Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Context Bar in .LRN?

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2: Re: Context Bar in .LRN? (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 01/10/05 01:42 PM
I also realized that it was missing after our test upgrade. I find it very inconvenient if the context bar is missing. How is it activated again anyway?
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3: Re: Re: Context Bar in .LRN? (response to 2)
Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 01/10/05 02:24 PM
sitemap->main site->ShowContextBarP

yes, we found also inconvenient to hide it, but actually also highly confusing to show it in Galileo's case due:
1. very large class names lead us to very unusable large context bars
2. a subject can only belogn to one department, which is not the case for a lot of classes, this confuse the students.

So, we are taking actions:
1. we already support class name / URL by "key" rather than by course name
2. working to allow a subject belong to more than one department.

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4: Re: Context Bar in .LRN? (response to 3)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 01/10/05 02:54 PM
The Parameter ShowContextBarP is set. Sadly it does not work. My assumption is it has something to do with the new design and a bug in dotlrn-master.tcl, but I can't investigate it now.
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5: Re: Re: Re: Context Bar in .LRN? (response to 3)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 01/10/05 02:56 PM
I think a reasonable compromise would be to show the context bar for the elements under a certain class.
This would eliminate the exceedingly long context bars that make it unusable, but would allow local navigation within the current class.