[LON-CAPA-users] accessing timestamps in problems

Flammer lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Thu, 27 May 2004 10:48:49 -0600 (MDT)


> Hi,

> > I am trying to access times when different parts of a problem were
> > correctly solved within that problem.  We have successfully accessed
> > information like if it has been solved by using
> >
> > &EXT("user.resource.resource.partid.solved");
> >
> > but I don't know the syntax for calling timestamps associated with
> > when it was solved.

> This will be difficult but not impossible.

> You'll have to start understanding the way the data is stored to get
> usable info.

> &EXT("user.resource.resource.1:timestamp");

> Will get you the timestamp of the first submission.

> So you will need to figure out which submission they got it correct on
> and then get the timestamp for that submission.

We actually tried that and it seems like that timestamp doesn't exist.  If
we try

$time = &EXT("user.resource.resource.1:timestamp");

The variable is always undefined (missing in the scriptvars), even after
we had submitted something.  We thought it might be because the timestamp
is an array, so we also tried

@time = &EXT("user.resource.resource.1:timestamp");

The array was always empty.  Then we thought that timestamps might not be
stored in the construction space, so we published the resource and tried
it in a class, but still no go.  What do think might be wrong?  Thanks!