[LON-CAPA-users] Need to lookup correct answer by referencing part and id number

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Jay,

> I have several problems that use popup windows with java applets for drawing
> various objects. After the problem has closed and the answer date has passed
> I would like to be able to pass to the popup the correct answers and display
> them in the window. The numerical responses corresponding to these drawings
> are hidden in the main page via the 'hiddenline' token.
> 
> I already have this worked out for displaying the results from prior student
> submissions by referencing prior submissions using
> &EXT('user.resource.resource.10.111.submission') for example. 
> 
> What I'd like to do is reference the correct answer in the same type of way
> and pass it to the popup if the answer date has passed. I need to do this in
> some type of algorithmic way since I have lots of these problems and hard
> coding all of them would be a PITA.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions,

Hrrm, I guess since you have

<numericalresponse answer="$var_with_answer">

Can't you just stick in $var_with_answer where ever you would have
stuck &EXT...

Or is that the PITA part?

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