[LON-CAPA-users] id argument in numerical response

[Mark Lucas]

Urp - accidentally sent my early morning reply to Lars only.

					Mark

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Mark Lucas wrote:

> Lars,
> 
> 	As far as I understand:
> 
> 	The id argument provides a unique internal identifier for the 
> response. This is used to reference parameters belonging to that 
> particular response. This is what allows one to remove a part from a 
> problem or insert a part 'on the fly'. All other ids stay the same, and 
> parameters for those don't change.
> 
> 	They are assigned automatically upon publication.
> 
> 	Since answers are stored under this id, if one used the same id 
> for different boxes, they would probably overwrite each other.
> 
> 	I've mentioned a couple of times, though maybe not often enough, 
> that while necessary internally, the id numbers are not something the 
> instructor should be seeing, or at least not the novice. A paradigm that 
> talks about parts in sequential order and answers/subanswers would be more 
> understandable to the instructor. This would require a layer that 
> translates between internal ids and this ordered representation.
> 
> 							Later,
> 						             Mark
> 
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, jensen wrote:
> 
> > What is the id argument in the numerical response tag?
> > Does it have to be there?
> > What determines its value, and does it have to be unique if there are 
> > several nimericalresponse entry boxes in the same problem?
> > 
> > Lars
> > 
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Mark Lucas					email: lucasm@ohiou.edu
252D Clippinger Lab  				phone: (740)597-2984
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