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I am using Opus Pro 05. I have an educational cd almost finished but I want to put a page at the end which a teacher/administrator can access. also it should be possible to print it.
I have variables stored which i want to show in this page.
so
is this a page i put on the end of the publication in the 1st chapter?or is it somewhere totally different
how do i set it so theres a counter showing user no1, 2 etc, and the program moves to a new line for each user?
I'd be very grateful for any help. and i am a bit of a novice so clear instructions please.
Thank you
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I am not completely understanding the details of what you intend. I can make some assumptions. It should be easy.

I assume you are having student users log-in with unique names, and sounds like they are using the same computer.

I'd give teachers/admin either a special password, or possibly a secondary way to login (as superuser). You can check for type of user then, and show a button only to 'superusers'. Button action would take teacher to the reporting page. (probably in a chapter of its own. you have to consider your whole nav scheme for regular students so that "page >>>frwd" doesn't go there.).

As for what is on that page, depends how many users you plan for and how you want to store or count their Access of the pub, any progress measures, etc. Opus allows you lots of possibilities. Just not sure what you're sketching for "moves to new line....".

Good luck.

If you are using Pro 05, are you aware that there is a free upgrade to Pro 5.5? Many users felt that v5.5 was more stable than v5, so you might like to contact DW about a link to make the upgrade to 5.5

Hi

The free upgrade from 05 to 5.5 is at the DW download page:

http://www.digitalworkshop.com/downloads/dl_service.shtml



Kind Regards,

Thanks for the help, unfortunately I'm still a bit in the dark!
I've set up the new chapter, password protected. i can put a page at the start of the publication to direct teachers into the records page.
its just the basics of how to get the page to work
I want to be able to print out:
user___name______surname_______time to complete
1 ______joe ______ Blogs _______ 46mins
2 ______jane _____ hardy ________ 5mins
3
4 etc

I can type in the headings, put in "insert variable" for the first line, but how do i get the program to go onto the 2nd line with the next user.
Its probably a really basic question but I just cant figure it out!
Your help would be much appreciated.
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For what you described so far, look up the Write to Report File action in the help file... as that talks about writing line after line and it seems will allow writing of variables (versus fixed strings). Just click Help when in Opus and go to Contents and Index. Do search there.

Another possibility is to use (write to) Excel file and then a DocView window for teachers to view it. Opus comes with Sample Files for Access DB and Excel. Assumes the PC will have Excel app. But it would take care of column formatting. When viewing it, "Ctrl-P" will allow printing usually.

You didn't say whether you could use Opus Scripting. There are more ways to go that route too. Post in "Advanced" forum for script help.

[Edit/added] BTW, if you are scripting you can use + "\n"
e.g., TextFile.WriteField(userINPUT33 + "\n") // or similar with WriteFile


Hope that gets you started.