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I am using the (excellent) SCORM Flex template to author a test piece to upload into a SumTotal MLE. I am using the Reload SCORM 1.2 player to test the interactions are taking place. All is fine if I exit via the page Exit_PG, which closes the session with the MLE, but I want to save data as I go along incase the user 'crashes' out of the courseware. I have tried using SetLMSValue("cmi.core.lesson_location",LMS_Lesson_Location) in the page action script but it does not seem to work.
Anyone have the fix for this?

It isn't broken.

Neither SetLMSValue or LMSExit actually write the data to the database. If you look at the JS Functions in the HTML file, you'll notice that the LMSExit calls another function 'commit' before the LMS exit occurs which commits the transaction.

It's not in the SCORM template and therefore you'll have to add your own Opus function to call the this JS Function and use this to commit.

Mack

Thank you for the information Mack, I have found the function ILMCommit() in the html file but cannot find a call to it within the Opus SCORM functions; I thought that it might be in the Private SCORM Functions script and expected it to be in the LMSEnd call but there is no reference to it, do you know what script calls the function?

Cracked it!
For those who (like me) are SCORM duffers here is the solution (until the guys at DW tell me that I have made an illegal call!)
In the User SCORM Functions add the following function:
function SaveData()
{
AddJSCommand('ILMCommit()')
}
GetPublication().SaveData = SaveData;

Then in the OnShow Action on the page(s) where you want the data to save put the following script (in this case I am saving the page the student last visited data)
LMS_LESSON_LOCATION=this.GetName();
SetLMSValue("cmi.core.lesson_location",LMS_LESSON_LOCATION);
SaveData()

The above also works if you are saving individual SCORM objectives.

Hi Andy,

Can you help with this (see new posting) viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4566&p=20842#p20842

Kind Regards,

Stephen,
I had a look at the topic, I think that you have already looked at my previous topic about ASP and postWebData, I don't really think that I can add any more. Sorry.

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for writing.

I have been able to use a test ASP script to connect to the SQL Server DB and display a single data item on the ASP page using the Response.write Recordset method.

The problem is that I can't find any ASP script that will get this same data item to return back to the Opus Flex (SWF) pub using the destination tab of the post web data action.

I can't find any way to script the ASP output into the name value pair format that (I think) Opus Flex's post web data seems to require. So, nothing returns and displays (in a text box with variable inserted) in the test SWF.

(Alternately, while a PHP script has a good chance of working with Opus Flex, I have not been able to get it to connect with the SQL Server (that the LMS uses to store its data). I have a connection string that works for ASP script format, but which I have been unable to "translate" into PHP script format and get to work. Ugh.)

Kind Regards,