Microsoft Word File Import/Export (Question Format)

Eoin, thanks for your message. We have installed this now, but there's even a longer message. Is there a way I can email you that directly?
It seems to be largely around format and debugging....

Hi Darren, your problem is that the PHP XSLT extension is not installed
(cf. "importpreprocess:116: XSLT not installed").
Read the section "Pre-requisites" on the WordTable plugins page [1] for
instructions on how to fix this.
Links:
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[1] https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=qformat_wordtable

Hi all... I am using this import for this first time, and come with these errors. Any clues? Thank you,
importpreprocess:92: Word file = Pre-sales Questions_Automation Systems_DB.docx; path = /home/nhp/moodledata/temp/questionimport/Pre-sales Questions_Automation Systems_DB.docx
•line 92 of /question/format/wordtable/format.php: call to debugging()
•line 114 of /question/import.php: call to qformat_wordtable->importpreprocess()
importpreprocess:116: XSLT not installed
•line 116 of /question/format/wordtable/format.php: call to debugging()
•line 114 of /question/import.php: call to qformat_wordtable->importpreprocess()

If anyone can help, its my first time to try and upload form Word and it comes with:
importpreprocess:92: Word file = Pre-sales Questions_Automation Systems_DB.docx; path = /home/nhp/moodledata/temp/questionimport/Pre-sales Questions_Automation Systems_DB.docx
•line 92 of /question/format/wordtable/format.php: call to debugging()
•line 114 of /question/import.php: call to qformat_wordtable->importpreprocess()
importpreprocess:116: XSLT not installed
•line 116 of /question/format/wordtable/format.php: call to debugging()
•line 114 of /question/import.php: call to qformat_wordtable->importpreprocess()

Thank you Eoin quickly responding to our feature requests. It works beautifully now.

Hi Dwayne,
I checked the Word file you sent by email and responded, but you may not have received it.
Here is my answer again:
The structure of each table looks correct.
However, the table cells must also comply with the styles used to format
the question components. If you download and install the Word template at
http://www.moodle2word.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=29, and use it to create
sample questions, you will notice that the table for each question contains cells
for the question type, grades for each answer, fields like default mark, labels
for each field, etc. The text in each cell has a particular style such as "QF Type", "Table Row Head",
etc. The heading rows are also marked using the "Repeat Header Rows" marker in the Table Layout ribbon.
In addition, there are custom properties in the Word file that you can view using the command
File > Properties > Advanced Properties (Custom tab group).
All of these styles and custom properties are essential to the conversion process, so you cannot
simply create a Word file with tables that look similar.
If the LXR files are in XML or text format, The Word macro language (VBA)
might not necessarily be the best language to use to convert the files.
If you send me a sample LXR file, I could take a look and see if I can do
anything for you.

Good day Eoin:
I've run into a small hiccup and I'm hoping that you can point me in the right direction to solve the issue. Our organization is in the process of transitioning from our old LMS (LXR) to Moodle. As a result I’m working on the conversion of our LXR question banks to Moodle banks. I’m not a programmer but I know an individual, also not a programmer, who has some experience with building macros for Microsoft Word. He has developed a macro that will convert my LXR .txt exports into a Word Table format that visually matches the online templates. Unfortunately when I attempt to import the newly created Word Table into Moodle I receive the following error notification:
"There are no questions in the import file."
Any help would be greatly appreicated

You can select a category containing a lot of questions (either directly within the category, or distributed across a number of subcategories), and export the questions to Word format. Then open the Word file and save in Word 2010 (.docx) format, and try importing it. If it works, open the file again, select and copy all the questions, go to the bottom of the file and paste them in again, save the file with a new name, and try importing the new file. Keep doubling the number of questions until the import fails, and you will have a fair idea of the limits. I imported 1800 questions in 1 file, but they didn't contain any images. Images will have a big impact, because most Moodle servers limit the maximum file size for upload to 8MB or less. 10 questions that include images may not upload at all due to this limitation.

Your post read "The number of questions you can import in a single Word file is limited by the amount of memory allocated for processes on your Moodle server. You will need to experiment to find this limit on your own site"
how do i experiment on the number of questions in a word file.??

Alternatively, in the Word file containing questions, click "File", then click on "Properties" on the right-hand side, then select
"Advanced Properties" from the drop-down menu to bring up the properties dialog box.
Click on the "Custom" tab, then select the property "moodleLanguage" from the list of custom properties, and change the value from "en" to "en_us".
Then try importing it again.
To avoid this problem in new question files, edit the Word template file moodleQuestion.dotx in your own Word Templates folder, and make the same edit. Any new question files you create will then have the correct language set.

You should change your user interface language from "English - United States (en_us)" to "English (en)" instead.

Hello! I just tried to import questions and received this message: No questions imported because the language of the labels in the Word file does not match your current Moodle interface language. "en" != "en_us"
Can you help?

I suggest you export the questions to XML format, send me the file, and I can take a look. Also let me know what version of Moodle you are running.

Hello, I'm getting a "Sorry, the requested file could not be found" when I attempt to export to the word table format. Any ideas of what might be wrong? Thanks in advance for the help!

Swedish characters are supported, but perhaps you are not using a Unicode font in your Word file, which would cause a problem. Send me a sample file and I can take a look