Configuration Documentation - QuML Player

QuML player is an angular library built with Angular version 9, and it exports some modules and components.

Component: quml-main-player
This is the main player Component that accepts some configuration (here playerConfig) based on it will render the player.
While rendering the player it also emits some events such as playerEvent and telemetryEvent

Let's deep dive into the player input configuration:

  export interface QumlPlayerConfig = {
    config: Config;
    context: Context;
    metadata: Metadata;
  }

Config - Required
This Required property from the playerConfig provides the configuration for the player to enable/disable some functionalities.
Along with this it also provides the state of the content, if available.

  export interface Config {
    traceId?: string;
    sideMenu?: {
        enable?: boolean;
        showShare?: boolean;
        showDownload?: boolean;
        showReplay?: boolean;
        showExit?: boolean;
    };
    progressBar: any[];
    questions: any[];
    lastQuestionId: string;
    duration: number;
}

Description of the properties for the config

Property	Default Value	Required	Description

Property	Default Value	Required	Description
traceId	null	false	To trace the error
sideMenu.enable	true	false	To show the sidebar menu / hamburger menu
sideMenu.showShare	true	false	To enable the share functionality in a sidebar menu
sideMenu.showDownload	true	false	To enable the Download functionality in a sidebar menu
sideMenu.showReplay	true	false	To enable the Replay functionality in a sidebar menu
sideMenu.showExit	true	false	To enable the exit functionality in a sidebar menu (Mostly used in mobile application to exit the player)
progressBar	[ ]	true	Previous saved state for progressBar. It is state object containing question and there associate answer status.
questions	[ ]	true	Previous saved state for questions. Array of saved questions
lastQuestionId	null	true	Last accessed question Identifier
duration	0	true	Last player duration in miliseconds.

2. Context - Required

This Required property from the playerConfig provides the context to the player mostly in terms of the telemetry.

Along with this it also provides the state of the content, if available.

 export interface Context {
    mode: string;
    threshold?: number;
    authToken?: string;
    sid: string;
    did: string;
    uid: string;
    channel: string;
    pdata: Pdata;
    contextRollup: ContextRollup;
    tags: string[];
    cdata?: Cdata[];
    timeDiff?: number;
    objectRollup?: ObjectRollup;
    host?: string;
    endpoint?: string;
    userData?: {
        firstName: string;
        lastName: string;
    };
  }

Description of the properties for the config

Property	Required	Description

Property	Required	Description
mode	true	Mode is `play` for the player
threshold	false	Its a Threshold number to fetch the questions with question API
authToken	false	Authentication token
sid	true	session id of the requestor stamped by portal
did	true	uuid of the device
channel	true	Channel which has produced the event
pdata	true	Producer of the event
contextRollup	true	oontext Rollups upto level 4
tags	true	Encrypted dimension tags passed by respective channels
cdata	false	Correlation data
timeDiff	false	Last player duration
objectRollup	false	Object Rollup up to level 4
host	false	Host URL
endpoint	false	Telemetry API endpoint
userData.firstName	false	User's first name
userData.lastName	false	User's last name

3. Metadata: Required

Following is the interface for the metadata:

  export interface Metadata {
    instructions: Object; // May Contain default instructions
    showStartPage: boolean;
    timeLimits: Object; // Contains maxTime and warningTime in number of seconds
    navigationMode: string;
    maxScore: number;
    showTimer: string,
    name: string;
    description: string;
    allowSkip: string;
    primaryCategory: string;
    mimeType: string;
    objectType: string;
    maxAttempt: number;
    showHints: string;
    showFeedback: string;
    requiresSubmit: string;
    showSolutions: string;
    shuffle: boolean;
    [propName: string]: any;
  }

The followings are some of the properties related to the question set response, it will have other properties of content as well.

Property	Description

Property	Description
instructions	These are instructions that will be placed on the first page of the question set or the section
showStartPage	This config used to show or hide the start page in questionset
timeLimits	This config used to show the maximum time to attempt the test with the warning time
navigationMode	Navigation of the questionset such as Linear, non-linear
maxScore	Total maxscore of the questionset
showTimer	To show the timer in descending order
name	Name of the Questionset
description	Description of the questionset
allowSkip	Config to tell the player if skipping the questions are allowed. If allowed then user can directly jump to any question, if cannot skip the question.
primaryCategory	Primary Category of the questionset e.g. Practice Question Set
mimeType	MimeType of the questionset which is 'application/vnd.sunbird.questionset'
maxAttempt	Maximum number of attempts one can take. It will be shown on the player. Once the all the attempts are exhausted user cannot attempt questionset anymore
showHints	Config to show/hide the hint button. By clicking on this button it will show solution page.
showFeedback	Config to show/hide feedback page. If enabled it will show feedback popup for correct and wrong answer. For wrong answer user can attempt question again by clicking on ‘Try Again’ button
requiresSubmit	Config to show/hide the submit button. This is to show submit page where all the questions are listed and user can navigate to skipped or attempted questions directly from this page before submitting the answers.
showSolutions	Config to show/hide the solution button
shuffle	Config to enable/disable the shuffle in questions

Refer to the following screenshots for more understanding:

First page configurations

Side Menu configurations

Feedback popup configurations