[Portfolio] Slow-downs

[Noah Botimer]

This sounds like a reasonable workaround to take a bite out of  
unreasonable performance. However, I have to voice my dissent with  
implementing a global restriction to find things in My Workspace  
only. I won't say that it isn't a good survival strategy, but it  
seems to be burying a problem. There are places where we need to find  
all forms of a type everywhere, so the full-scope problem is real.

I'm happy to talk through how we could build a configuration option  
until a bigger fix is available, but I think we have to address the  
whole problem in time. To be clear, this is one of the top priorities  
at Michigan for the Fall (or before, as practical).

Thanks,
-Noah

On May 20, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Ward, Lynn E. wrote:

> I agree.  Even though it's possible to create forms directly in  
> resources, we never encourage users to do this, so all their forms  
> wind up in My Workspace > Portfolio Interactions by default.  So,  
> limiting the search to My Workspace would do the job for us.  I'd  
> be curious to know whether are using the Add > New Form feature in  
> Resources to create forms.
>
> Lynn
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: portfolio-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:portfolio- 
> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Sean Keesler
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:56 AM
> To: Noah Botimer
> Cc: portfolio at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Portfolio] Slow-downs
>
> As far as I know, almost no one asks students to go off and create New
> Form Items in resources using the "New Form Item" option. Portfolio
> experiences tend to be scaffolded with matrices or wizards and will
> soon be able to be scaffolded directly with the portfolio tool since
> students can create new form content from there.
>
> The "Create from resources" functionality is a nifty feature (I guess)
> but practically, it doesn't seem to have a lot of practical
> application. So Marc's comment about restricting searches for content
> to My Workspace folders (maybe even to JUST Portfolio Interaction)
> would make a ton of sense, with the option for students to be able to
> "browse about" resources for stragglers in other sites that they want
> to use.
>
> Sean
>