[Deploying Sakai] 2 separate instances of a tool on a site

[Matthew Jones]

The feature that enables this was implemented in
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-7209
<http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-7209>(Allow multiple instances of
new tools)

However, only a few tools have been set by default to allow multiple
instances. I believe this was because not all tools work correctly and they
weren't all tested out with this feature. Unfortunately rwiki is one of
these and it uses the siteid as an identifier rather than the page id. So
even if you enabled it for multiple tools, the content will still always be
the same. I can look into this to see what it would take to change this, but
it's probably not trivial.

Anyway, normally to make the change to allow multiple instances (since I'd
already typed it up) on a live system all you'd have to do is:

(This is in your tomcat home directory)
1) Edit webapps/sakai-rwiki-tool/tools/sakai.rwiki.xml
Add in the configuration for allowMultipleInstances somewhere near the
bottom before the </tool>
*                <configuration name="allowMultipleInstances" value="true"
/>*

Then either restart the instance, or just get the tool to redeploy by
'touching' web.xml (in unix or with unxutils [1] in windows).

(Should get tomcat to 'redeploy' rwiki)
2) touch webapps/sakai-rwiki-tool/WEB-INF/web.xml

3) Then you should either update this file in your sakai-rwiki-tool.war (you
can just use zip), or if you're building from source, update it there so the
change is permanent.

If you did this you'd notice the screenshot below where you can add multiple
instance of wiki with different names but they are all identical, and they
all will have the same global name which is the site id (
/site/590ca56b-c081-4616-bde1-8dbe907d1a30/home). :( I'm guessing it
wouldn't be *hard* to change this id to include the page, but it probably
would be hard to change it and also retain compatibility with all of the
existing wikis with old references.

[image: manywiki.jpg]

[1] http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Sri Kota <srini07 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Friends,
> I want to have 2 separate instances of the Wiki on the same worksite.
>
> Currently, when I try to create a "New Tool", it gives me a copy of the
> first instance.
>
> How can I have multiple instances of a tool on the same site?
>
> Thanks,
> Sri
>
> --
> - Sri
> Sarvē Janā Sukhinō Bhavantu
>
>
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