[Deploying Sakai] [Building Sakai] Grouping tools as rSmart does

[Branden Visser]

Hi Leon,

We've configured this here at U of W with xsl-portal. The key to 
configuring categorization is in the toolOrder.xml.

You can use the <toolCategory> tag to group your tools in categories for 
particular site types:

<category name="course">
   <toolCategory id="interaction">
     <name><![CDATA[INTERACTION]]</name>
     <tool id="sakai.chat" />
     <tool id="sakai.rwiki" />
     <!-- ... and so on ... -->
   </toolCategory>
</category>

As far as features lost using the xsl-portal, I'm not quite sure. We 
haven't used the standard portal in production, so hopefully others who 
know both quite well can provide some input.

Hope that helps,
Branden

Leon Kolchinsky wrote:
> Thanks Matthew,
> 
> I've read it and configured the xsl-portal.
> It's working but I can't see any difference between the default and 
> xsl-portal.
> 
> Is there any manual or howto on using it/grouping tools etc?
> I didn't find any on the net :(
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Leon
> 
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu 
> <mailto:jonespm at umich.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     This is called the xsl-portal and in the osp directory.
>     (osp/xsltcharon) Some universities appear to be using it (was
>     searching on it). I'm not entirely sure by what you lose if you
>     decide to use it, but give it a shot. At Michigan, we have also been
>     investigating bringing this type of functionality (better tool
>     organization) into the base portal. (possibly for 2.8) This is
>     something Sakai3 has from the start.
> 
>     Here is some information on the properties you need to set to
>     switch. I can't seem to find any great documentation on how to
>     customize this though.
> 
>     http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Portals-and-transactions-tt3987046.html#a3998866
>     http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2009-May/001612.html
> 
>     On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Leon Kolchinsky <lkolchin at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lkolchin at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hello All,
> 
> 
>         I've installed Sakai on my dev. server and pretty much loving it ;)
> 
>         Now I keep investigating this tool so I logged to rSmart's
>         implementation of Sakai at mysakai.rsmart.com
>         <http://mysakai.rsmart.com>
>         I can see that they use very nice grouping feature to group
>         tools in those categories:
>         COMMUNICATIONS
>         COURSE TOOLS
>         SITE MANAGEMENT
> 
>         I'd like to implement this feature for my installation of Sakai.
> 
>         Is it possible?
>         Is there any tool to achieve that?
> 
> 
>         Thanks,
>         Leon Kolchinsky
> 
> 
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