[Deploying Sakai] Announcements on Gateway

[Sri Kota]

John,
I am working with 2.6.2 as well. I am convinced we are not talking about the
same thing here. I do not have access to your site and don't need one. I
checked your Gateway (Home page) by striping out the last part of your URL.
I don't see an announcements tool in there. I understand how the tool can be
incorporated in a page on a site: something you are explaining here. After
the tool is set up, I am trying to display it's contents on the Gateway.

Any idea folks?

Thanks again,
-Sri


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:59 PM, John Leasia <jleasia at umich.edu> wrote:

>  The annc2 is just whatever you want it to be - just the made up name for
> some other channel to identify it as different from the default channel for
> the announcement tool in that site.
> I am talking 2.x here - what I said before is working for me in 2.6.2.
>
> I have 2 announcement tools in a site, I call them Announcement and
> TestAnnc. Announcement has a blank channel field. TestAnnc tool has
> /announcement/channel/534d660d-a63c-4b2e-00a6-6ca64bc0d6c2 /annc2
> for the channel - could be
> /announcement/channel/534d660d-a63c-4b2e-00a6-6ca64bc0d6c2 /xxx
> or
> /announcement/channel/534d660d-a63c-4b2e-00a6-6ca64bc0d6c2
> /specialannouncements
> or whatever.
>
> This is for the sakai.announcements tool.
> I added the 2nd tool to a site by searching in the Admin Sites tool for its
> siteid
> clicked on the site
> clicked on the page
> clicked on the tool
> added /announcement/channel/534d660d-a63c-4b2e-00a6-6ca64bc0d6c2 /annc2
> as the channel.
>
> Then 2 different sets of announcements show up in the site - one set for
> the default Announcement tool and a 2nd separate set for the TestAnnc tool,
> where announcements are made in each tool.
>
> Seems to work ok on QA8 - see the site
>
> http://qa8-us.sakaiproject.org/portal/site/f62a3df2-4c9d-4500-bafc-9618e82815eb
> for example
>
> A blank field I am pretty sure defaults to
> /announcement/channel/<siteid>/main
> (where <siteid> is replaced with whatever the site's id is)
> because that is what is noted in the announcement.new event
>
> John
>
> Sri Kota wrote:
>
> John,
> I appreciate your response. I have been trying various values for "channel"
> with no luck. I am sort of guessing the value based on what I see for the
> motd tool.
>
> /announcement/channel/<siteid>/main : does not work.
> /announcement/channel/<siteid>/annc2: what is annc2 here? It's obviously
> not the siteid, then what is it? Is it the toolid? I have tried the toolid
> and it does not work.
>
> Any documentation on how to set channel values?
>
> Thanks,
> -Sri
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:00 AM, John Leasia <jleasia at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> Sri,
>> The Announcement tool has a property - channel - that can be set to
>> something other than the default, so that you could have a 2nd announcement
>> tool in a site with its own set of announcements. The property is accessed
>> via the Admin Sites tool - edit the site (search for its siteid), edit
>> pages, then edit the tool and a list of tool property fields is shown. Blank
>> is the default for the site, which is I think
>> /announcement/channel/<siteid>/main
>>
>> but you could type something in there different - like
>> /announcement/channel/<siteid>/annc2
>>
>> You could add (via Admin Site tool - isn't possible through the UI to add
>> a 2nd announcement tool) a 2nd Annc tool and put in a different channel and
>> call the tool 'Really Important Announcements' or whatever.
>>
>> I'd think you could add a sakai.motd tool to the gateway, and change it's
>> channel to display the channel of the 2nd annc tool in whatever site you
>> want. Might be that the 2nd announcement tool announcements need to be
>> public - not sure.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>  Sri Kota wrote:
>>
>> Hello Folks,
>> I am trying to get my site Announcements onto the Gateway with no luck.
>>
>> I created sakai.announcements , but can't get the announcements fed in.
>> I'm more or less sure that this is because of the "channel" value. Does
>> anyone know what value "channel" should take?
>>
>> Eg.: For MOTD, the value is: /announcement/channel/!site/motd .
>> Simillarly, what is the channel value for announcements? In general, where
>> do I look-up these values?
>>
>> Is there something else I am missing?
>>
>> P.S.: I do have "Public" announcements in one of my sites.
>>
>> Thanks for looking,
>> -Sri
>>
>> --
>> - Sri
>> Sarvē Janā Sukhinō Bhavantu
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> - Sri
> Sarvē Janā Sukhinō Bhavantu
>
>


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- Sri
Sarvē Janā Sukhinō Bhavantu
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