[Deploying Sakai] Announcements on Gateway

Sun Mar 28 18:22:40 PDT 2010

John,
I must add that the announcements work like a charm! I can now hook up
different channels to feed into the Gateway.

Thanks  again,
-Sri

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Sri Kota <srini07 at gmail.com> wrote:

> John,
> Great! Thank you for taking the effort to work through this with me. I did
> not know at all about realms and roles. So this exchange has been really
> useful.
>
> BTW, what is it that the channel expects? Is it the path to some file or
> something else? How can I verify and be sure that I have the right value in
> there? It does look pretty straightforward for the MOTD tool (because it is
> pre-filled), but not quite so for the announcement tool. Any DOCUMENTATION
> explaining channels (especially for announcements)?
>
> Thanks a ton,
> -Sri
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:06 PM, John Leasia <jleasia at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>>  I also tried adding a 2nd announcement tool to the admin site (the first
>> is on the page named MOTD), and called it motd2, and gave it a channel of
>> /announcement/channel/!admin/motd2
>> and then on the gateway added a 2nd sakai.motd tool (not an announcement
>> tool) and called its page motd2, and set its channel to the same as above.
>> That worked too - the motd tool displays announcements with less UI so it
>> looks cleaner.
>>
>> Or you could add a web content tool pointed to a file somewhere.
>>
>> John
>>
>> John Leasia wrote:
>>
>> Oh,
>> well then you'd need to add the announcement tool to the gateway site, and
>> set it's channel to the channel of the Announcement tool you're using, and
>> add the .anon role to the site where the announcement tool is, and give
>> the .anon role annc.read permission,
>> and give the .anon role .read permission on the !gateway site.
>>
>> Adding a role for a site is done using the Admin realms tool, and once
>> added, you can set the permissions with the realms tool or go to the tool
>> and click the permission link.
>>
>> I did that for http://qa8-us.sakaiproject.org/ as an example
>>
>> John
>>
>> Sri Kota wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>>> --
>>> - Sri
>>> Sarvē Janā Sukhinō Bhavantu
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- Sri
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