[Building Sakai] Attaching files with no user interaction. Can it be done?

[Casey Dunn]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Tiago Gaspar <tiagocgaspar at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Sorry to insisit, i really need a way out...
>
> any one?
>

Tiago, hi there.

I didn't follow the detail of your original message (below) asto just how
your sakai tool recorded audio and video and
stored the results in some kind of media servers. Or did you want to
duplicate the content in Sakai? if so then why
have media servers? wassup with that?

however here are some other ideas for you:

A) store a reference (URL, etc) in Sakai to whatever external gateway the
media servers provide.
B) push the content into sakai using the the CHS Access servlet.

My company just finished a project for Stanford wherein a standalone app
displays QT movies and records QT movies as responses, storing
all the content in Sakai sites. Sakai is used for ACLs and such.





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> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Tiago Gaspar <tiagocgaspar at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I'm working on a sakai tool to record personal audio&video messages to be
>> used in wikis, annoucements, blog, etc. It will allow the WYSIWYG editors
>> like FCK and TinyMCE to display those flv files. The recorded messages
>> should be stored as a archive available in Resources to ease referencing.
>>
>>  The flv files are stored in the media server (possibly in other machine).
>> The problem is: How to take the flv file and upload it to Resources?
>>
>> I though of some options:
>>
>>    1. Using FilePicker Helper:
>>     1. Make the flv folder in the media server accessible through Apache.
>>       2. Set the upload Textfield URL in FilePicker Helper.
>>       3. The user would just have to press the add button.
>>    2. Attach files programmatically
>>    1. Make the flv folder in the media server accessible through Apache.
>>       2. Call a method to upload the file inside the logic of my tool.
>>
>> In the 1st approach the challenge is to set the Textfield with the
>> appropriate URL. Can it be done through FilePicker Helper? This approach
>> makes the URL visible to the user, which is not a very nice thing...
>>
>> The 2nd approach seems much better. But how can it be done? The Sakai
>> documentation is very poor in this matter. Would I need to hack some code
>> from the content project ?
>>
>> Thanks is advance,
>>
>> Tiago Gaspar.
>>
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