[Building Sakai] Tool must be available but not in the left navigation area

[Mark Norton]

What you need is the ability to flag a tool associated with a site to be 
hidden, yet make it accessible via a hard coded URL.  I looked into 
making some modifications to the portal to support such a feature once.  
I determined that the changes were not all that difficult, but the 
client decided not to go forward with that design - so the code was 
never written.  The tool MUST be added as a page in the site, otherwise 
the forum or wiki tool don't have the context they need.

I'm not aware of anyone else who has tried something like this, nor do I 
believe it is supported in the 2.x branches.

- Mark Norton


Benneker, W.F.M. wrote:
> I looking for a solution for the following use case of teacher.
>
> With the page order tool (light bulb) some the tools are switched off
> except for the role maintain. E.g. the wiki tool & forum tool. 
> The basic idea is that the teacher doesn't want to have the wiki in the
> navigation area. But the wiki should be available to the students by
> using the url of the tool on a simple html page in the course site.
>
> If we do this it will direct the student to the home page instead of the
> home page of the wiki tool. If we switch the role from student to
> maintain its works perfect.
>
> In the wiki all preferences are set to read, write access for all roles
>
> I'm looking in the realms for a clue but couldn't find a proper
> solution.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
> ---------
> Frank Benneker
> University of Amsterdam 
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