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

[John Bush]

This sounds like something you could easily do if you use the xsl- 
portal if you are ok with essentially hard coding the rules in your  
xsl.  The xsl-portal supports loading the portal.xslt out of any skin  
directory.  So that gives you pretty good control over everything the  
portal does without having to modify any code.

John Bush
Development Manager
rSmart




On Aug 26, 2009, at 5:04 AM, Frank Benneker wrote:

> Thx fot the suggestions.
>
> I think only the first one will work in practice because I want to  
> have the link in the menubar available for the role: maintain
>
> I think it will be a new requirement use case:  the option to make  
> items in the menubar visible or not based on the role in the site.
> The tool itself should be available for all roles.
>
> Frank
>
> Op 26 aug 2009, om 11:23 heeft Roland Groen het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Hiding tools using functions.require will never work, because first  
>> you deny access and than require it. Getting that to work will be a  
>> bug and should be reported as such ;-)
>>
>> I can think of 2 solutions:
>>
>> 1) Change code, To hide the code in the menu a property could be  
>> set in the page and the portal rendering code could pick up that  
>> property in order not to render the item. This will require changes  
>> in the rendering code and will also introduce some porting issues  
>> towards future versions.
>>
>> 2) Use the skin css to hide the tool in the menubar. Each tool has  
>> it's own css class, the next piece of css will at least get rid of  
>> the link:
>>
>> a.icon-sakai-rwiki {
>>   display: none;
>> }
>>
>> This will hide all wiki tool pages, also for the teachers.
>>
>> --
>> Roland.
>>
>>
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