[Building Sakai] Questions about new synoptic tool for Messages & Forums

[Clay Fenlason]

Thanks, Bryan, but there's still the question of the institution which
doesn't deploy Messages at all - there are quite a few of those.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like such schools would have a
big 'Messages' column with 'Nones' running all the way down, which
could be confusing for users which have no recognition of a 'Messages'
tool at all. Is there a good way to handle this?

~Clay

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Holladay, Bryan
Andrew<bahollad at indiana.edu> wrote:
> Clay,
>
> Thanks for the commendation.  I’m not sure if you were asking the questions
> or just stating they needed to be answered on the page, so I will post the
> answers both on this email and the wiki.
>
> W hat happens if a school deploys Forums but not Messages? Or vice-versa?
>
>    &
>  2) What happens if a site uses Forums, but not Messages? Or vice-versa?
>
> The tool checks to see if each site in the Synoptic Table (where it saves
> the counts for quick retrieval) has either the messages, forums or the
> message & forums tool.  A site gets added to the table only if there has
> been some activity in the messages or forums tool or during the Quartz load
> job (which also checks each site for these tools).  So if messages or forums
> or messages&forums tools are not registered for that site, the Site will not
> show up in the list.  If only the messages or the forums tool has been added
> to the site, then the one that is missing will have a non-linked “none” in
> the count column.  This is being done every time the tool is loaded, so if
> you remove one of these tools, then it will update.  It will also check that
> the site exists and that it is published.
>
>     3) Can this synoptic tool be included with others on a page, or does
> it need its own?
>
> Yes.  We (IU) have our version running on the MyWorkspace Home page.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>
>
> On 7/30/09 10:20 AM, "Clay Fenlason" <clay.fenlason at et.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm looking at another fine example of documentation supporting a new
> feature (proposed for 2.7) - a new synoptic tool for Messages and
> Forums [1] . Thanks to Bryan Holladay.
>
> It raises a question or two in my mind, though, that I don't see answered
> there:
>
> 1) What happens if a school deploys Forums but not Messages? Or vice-versa?
> 2) What happens if a site uses Forums, but not Messages? Or vice-versa?
> 3) Can this synoptic tool be included with others on a page, or does
> it need its own?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Clay
>
> [1] http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/HgCZAQ
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