[Building Sakai] can one join a site by visiting the site instead of using the membership tool

[David Haines]

Our version of autojoin is different than the Cambridge  
implementation.  The changes were mostly taking things out since the  
Cambridge version did things we didn't need.  The code isn't public as  
yet, but that's mostly because I haven't gotten around to uploading it.

As John said it requires a special URL that is only different by  
adding '/join/' to an existing portal site URL. If someone is eligible  
to join a site they will automatically be added.  In retrospect I  
think a better approach would be to have a user preference so that  
people could decide up front to either automatically join, or just  
visit, sites that they are eligible to join.  It would be a lot more  
fluid than having a special URL.  It is more work to implement also.

If someone wants a copy I can provide it.

- Dave

David Haines
CTools Developer
Digital Media Commons
University of Michigan
dlhaines at umich.edu



On May 6, 2009, at 8:20 AM, John Leasia wrote:

> Yes John, you did. We use it here at UM - something Cambridge did  
> and Dave Haines added it to our build.
> We give out a URL like   <server>/join/portal/site/<siteid>
> and going to the site with that URL adds the person to the site  
> (they may have to login first in the process of getting there).
>
> John L
>
> John Norman wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure we did something for this use case. You might try
>> searching for "autojoin". I think it created a special url that would
>> add a logged-in user to the site and then put them into the site.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On 6 May 2009, at 13:10, Adam Marshall wrote:
>>
>>
>>> We keep getting the same confusion regarding Joinable sites.
>>>
>>> The scenario is this: a joinable site is created then the URL is
>>> publicised,
>>> people go to the site but of course since they're not members, they
>>> are
>>> denied access.
>>>
>>> Is there a patch which we can apply which will display a "Join Me"
>>> link or
>>> button when one visits a joinable site without being a member?
>>>
>>> I'm sure I saw something mentioned about this a few years ago but
>>> could find
>>> it by searching Jira.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
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