[Building Sakai] Site Management Patch

[Adrian Fish]

I did have a look at that patch and was put off by the fact that the 
template ids are read from sakai.properties - it will be a real pain to 
have to schedule downtimes just to pick up a new template site id. This 
way seems more  dynamic; tag a site as a 'template' and it's picked up 
straight away. If there is a 2 minute delay due to db lookups with 10K 
of sites then that is a bummer, admittedly.

Cheers,

Adrian.

Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> Hi John, 
>
> we needed a way to configure this at runtime from any site that we 
> mark as a template and not necessarily copy content, just the tools, 
> much the same way as the copySite webservice works.
>
> Having to have a certain siteid such as what SAK-12868 does is a 
> little cumbersome, especially if the site is well established and you 
> want to copy content as you can't change the siteId afterwards. Our 
> patch allows any site to be marked as a template.
>
> It might be useful to join forces here, using our property method and 
> the EntityTransferrer method to transfer content if desired. 
>
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
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> Steve Swinsburg
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> Centre for e-Science
> Lancaster University
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> On 26 May 2009, at 12:28, John Leasia wrote:
>
>> Hi Adrian,
>> also see SAK-12868 which added a template capability.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Adrian Fish wrote:
>>> If anybody's interested I've added a feature request and patch for the 
>>> site-manage tool to JIRA. It allows you to mark any site as a template 
>>> and then create sites from those templates via the site-manage tool. 
>>> It'll make my life as a Sakai admin easier, it might do the same for you ...
>>>
>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-16419
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Adrian.
>>>
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