[Building Sakai] Multiple Default Skins for My Workspace?

[Matthew Jones]

Yea, this is exactly how it would work Steve: This was part of
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15504 for 2.6.0.

   "2.1 if this is a MyWorkspace site, look for template site with id
!user.USER_TYPE first. If not found, look for !user site" -Zhen Qian

So as admin you'd just create a site (and realm if it doesn't exist) for *
!user.guest*,* !user.registered*, etc. (by default the types are
registered,guest,maintain and sample) Then set whatever template, set tools
you want them to have by default. Probably would want to copy *!user* to
save some time on the page setup.

If you needed to extend these user types you'd probably want to modify
whatever external provider (kerberos/ldap/custom) you're using. For
instance, our provider assigns a type of uniqname to separate these accounts
from guest accounts. I'm sure there are more complex configurations.

-Matthew

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Charlie,
>
> I dont believe there is any way to tie this to a user type, and hence a
> !user.template site but you can still set the skin param on these sites.
>  You could do this via webservices or SQL.
>
> Cheers
>
> ~ steve
> (sent from my ipod)
>
> On 10/04/2010, at 9:37 AM, Charlie Macchia <cmacchia at BrainOVision.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I’m presently using a single Sakai instance ( 2.6.1 ) to do demos for a
> variety of clients; I know how to theme/customize, how to change skins and
> how to assign different skins to different sites – BUT – is it possible to
> assign a *different *skin to *different *users for their “My Workspace”?
> As of now, everybody gets the same skin that you define in the
> sakai.properties ( skin.default=your_snazzy_skin ) – but I’m wondering if
> there’s some way, by account  ( or otherwise ) such that different folks can
> be assigned different “My Workspace” skins?
>
> Thoughts?
> Charlie
>
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