[Building Sakai] Multiple Default Skins for My Workspace?

[Charlie Macchia]

Thanks for your helps guys, I'll give this a go.

Charlie 


Matthew Jones-8 wrote:
> 
> 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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