[Building Sakai] Multiple Default Skins for My Workspace?

[Kara Stiles]

I use Edia's Skin Selector and Skin Manager tools to make changes to the user workspace skins.

Works great.

Kara Stiles
Senior Functional Consultant
rSmart
http://www.rsmart.com
ICQ: 396517169

----- Original Message -----
From: "Diego del Blanco Orobitg" <diego.delblanco at setival.com>
To: "Charlie Macchia" <Charlie at BrainOVision.com>, sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:25:11 AM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona)
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Multiple Default Skins for My Workspace?

You can easily change it manually as admin, in the sites tool, searching by internal the userID (you can copy it form the users tool) you can edit the site and change the skin to any you have in the skin library.

But... there is a bug. Your skin will change all... but only the first time you enter, because when you make your first click in any tool the logo and the banner will change to the logo and banner in the default skin you have defined in your sakai.properties.

Until someone patch the bug, our very ugly solution is to have a default skin without logo neither banner so you will have for your customer workspace their skin with all their corporative colours, but without logo. When they change to the demo site you have created, then they will see their logo in the site.

There is a jira with this problem (http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-6239 )

Regards


Diego del Blanco Orobitg
Director Técnico de Samoo
diego.delblanco at setival.com
Tlf: 653682489
www.samoo.es


-----Mensaje original-----
De: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] En nombre de Charlie Macchia
Enviado el: lunes, 12 de abril de 2010 5:44
Para: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Asunto: Re: [Building Sakai] Multiple Default Skins for My Workspace?


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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