[Building Sakai] Add tools to new course sites

[John Leasia]

Ashraf,
Presumably you have specified which tools show up in the tool list for a 
course site via the toolOrder.xml and tool registration files?
So in the registration file  (e.g., 
/svn/content/trunk/content-tool/tool/src/webapp/tools/sakai.resources.xml) 
for tools
you allow in course sites you have
<category name="course" />

and in the toolOrder.xml file you have something like

toolOrder.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<toolOrder>

<category name="course">

<tool id = "sakai.synoptic.chat" />

<tool id = "sakai.synoptic.discussion" />

<tool id = "sakai.announcements" selected = "true" />

   ....

<tool id = "sakai.mailbox" />

<tool id = "sakai.news" />

<tool id = "sakai.iframe" />

<tool id = "ctools.reserves" />

<tool id = "sakai.siteinfo" required = "true" />

<tool id = "sakai.contact.support" />

</category>


Note the required = "true" bit - you can put that after any tool that 
you want to force into the site.

You could also create a site with certain tools and use that site as a 
template - users pick that site template during site creation and they 
get what's in the site rather than receiving the page from which to pick 
tools during site creation (but they can go back and edit the tools 
after the site is created if they want).

John

Ashraf Amrou wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to configure Sakai to automatically add a certain set 
> of tools to newly created course sites?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Ashraf

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