[Building Sakai] Announcements owner

[Savitha Prakash]

The userid, startdate and end date information of an announcement is stored
in the XML blob in announcement_message table. Can you check whether the
information is properly saved in the XML?

I am really not sure, why the user is getting deleted in your Ad Directory
provider. The announcement tool is giving null pointer exception, as it is
not able to find the user information of the userid, which is saved in the
"from" field in the XML of that announcement. Did you create a user with the
id that is as found in the "from" field of the announcement?

- Savitha

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Yzelle, Sonette <SYzelle at unisa.ac.za>wrote:

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>  Morning,
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> Can someone please help.
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> We are using Sakai 2.6.2 and Oracle db.
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> We have a problem where a user who added an announcement (table:
> announcement_message , column: owner) does not exist on our Ad Directory
> provider anymore.  Now when someone tries to open the announcements for that
> site the announcements tool gives an error, AD Directory gives a nullpointer
> exception.  I have tried to update the owner column to a valid user but
> announcements are still picking up the incorrect user_id.
>
> Can someone please advise with the following:
>
> ·         how I can fix the userid in the announcements?
>
> ·         Where is announcements getting the old user_id?
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> ·         Where is the announcement begin and end date stored?
>
> ·         Is there any other tables that announcements use beside the
> announcement_channel and announcement_message tables?
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>
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> We are going to change our provider to not return a null when the user does
> not exist but for now I need a urgent fix so that the lecturers can add
> announcements.
>
>
>
> SOnette
>
>
>
> Sonette Yzelle
>
> Analyst Developer
>
> ICT
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> UNISA
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> South Africa
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> email: syzelle at unisa.ac.za
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