[Building Sakai] Public announcements from Admin Workspace not possible?

[Matthew Buckett]

On 2 July 2010 07:45, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Does anyone know why Public Announcements are not possible from the Admin Workspace? When adding an announcement I do not get the Public/Site option, just an empty 'Access' section. Examining the source, shows that the parameter 'announceTo' is hardcoded to be site only. I don't think this is new, nor a bug, I've just never noticed it before.
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> We want to be able to publish Announcements that go to the MOTD synoptic tool so appear in user's My Workspaces, but also make the same announcements available from the RSS feed that the Announcements tool provides, but it only picks up public announcements, so this won't work.
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> We can broadcast public announcements from any other site but would really like to be able to do it
> from the Admin Workspace. There must have been some reason why this capability was restricted?

To me it sounds like the real bug is that when the RSS feed is being
built permission checks aren't done on the feed to see if it's public
but just checking the flag on each message.

== Half related ==
We found that there was a "bug" in announcements which mean that on
sites that were public (.anon) you wouldn't get the option as to how
to restrict the visibility of the announcement:

http://jira.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jira/browse/WL-1026

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  Matthew Buckett
  VLE Developer, LTG, Oxford University Computing Services