[Building Sakai] Tool List in 2.7 (toolOrder.xml)

Daniel Merino daniel.merino at unavarra.es
Sun Jul 18 23:54:03 PDT 2010


Hi. You're right, registrating each tool with the new site type works fine.

Many thanks for your help.

Jean-Francois Leveque escribió:
> As far as I can remember, Frederic Dooremont told me the tools also 
> have to be patched to be aware of the new site type. Looks like [1].
>
> With at least 2 institutions, and maybe more, having a problem with 
> this, maybe this is time we create a JIRA.
>
> Cheers,
> J-F
>
> Zhen Qian a écrit :
>> Maybe you need to update relevant tool registration files to include the
>> new site type.[1] The page mentions sakai 2.2, so it might be a 
>> little out
>> dated.
>>
>> Jean-Francois Leveque raised similar issue last month[2]. Jean-Francois,
>> maybe you can share your experience?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Zhen
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> [1]: http://wiki.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Adding+a+Site+Type
>>
>> [2]:
>> http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-How-to-add-new-site-types-in-2-6-2-7-td5204319.html 
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:35:19 +0200, Daniel Merino
>> <daniel.merino at unavarra.es> wrote:
>>> Hi everybody.
>>>
>>> I'm configuring a 2.7.0-rc01 sakai and I'm trying to set the list of 
>>> tools available in a new site type called "Comunidad" which we use 
>>> since our old 2.5.3 version.
>>>
>>> I have configured the site type and their tools as usual:
>>>
>>> - In sakai.properties with:
>>>
>>> titleEditableSiteType.count=2
>>> titleEditableSiteType.1=project
>>> titleEditableSiteType.2=comunidad
>>>
>>> - In site-manage, we add the new site in:
>>>
>>> sakai.sitesetup.xml
>>>
>>> <configuration name="siteTypes" value="course,project,comunidad" />
>>> (...)
>>> <configuration name="publicChangeableSiteTypes" value="comunidad" />
>>>
>>> sakai.siteinfo.xml
>>>
>>> <configuration name="siteTypes" value="course,project,comunidad" />
>>> <category name="comunidad" />
>>>
>>> And after this, the new site type is available, but then I add the 
>>> next lines in the kernel 1.1.8 file (toolOrder.xml)
>>>
>>> <category name="comunidad">
>>> <tool id = "sakai.iframe.site" />
>>> <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.chat" />
>>> <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.discussion" />
>>> <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.announcement" />
>>> (...)
>>> </category>
>>>
>>> But after deploying the kernel, the tool list in the Comunidad has 
>>> only "Home" and "Site Info".
>>>
>>> Is there any other step to be done in Sakai 2.7.0-rc01?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>

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