[Building Sakai] Cambridge Autojoin tool

[Daniel Merino]

Hi, Raad. Thanks for your answer.

A few days ago I received a kind mail of your partner Daniel Parry 
specifying the steps, that are these:

1) log in as admin
2) In worksite setup, identify the site you want people to autojoin.
3) Under manage access, make that site joinable.
4) Grab the site id for the site, the long string that looks
   something like: e66a4839-41c8-4354-8e26-82ea88e8c573
5) In aliases add a new alias:
   where Alias is the join name you want to give
   where target is /portal/site/%siteid%
   (%siteid% is the site id above)
For example, you might have:

   Alias: maths
   Target: /portal/site/e66a4839-41c8-4354-8e26-82ea88e8c573

6) Log out and e.g. go to:

   http://sakaiURL/join/maths

7) You should find you are refirected through the log in
   procedures and eventually end up as a member of the site and
   taken to the site home page.


Previously, I had taken a look on the source code and I could add a 
previous step by myself:

0,5) The tool has a functionality that I think that will only work for 
Cambridge's servers, that are these lines:

/*
* CTL-1044 Changing this to getServerUrl since everything
* is mounted in the ROOT tomcat webapp now. - SWG 2008-07-09
*/
String portalUrl = serverConfigurationService.getServerUrl();
if ( !"/portal".equals(portalUrl) ) {
   target = portalUrl+"/site.html?siteid="+siteId;
}

Commenting the last three lines before deploying the tool works nicely 
for us.

Thanks and best regards.

Raad Al-Rawi escribió:
> On 09-Mar-10 11:03, Daniel Merino wrote:
>> Hi everybody.
>>
>> Recently I asked in this list for information about the existing
>> autojoin tools, looking for a solution for our 2.5.3 server.
>>
>> I have tried the patch SAK-15832 but is for a kernel-version and I don't
>> feel able to backport it. I have tried also the Michigan 2-6-0 tool but
>> is also kernel-dependent.
>>
>> Finally, I have installed succesfully the Cambridge tool
>> (https://source.caret.cam.ac.uk/camtools/trunk/camtools/autojoin/), just
>> changing the version in the two pom.xml.
>>
>> Now my (silly) question is: how must I use autojoin? I have found no
>> documentation, except a mail chain where it was suggested to use
>> http://<server-url>/join/portal/site/<site-id>  with autojoinable sites.
>> This url doesn't work for me.
>>
>> Please, could any Cambridge friend tell me how they autojoin the sites?
>>
>> Thanks and best regards.
>
> Hi Daniel
>
> To use autojoin, I think all you should need to do is create an alias 
> that points to the site you want to use autojoin for, e.g.
>
> alias            target
> -----            ------
> mysitejoincode   /portal/site/e83aaf17-a228-428e-02d5-7b574643caad
>
> then use the url pattern:
>
> http://<server-url>/join/mysitejoincode
>
> Try that and see how you get on.
>
>
>
> All the best
>
> Raad
>

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