[Building Sakai] Cambridge Autojoin tool

[Daniel Merino]

Hi, Steve. Thanks for the offer, but I chose the Cambridge tool because 
it's the only one that is not kernel-dependent. We use Sakai 2.5.3 and 
the other 2.6.x tools had their pom.xml full of "sakai-kernel". :-)

Also, we are happy with the aliases restriction, so we can choose which 
sites are autojoinable.

Thanks anyway.
Regards.

Steve Swinsburg escribió:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> You might like to use our modified version of Cambridge's autojoin tool. I pulled out the flat portal and other miscellaneous parts:
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//msub/anu.edu.au/alliance/2.6.x/autojoin/
>
> Adjust the pom to be the normal parent rather than our custom pom.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 15/03/2010, at 11:23 PM, Daniel Merino wrote:
>
>   
>> 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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