[Building Sakai] Sakai 2.7.0 Realms Information Required

[Farhan Akhlaq]

Hi All,
       Thanks Kara for your help. I have performed the following steps of creating a Project worksite and have successfully added Site Stats and User Membership tools. I have created a user 'Junior Admin' and add it to project site as participant. Thanks a lot once again.
       
       Right now i have added Job Scheduler tool in the Project site but using Junior Admin i cannot use this tool. Is there any other way that i can give Super User Right to Junior Admin explicitly for Job Scheduler?  
       Thanks a lot once again.
Regards,
Farhan AkhlaqSoftware EngineerTechlogix Company (Pvt) Limited.farhanakhlaq at techlogix.com




Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:20:19 -0400
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Sakai 2.7.0 Realms Information Required
From: kara.stiles at rsmart.com
To: farhan.akhlaq at live.com
CC: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org

Farhan,

If you're just looking to add a new user to the Administration Workspace, you can use the Site Setup tool to add anyone to the Administration Workspace (much like you'd add a user to a course or project site).


If you're looking for an interesting way to create another level of admin, use this workaround:

So...we call this a "junior admin" (we can't seem to think of a more reasonable name), and we got the idea to use the !site.helper to make a junior admin from the CLEW team at University of Windsor.  I'm not sure I can solve your problem regarding non-admins needing access to Job Scheduler, but we've got instructions on giving helpdesk users access to some other cool stuff that might help your implementation.  Read on for more info. Just to warn you, it's deliciously complicated. The warning in this set of instructions is only a real warning if you choose to be liberal with the permissions in !site.helper. If you grant 'read only' perms, it's less scary:


As
 a system admin, you may want to create a "junior admin"--a user who can
 access and manage sites in the CLE but who does not have access to the 
Sakai Administration workspace. Keep in mind that you'll still need 
access to the Admin workspace to create a junior admin.  Warning:
 A junior admin may manage ANY site within your instance of Sakai. If 
you plan on creating "junior admin" roles for students working at your 
help desk, you MUST make sure they are not able to manage their own 
courses! We highly recommend providing student workers with separate 
"junior admin" user IDs that are different from their regular user IDs, 
to safeguard against this possibility.  
 

 The first step is creating a project site--give it an appropriate name,
 such as "Junior Admin." When creating the site, you only need to add 
the Home and Site Editor tools. Be sure to copy the site ID, so you can 
quickly find the site in the Admin workspace. To do so, simply copy all 
of the site's URL to the right of the last backslash. The site ID will 
look similar to this:
 
 b92587ec-56fb-46e5-860d-e7d6830399f6
 

 Go to the Admin workspace and select the Sites tool. Find the Junior 
Admin site you just created, using the Site ID search if necessary by 
pasting in the site ID you copied. When you find the site, click on its 
link. You must now add two admin tools to the site manually--the User 
Membership tool and the Site Stats Admin tool. To do so, follow these 
steps:

 Scroll down to "Add/edit pages" and click the Pages button.  In the toolbar, click New Page and enter "User Membership" in the "Title" field.
 Under "Continue Editing," click Tools. In the toolbar, click New Tools. 
 Select the User Membership tool and click Save. Repeat this process to add the Site Stats Admin tool.

 Next, 
select the Realms tool. Find the realm for the Junior Admin site you 
created, again pasting the site ID in the search field if necessary. 
When you find the site, click on its link. Then, in the "Role ID" list, 
click the Participant link, and grant permission to the following functions: 

 sitestats.view sitestats.admin.view
 usermembership.view
 When you're finished, click Save. Complete the same steps for the Organizer role in the realm.
 
 Now find and select the "!site.helper" realm. In the toolbar, click Add Role,
 and in the "Role ID" field, enter an appropriate name, such as 
"junioradmin." Then, grant permission to the following functions:

 annc--ALL asn--EXCEPT "asn.receive.notifications" and "asn.submit"
 assessment--EXCEPT "assessment.submitAssessmentForGrade" and "assessment.takeAssessment" blogwow--ALL
 calendar--ALL chat--ALL content--ALL
 dropbox--ONLY "dropbox.maintain" eval--EXCEPT "eval.be.evaluated" and "eval.take.evaluation"
 gradebook--EXCEPT "gradebook.viewOwnGrades" jforum--EXCEPT "jforum.admin"
 mail--ALL mailtool--ALL melete--ALL
 metaobj--EXCEPT "metaobj.suggest.global.publish" mneme--EXCEPT "mneme.guest" and "mneme.submit"
 osp--EXCEPT all "osp.style" functions poll--EXCEPT "poll.vote"
 realm--ONLY "realm.upd" roster--EXCEPT "roster.viewhidden"
 rwiki--EXCEPT "rwiki.superadmin" section.role--ONLY "section.role.instructor"
 site--EXCEPT "site.add.usersite" and "site.visit.unp" sitestats--ALL
 usermembership.view virtual_classroom_session--ALL
 When you're finished, click Save.

 Next, select the "!site.helper" realm again and follow these steps:

 Click Grant Ability in the toolbar . In the User ID field, enter the user ID for the person you want promoted to junior admin.
 Select "junioradmin" as the person's role in the "!site.helper" realm. Click Save.
 Repeat this process to add all junior admins to the "!site.helper" realm.
 
Finally, go to your Junior Admin project site. Using the Site Editor 
tool, add the junior admin users as participants. As always, be 
sure to check your work. Log in as a junior admin user. Then, confirm 
that you can view statistics for each site type, and that you can use 
the User Membership tool to help a user troubleshoot a site in which you
 are not a participant.


Bye now,
Kara Stiles

rSmart





On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Farhan Akhlaq <farhan.akhlaq at live.com> wrote:






Hi All,
I have previously done some mails regarding the Sakai Realm and this one is also in same context. I have some more questions regarding Sakai Realm. 

Can i create a user account who has admin tools such as Job Scheduler, Users, Sites, Woksites Setup etc in his My Workspace? 

And In addition to this when that particular user view any site from Sites / Worksite Setup Tools he just have Read access to site tools not update access.        
To give read only access what i have done is created New Role in my !user.template.course as ReadOnly that just have read access to Tools such as Assignments etc. But i have to make that user manually a participant of all course sites in order to give him access to sites and for more than 150 course sites that is quite hard.


Another thing that i have done for Bullet-ed first point is. Created a user and added Job Scheduler tool in his My Workspace. But when i click on its link then i am getting following notification. 

Permission Error: Must be a super-user to access this resource.

I have given the user type registered.
   
Kindly advise me how can i create an account My Administrator that i can use instead of admin. 

Regards,

Farhan AkhlaqSoftware Engineer
Techlogix Company (Pvt) Limited.farhanakhlaq at techlogix.com
Cell No. +92-3334082989Work Phone : 111-859-859 ext[273]



 		 	   		  

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