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

[Gordon, Patricia (psg3a)]

Will do (and you likewise). Thanks. --Trisha

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 6:43 PM
> To: Gordon, Patricia (psg3a)
> Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org; oit-atg at virginia.edu
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Public announcements from Admin Workspace
> not possible?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Not yet but will be revisiting this in the future. If you do any work in
> this area, let me know
> 
> Cheers
> Steve
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 14/10/2010, at 8:06, "Gordon, Patricia (psg3a)"
> <psg3a at eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Steve,
> >
> > We (at the University of Virginia) are investigating how to make MOTD
> announcements "public" by default in order to take advantage of the RSS
> feed capability in our 2.6.3 instance of Sakai. We came across this
> thread from you and wondered if you ever figured this out?
> >
> > Trisha Gordon
> > UVaCollab Project Lead and User Support Manager
> > https://collab.itc.virginia.edu
> > collab-support at virginia.edu
> >
> > Dept. of Information Technology and Communication
> > University of Virginia
> > PO Box 400198
> > Charlottesville, VA 22904
> > 434.243.5465
> >
> > Steve Swinsburg steve.swinsburg at gmail.com
> > Thu Jul 1 23:45:49 PDT 2010
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Steve