[Building Sakai] Can Anyone help regarding Tools

[Sean Keesler]

Naira ,

There isn't a UI for making these configuration changes. You would need to
edit the tool registry files (XML files actually in tomcat - since you are
using the binary distribution of Sakai) or the sakai.properties file (which
should be placed in apache-tomcat/sakai).

After you make these configuration files and restart tomcat admin users
(members of the Admin Workspace site) would be able to  add stealthed tools
to any site using the "Sites" tool in Admin Workspace.
All other users would not see the option of adding stealthed tool to their
worksites (since they all use the "Worksite Setup" and "Site Info" tools,
which do not show stealthed tools).

Sean Keesler
130 Academy Street
Manlius, NY 13104
315-682-0830
sean.keesler at threecanoes.com



2010/10/18 “Naira farooq <nairafarooq at gmail.com>

> Stealth"ed tools are available to add to sites via the "Sites" tool, but
> not the "Site Info" or "Worksite Setup" screens. what do you mean by this??
> from which interface i would be able to remove the tools... who and who
> would not be able to see the tools ???
> please help :(
>
>
> 2010/10/18 Sean Keesler <sean.keesler at threecanoes.com>
>
>> It sounds like you want to "stealth" some tools globally (across all Sakai
>> site types). "Stealth"ed tools are available to add to sites via the "Sites"
>> tool, but not the "Site Info" or "Worksite Setup" screens. You can do that
>> by editing one of a few sakai.properties and restarting Sakai.
>>
>> Optionally, you could make the tools available to some site types (ie:
>> portfolio and project sites) but hidden from others (ie: course sites) by
>> editing each tool's registry xml file.
>>
>> A tidy litte slideshow from a previous conference presents the options for
>> hiding tools in Sakai can be found here:
>> http://www.slideshare.net/jleasiaum/configuring-sakai-boston09
>>
>>
>> Sean Keesler
>> 130 Academy Street
>> Manlius, NY 13104
>> 315-682-0830
>> sean.keesler at threecanoes.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2010/10/18 “Naira farooq <nairafarooq at gmail.com>
>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>
>>> I am facing a little problem. I want to hide all the tools that are
>>> present in "Edit tools" link in Sakai site. I don't want even admin to see
>>> those tools except those tools that i enable for the users.
>>>  for example
>>>  i just want to enable announcements, messages, email and chat tools for
>>> the users of all sites even the course site and i want to disable all the
>>> remaining tools from the "Edit tools" option. So that user or the owner of
>>> the site must not have option to select any other tools for the site that i
>>> don't want to allow access to.  But i also want that i should be able to
>>> enable the remaining tools when there would be a need.
>>> please let me know how to do it. where are the tools stored. and from
>>> where they can be enabled or disabled on demand or requirement.
>>> I must be missing something but i am unable to find where these tools are
>>> present.
>>> i am using the bin version of Sakai 2.7.0 release.
>>> --
>>> Naira Farooq Ch
>>> Software Engineer
>>> FAST-NU
>>> Islamabad
>>>
>>>
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>
>
> --
> Naira Farooq Ch
> Software Engineer
> FAST-NU
> Islamabad
>
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