[Building Sakai] Displaying details in Resources' table view

[Adam Marshall]

I suggest what you need to use is the "Access view" of resources!

We've been running an improved version of the access view of resources for about 3 years now. This was done by Gonzalo Silvero to whom we will be eternally grateful. See: http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-13694 . 

It doesnt render copyright status though - adding this would be an excellent improvement. Perhaps a BG image of a (c) could be added somewhere to an item?

We made the decision to allow HTML in a resource description but don't intend to offer a WYSIWYG editor as this often prompts people to get a bit carried away!

It looks like this fix may be in 2.7. 

Here's a made-up example: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/cc2c88fe-a0fe-44d6-0046-89493362b2aa/sub%20f/ 

I'm not sure what we did to enable HTML in the descriptions but we're happy to kake it available.

As a side note we neededn this as we added IMS CP import to Site Info > Import from file and our IMS CPs contain HTML descriptions. This may also apply to IMS CCtoo?

adam

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Matt Clare [mailto:Matt.Clare at BrockU.CA]
| Sent: 21 October 2010 18:04
| To: Adam Marshall
| Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
| Subject: Re: Displaying details in Resources' table view
| 
| Thanks for the follow up,
| 
| 	The main "details" are the Description and Copyright Status.
| There are also a number of Optional properties.
| 
| 	If these items had some indicator in the same way that "Copyright
| Alert" does students would be more likely to click through to them.  As
| it stands a student that does go to Actions > View Details for each
| item is quickly condition not to do that anymore because there is
| rarely any results and its a number of steps each time, in turn,
| instructors tend not make use of Description and Copyright Status
| because student don't review them
| 
| 	Should I be filing a feature request then?
| 
| 	.\.\att
| 
| On 2010-10-21, at 12:18 PM, Adam Marshall wrote:
| 
| > what else did you want to display?
| >
| > adam
| >
| > | -----Original Message-----
| > | From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
| > | bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Matt Clare
| > | Sent: 20 October 2010 20:52
| > | To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
| > | Subject: [Building Sakai] Displaying details in Resources' table
| view
| > |
| > | Hello Sakai-dev community.
| > |
| > | 	I was curious if there was a way to display the details
| > | instructor add to items in the Resources tool in the table view?
| > |
| > | 	When an item is marked as "Display copyright alert and require
| > | a...." there is a (c) placed beside the item title, but the other
| > | details are still two-clicks and a page-load away for students to
| > | discover under Actions > View Details.
| > |
| > | 	Is there any way to indicate to students which Resource items
| > | they should be investigating the details of?  Is this a
| configuration
| > | item somewhere?
| > |
| > | Thanks,
| > |
| > | .\.\att
| > |
| > | Brock University
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|   ::  Matt Clare
| Educational Technology Support Specialist,
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