[Building Sakai] Resources - Folder (Email Notifications)

[Matthew Jones]

Yea, it's kind of a bummer, but the email notification on folders really
doesn't do anything. The dropdown input field was removed on 2.7, so you
must be running 2.6 or earlier? Actually getting it to do what you describe
would be a lot of work. There's not even a way to change the default
notification for an entire Resources tool to be anything other than None. :(

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-18199

Forums in 2.7 added a pretty good set of watch options to at least allow
users to specify their default watch options, but that feature wasn't added
*until* 2.7, and not implemented in every tool that supports notifications.

I could see something like the CANS activity monitor [1] (an external
contrib tool) being pretty useful in your case, but besides that it seems
like a problem that's not easily solved either with that or without
unfortunately.

[1] http://fipse.missouri.edu/guides/am/

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Teresa Collins <tcollins at uwindsor.ca> wrote:

> Good Afternoon All!
>
> I have been trying to setup a custom site for one of our instructors and
> come across a problem.
> One of the customizations needed is to have notifications set-up at the
> folder level in Resources.
> There are six groups defined in the site.
> I setup the folders so that each group has access to their folder only.
> I setup the folders with Email Notification (High - All Participants).
> I altered the folder permissions so that students had everything except for
> all groups and hidden permissions.
> I expected that whenever a file was added or updated everyone with access
> to that folder would receive an email notification. This didn't happen.
> I am hoping to avoid telling this instructor that everyone needs to set the
> notification option for each file added / updated.
> I'm guessing that what I am trying to do is possible - otherwise, there
> wouldn't be an email notification option available for folders in Resources.
> Can someone please explain how to do this?
> Any and all help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks and Take Care,
>
> Teresa Collins (Terry)
> LMS Administrator (CLEW)
> Educational Technologies
> Centre for Teaching & Learning
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