[Building Sakai] Resources - Folder (Email Notifications)

[Teresa Collins]

Thanks Matthew!
Currently, we are running 2.5.2 and will be moving production to 2.7.1 
this summer.
We are busy testing it now - but, do not want to roll it out during a 
semester.
My next plan of attack was to try and implement it in Wiki.
I think my biggest challenge with this will be to secure the group pages - 
wish me luck.

Thanks and Take Care,

Teresa Collins (Terry)
LMS Administrator (CLEW)
Educational Technologies
Centre for Teaching & Learning
e: tcollins at uwindsor.ca
o: 2109 Lambton Tower
f: 519-971-3693
p: 519-253-3000 x.4836

jonespm at gmail.com wrote on 04/01/2011 02:56:43 PM:

> From: Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu>
> To: Teresa Collins <tcollins at uwindsor.ca>
> Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Date: 04/01/2011 02:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Resources - Folder (Email Notifications)
> Sent by: jonespm at gmail.com
> 
> 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
> e: tcollins at uwindsor.ca
> o: 2109 Lambton Tower
> f: 519-971-3693
> p: 519-253-3000 x.4836
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