[Building Sakai] URL directly to edit tools part of site-manage

[Adam Marshall]

I have often worried about the name "Site Info". 

For me, a good solution would be to call the tool "About this site" for students and "Manage Site" for teachers. 

Whenever I talk about the "Page Order" tool during training I call it "The poorly named Page Order tool" - it does so much more other than allowing pages to be ordered. 

adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Regan, Alan
> Sent: 18 April 2011 19:20
> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org; Adrian Fish
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] URL directly to edit tools part of site-
> manage
> 
> Dear Adrian and Dev List,
> 
> Adrian, thank you for posting your inquiry to the list.  I see that a
> few people responded, but I wanted to ask the dev list for advice on
> how to address an issue we've discovered.
> 
> Working with our great hosting partner, Longsight, we've been making
> progress on a development project together.  To help our professors, we
> are trying to add shortcut links so that professors can quickly modify
> their sites with fewer clicks. Unfortunately we've run into a snag
> related to how the Site Info tool works.  In order to deep link to Edit
> Tools, Page Order, or Manage Access, it seems like Sakai 2.6 and 2.7
> requires the user to first initiate a Site Info session before you can
> deep link to a specific tool in site-manage.
> 
> You can learn more about our project goals here:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1moJOkQ0AxFRLLJxINuL3_MUAETQKBoSJPRJ
> yXFf5_xs/edit?hl=en&authkey=CI3N_5UH
> 
> (The screenshot in the GoogleDoc is a little outdated, but it still
> communicates the concept.)
> 
> Per Longsight, "We're using xsl-portal to insert (among other things)
> an unordered list below the list of tools that points to various Site
> Info tasks using the 'directtool' syntax. Here are the urls we've
> constructed to deep link the user to specific parts of Site Info:
> 
> Publish a site:
> /xsl-
> portal/directtool/sakai.siteinfo?sakai.site=[YOUR_SITEID_HERE]&sakai_ac
> tion=doMenu_edit_site_access
> 
> Edit Tools:
> /xsl-
> portal/directtool/sakai.siteinfo?sakai.site=[YOUR_SITEID_HERE]&sakai_ac
> tion=doMenu_edit_site_tools
> 
> Page Order:
> /xsl-
> portal/directtool/sakai.siteinfo?sakai.site=[YOUR_SITEID_HERE]&sakai_ac
> tion=doPageOrderHelper
> 
> "It works fairly well, although we've noticed that the first time the
> user clicks the links in a given session, they're taken to just the
> generic Site Info main page. After that, they're taken directly to the
> deep link. It's as though Sakai won't let them access the deeper page
> link until they go to the main Site Info page first to initialize the
> tool. They only have to do this once per session per site, and then the
> deep links will work. This happens in 2.6 and 2.7. I'd welcome any
> insight anyone has on if there's any way to eliminate this need."
> 
> ***********
> 
> NOTE: Longsight developed a solution so that our "Publish Now" feature
> is working by directly updating the publish status of a site. It's the
> Edit Tools and Page Order situation that we need community assistance
> with.
> 
> If anyone on the dev list has an idea on how to address the Site Info
> session problem, we'd love to hear it!
> 
> Thanks in advance for your time.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Alan Regan, MFA
> Manager, Technology and Learning
> Information Technology
> Pepperdine University
> (310) 506-6756
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:12:53 +0100
> From: Adrian Fish <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Building Sakai] URL directly to edit tools part of
> 	site-manage
> To: Sakai Dev <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Message-ID: <4DA5CB85.5060204 at lancaster.ac.uk>
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> 
> Anybody know how to construct a URL directly to the 'Edit Tools' part
> of
> site-manage? Can it be done?
> 
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
> 
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> Bowland Tower South C Floor
> Lancaster University
> Lancaster
> LA1 4YW
> email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk
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