[Building Sakai] problem with the visibility of pictures when using the FCKeditor Resource Browser in Samigo

[Widner, Aaron Robert]

This is not an easy way but it is another option.  The instructor could upload these pictures to a project site or their My Workspace.  Then link those images into the assessment.  Now they would have to set the image file permissions as public, but at least the students will not see the images before the test.

Aaron

From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of John Leasia
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:52 AM
To: Matthew Jones
Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] problem with the visibility of pictures when using the FCKeditor Resource Browser in Samigo

Seems like you would have to go to the Resources tool and use the Edit Details action to change the 'show' date (set a From date after which the file becomes visible) for the files uploaded through FCK.   If you uploaded all the items into a folder, you could just hide the folder (set the show date to the 20 days in the future).

John

Matthew Jones wrote:
Yea, that's an interesting problem. The tools certainly don't change the visibility of the resources, and the FCKUploader just puts them in the default space. The professor would really need to know ahead of time to upload all of their images separately and put a release date on them, but this is something that nobody is going to do.

I also don't believe that you can make a file or folder hidden from the resources UI but still visible from direct "/access" if you happen to know the URL (Like UNIX if you have a folder with the execute permission without the read). This is really what this needs, then you could have a tool create a folder that has a permission similar to 711 with readable files in it and nobody would know the names of the files to view them.

Sakai doesn't have this special case though, it only has "read or not read (hidden)"

There seem like a lot of complex ways to fix this, but I can't think of any easy ones outside of uploading them in picasa or something and linking to them.

-Matthew

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Raul Sanchez Vegas <raulsv at um.es<mailto:raulsv at um.es>> wrote:
Hi all,
We´ve seen the following issue. It´s in all the tools that use the
FCKEditor but we think that the biggest problem could be in Samigo.

If an instructor creates a new exam (that will be published in 20 days)
and that exam has pictures that are uploaded with the FCKeditor, those
images would automatically be stored on the site resources and avaliable
for all students as soon as they are uploaded. So students could see the
exam images even before the exam is published. Has anyone noticed this
use case?

thanks in advance,
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