[Building Sakai] How to register a new function and make it effective?

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

You sure can!

Admin Site Role Permissions updater

Can be found in:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/caret/admin-site-perms/trunk/

Cheers
J-F

On 20/06/2011 08:22, Sam Chow wrote:
>
> oops!
>
> It is a great tool! But i cant find it, may i ask whats that name is it?
>
>
> Steve Swinsburg-3 wrote:
>>
>> There is also a tool in contrib which will backfill the permissions for
>> you, written by Aaron. Select the sites and it does it's thing.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Steve
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 17/06/2011, at 2:25, "Diego del Blanco Orobitg"
>> <diego.delblanco at samoo.es>  wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe it's not the problem and you have done this fine but.. but if you
>>> change the !site.template.course, you only change the template, but all
>>> the
>>> old sites created before that moment doesn't update their realms. So it
>>> only
>>> will work on new sites and if you enter in a previously created site, the
>>> role won't change.
>>>
>>> You must change in all the sites you want the aid201105.questionpool.new
>>> permissions (manually or with a webservice...)
>>>
>>> If you don't want, you can update the site helper realm.
>>>
>>> As said, I'm not sure that's the problem but the xml seems fine.
>>>
>>> Diego del Blanco Orobitg
>>> Director de operaciones
>>> diego.delblanco at samoo.es
>>> Tlf: 963 936 915 - 653 683 489
>>> www.samoo.es
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Mensaje original-----
>>> De: shun.zhang at aispeech.com [mailto:shun.zhang at aispeech.com] En nombre de
>>> Shun Zhang
>>> Enviado el: viernes, 17 de junio de 2011 10:28
>>> Para: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>>> CC: diego.delblanco at samoo.es
>>> Asunto: How to register a new function and make it effective?
>>>
>>> I'm now developing an app based on sakai 2.8.0. I want to make my tool
>>> hidden to student and visiable to teacher, so I do the following
>>> steps, but it doesn't work:
>>>
>>> 1. register new fuctions in registration xml (I don't want to use the
>>> existed "content.new" function).
>>> <registration>
>>>      <tool id="aid201105.questionpool" title="Question Pool"
>>> description="">
>>>          <category name="course" />
>>>          <configuration name="functions.require"
>>> value="aid201105.questionpool.new" />
>>>      </tool>
>>>      <function name="aid201105.questionpool.new" />
>>>      <function name="aid201105.questionpool.read" />
>>>      <function name="aid201105.questionpool.revise" />
>>>      <function name="aid201105.questionpool.delete" />
>>> </registration>
>>>
>>> 2. authorize
>>>
>>> Admin's workspace -->  Reams -->  Edit: Realm !site.template.course -->
>>> Set the Functions for Role "Instructor" -->  check
>>> "aid201105.questionpool.new"
>>>
>>> 3. then I login and enter a course site as an instructor, but I can
>>> not see "Question Pool" tool on the left hand menu.
>>>
>>>    And securityService.unlock(userId, "aid201105.questionpool.new",
>>> siteService.siteReference(siteId)) returns false.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm confused now.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
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> Best Regards,
>
> Sam Chow
> Research Assistant
> Lingnan Unviersity
> Hong Kong