[Building Sakai] Synoptic Announcements change limit.

[Chris Ribble]

Thank you so much Savitha, that worked perfectly!

Chris



From:   Savitha Prakash <savithap at umich.edu>
To:     Chris Ribble <cribble at uwindsor.ca>
Cc:     sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Date:   03/14/2011 10:37 AM
Subject:        Re: [Building Sakai] Synoptic Announcements change limit.
Sent by:        savithasprakash at gmail.com



Chris,

The announcement messages are getting filtered out to 20 in 
AnnouncmentAction.buildMainPanelContext method at 

Line 938     messages = prepPage(sstate); 

The prepPage(sstate) is a method in PagedResourceActionII class in the 
velocity project. In this method, it determines the pageSize from the 
STATE_PAGESIZE attribute, which in null in the case of synoptic 
announcement, hence it resorts to the default value, which is set to be 
20, in this class.

protected List prepPage(SessionState state)
{
// access the page size
int pageSize = state.getAttribute(STATE_PAGESIZE) != null ?
((Integer) state.getAttribute(STATE_PAGESIZE)).intValue() : 
DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE;

If you want to change the value, you will need to set the state attribute 
STATE_PAGESIZE in the announcement side. I would hesitate to make any 
changes in PagedResourceActionII, as other projects has dependencies on 
Velocity.

Hope this helps,
Savitha


On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Chris Ribble <cribble at uwindsor.ca> wrote:
Hi Savitha, 

Thanks for the reply. I've tried changing the items property in 
sakai.synoptic.announcement.xml but it still only yields a display of 20 
messages. I've even changed the SAK-13116 code in AnnouncementAction.java 
to allow more than 20 posts to be set in the tool options. I've also 
changed the properties in admin sites tool. Yet, it still only shows 20 
posts. Have I missed somewhere else in the code where that number is set? 

Thanks again, 
Chris 



From:        Savitha Prakash <savithasprakash at gmail.com> 
To:        Chris Ribble <cribble at uwindsor.ca> 
Cc:        sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org 
Date:        03/14/2011 08:44 AM 
Subject:        Re: [Building Sakai] Synoptic Announcements change limit. 




Hi Chris, 

The default limit can be changed by changing the properties (days, items) 
in the registration file of synoptic announcement, which can be found at 
announcement-tool/tool/src/webapp/tools/sakai.synoptic.announcement.xml.  

Also as a sakai admin, one can change the value of these properties by 
admin sites tool 

- Savitha

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Chris Ribble <cribble at uwindsor.ca> wrote: 

Hi All, 

I'm currently working on our 2.7.1 test environment trying to get it to 
function similarly to our 2.5.2 production environment. It has been noted 
that in our 2.5.2 environment we had no limit on Recent Announcement 
postings through the Synoptic Announcements Tool. In 2.7.1 however it is 
limited at 20. I've checked through the code for some sort of property 
relating to this hard limit and I cannot find it. I have found the 
SAK-13116 patched area of AnnouncementAction.java and it only allows me to 
remove the warning that only 20 posts will be displayed. 

We need to be able to set this to a higher number for our sites as some 
Profs have raised this as an issue in the past. 

Can anyone point me in the right direction? 

Thanks 
Chris 

Chris Ribble 
LMS Application Developer 
Information Technology Services 
University of Windsor 
cribble at uwindsor.ca
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