[Building Sakai] Auto-joinable site

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Jez,

It should work. Can you send the errors you are getting when going to a site id that does exist?

cheers,
Steve


On 25/03/2011, at 1:23 AM, Jez Cope wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions everyone - some good options there. I'll 
> investigate further and try to come up with a solution.
> 
> Steve: will that module work on 2.7.x? I've tried getting it going on my 
> test server, and had to change "2.6-SNAPSHOT" to "2.7-SNAPSHOT" to get 
> it to compile. Sakai then started up ok, but trying to form an autoreg 
> url doesn't seem to work. The correct error messages are shown if I go 
> to http://sakai/autoreg/something-malformed, but if I use an actual site 
> ID there, the browser claims it cannot connect to the server. Any 
> suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jez
> 
> Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>> We use our own module (based on one from Cambridge) and it has a confirmation page before you are automatically joined:
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//msub/anu.edu.au/alliance/2.6.x/autojoin/
>> 
>> URLs are of the form:
>> https://your.sakai.edu.au/autoreg/siteid
>> 
>> We also added some other checks and balances. Overall, a pretty robust module.
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 24/03/2011, at 12:56 AM, Jez Cope wrote:
>> 
>>> Is it possible to set up a worksite so that all members are
>>> automatically made participants? The ideal situation would be that a
>>> check is made at login and users automatically added to the site. That
>>> way there would be no need to fill the site with the entire contents of
>>> our institution-wide LDAP directory, only those from our research centre
>>> who actually use Sakai.
>>> 
>>> The scenario for this is that I want to create a Help/support site which
>>> new users will need to be able to access before they've got to grips
>>> with manually joining sites, and it won't be feasible for an admin to
>>> manually add every new member.
>>> 
>>> I'm sure I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find anything
>>> about this (probably searching with the wrong keywords).
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Jez
>>> --
>>> Jez Cope
>>> ICT Project Manager, Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies
>>> University of Bath
>>> Tel: 01225 38 5827
>>> 
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