[Building Sakai] Sakai and BBB

Thu Oct 6 04:16:02 PDT 2011

Definitely do not change the site id like that unless there is
literally no data in that site. You will cause any data associated
with the site to be orphaned.
-AZ

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Adrian Fish <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> You will have to change it in the database.
>
> For MySQL:
>
> UPDATE SAKAI_SITE SET SITE_ID = 'ACA-CHS-06' where SITE_ID = 'ACA CHS 06';
>
> Try that.
>
> On 06/10/2011 11:52, Patrick Coleman wrote:
>
> I'm sure you are right but I don't seem to be able to change the site ID?
> Or is there someplace I'm missing?
> On Oct 6, 2011, at 6:48 AM, Adrian Fish wrote:
>
> That'll be it; we had to replace quite a lot of site ids with GUIDS. Try
> sticking hyphens instead of spaces in a db query and see it it starts to
> work. I suspect it will.
>
> The GUIDs are automatically generated by the worksite setup code in Sakai.
> However, you can use the Sites tool and add whatever site id you like. I
> think ACA CHS 06 is perfectly ok as does a large percentage of the Sakai
> codebase, Entity Broker doesn't.
>
> It's a bit of  bind as it forces you to use the Alias service for nice site
> URLS whereas you could use '/portal/site/ACA CHS 06' directly which would
> get URL escaped by the browser.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
>
> On 06/10/2011 11:39, Patrick Coleman wrote:
>
> I think you've got it. This sites that don't work (I've found a few more)
> have Site IDs that have
> spaces in them like...
> ACA CHS 06
> The sites that work have your typical IDs like
> c205711-a2f8-448e-8251-27c0448ea5f1
> When you create a site the only field that is required (with a *) is site
> ID.
> So people have filed in what seems like a good id with spaces. It allows you
> to put spaces in and doesn't say the ID is invalid.
> Also where do the IDs like c205711-a2f8-448e-8251-27c0448ea5f1 come from?
> I know no one entered that?
> Pat.
>
> On Oct 6, 2011, at 4:57 AM, Adrian Fish wrote:
>
> Hang on ...
>
> What is the id of the site that causes problems. The id, not the site
> title. EB hates anything apart from alphanumerics and hyphens in site ids.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
>
> On 06/10/2011 00:43, Patrick Coleman wrote:
>
> I have a many site in this instance of Sakai. The first two I put "Meetings"
>
> in I got the
>
> error. Then I tried a few other site and it works?
>
> Any idea why some sites would work and others would cause the errors?
>
> Pat.
>
>
>
>
> Patrick Coleman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Sakai 2.7.2
>
> bbb plugin 1.0.6
>
> BBB server 0.71a
>
> Pat.
>
>
> Adrian Fish wrote:
>
> What version of Sakai are you using the BBB tool on? The site
>
> permissions entity provider stuff only got added from 2.7 I think.
>
> Try viewing this URL:
>
> http://localhost/direct/site/describe
>
> You should see lots of CustomActions, one of which should be 'perms'. If
>
> that's not there, then you have a problem ...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrian.
>
> On 05/10/2011 12:12, Patrick Coleman wrote:
>
> I replied to Sam's personal email about this....and he felt...
>
> "No permissions in the list indicates some sort of deeper issue. I would
>
> check for dupe jars. If there are no duplicate jars, I would attempt a
>
> complete re-deploy of BBB."
>
> I've done what he suggested, re-deployed BBB and checked for duplicate
>
> jars
>
> but found none.
>
>
> Anyone have any other ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> ---------------
>
> My reply to Sam
>
>
> There isn't much more in catalina.out when I click on meeting
>
> This first line is when I just click on "Meetings"
>
> INFO: EntityEncodingManager: No entities to format (json) and output
>
> for
>
> ref (/bbb-meeting)
>
> This is what I get when I click on "Create Meeting"
>
> INFO Could not process entity: /site (400)[null]: Cannot execute custom
>
> action (perms) for request method GET, The custom action view key (show)
>
> must match the request view key (list)
>
>
> I see that there is a "Permissions" heading also which seems to suggest
>
> you
>
> can define permissions but I
>
> don't see how they can be defined?
>
>
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