[Building Sakai] [Using Sakai] "Add attachments" on all tools MODIFICATIONS!

[Matthew Jones]

Attachments are currently stored in a special folder only visible to
administrators (as it's at the root/attachment/<site name>/<tool name>').
It seems like the better solution would be to make this folder visible to
the site owners and also include that in the quota calculations for the
site. Both of these things would take quite a bit of work though. Some
other tools also store things in special folders like Dropbox and melete
which are not counted.

These old comments in BaseContentService I believe are still accurate. ;)

  protected boolean overQuota(ContentResourceEdit edit)
  {
    // Note: This implementation is hard coded to just check for a quota in
the "/user/"
    // or "/group/" area. -ggolden

    // Note: this does NOT count attachments (/attachments/*) nor dropbox
(/group-user/<site id>/<user id>/*) -ggolden

Either task of

1) Changing every tool that uses attachments to only pull from existing
resources (not making new attachments or dropbox entires)

2) Changing overQuota to include existing attachments in quota calculations

*seems* like they would both take similar amounts of effort to implement.
Probably changing overQuota feels easier cause it's just in one place
rather than in tools and UI everywhere.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:17 PM, <alaanizar at iihem.ac.ma> wrote:

> hello,
> your assumption is right. I agree on that. To me, one work arround this
> issue is to remove the
> option of adding attachments in other tools.
> Instructors have to upload the files in the resources, then make a
> reference to them in the
> announcement message.
> That way, we control the quota on the resourves tool.
> However, how can we make the check quota option visible to the teacher?
>
>
> > Hi Alaa,
> >
> > The quota from other tools is not calculated by resources.
> >
> > Reason:
> > If you were to add announcment on a site where it was already over its
> > quota then adding the announcement would fail and this should never
> happen.
> >
> > Items not part of resources do not count for or against your quota in
> > resources (i.e. example above).
> >
> > You mentioned the assignment tool.
> > If a user was trying to upload their assignment to a site that was over
> its
> > quota, how would this be handled?
> >
> > These are a few reasons why quotas are only calculated for resources.
> >
> > (Please correct me if I am wrong here, as this is my understanding)
> > Earle
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:43 AM, <alaanizar at iihem.ac.ma> wrote:
> >
> >>  Hi,
> >>
> >> Can we modify the "add attachments" function so that users can only
> attach
> >> copies from their resources, and not upload an extra file from the
> >> computer? if yes, when the file is removed from the resources, how can
> we
> >> remove it also from the place where it was attached to?
> >>
> >> Meaning, if a professor attached a file that he already saved on the
> >> Resources tool of that course to the Announcements Tool. if he erased
> the
> >> original one, the attached one, will it be erased or it will stay on the
> >> Announcements tool.
> >> If it will stay, how can we erase automatically? if possible!
> >>
> >> Why we are concerned about and may be other institutions! This is
> because
> >> the quota limitation proposed by sakai, as far as I know, is only
> limited
> >> to the resources tool. not the announcements, when the professors
> upload an
> >> attachment to that announcement. same thing for the Schedule tool.
> >>
> >> How can we limit the attached files on the other tools other than the
> >> Resources Tool?
> >>
> >> Is their a way so that all files included/added in a course be counted
> and
> >> displayed by the "Check Quota" option on the Resources tool?
> >>
> >> When a student upload a file in the Drop Box, on which space this file
> is
> >> counted, instructor or student?
> >>
> >> How can we show them their quota size, both instructor and student?
> >>
> >> If we want to limit the "Add attachment" function to only attach a copy
> of
> >> the files already put in the Resources tool, how can we do that? what
> file
> >> should we modify before building Sakai?
> >>
> >> Same question for the Assignment Tool!
> >>
> >> regards,
> >>  Alaa NIZAR
> >> www.iihem.ac.ma
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