[Building Sakai] In a particular site how to restrict students from sending messages

[Poindexter, David Ray]

Any possibility of making this functionality a web service instead of a
tool?
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David Poindexter

Systems Analyst

Enterprise Student Systems

UITS

Indiana University

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On 12/6/12 1:48 PM, "José Mariano Luján" <jmariano at um.es> wrote:

>Ok, i will then create the jira. Thanks!
>
>Actually a colleage of mine developed a  contrib tool that allows sakai
>admins to easily update all realms with new permission changes. We use it
>almost every month!!
>
>If anyone wants to take a look:
>https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UMUSYNC/Sites+sync+tool+-+Umus
>ync
>
>Cheers
>
>Enviado desde mi iPhone
>
>El 05/12/2012, a las 23:07, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
>escribió:
>
>> Hi Jose,
>> 
>> Yes that Jira text would be fine. Realm updates can be handled come
>>upgrade time, there a various ways to do them.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On 04/12/2012, at 22:31, JOSE MARIANO LUJAN GONZALEZ <jmariano at um.es>
>>wrote:
>> 
>>> Jean-Francois, you are right, thats a new feature, i.e.: we are
>>>running 2.7.1 and we don't have those permissions but they do come on
>>>2.9. It's an interesting feature!
>>> 
>>> and Steve, I tried what you mention in the "page order" and it works!!
>>>we didn't know about that option. It might help in some occasions.
>>>Regarding "Can you file a Jira to add that?", sure I can, but do you
>>>think that we should file the jira with something like:
>>> 
>>> - add new permission like "msg.sendmessages" that will allow to
>>>control which roles can send messages (couldn't this be a problem later
>>>on... because everyone should update all their realms marking that
>>>permission in order to allow their roles to send messages...) So maybe,
>>>its a better option to add a restrictive permission like
>>>"msg.no.sendmessages" so that people only have to check that permission
>>>if they want to restrict that functionality to an specific role.
>>> 
>>> As you can see, not really sure of what could be the best solution...
>>> thanks!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> El 04/12/2012 10:10, Jean-Francois Leveque escribió:
>>>> As far as I can tell from
>>>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-401, this is only in
>>>>"CLE:
>>>> Messages&  Forums" 3.0.0-rc01 which made it into msgcntr-3.0.0 which
>>>>is
>>>> part of CLE 2.9.0.
>>>> 
>>>> Because it's a new feature, its inclusion in 2.8 would require some
>>>> discussion, as far as I can remember how CLE maintenance works.
>>>> 
>>>> J-F
>>>> 
>>>> On 03/12/2012 20:47, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>>>>> Oh we'll that's pretty bad. Can you file a Jira to add that?
>>>>> 
>>>>> The other way would be to hide the tool via page order light bulb,
>>>>>you
>>>>> then need site.upd to access it. So if you only have access and
>>>>>maintain
>>>>> type roles then its done.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Steve
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 04/12/2012, at 5:17, Jehan Badshah<jehan.badshah at nu.edu.pk
>>>>> <mailto:jehan.badshah at nu.edu.pk>>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yes!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I checked realm of sakai 2.8.2, and there is nothing like that to
>>>>>> control.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:52 PM, JOSE MARIANO LUJAN GONZALEZ
>>>>>> <jmariano at um.es<mailto:jmariano at um.es>>  wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    msg.permissions.allowToField.allParticipants
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    msg.permissions.allowToField.groups
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    msg.permissions.allowToField.roles
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    msg.permissions.viewHidden.groups
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>>> Area de Tecnologías de la Información
>>> y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA)
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