[Building Sakai] IMPORT FROM SITE - possible BUG

[JOSE MARIANO LUJAN GONZALEZ]

Hi Yitna,

We were thinking about hiding the resources tool at least; because we 
have the following use case to avoid:

  - Most of our course sites have various sections and all of them are 
managed by different instructors [INSTRUCTOR A, INSTRUCTOR B, INSTRUCTOR 
C...] (those instructors only have access to their respective sections 
[SECTION 1, SECTION 2, SECTION 3...]). Sometimes, this sections use 
different course materials.

[i.e.  INSTRUCTOR A assigned only to SECTION 2
         INSTRUCTOR B assigned only to SECTION 1
         INSTRUCTOR C assigned to SECTION 3 and SECTION 2]

  - So when an Instructor [i.e. INSTRUCTOR A]  uploads his documents to 
the Resources tool, he will set the permissions to be only viewable by 
his section [SECTION 2] and therefore instructor [INSTRUCTOR B and 
students from that section] wont have access to those files. [INSTRUCTOR 
C] will have access to those files.

- So for example, next academic year, INSTRUCTOR A, uses the*Import from 
Site* tool to bring his materials to his new site. With the testing that 
i´ve done, the import is bringing all folders from the old site (even 
the ones assigned to other groups - POSSIBLE BUG - Actually those 
folders assigned to other groups are empty in this new site but still is 
annoying and confusing to instructors in the new site). The content 
imported is actually the same that the instructor was able to see in the 
old site -- OK --, the possible bug are those empty folders created by 
the import.

- Another problem that we see is that if all instructors from the new 
site are going to import separately (so that each one can bring all his 
stuff from his section in the old site) and by mistake some of them 
choose "I would like to replace my data 
<https://aulavirtual.um.es/portal/tool/419a9513-df5e-407b-bfc8-19be5c831c53?panel=Main&sakai_action=doMenu_siteInfo_importMigrate>" 
they would be deleting each others stuff in the new site. I understand 
that is a local problem and i´m not sure that other have come to the 
same problem.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS I WAS LOOKING FOR:

- maybe hide the option "I would like to replace my data 
<https://aulavirtual.um.es/portal/tool/419a9513-df5e-407b-bfc8-19be5c831c53?panel=Main&sakai_action=doMenu_siteInfo_importMigrate>" 
if possible???
- maybe hide resources from the list of available tools and tell 
instructors to use the resources tool to copy material from one site to 
another site????

I´m still trying to analyze all use cases that could be a problem when 
instructors use this tool next month. If anyone has something to add, it 
would be much appreciated!!!
thanks,
mariano

El 11/07/2012 15:14, Firdyiwek, Yitna (ybf2u) escribió:
>
> Can't answer your question, Mariano, but I was curious as to which 
> tools you were thinking of restricting and why?
>
> Yitna
>
> *From:*sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org 
> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of *JOSE 
> MARIANO LUJAN GONZALEZ
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:41 AM
> *To:* Sakai Developers
> *Subject:* [Building Sakai] IMPORT FROM SITE
>
> Hola!
> Anyone knows if there is a way to control /from which tools/ are users 
> allowed to import stuff using the "*Import from Site*" option in 
> "*Site Info*"?
> We would need to restrict a couple of tools from the list.
>
> thanks,
> mariano
>
> -- 
> ******************************************
> José Mariano Luján González - Aula Virtual
> Area de Tecnologías de la Información
> y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA)
> UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA -http://www.um.es


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José Mariano Luján González - Aula Virtual
Area de Tecnologías de la Información
y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA)
UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA -http://www.um.es

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