[Building Sakai] Proposed changes to Site Info Tool Selection Page (SAK-16600)

[Neal Caidin]

This sounds a like some discussion about the Samigo (Tests & Quizzes) settings on individual test deployments, which are even more complex than the Site Info tool. There is an accordion-style interface being explored for 2.10 which is already in trunk. Somebody had the same concern/desire to have an option for all the settings to be displayed, which is an option for non-accordian 2.9 and earlier. 

Seems like it would be good to get several opinions, understand the technical constraints of the accordion option, and have some consistency in how accordion behaves between tools.

2 cents.

- Neal
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Neal Caidin

Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
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On Oct 17, 2012, at 4:56 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> I have three thoughts, which is two more than usual.
> 
> 1/ It would be good to have a system-wide property that forced the accordion to be displayed fully opened up. I like the idea of headings but I'm not sure our staff would know which section a tool is situated within. They'd get annoyed opening each one up to search.
> 
> 2/ Comment in Aug 2012 " Only one instance of one type of BasicLTI tool is supported in one site. " is this still true? Unless I'm misunderstanding this seems like a very annoying restriction
> 
> 3/ we use a different classification to categorise our tools, we have 5 areas and have already mapped our tools to these area in a lovely diagram: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/weblearn/images/pentagon_new1.jpg  We would want to redefine the categories that you have listed. Is this possible? (We will also change the colours of the headings, do they each have their own class/id?)
> 
> ASdam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Beth Kirschner
> Sent: 16 October 2012 19:22
> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org sakai
> Subject: [Building Sakai] Proposed changes to Site Info Tool Selection Page (SAK-16600)
> 
> Michigan is proposing changes to the Site Info (aka Worksite Setup) Tool Selection page, to group tools to address several concerns:
> 
> * The tool list for courses/projects is already long and growing
> * The addition of Basic LTI tools to this list will make this list even longer and more unmanageable for users (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22108)
> 
> We feel that adding configurable "groups" will help users visually select the correct tools for their site. We'd also like to provide optional screenshots of the the tools ("more") to help users with tool selection.
> 
> See the following screenshot for the new proposed layout:
>        https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/attachment/34127/Screen%20Shot%202012-10-08%20at%204.28.04%20PM.png
> 
> In order to implement this, we're proposing optional additions to the toolOrder.xml file to define these new groupings. These groupings only impact the Site Info Tool Selection page. 
> 
> Please let us know your thoughts!
> 
> Thanks,
> - Beth
> 
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