[Building Sakai] Hide a tool for some groups/sections

[Jaques Smith]

Yes, was thinking about that but hoping to do it without portal changes.
Thanks Steve.

Jaques


On 7 August 2013 13:36, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could probably do this with a fairly minor modification to the portal.
> Store some configuration somwhere, ie as a site/page/tool property perhaps,
> then when the portal renders the nav list, check that config. The portal
> knows the user and the context, so if you need to do some more lookups,
> just check there.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Jaques Smith <jaques at opencollab.co.za>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Sean,
>>
>> Yes I know about functions.require and tried to use it, but that will
>> not work.
>> My need is a little different.
>> We want to hide some tools (ex. Podcasts) for some students, dependent on
>> group/section, on a site. So all the students have the same permissions.
>> Also this might differ on a other site.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jaques
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5 August 2013 14:01, Sean DeMonner <demonner at umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> functions.require
>>>
>>> This posting includes an explanation from Kara Styles that explains it
>>> pretty well I think:
>>>
>>> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2011-April/011957.html
>>>
>>> SMD.
>>>
>>>
>>> ====================================================
>>>
>>> *Sean DeMonner*
>>>
>>> Information Systems Director
>>>
>>> Information and Technology Services
>>>
>>> Teaching & Learning
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Jaques Smith <jaques at opencollab.co.za>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to hide a tool for some groups or sections in a site?
>>>> Sakai 2.8.0 (if not in 2.8 is there something like this in a higher
>>>> version?)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jaques
>>>>
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