[Building Sakai] Extend Site Dataset through tool?

[Michael Mertins]

Hi,
thanks for your input.

I see things like

 ResourcePropertiesEdit rp = site.getPropertiesEdit();
 rp.addProperty(PROP_SITE_LANGUAGE, locale_string);

So I think that is a very good idea. But where would I fill the properties
if I want every new site to have the properties (filled with a different
value of course) and where would I expose the properties?

I'm quite new to Sakai development and usually I would presume I can
address an API and write my own program (or here tool?) to extend the
behaviour. From what it looks like now, I could also create my own add
site dialogue and action and site lookup but that would be also quite
complicated if I don't know which classes I could extend. The source code
is still all but conspicuous to me Sakai noob.

Would be very happy if you could go a bit into detail.



Michael


> Hi,
>
> There are site properties which are designed for this sort of thing. You
> could surface the properties through the existing UI's with a bit of code
> to get them and present them. Then you don't need to handle any backend
> code because the properties (ResourceProperties and
> ResourcePropertiesEdit) handle all of that for you.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 14/08/2013, at 10:32 PM, Michael Mertins <mertins at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> how would you generally extend the dataset of sites in Sakai? I would
>> like
>> to add new fields to sites in order to reflect various nomenclature
>> requirements for our courses.
>> Would such a thing be possible through making a tool? If so, how can I
>> integrate the tool into the Sakai add site dialogue so it could catch
>> the
>> additional fields?
>>
>> Hope you can point me in the right direction of what's usually done in
>> such a case.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>>
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