[Building Sakai] Listing Course Sites in reverse chronological order

[Matthew Jones]

It should have the most recent first, at least it does using the OOTB
course management service. What did you think needed to be changed?

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23544. The call to
getCurrentAcademicSessions/getAcademicSessions
was changed to return the order descending based on start date.Though this
is only fixed in 2.9.x. If you have your own provider which implements
this, don't have the start dates in correct order, or aren't all the way
up-to-date with edu-services you might have different results?

There is also a short term cache placed on this (
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23570) so if you change the
startDates live, you have to wait or reset you cache to see results. This
was because it was hitting this a-lot and slowing down the portal.

Also I *think* when you create a site it creates two properties Term and
Term Eid as site properties based on Title and EID in
CM_ACADEMIC_SESSION_T. The Term has to exactly (case sensitive) match the
Title in that getAcademicSessions returns, which was confusing. This is the
same as the value that was previously set in the manual property for
(portal.term.order). I think it would have been *nice* if it could have
matched either but in our case the TITLE==ENTERPRISE_ID in every case in
CM_ACADEMIC_SESSION_T which makes this much easier.

Shot of a client using this patch.

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On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Kirschner, Beth <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:

> It looks like SAK-19464 implemented a default sort order for sites in the
> "More Sites" tab of the portal, which is great! But it also looks like the
> default sort order is not what was originally requested (and not what we'd
> like to see either). What was requested was _reverse_ chronological order
> (with most recent terms first), but what what implemented was chronological
> order (most recent terms last).
>
> I have a simple change proposed to fix this in SAK-25448, but wanted to
> first check what others think. I'll check the change into trunk by the end
> of the week unless I hear objections.
>
> Thanks!
> - Beth
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-19464
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25448
>
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