[Building Sakai] Sorting course in More Sites

[William Karavites]

It would be a good idea for the use cases, we could try to see what kind of 're-ordering' they really need. 


Depending on how Sakai renders the Sites, it shouldn't be too hard to sort the sites and then stick them onto the web. I know that jQuery has a draggable and droppable functionality in their UI code. Perhaps a cookie that would store the position of them. 


Other LMS's will copy it to be AWESOME or Apple will patent the slide out feature and than sue every school that uses Sakai. 




-Will 


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----- Original Message -----

From: "Charles Severance" <csev at umich.edu> 
To: "dev sakai" <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org> 
Cc: "William Karavites" <willkara at oit.rutgers.edu> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 11:54:55 AM 
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Sorting course in More Sites 


Will, 

We need to gather multiple use cases - lots of folks tweak the slide out already. 


One possible idea I though of was to add some in browser Javascript sorts that are not "permanent" like the user's reorder - but only temporary - sort by date, sort by title, etc. Don't want to make the UI overdone - but if we made them just in the browser and did not make them permanent we could play a bit - but I do want to see the diversity of the ways folks make the slide out look like before. 


/Chuck 





P.S. I am kind of curious to see which of the other LMS's in the market place will steal the COMPLETELY AWESOME Sakai 2.9 slide out UI design first :) 



On Feb 4, 2013, at 9:03 AM, William Karavites wrote: 


Chuck, 

I think what I meant was that it would default to a chronologically ordered list and THEN allow the user to customize it themselves. You are right in that we should possibly better the current options of the MORE SITES drop-down menu, rather than taking all control away from the users. 

-Will 





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