[Building Sakai] Content "read" permission and Assignment uploads

[Adam Marshall]

Indeed this is most odd although I believe that the assignment is actually uploaded although to the student it looks like it hasn't been. 

We have recently taken the step of not allowing site managers to remove content.read - this permission also controls whether Attachments can be read. 

adam 

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Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN. 



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From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Marquard
Sent: 08 June 2014 14:22
To: Jim Mezzanotte; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Content "read" permission and Assignment uploads

Mentioned in this JIRA:

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-465

It is rather unexpected behaviour.

Regards
Stephen

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From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] on behalf of Jim Mezzanotte [jmezzanotte at anisakai.com]
Sent: 06 June 2014 03:56 PM
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Building Sakai] Content "read" permission and Assignment uploads

I'm trying to figure out how content access is handled for student uploads in Assignments.

>From testing (2.9 and Sakai 10), I've confirmed that a student user
cannot upload a submission attachment in Assignments if the site's resources "content.read" permission is not enabled for that role.
Instead of uploading, the system displays "operation could not be completed at this time."

Submission attachments are stored in the Admin Workspace resources.
The "read" permission controls access to a site's Resources--without this permission, users don't see the tool. But I'm assuming the permission is also tied to access for the Admin WS resources, and that the "content.new" (upload) permission is being handled automatically (since each attachment file gets its own folder).

There might be use cases where content "read" access is not required in a site where assignments are being submitted (for example you might use Drop Box instead). So ideally, there should be no dependency between the "read" permission and upload ability in Assignments. But I'm not sure if this dependency is necessary, given the structure for storage of attachment files.

Thanks in advance to whoever can shed some light on this!

Jim Mezzanotte
Asahi Net International
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