[Building Sakai] Course enrollment information

[Stephen Marquard]

One point the “use the APIs” standard response misses (ditto for “use the javadocs”) is that for advanced troubleshooting, 2nd-level support and Sakai admins usually go and look stuff up in the database using SQL queries (when they’re not frustrated from doing so by opaque binary-encoded XML blobs or similar, of course).

A nicely formatted ERD diagram would save everyone lots of time.

Regards
Stephen

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Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator,
Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT)
University of Cape Town
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stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za<mailto:stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za>
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From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of markjnorton at earthlink.net
Sent: 01 October 2014 02:08 PM
To: Laura Gekeler
Cc: sakai-dev
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Course enrollment information

Well, in a sense, it is already quite transparent and accessible.  The API is published for each release as JavaDoc, though I can't find them off hand.  Perhaps Neil knows where it currently is.
The JavaDoc can also be created locally by downloading the kernel sources and running mvn javadoc:javadoc.

- Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Gekeler
Sent: Sep 30, 2014 2:34 PM
To: markjnorton at earthlink.net<mailto:markjnorton at earthlink.net>
Cc: Neal Caidin , sakai-dev
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Course enrollment information
Mark,

Thanks for taking the time and trouble to respond to me! As I said, I'm not a developer, but I did completely understand your explanation of the intentional strategy. And I love it. It has given me another reason to appreciate the beauty of the inner workings of Sakai.
Now I'd like to expose it, make it as transparent as possible, cause it to be accessible to all.... How do we do that?


Laura Gekeler
LMS Administrator //Concurrent Instructor
Apereo Foundation Board Member 2014
University of Notre Dame
P:574-631-2402

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