[Building Sakai] Question about shopping period settings (DA tool)

[Bryan Holladay]

Shopping period is for opening up specific tools in courses to the public
(users not required to log in) or private (require users to login). In the
shopping period settings page, you can select which sites are open during
specific dates. Those sites will get either the ".auth" or ".anon" role.
These roles are copied from the selected "user becomes" role. So if you
select "Student", then anyone who accesses a shopping site will get the
permissions that a student has. However, this doesn't control what tools
are shown. The "Choose tools to show" list allows you to specify which
tools a logged in user can see and which tools a non logged in user can
see. All other tools are hidden. An example case is opening up just the
syllabus tool for all courses for only logged in users. This way you can
ensure that only your institutional users can view any syllabus for any
course without having to be a member of the course. The shopping tool can
be added to the Gateway page as a way for students to search and access
these sites. The gateway page is optimal because non logged in users can
access it and search. If you only have logged in access for shopping, then
it could also just be added to MyWorkspace.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Jim Mezzanotte <jmezzanotte at anisakai.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been documenting the Delegated Access tool (for Sakai admins),
> and I have a question about shopping period settings.
>
> If you go to:
>
> "Delegated Shopping Admin User Use Case"
> (
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DAC/Delegated+Access+Tool#DelegatedAccessTool-ShoppingUserUseCase
> )
>
> You'll see the following:
>
> "You also have the ability to choose which tools are restricted for
> shoppers by clicking the 'Restrict Tools' link and selecting the tools
> you want to restrict."
>
> But it looks like there's been a change since this was written. Now
> what you see instead is a "Show Tools" link. When you click this link
> you get a "Choose Tools to Show" popup window (see attached image). In
> this window, the text says "choosing a tool in the list will show the
> tool for this user."
>
> So I'm having trouble figuring out how this works. I thought it might
> provide access to additional tools than what the selected "user
> becomes" role would provide, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It
> also doesn't make much sense--it's much easier to restrict access to a
> tool, since providing access means deciding permissions too.
>
> I also tried this as "restrict access in reverse." In other words, do
> you pick tools to show so that only those tools are accessible,
> regardless of the "user becomes" role selected? But this also had no
> effect I could see. I tested with both "public" and "logged in"
> settings in this window. I'm assuming that "public" only affects
> behavior if the Shopping tool is added to the gateway, and "logged in"
> when it's added to My Workspace, but I can't be sure.
>
> Apologies in advance if I'm missing something obvious, but I'm stumped
> on this one.
>
> Working in the 10.x maintenance branch (
> http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8081).
>
> On a related note--could someone add a prop setting for this instance?
> The setting is:
>
> delegatedaccess.siteaccess.instructorViewable=true
>
> Need this functionality enabled in Site Editor to confirm/document the
> "advanced" shopping admin settings ("disable instructor override" and
> "disable 'public' option").
>
> Thanks in advance for the help!
>
> Jim Mezzanotte
> Asahi Net International
>
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