[Building Sakai] Archiving sakai sites

[Neal Caidin]

I can see how the terminology can be confusing. "Archive" is used in two
different contexts with two different meanings. It might be worth thinking
about a different word or phrase to be used in the Preferences area.
Perhaps something like "Hide from Display" would be clearer. Archive does
tend to have the meaning, digitally, that something special is happening to
the content that moves it somewhere that is still accessible and available
but not as visible or easy to get to.

The Dictionary.com definition of Archive is:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/archive?s=t
(for Digital Technology)
* a long-term storage device, as a disk or magnetic tape, or a computer
directory or folder that contains copies of files for backup or future
reference.
* a collection of digital data stored in this way.
* a computer file containing one or more compressed files.
* a collection of information permanently stored on the Internet

In Sakai we are usually referring to the 3rd definition of archive when we
discuss it. So I think "Hide" makes a lot more sense than "Archive" for the
Preferences context.

2 cents.

Neal


On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Pablo San Roman Bengoetxea <
pablo.sanroman at unavarra.es> wrote:

> Hi Jaco
>
> The change you are making in Preferences is only for your display,
> it doesn't produce any change on "Manage Acces", neither on "Add
> participants".
> So the site's participante will see it, of course.
> Regards
>
> --
>
> ...........................................................
> Pablo San Roman
> HBGMI / CSIE | tel 8482
>
>
>
>
>
> El 23/01/2015 a las #4, Algaze, Louis Contractor, eDataTech escribió:
> > Jaco,
> >
> > I think the Archive functionality is working like it should.  It’s not
> > designed to REMOVE the existing site, it’s only supposed to Export the
> > site for archiving or transferring to another Sakai system.
> >
> > If you would like to delete/unpublish the site or dis-enroll all users
> > after archiving that would be another step in your process.
> >
> > Louis Algaze
> >
> > From: Jaco Gillman <jaco at opencollab.co.za <mailto:jaco at opencollab.co.za
> >>
> > Date: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 12:26 AM
> > To: Tyler Beason <tbeason at mail.bradley.edu
> > <mailto:tbeason at mail.bradley.edu>>
> > Cc: Sakai Server <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> > <mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>>
> > Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Archiving sakai sites
> >
> > Hi Tyler
> >
> > Thanks for your reply and for the alternative solution. We will look
> > into that.
> >
> > However this still does not solve the fact that the Archiving
> > functionality in Preferences tool is working like it should? Are we
> > missing something here?
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > *Jaco Gillman*
> >
> > Lead Java Developer
> >
> >
> > *Mobile*: +27 83 596 2375
> > *Skype*:  gillmanjc
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 22 January 2015 at 18:46, Tyler Beason <tbeason at mail.bradley.edu
> > <mailto:tbeason at mail.bradley.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello,
> >
> >     You can go to Site Info -> Manage Access to unpublish the site.
> >     Check the option to Leave As Draft, which should make the site
> >     unavailable to everyone except the maintainers/instructors.
> >
> >     Answers to questions like this can also be found by using the
> >     built-in Sakai help by clicking the small blue question mark in
> >     the upper right corner.
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >     Tyler
> >
> >     Tyler Beason
> >     Graduate Assistant, Instructional Design & Learning Technologies
> >     (IDLT) Ext. 2344
> >     Bradley University Quantitative Finance (MSQF) student
> >     Check out my quant finance blog! TBeason.com <http://tbeason.com>
> >
> >
> >     On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Mthokozisi Sithole
> >     <mthokozisi at opencollab.co.za <mailto:mthokozisi at opencollab.co.za>>
> >     wrote:
> >
> >         Hi everyone
> >
> >         I've archived certain sites on my sakai instance using the
> >         Preferences tool.
> >
> >         But the participants within the archived sites are still able
> >         to access(view) the sites.
> >
> >         I would like to prevent the participants of the archived sites
> >         from accessing those sites.
> >
> >         Can anyone please shed some light.
> >
> >         Thank you in advance.
> >
> >         Regards
> >         Mtho.
> >
> >
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