[Building Sakai] Limited access to Dropbox tool

[JOSE MARIANO LUJáN GONZáLEZ]

Hi Dani,

it will definitely be a really useful improvement. As far as I'm aware, 
its not possible to achieve such configuration with the current 
permissions of the tool.

What I'm not sure is how to best approach the new configuration of 
permissions. Most of the tools handle section awareness in a different way.

Some tools have a permission called 'xxx.allgroups' that is the one used 
for the instructor role in order to have access to all groups. In those 
tools, the default behaviour is that other users (TA, Student) have only 
access to the content from their sections. Other tools handle section 
awareness by having a different set of permission for the group realm 
and for the site realm.

Maybe, for consistency, it could be a better approach to show by default 
only the groups that a users is member of and then, if a user/role has a 
'dropbox.allgroups' permission, show him the complete list of groups 
from the site.

Suggestions are welcomed,
Thanks Dani,
Mariano


El 17/03/2015 11:03, Daniel Merino escribió:
> Hi everybody,
>
> as I haven't received any answer, I am thinking about trying to do this
> myself.
>
> My new question is: would you consider useful a new permission called
> "dropbox.groups"? In Dropbox tool, users with this permission (I am
> mostly thinking in TAs) could only see folders of students who belong to
> their same groups/sections.
>
> I would like to know that there is some interest before spending time in it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Best regards.
>
> El 16/03/15 a las 15:01, Daniel Merino escribió:
>> Dear community,
>>
>> in the past this question has been sent to the list several times and I
>> think that it never was answered, but I will try again, just in case
>> that somebody has solved it with some tool or trick in recent versions
>> of Sakai.
>>
>> Dropbox tool has a great feature that is the automation: each time a new
>> student user is created, he can inmediately upload resources to his
>> dropbox folder.
>>
>> However, the administration of Dropbox tool is all-or-nothing.
>> Dropbox.maintain permission gives full control over it. Access can't be
>> delimited with sections and every instructor or TA can see every folder.
>>
>> This limit disables the tool for some common use cases, i.e. a
>> tutor-student relationship where one tutor should not see the other
>> tutors folders, or the management of final degree projects.
>>
>> Some intermediate role that could only see the folders of students
>> assigned to his section should fix all these use cases.
>>
>> I wonder if somebody has overtaken this limitation of Dropbox and I
>> would love to know how could I do the same.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your ideas.
>> Best regards.

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