[Using Sakai] Portable links to tools

[Adam Marshall]

You can always point to the front page of a tool but often cannot point to
an entry within a tool, such as a thread in a forum. 

 

Whether the tool has a sensible URL (unfortunately) depends on the
technology used to write the tool, I think I'm right in saying that tools
using Wicket or RSF have good URLs. (Polls being an example although it's
not obvious what the URL is!), other tools that use JSF do not have proper
URLs - the best you can do is point to the front page of the Forums tool.
Note that it may appear that you can point to a particular message in a
forum but this is usually due to a session variable temporarily remembering
what the last thing was that you looked at.

 

This is a fairly big issue (for us) and I think that Sakai 3 is addressing
it.

 

As far as I know there isn't a portable URL - this is something we'd like as
well. I have also discovered that sometime relative URLs aren't accepted -
Sakai makes a right mess of them, although this issue may have been fixed
now.

 

Adam 

 

From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
[mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Marshall
Feldman
Sent: 08 July 2009 14:29
To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Using Sakai] Portable links to tools

 

Hello,

In a prototype website for a course I'm teaching this fall, I have designed
a web page to act as a home page and portal. The page resides in
"Resources/Web" and has links to other web pages that reside in this
directory and its subdirectories. Since I use relative paths, this presents
no problem.

However, the page also needs to have links to various Sakai tools, such as
the course calendar and discussion board. As such, I have two questions:

1.	What's the best way to obtain the URL's for such tools? Can one
simply open the tool in a browser and copy the path from the browser's
address field? Or, is there a better method?
2.	These links have to be portable. In other words, when copying the
web page from the prototype site (a project worksite) to the production site
(a course worksite), the links have to point to the respective tools in the
course worksite rather than to the tools in the original, project worksite
used to design the course. Does Sakai have something like relative addresses
for this purpose? Is there a better way to address this problem?

Thanks very much.

-- 

Dr. Marshall Feldman, PhD
Director of Research and Academic Affairs

 

Center for Urban Studies and Research
The University of Rhode Island
email: marsh @ uri .edu (remove spaces) 


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