[Using Sakai] Portable links to tools

[Matthew Jones]

It sounds like what you're looking for is the recently developed
tinyurl service. Unfortunately this isn't something that's included in
a default installation, as it is being worked on as a contrib project.
It's something being discussed to be included in sakai 2.7. You can
ask your system administrator to look into adding this tool to your
instance of sakai. Because of the session states and non standard
url's, it is really the only consistant way to go about it.

Additionally, I can't seem to find if a frontend has been developed
for it yet for a user to actually create tinyurls?

http://steve-on-sakai.blogspot.com/2009/02/tinyurlservice-for-sakai.html

As a user you're pretty much out of luck right now direct linking to tools.

-Matthew


On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Adam
Marshall<adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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:
>
> 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?
> 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
>
>
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> Center for Urban Studies and Research
> The University of Rhode Island
> email: marsh @ uri .edu (remove spaces)
>
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