[Using Sakai] Home Page Components [and Templates]

[Marshall Feldman]

Zhen Qian wrote:


    If Home tool is selected during site creation in Worksite Setup tool,
    or added through Site Info tool, following procedure will be executed
    in order to determine its tool set:

    ... Snip ...

    2. If the site is not a MyWorkspace type,
    a. Looking for template based on the site type (e.g. !
    worksite.project for project site), if found, use the Home tool set
    defined there;
    b. Otherwise, the template id defaults back to !worksite. If found,
    use the Home tool set defined there

    3. If none of the above template site could be found, try to read the
    settings of "wsetup.home.toolids" from sakai.properties file, like:

    wsetup.home.toolids.count = 2
    wsetup.home.toolids.1 = sakai.iframe.site
    wsetup.home.toolids.2 = sakai.summary.calendar

    4. If none of the above works, the use the system default setting,
    Home page would then contain "sakai.iframe.site",
    "sakai.summary.calendar", "sakai.synoptic.announcement",
    "sakai.synoptic.chat", "sakai.synoptic.messagecenter"
    and those synoptic tools would only be active when their "parent"
    tools are also active inside the site.

    So following this sequence, I guess you can modify your template
    setting first...


I searched the Help for "template" and all I really could find was about Portfolio Templates. Where did you find this documentation?

Beyond this, I have a few other questions and would appreciate you or someone else on the list helping out. 

   1. Where are the templates stored? In Resources?
   2. What syntax does one use for designing templates? Is this
      documented anywhere? Is there a template editor?
   3. Similarly for #3. Where can one learn about these properties?
      Where are they kept?
   4. What if an instructor wants different templates for different
      course sites? #2 would imply a template like "worksite.course,"
      but wouldn't there be only one template instead of up to as many
      as there are course sites? Similarly, #3 seems independent of
      specific course sites.

Thanks.

	Marsh Feldman

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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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