[Using Sakai] Home Page Components [and Templates]

[Steve Swinsburg]

This could be done via EntityBroker and your Javascript making a  
simple request to an EntityProvider that returns the info you want.   
But, I don't think the Entities you require exist yet as this is only  
new work being done.

You can see the current set of capabilities here:
http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8083/direct/describe

or at /direct/describe on your own Sakai instance.

cheers,
Steve

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Steve Swinsburg
Portal Systems Developer
Centre for e-Science
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YT

email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870







On 26 Jun 2009, at 13:54, Marshall Feldman wrote:

> Michael Korcuska wrote:
>>
>> The Sakai book has a chapter which briefly describes how to make a  
>> custom home page. The content is available on the Packt website at http://www.packtpub.com/article/putting-sakai-to-work 
>> .  Fred Hofstetter from Delaware also did a presentation at the VT  
>> Sakai conference that showed some nice work on a custom home page.  
>> I couldn't find his presentation online, but if you're listening  
>> Fred....
>>
>> The big limitation in Sakai 3 is that these custom home pages can't  
>> contain the synoptic tools. This, as Peter said, is a big part of  
>> what Sakai 3 will make easy.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
> Great! I looked at it, and this is (almost) just what I want.
>
> Now I have another, related question. I'd like to use my own html  
> file as the home page, as the book explains. However, I also would  
> like to display icon-links on this page when it is loaded. In  
> particular, I want to have icons for new mail, announcements, forum  
> messages, etc. I would program this in javascript
>
> To take a simple example, the psuedo-code for the new mail icon  
> would be:
> if new mail has arrived
>     display icon and link
> else
>     hide icon and link
> All I need is the "hook" to test if new mail has arrived and the URL  
> to link to the user's mailbox.
>
> Can one do this in Sakai? How? Where is it documented?
>
> Thanks so much for your help.
> -- 
> Dr. Marshall Feldman, PhD
> Director of Research and Academic Affairs
>
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