[Using Sakai] Twenty-First Century Interactions on Sakai?

Fri Aug 24 15:30:17 PDT 2012

Marshall,

Have you explored using web pages within the Resources area and putting a
Web Content link in the left navigation to specified page(s)?  Although
the Rich Text Editor strips out all <head> content you can embed
javascript calls into the <body> of a page by using a standard script call:

<script type="text/javascript" id="templateScript"src="full or relative
path to .js file"></script>

Once that is there you should be able to go crazy with using that
javascript.

If you do not plan to modify any of the pages with the rich text editor
you can use your favorite html editor and upload pages or an entire site
using the WebDav (Upload/download multiple items) feature.

All of this should be able to be performed Out of the Box, with no special
configuration to the best of my knowledge.

Louis

On 8/24/12 12:02 PM, "Marshall Feldman" <marsh at uri.edu> wrote:

>Thanks to Sam, Matt, and David who quickly answered my query.
>Unfortunately, I am "just" a faculty member and, like most faculty
>members, do not have access to the config package and all that. If I
>were to suggest changing the overall University-wide configuration, the
>administration would probably appoint a committee, which would recommend
>hiring a consultant, which would require a budget augmentation, which
>would take about 4 years to tell me they can't support the change.
>(Sorry, this cynicism is well-earned.)
>
>One of my colleagues showed me a way around this that should work. So
>I'm going to give it a try first.
>
>     Marsh Feldman
>
>
>On 8/24/12 1:21 PM, Sam Ottenhoff wrote:
>>> ... On a
>>> regular web page using a jQuery plugin this is almost trivial. You
>>>just have
>>> a short amount of text and then a "read more" link that expands the
>>>text
>>> when the student wants to read the whole thing. See this example. But
>>>how to
>>> do this in Sakai?
>> Modify the Sakai config package and change the goodTags property to
>> allow all input from users.  It's a five minute change that will stop
>> all HTML filtering and sanitation in Sakai.
>>
>> Making this change would be a security disaster if you do not have
>> full trust in every *possible* user of your system. If you allow users
>> to input Javascript into a web-based system, you are open to a
>> gigantic class of attacks
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting).
>>
>> If you don't have full trust in every single user in your system, then
>> you need to add functionality centrally to your portal rendering
>> instead of doing it as an instructor in a browser.  Add new styles
>> into the rich-text editor configs.  Then render those new styles using
>> the centralized jQuery code in your primary Sakai JS files.
>>
>> --Sam
>
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