[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Differentiating Message of the Day (MOTD)

Wed Feb 15 06:54:56 PST 2012

sorry, but your reply made me remind we developped at UFP a modified MOTD
tool, MOTD2, which allows to specify if messages are shown to
authenticated/anonymous users, instructors, the type of message (adds a
small icon and different skin for different types), time period to
display,.....

We use it for internal-only messages, and for public maintenance/upgrade
messages. It works with 2.7 (we have it in production) but we do not have
the resources anymore to work on it.

We don't have it on the contrib tools list right now, but I can send it if
there is interest.

regards,
Feliz

On 15 February 2012 11:15, Raad Al-Rawi <Raad.Al-Rawi at admin.cam.ac.uk>wrote:

> A bit late to this thread, but…****
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> I’ve had a quick play and it might be possible to achieve a more
> integrated solution (compared to using html files) by adding extra
> announcement tools into the admin workspace.****
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> You can give them separate channels (e.g.
> “/announcement/channel/!site/student”,
> “/announcement/channel/!site/faculty”), create a realm entry for the
> channel, then add the (synoptic) announcement tool into the templates with
> an appropriate value for the channel.****
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> Permissions might need adjusting for the new realm entries.****
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> Like I said, I’ve had a very quick and dirty try, consisting of:****
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> **-          **Created a new realm of
> “/announcement/channel/!site/student”****
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> **-          **Added the “.auth” role to the new realm and set “annc.read”
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> **-          **Added a new announcement tool to the admin workspace, and
> set the channel to “/announcement/channel/!site/student”****
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> **-          **Amend a user’s “My workspace” site, adding in an
> announcements tool with the channel set to
> “/announcement/channel/!site/student”****
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> I didn’t test to destruction; but it seems to work, although for some
> reason the channel-specific announcement tool displays announcements from
> all the user’s sites and is not restricted to just the channel in question.
> Still, it may prove useful.****
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> Cheers****
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> Raad****
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> *From:* sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Sean DeMonner
> *Sent:* 19 January 2012 14:53
> *To:* Adam Marshall
> *Cc:* Fatima Rahiman; sakai-user; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] Differentiating Message of the Day (MOTD)*
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> Sam Ottenhoff sent this back in June in response to a similar question:***
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> On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Sam Ottenhoff wrote:****
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> I recommend creating static HTML files for the multiple roles. Create
> them in a public folder (Administration Workspace -> Resources -> public).
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> Then customize the My Workspace template for the multiple roles
> (!user.template.student, !user.template.staff, !user.template.faculty).
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> If you want the tips on the home page of the My Workspace, edit the Home
> Page (Administration Workspace -> Sites -> !user.template.student ->
> Pages -> Home -> Tools) and add  a new Web Content tool to the Home page.
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> Note that existing My Workspaces need to be deleted before receiving the
> new template.
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> --Sam
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> On 6/2/2011 11:33 AM, Leah.Bergman at notes.udayton.edu wrote:
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> Good morning,****
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> Has anyone configured the MOTD (in their instance of Sakai) to be****
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> specific to the user's role?  For example, we would like to display****
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> faculty tips to instructors and student tips to students when they login**
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> to the system.  If anyone could offer any assistance for how to****
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> configure this or how they've customized the MOTD on their instance of****
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> Sakai, that would be most helpful.****
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> Thanks,****
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> Leah****
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> SMD.****
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> On Jan 19, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Adam Marshall wrote:****
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> I am positive that somebody posted a note about how to do this to the DEV
> list about 6-8 months ago. I thought I’d kept the message but can’t find it
> now.****
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> adam****
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> *From:* sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Fatima
> Rahiman
> *Sent:* 18 January 2012 07:35
> *To:* sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* [Building Sakai] Differentiating Message of the Day (MOTD)****
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> HI there****
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> Would like to  know  if there is a way for the  Message Of The Day  tool
> to differentiate between messages meant for faculty and that  for
> students? I’d like to  send out new tool releases and training updates to
> show on the My workplace page and meant just for  instructors.  Has someone
> wrote  a script which we could use which addresses this issue please?****
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> Thanks in advance.****
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