[Using Sakai] site aliases

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Gregory

A local mod we made was so that the aliases can be interchanged. So if you set one in email archive it can be used for the site. I can dig the patch out for you if you want to apply it locally. 

Cheers
Steve

Sent from my iPhone

On 29/09/2012, at 23:00, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

> I had a site and it asked for an email alias, so I used abc-committee at sakai.xxx.com
> 
> Then I wanted a site alias for the URL, and (naturally!?) wanted the same name,
>                  Sakai.xxx.com/portal/site/abc-committee
> 
> But it complained that that alias was already in use.
> Indeed in the database I see that alias_ID's must be unique, and *either* point to a site URL or an email channel.
> 
> This seems odd to me, in that an alias should be the same for a site, used for both.
> 
> Am I understanding this correctly? Any work-around?
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