[Using Sakai] How to create a URL reference to an assignment in a course?
Steve Swinsburg
steve.swinsburg at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 21:03:27 PDT 2013
This code was added about a fortnight ago, into trunk only. I presume you have patched? What do you get when you go to /direct/assignment/describe ?
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On 24/07/2013, at 22:58, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:
> Hmm, sorry to be dense, but I am trying to get the list of assignments as you describe, and copied the site-id from the front page
> http://sakai.mysite/portal/site/48745a63-5bab-4f9b-9420-34c9dc8bbf36
> and tried:
> http://sakai.mysite/direct/assignment/site/48745a63-5bab-4f9b-9420-34c9dc8bbf36.xml
>
> But get this error – am I missing something simple here?
> Attempted to access an entity URL path (/assignment/site/48745a63-5bab-4f9b-9420-34c9dc8bbf36.xml) for an entity (/assignment/site) that does not exist
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> Yep
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> /direct/assignment/site/siteid.format gives you a list of assignments for the site. That's for trunk and was part of project Keitai. Search jira and there is a commit or two you can pull back to other versions. The URL API is documented in that jira too.
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> Cheers
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>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 24/07/2013, at 14:40, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:
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> I see how I could copy URLs from the assignments page, and then extract the internal ID from the URL, and then paste that into a /direct/assignment/id/ and form a new URL, and then paste that in as a hyperlink (phew!), but is there a simpler way? (using 2.9.2)
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> Steve,
> Thanks – how do I get the ID to use for each assignment?
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> Greg
> You can use entity broker to get a URL directly to an assignment. /direct/assignments/id
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> Note that it opens without the portal surround.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 18/07/2013, at 11:55, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:
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> I want to have a daily lesson overview syllabus, and include in it the topics, readings, and a link to the assignments for that day.
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> How do I create those links? When I try to insert a hyperlink and browse, so far I only see resources as candidate links.
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