[Using Sakai] Sakai 2.9 Orientation Tutorial

[Charles Severance]

Bryan / Katie,

This might be a nice time to make use of a nice little admin backdoor to slip some HTML/JS into a particular site's markup.

If you go into the site's properties in the admin editor and add a property

sakai:htmlInclude

And put in some JavaScript or any other HTML fragment, it will run on every one of the site pages and on no other sites.  And not require any code changes to the portal.

I use this to pop up an Olark.com chat tool up atop my CTools sites (screenshot).

It includes the HTML snippet in the background document near the site icon - so it is on the outer portal markup (i.e. not inside an iframe).  It does nicely allow you to slip a little special markup into a particular site.  Being in the outer panel, it can show up anywhere including atop content within an iframe.

Hope that helps.  I always try to avoid having to drop special code into the portal templates - it is enough of a rats nest already :)

/Chuck

On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com> wrote:

> Yup, that's possible.  You just need to create a new set of tutorial pages with a new prefix (prefix is only for helping you distinguish).  For example, the intro to sakai prefix is: "introToSakai_".  Once you have the properties setup, all you need to do is add some javascript somewhere in that site's home page to call the showTutorialPage function in https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//reference/trunk/library/src/webapp/js/jquery/qtip/tutorial.js
> 
> The introToSakai just calls 
> 
> showTutorialPage("/direct/tutorial/introToSakai_p1.json", {});

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