[sakai2-tcc] Administrator 'My Workspace'

[Steve Swinsburg]

I agree, the admin user's My Workspace should be like a normal Workspace, as Matthew suggested. AFAIK all tools in the Administration Workspace also work in the admin user's My Workspace so they are really just duplicates. 

I think it's just SQL that populates it (thats the case for the mercury site anyway).

One caveat people should be aware of (if they are not already)... Any user that has access to the Administration Workspace can access the admin user's My Workspace by navigating to the /portal/site/~admin URL. So that personal site is really available to the admin group.

cheers,
Steve







On 09/09/2010, at 12:02 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:

> Some of the tools do not (or did not) work for admins so that is probably why those were left out. They may be working ok these days. We probably need to test it.
> 
> Seems reasonable to remove the admin focused tools from the ~admin site but I think the logic for this just copies over everything from the !admin site so it is probably more than just a simple config change somewhere.
> 
> -AZ
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu> wrote:
> TL;DR = My Workspace should be the same My Workspace for everyone, Administration Workspace should have Admin tools.
> 
> While they may 'appear' to be the same site, they really are different sites. The My workspace site (~admin) is (or should be) a personal My Workspace site created for the username admin. The Administration Workspace (!admin) is a special site where people added to it become administrators on the system. 
> 
> I think it would be a waste of time to code around the special case of the user name (admin) in the demo case as every person who is an administrator (in the !admin site) will have a My Workspace. A possibly better question to ask is why are all of those admin tools getting populated into the (~admin) My Workspace to begin with and why aren't others? It seems like "Online, Memory, Job Scheduler and Become User" shouldn't be there. It's missing some tools like profile and schedule. I don't have a 2.5 to compare it to. It seems like this should match the My Workspace of every regular user.
> 
> From 2.7.x nightly.
> 
> "admin" My Workspace     User's MyWorkspace     Administration Workspace
> <admin myworkspace.jpg> <regular user myworkspace.jpg><admin workspace.png>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Berg, Alan <A.M.Berg at uva.nl> wrote:
>  Hi TCC,
> 
> I am confused by the difference between 'My Workspace' and the Administration Workspace' for the account admin in the demo version of Sakai. Doesn't it make sense to remove 'My Workspace' as part of the 2.8 road map for this account.
> 
> Currently both sites have roughly similar tools, the difference being:
> 
> MOTD in 'My Workspace' is called Announcements in the Administration Workspace
> And there is an extra email template tool in the Administration workspace.
> 
> No doubt there are reasons for multiple admin accounts, but not in the demo.
> 
> Does removal sound reasonable?
> 
> 
> Alan
> 
> Alan Berg
> QA Director - The Sakai Foundation
> 
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> University of Amsterdam
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