[sakai2-tcc] Enable shortened url service by default

[Steve Swinsburg]

People knowing about it is one thing, but the main reason for the request is that it is good functionality to have. Some of our URLs are horrendously long and they can break in email clients when people copy and paste. This would improve that aspect.

Also, it is only the Resources tool that really uses it (currently) and since that is a neat enhancement, I'd just ask for that one to be activated. The portal one is a much more visible so that one can stay off by default at this stage.

When you say  '… we should probably not enable things of this nature…' it makes it sound like it is a huge change that affects everything, when really, it's very small, and doesn't affect anything unless a developer specifically codes for it. Like Conditional Release, you need to explicitly develop for it. It's nothing like the level of change that neoportal is, its a little service that developers can use.

thanks,
Steve




On 01/04/2012, at 12:31 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:

> If the issue is people knowing about it then maybe we should just send a note to sakai dev or production to make sure it is announced clearly. It already has a wiki page, is documented in the sakai properties, and I think emails have gone out before so maybe people do know about it. I'm not sure either way.
> 
> I don't have much evidence other than Unicon clients and other institutions I have worked with but this seems like a niche feature based on that. If we think this is more like an 80% kind of thing then it makes sense to enable it but we should probably not enable things of this nature unless the majority of institutions want to use it. Maybe a poll of the community is in order?
> 
> -AZ
> 
> 
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> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to propose that we enable the Shortened Url Service by default in trunk (even 2.9).
> 
> This is a service which allows people to create shortened URLs to anything inside Sakai, like sites, or pages, or tools, or direct to toolstates. or whatever.
> 
> It is in the build but just disabled. It is activated in sakai.properties. I am not sure people know about it.
> 
> Resources has support for it in the Edit Details page which is pretty cool (screenshots below). The portal also has a built in direct link to tools if people want to activate that option.
> 
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SHRTURL/Home
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> cheers,
> Steve
> 
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