Re: How to define a global order of tools in Sakai

At present there's no way to do that that I know of, other than putting 
those tools in a different site that only instructors have access to. 
There is a REQ-47 out there to allow control of the left hand menu items 
so that they could be visible to certain roles - permission controlled. 
I think there was a recent thread about it in sakai-dev.  Nuno has done 
something for his installation - see his post -  Nuno Fernandes 
<nuno@xxxxxx> (2006-03-10 19:21:24 GMT)

John

Lydia Li wrote:

> Thanks John/Vivie/Jon.
>
> A follow-up question: we also want to hide some tools from students, 
> but make them available to the instructors,  how can we do that?
>
> thanks,
> Lydia
>
> At 12:18 PM 4/28/2006, John Leasia wrote:
>
> > Lydia - the toolOrder.xml file, which can be put in your sakai folder 
> > next to sakai.properties, can help with that. There is a sample in 
> > the demo folder in subversion. Here is some info I found form an old 
> > email from Glenn explaining it a bit.
> > -----------------
> > From Glenn:
> > I've restored, sort of, our old feature of assuring a consistent 
> > order of tools in sites.  It's a little different than it was.
> >
> > First, we order the pages when we put them out in the portal.  That 
> > means that changing the order will be reflected in all sites.  
> > Worksite setup will not show the order - tools are listed in alpha 
> > order there.
> >
> > The order is by site type / tool category.  So we can define an order 
> > for "course" and a different one for "project", and more for other 
> > types.  A site type does not have to have any order defined.
> >
> > The order is read in from an XML file, whose name is configured to 
> > the ServerConfigurationService, and whose location is in sakai.home.
> >
> >        <property 
> > name="toolOrderFile"><value>toolOrder.xml</value></property>
> >
> > That's the default.  It can be overridden by sakai.properties, but 
> > likely won't be.  Instead, the Sakai installation will just have the 
> > desired toolOrder.xml in the sakai.home location.
> >
> > The file looks like this, defining an ordered set of tools for each 
> > category:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> >
> > <toolOrder>
> >
> >    <category name="course">
> >
> >        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.chat" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.discussion" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.announcement" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.syllabus" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.schedule" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.announcements" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.resources" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.discussion" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.assignment" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.assignment.grades" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.samigo" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.dropbox" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.chat" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.mailbox" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.news" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.iframe" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.siteinfo" />
> >
> >    </category>
> >
> >    <category name="project">
> >
> >        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.chat" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.discussion" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.announcement" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.schedule" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.announcements" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.resources" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.discussion" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.assignment" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.assignment.grades" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.samigo" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.dropbox" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.chat" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.mailbox" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.news" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.iframe" />
> >        <tool id = "sakai.siteinfo" />
> >
> >    </category>
> >
> > </toolOrder>
> >
> > The "synoptic" stuff at the top is to catch the "home" page.  Note 
> > the two assignment entries.
> >
> > Any page in the site that has a tool in this list will be placed in 
> > the order set by the list. If the page has multiple tools, it will be 
> > ordered with the first one in this list.
> >
> > All other pages go after the ordered ones.
> >
> > Help, not being a page really, ends up at the bottom.
> >
> > ----------------------
> >
> > Lydia Li wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > This is another question from our pilot team at Stanford:
> > >
> > > Is there a way to define a global order of the tools so all the 
> > > tools show up in the same order in all of our course sites, and in 
> > > any new course sites we create?    Currently, the order seems to be 
> > > random, and we have to rearrange the order for tools for each 
> > > individual course site.  If we add a new tool, the order gets messed 
> > > up again.
> > > It's a little frustrating.
> > >
> > > Is there a configuration file? Or does this require code changes?
> > > We'd appreciate any help on this.
> > >
> > > thanks in advance,
> > > Lydia
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