Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Different tools for different users?

By: Fiona Malikoff

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Different tools for different users? Not currently planned in 2.0.

There is the ability to mark a particular activity (e.g. Noticeboard, standalone Forum, combined Forum and Share Resources) as invalid and it won't appear in authoring in the future, but that applies across the whole server.

Note: if we do mark it as invalid, then designs that already have this activity will keep working. It doesn't delete the details, just sets a flag in the database.

Potentially we can, as the activities could be bundled up in different "libraries" of activities. We have the library structure now but at the moment each activity is in its own library and we don't have the code to assign particular libraries to particular users.

Sounds like a nice feature and if someone else would like to help us by writing the code for it we definitely look at putting it in future releases...... <grin>

Shall I put it on the wish list for 2.1?

Regards,

Fiona

Posted by Fiona Malikoff

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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It will be nice to turn tools hide buttons from a tools' sysadmin screen (probably the same screen we will use for editing default tool content?).

James has talked about these subset of library tools before. He talks about a personal subset as "My Favorite Tools" where you get to pick your tools and they will be show at the top of the list.

Ken, is this more or less what you have in mind?

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ken Kahn

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"My Favorite Tools" sounds close to what I was thinking and maybe better. And maybe optionally isn't just the top of the list but is the entire list (unless one clicks on some advanced tab and reselects the subset). I don't want my tool to be in the face of authors other than those working on my project. But the server may serve more than my collaborators.

-ken

Posted by Ken Kahn

By: Ken Kahn

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A colleague pointed out an alternative would be to host two LAMS services on the same server. Would this require that the processes run in virtual machines so they don't interfere with each other?

Best,

-ken

P.S. The other party here decided to continue with LAMS v1 so this isn't an issue for us anymore (but may return in a few months).

Posted by Ken Kahn

By: Jun-Dir Liew

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Just to answer the last question, yes, you could host two LAMS servers by using virtual machines. You can also do this without virtual machines by configuring jboss:

1. bind each jboss (LAMS) instance to it's own IP when you start it up (that is, if your server has multiple IPs)
2. run each jboss instance on different ports (see this little wiki page - http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Configuring+Multiple+LAMS+Instances+on+One+Machine)

Posted by Jun-Dir Liew