Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Recursive Public Folder when Authoring

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Ranjit,

You are able to move subfolders under private folders into the public folder themselves. But I don't think you are able to move your personal folder into the public folder. Is that what you did?

I followed your instructions and I can't manage to reproduce this. Does this change if you reload Author?

Can you give us more information please?

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ranjit Sankar

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Hi,

I tried this again and got the exact same error. Here are the steps.

1. create a new user and assign all global rights to this user
2. sign in as the new user
3. goto authoring
4. drag the noticeboard to the authoring pane

Posted by Ranjit Sankar

By: Ranjit Sankar

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Hi,
I tried this again and got the exact same error. Here are the exact steps.

1. create a new user and assign all global rights to this user
2. sign in as the new user
3. goto authoring
4. drag the noticeboard to the authoring pane
5. click on save followed by folder "new user"
6. create new folder under the "new user" and name it xyz
7. click on xyz and save the lesson under this folder
8. give the name of "newlesson" for this lesson and save
9. now go to "open" on the authoring pane
9. browse to the "newlesson" item, drag and drop it to "public folder"
10. now open "public folder" and you will see the the folder opening itself...

Don't think that step 1 is relevant, just what i did. I have attached another screen-shot of the end result of steps 1 to 10.

It appears that the drag and drop feature has a bug that is creating a folder entry to itself.

Posted by Ranjit Sankar

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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> 1. create a new user and assign all global rights to this user

I think this is the one that kills it. As global user you are "walking with the Gods" so you are able to do things that might break LAMS.... like moving private folders into public

If you try with a normal user, they won't have permissions to do this.

Now, there's a table in LAMS that holds all the workspace information: lams_workspace_folder (see http://tinyurl.com/ldsu9m). You will need to change the parent_folder_id of the folder you moved to public back to the folder_id of the workspace of the user. Once you do this, you get access to the sequences again.

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ranjit Sankar

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Well, that still should not create recursive folders. Hope it gets fixed sometime.

But thanks for the tip. Will check for the table and retrieve the information.

Thanks a lot.

Posted by Ranjit Sankar