[#SAK-12708] Give users ability to add more than one Chat Tool to the tools menu of a site

Sakai

Give users ability to add more than one Chat Tool to the tools menu of a site

Created: 15-Jan-2008 07:20 Updated: 27-Oct-2009 13:39

Component/s:

Chat, Site Info, Worksite Setup

Affects Version/s:

2.5.0

Fix Version/s:

2.6.0

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This issue depends on:

~~SAK-7209~~ Allow multiple instances of new tools

2.6.x Status:	None
2.5.x Status:	None
2.4.x Status:	None

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At present, although Sakai administrators can add more than one Chat tool to the tools menu of a site, general users cannot. Our Faculty like to have the different chat rooms accessed via the tools menu, and would like to be able to add these chat rooms in the tools menu themselves. They would like to be able to add more than one chat tool to the tools menu in the same way that you can add more than one News tool or Web Content tool.

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John Leasia added a comment - 15-Jan-2008 08:16

I think this is a Site Info/Worksite Setup thing - I'd like to assign to Zhen for 2.6 unless Lance is intending on adding it.

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John Leasia added a comment - 15-Jan-2008 12:05

This would be like adding a Web Content tool - If a chat room is selected, the next page includes a field for the chat room name and page title with the "more chat rooms" dropdown as is present for News and Web Content tools. . If the chat tool has been selected, next time there is a new chat tool entry in the list under the one that was checked last time.

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Harriet Truscott added a comment - 15-Jan-2008 12:11

Love it! Yes please!

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Peter A. Knoop added a comment - 15-Jan-2008 12:22

Will (Should?) the multiple chat tools in the site see the same collection of Chat Rooms, or does each have its own collection of rooms? If they share, will all the tools point to the same default "main chat room", until their defaults are set to different rooms? If they don't share, will their default rooms all be named "main chat room", even though they are different main chat rooms?

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Harriet Truscott added a comment - 18-Jan-2008 05:24

Well, I imagined it as the multiple chat tools seeing the same collection of Chat Rooms. And yes, all the tools would point to the same default 'main chat room' till you change the defualt. Perhaps when you add a second chat tool, part of the adding process would be to choose the default chat room, just as you do with the News Tool?

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Zhen Qian added a comment - 11-Jun-2008 09:10

Please see the related JIRA for updates.

- Zhen

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sswinsb2@une.edu.au added a comment - 05-Sep-2008 02:46

Wouldn't it be better for Chat to be group aware and add to the permissions on the different rooms that are possible in chat already? Kind of like how Forums manages the groups? You can only see the chat rooms that you are allowed to?

What benefit would having multiple instances of the same tool have over having multiple configurable rooms within the one tool?