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[Sam Taylor <kabybins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aaron,

Not sure if this email will get to you directly?

That all sounds good to me, but I guess that as the navigation/collection
tabs work great already, I wouldn't worry too much. It was just a request
from a lecturer to make the first page tidier.

Never-the-less I've persuaded them to go down a different route using group
collections. This is my first Mahara 'taker' in my new job :) Masters in
Explosive Engineering! Hope to have something interesting to share once
it's up and running,

Regards,

Sam

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Aaron Wells <1468313@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Sam,
>
> Hm, interesting idea. Unfortunately, I think it's a bit too single-
> purpose to upstream into Mahara. It would be possible to implement an
> "Inherit access permissions" setting on the Navigation block, but I
> think that would be too confusing for most users.
>
> One thing we could do, is provide a way to make a secret URL that points
> to an individual page in a collection. Then you could simulate this
> behavior by using a Text block with links to each of the pages, instead
> of the navigation block. These links could be displayed on the secret
> URL editing screen, as copyable links below the secret URL for the
> collection as a whole.
>
> Implementation-wise, I'd do something like this, so we don't need to
> calculate new tokens:
>
> 1. If the page's normal URL is http://www.example.com/view/view.php?id=123
> 2. ... and the collection's secret URL is
> http://www.example.com/view/view.php?t=abcdefg
> 3. ... then the page's individual secret URL would be
> http://www.example.com/view/view.php?t=abcdefg&id=123
>
> This would still be pretty inconvenient, and it wouldn't be dynamically
> updating like the navigation block. But it would at least make this use-
> case possible.
>
> ** Bug watch added: www.example.com/view/ #123
>    http://www.example.com/view/view.php?id=123
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1468313
>
> Title:
>   Access to collections within a page
>
> Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
>   Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>   I have a feature request - or perhaps an idea that I wondered could
>   benefit others...
>
>   I'd like to be able to send a page via a secret url that has a
>   navigation block on it. I'd like the viewer of the page to be able to
>   see the collection and its contents. The collection will have the top
>   navigation tabs.
>
>   Issue 1: I don't want the collection to be made available to anyone
>   who doesn't have the url to the initial page (so don't want to make it
>   public).
>
>   Issue 2: I don't want the initial page to be part of the collection
>   (mainly for aesthetic purposes) as i don't want the tabs to appear at
>   the top.
>
>   So, is this possible? Perhaps a way of allowing access to collections
> within a page?
>   Or as another thought, being able to 'disable' navigation tabs for the
> first page of a collection if I were to add the initial page to the
> collection?
>
>   Example page is here:
> https://vle.cds.cranfield.ac.uk/mahara/view/view.php?t=8jrYaT5eZC17s3hXxROk
>   How can I give you access to the collection without making it public?
>
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Title:
  Access to collections within a page

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I have a feature request - or perhaps an idea that I wondered could
  benefit others...

  I'd like to be able to send a page via a secret url that has a
  navigation block on it. I'd like the viewer of the page to be able to
  see the collection and its contents. The collection will have the top
  navigation tabs.

  Issue 1: I don't want the collection to be made available to anyone
  who doesn't have the url to the initial page (so don't want to make it
  public).

  Issue 2: I don't want the initial page to be part of the collection
  (mainly for aesthetic purposes) as i don't want the tabs to appear at
  the top.

  So, is this possible? Perhaps a way of allowing access to collections within a page? 
  Or as another thought, being able to 'disable' navigation tabs for the first page of a collection if I were to add the initial page to the collection?

  Example page is here: https://vle.cds.cranfield.ac.uk/mahara/view/view.php?t=8jrYaT5eZC17s3hXxROk
  How can I give you access to the collection without making it public?

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