Forum .LRN Q&A: Help! User default portal changes when a class is joined?

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1: Help! User default portal changes when a class is joined?
Posted by Cathy Sarisky on 08/22/04 06:15 PM
Hi folks,

This is dotlrn-2.0.3

The site I'm setting up requires only the 'join a community' portlet on the My Space page.  I edited the user portal to remove the other portlets from the first My Space page.

When I create a new user, that user sees only the 'join a community' portlet, as desired.  However, as soon as the user joins a class, the wimpypoint-slim and webblogger portlets appear in My Space.

Can someone help me to understand how to prevent them from doing this?

Thanks!

Cathy

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2: (partially) Answering my own question: (response to 1)
Posted by Cathy Sarisky on 09/03/04 02:46 PM
I've found a way to do this. In dotlrn-<package>/tcl/dotlrn-<package>-procs.tcl:

ad_proc -public dotlrn_<package>::add_user_to_community {
    community_id
    user_id
} {
    Add a user to a specifc dotlrn community
} {    set package_id [dotlrn_community::get_applet_package_id -community_id $community_id -applet_key [app
let_key]]
    set portal_id [dotlrn::get_portal_id -user_id $user_id]

    # use "append" here since we want to aggregate
    set args [ns_set create]
    ns_set put $args package_id $package_id
    ns_set put $args param_action append
#    add_portlet_helper $portal_id $args
}

By commenting out the last line, I get the desired non-addition to the user's My Space page.  Works in dotlrn-weblogger and some custom code.  Unfortunately, it also makes it so that the user can't add the portlet to their 'My Space' portal later either.

Can someone point out a way to set up weblogger so that it does NOT appear on the user's My Space when the user joins a class with it, but so that it DOES show up in the list of portlets the user can put in their My Space page?

Thanks!