Forum OpenACS Q&A: What should I be doing differently?

1. Install blank OpenACS 5.5.1
2. Install Layout-Manager service and restart server
3. Install Layout-Managed-Subsites service and restart server
4. Try to Install Layout-Subsite-Integration package......

...and......

[28/Sep/2009:13:29:56][6231.98311][-default:0-] Notice: apm_invoke_callback_proc: invoking callback after-install with command layout_subsite_integration::install::after_install 
[28/Sep/2009:13:29:56][6231.98311][-default:0-] Notice: Querying 'begin transaction;'
[28/Sep/2009:13:29:56][6231.98311][-default:0-] Notice: Ns_PgExec: Entering transaction
[28/Sep/2009:13:29:56][6231.98311][-default:0-] Notice: dbinit: sql(localhost::ratetrack): 'begin transaction'
[28/Sep/2009:13:29:56][6231.98311][-default:0-] Notice: Querying '
      insert into layout_includelets
        (name, title, application, template, initializer, uninitializer, required_privilege,
         description, dotlrn_compat_p, internally_managed_p, singleton_p)
      values
        ('layout_admin_includelet', 'Layout Administration', 'layout-subsite-integration', '/packages/layout-subsite-integration/lib/layout-admin-includelet', NULL, NULL, 'admin',
         'Layout Administration', 'f', 'f', 't');'
[28/Sep/2009:13:29:56][6231.98311][-default:0-] Error: Ns_PgExec: result status: 7 message: ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "l_includelets_name_pk"

[28/Sep/2009:13:29:56][6231.98311][-default:0-] Error: dbinit: error(localhost::ratetrack,ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "l_includelets_name_pk"
): '
      insert into layout_includelets
        (name, title, application, template, initializer, uninitializer, required_privilege,
         description, dotlrn_compat_p, internally_managed_p, singleton_p)
      values
        ('layout_admin_includelet', 'Layout Administration', 'layout-subsite-integration', '/packages/layout-subsite-integration/lib/layout-admin-includelet', NULL, NULL, 'admin',
         'Layout Administration', 'f', 'f', 't')
    '
[28/Sep/2009:13:29:56][6231.98311][-default:0-] Notice: Querying 'abort transaction;'
[28/Sep/2009:13:29:56][6231.98311][-default:0-] Notice: Ns_PgExec: Rolling back transaction
[28/Sep/2009:13:29:56][6231.98311][-default:0-] Notice: dbinit: sql(localhost::ratetrack): 'abort transaction'

...from the db...

          name           |         title         |         description          |                           template                           | dotlrn_compat_p | initializer | uninitializer | required_privilege |      application       | internally_managed_p | singleton_p
-------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------+-------------+---------------+--------------------+------------------------+----------------------+-------------
 layout_admin_includelet | Layout Administration | Layout Administration        | /packages/layout-managed-subsite/lib/layout-admin-includelet | f               |             |               | admin              | layout-managed-subsite | f                    | t
 subsites_includelet     | Subsites              | Display Subsites             | /packages/acs-subsite/lib/subsites                           | f               |             |               | read               | layout-managed-subsite | f                    | t
 applications_includelet | Applications          | Display Subsite Applications | /packages/acs-subsite/lib/applications                       | f               |             |               | read               | layout-managed-subsite | f                    | t
(3 rows)

R.

I found my own remarks regarding my first installation and yes, don't install layout-subsite-integration.

• install the includelet's base applications (in my case faq, news and xowiki)
• install openacs-default-theme, layout-manager, faq-includelet, news-includelet, layout-managed-subsite, file-storage-includelet
• restart aolserver
• from the /admin page click on 'Convert to descendent subsite type' and submit
• from the /admin/layouts page register the includelets and configurare the layout
• choose plain navigation!
• set the DefaultMaster parameter to /packages/layout-managed-subsite/lib/plain-master

Hope this helps.

I should remove layout-subsite-integration from CVS.

Richard, the history here is that after writing layout-subsite-integration, I got some funding from MGH to add the "package extension" feature to OpenACS 5.5.0.

This allows a much better integration of related packages into a holistic new package. layout-managed-subsite extends both acs-subsite and layout-manager (think of package extension as being a primitive kind of inheritance, including multiple inheritance).

This made layout-subsite-integration obsolete.

Brilliant guys, thank you very much. I am just on my way through the fourth attempt and was going to try leaving Layout-Subsite-Integration out this time! 😊 Now I can make that code ammendment before continuing.

I have noticed that the xowiki includelet appears in the dropdown list of mountable applications even though it install as a service. Is that correct?

R.

Thank you Don. I'll roll it again now.

Incidentally, this somebody installed from the tarball on openacs.org(!), so does that mean that it was produced prior to the module being removed from CVS?

Regards
RIchard

Oh, maybe it's lingering in the OpenACS web-accessible repository even though it no longer exists?

Hmmm ...

Is that how you guys downloaded it?

Yes, they look really good, and to be able to achieve that without having customise is a huge plus.

I wondered how you'd brought the login form forward, and then I saw the default page was register/index. What a good idea.

R.