Re: [WWdevel] hiding courses from general view

[Arnold P. <ap...@ma...>]

At 06:17 PM 11/22/2005, Sam Hathaway wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone have an objection if we implement Sam's suggestion:

>The simplest thing I can think of is: if a course directory contains
>a file named hide_course, hide the course. I would like to support a
>hierarchical courses directory at some point as well, but that's a
>whole 'nother problem.
>-sam

This is simple, it should not interfere with any customized setups 
people have, and it can be used by professors to hide their own 
courses.  I would suggest that the file be named hide_directory (or 
maybe allow both hide_course and hide_directory) . E.g. it could also 
be placed in subdirectories which are not courses ( e.g. 
http://webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/templates ).  The fact that 
these are listed is a bug which Sam's idea would fix.

If we come up with a more comprehensive solution, that would be fine 
but it will require some good ideas.

Arnie


Prof. Arnold K. Pizer
Dept. of Mathematics
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
(585) 275-7767