Re: [WWdevel] hiding courses from general view

[Sam H. <sh...@ma...>]

On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:21, Arnold Pizer wrote:

> 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.

I'm hesitant to add multiple options that do the same thing, so  
perhaps "hide_directory" is the way to go. On the other hand, why are  
there directories that are not courses in the webwork2/courses  
directory in the first place?
-sam