Re: [WWdevel] hiding courses from general view

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

At 12:04 PM 12/1/2005, Sam Hathaway wrote:
>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

I don't know why it's there (drwxrwxr-x    9 gage     webwork   1536 
Jan  3  2005 templates)
but I do not think we should preclude people from adding 
subdirectories (e.g. old_courses).
I also would prefer "hide_directory"

Arnie


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Prof. Arnold K. Pizer
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