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List:       jetspeed-user
Subject:    Jetspeed JSP forwarding problem
From:       hmjoshi () ualr ! edu
Date:       2003-04-29 3:17:56
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Hello all,
               We are using Jetspeed as platform for our Course Management System. We \
have defined roles like 'student' , 'teacher' etc. Consider a scenario that teacher \
is teaching course 'AA' which student is registered for.

We have requirement such that the teacher is allowed to customize course homepage of \
course 'AA'. But when the student who has taken course 'AA" logs in, we show him the \
list of courses he/she has registered for. Suppose he clicks on course 'AA" ,the same \
course home page should be shown [that teacher has designed] but in a read-only form \
and student should not be allowed to customize , close or remove any of those course \
modules. He can just use them as is. Here are my questions

1. We have defined ShowCourseListPortlet that uses IFRAMEs and shows the JSP which \
lists the courses for the logged-in student. If I forward link to any other JSP from \
IFRAME, it displays the new page in the same area. I was looking for changing the \
student homepage to course homepage. Is it the right way to do it? If not what needs \
to be changed?

2. I am looking through forwarding concepts and trying to use them with forwards.xml \
but I am not familiar with page, pane differences. Sometimes, pane id is not the pane \
name but the number, which I need to know runtime.

3. Also for the JSPs, I am trying to run the demo portlets like Hello.jsp for \
JSPPortlet but I can not get it to work. It does not show any errors. In fact \
jetspeed.log says, the template hello.jsp exists in html folder under \
WEB-INF\templates\jsp\portlets\ but it does not display any information on the \
webpage. I tried using the template.tld but in vein. 

4. I am looking at options of how to allow teacher role of the system to customize \
the course homepages and not allow students of the same course to customize it. Any \
pointers are welcome.

5. Can we submit a portlet to itself or JSP or any other portlet by URL or name?

6. Please note that the courses get added dynamically in the system [in mysql table] \
so we need mechanism to get this done dynamically.

I am using Jetspeed 1.4 beta4 on windows and tomcat 5.01 alpha release with MySQL.

I would like as many inputs form you guys as possible.
Thanks
Hemant Joshi



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