[LON-CAPA-admin] DOCS: No main documents

[Lars Jensen]

Hi Guy,

Thanks for the explanation. I agree with removing the option to create 
old courses asap.

Lars.

Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> 
>>Well our earlier discussion suggests that a docs course and a sequence 
>>course can be changed into one another:
>>http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-users/2004-May/001102.html
>>
>>I guess this is not true?
> 
> 
> More like it is a simplification of how things work.
> 
> The thing to know is to never create an old style course.
> 
> And in fact I think I may actually remove this option from 1.3
> 
> 
> Some more details were here:
> http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-users/2004-May/001112.html
> 
> 
> What gerd was trying to say with his 2 line email:
> 
> 1) Always create a new style course
> 
> 2) If you want to export a course in a way that you can reuse it like
>     an old style course, export it, publish it. And in the course you
>     want to include it in just include that one sequnce in the class
> 
> 3) If you want to include and old style course in a new style with new
>    style control of the content, don't include the sequence but rather
>    do a "Load Map" on the sequence (although it deosn't create folders
>    from sub sequences... Hrrm maybe a "Recursive Load Map" should be
>    an option)
> 
> 
> 
> If you _really_ want to convert a course from new style to oldstyle or
> vice versa here are the ugly details I alluded to:
> 
> 
> The course parm, 'top level sequence' control whether a course is new
> style or old style.
> 
> In old style, the 'top level sequence' will be a /res/
> (i.e. published) sequence.
> 
> When this is the case, DOCS can't muck with this sequence and so the
> "Main Course Documents" sections is hidden.
> 
> 
> 
> If instead the 'top level sequence' is a /uploaded/ (i.e. 'userfile'/
> unpublished and unshareable style resource)
> 
> Then DOCS can muck with it and allows you to do this.
> 
> 
> 
> * You can severally screw things up by not being perfect with the     *
> * instructions below, if you break you it you get to keep both halves *
> 
> To convert a course from new style to old style, change the course
> parm 'top level sequence' to the sequence you want.
> 
> To convert a course from old style to new style, change the course
> parm 'top level sequence' to 
> /uploaded/<domain>/<courseid>/default.sequence
> 
> where <domain> is the domain that the course belongs to and <courseid>
> is the internal course name, you can most easily get this info from
> the Syllabus link on the roles page it will be the segment of the url
> right before syllabus.
> 
> But then again that really is probably more information then one
> really needed.
>