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Any way to add a notification/alert to the Global Navigation?

John Hsu — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:41:24 GMT

Is there any way for a building block to send an alert/notification to a user's Global Navigation menu? E.g.: like how new posts or course updates show up in the Global Navigation.

Adding 3 days to course end date during LIS integration

Kathryn Matuch — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:57:42 GMT

The evnironment is Learn9.1 SP11. The below question relates to LIS integration between Banner and Learn.

Under Administrator Panel --> Data Integration --> Student Information System Integrations I choose the Advanced Configuraiton option for our LIS feed.

We would like to add three days to the end date for a course object.
I can retrieve the date via data.courseSection.timeFrames.get(0).end;
But I cannot figure out how to manipulate. I was hoping to use getTime to convert to Milliseconds and then add 3 days worth of milliseconds but I can't convert the data into anything (let alone add 3 days) and have it be valid.
I can't use getTime, setTime, UTC, or parse and return the result. It says it is invalid.
It says all the toString variations referenced https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date#Methods cannot be found.
I searched the boards but cannot find anything. If you have any suggestions that would be great.

And I apologize if this is an obvious one, as I typically support the Banner side of the integration not the Learn.

WSDoAllReceiver: Incoming message does not contain required security header

Shivinder Singh — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:55:52 GMT

I may have spoken too soon in my previous post (http://forums.edugarage.com/forums/t/3066.aspx). I'm still getting "WSDoAllReceiver: Incoming message does not contain required security header" error when making call to BB Learn 9.1 web services. Can't figure out how to send the required headers. I tried ContextWS.login method, but it returns void and not token or header which I can pass in the subsequent request to UserWS.

So if someone can please tell me what do I need to modify in the following code I'd really appreciate:

               using (ContextWS context_ws = new ContextWS())
                {
                    long expectedLifeSeconds = 1 * 60 * 60;
                    bool expectedLifeSecondsSpecified = true;
                    bool _return;
                    bool returnSpecified;

                    context_ws.login("session", "nosession", "", "", "", expectedLifeSeconds, expectedLifeSecondsSpecified, out _return, out returnSpecified);

                    using (UserWS user_ws = new UserWS())
                    {
                        UserFilter user_filter = new UserFilter();
                        user_filter.id = new string[] { "some unique id" };
                        UserVO[] user = user_ws.getUser(user_filter);

                        if (user != null)
                        {
                            if (user.Count() == 1)
                            {

                                /*now do something*/ string message = user[0].name;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }

9.1 Web Services - User Web Service - Update Existing User Does Not Work

Bruce Phillips — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:49:53 GMT

We are testing the web services provided with 9.1 build 9.1.50119 prior to our upgrade later this year.

Previously the User web service method saveUser did not work when updating an existing users.

We were told that this issue would be fixed in a future service pack. However in our testing of SP 5, it appears that the saveUser method still doesn't work to update an existing Blackboard user. When calling that method with an existing user we get back:

<soapenv:Code>

<soapenv:Value>soapenv:Receiver</soapenv:Value>

</soapenv:Code>

<soapenv:Reason>

<soapenv:Text xml:lang="en-US">[User.WS001]Failed to save user along with the portal and system roles kcole</soapenv:Text>

</soapenv:Reason>

<soapenv:Detail />

</soapenv:Fault>

</soapenv:Body>

</soapenv:Envelope>

This is the same error others have reported and that we encountered in the previous Blackboard Learn 9.1 release.

Can you confirm that this is still a problem with the User web service in Blackboard 9.1 build 9.1.5.0119?

Thank You,

Bruce Phillips

University of Kansas

Student availability not changed

Anupama Nair — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:30:07 GMT

Hi,

I am calling the web method saveUser from the Blackboard web services and have set the IsAvailable field to false for a student request.

However this does not seem to be reflected in Blackboard.

Is this a known issue?

Thanks.

Using Web Services to assign user to Node

Brandon Peters — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:12:26 GMT

Is there a way to create a user and assign them to a specific Node using the Bb Web Services API (we are running 9.1 SP11). I've searched the UserWS interface documentation, but am unable to find any methods in which to do this. I've also browsed many of the other WS interfaces and am having a hard time finding any references to Nodes.

Looks like we can do this through the database (adding a record to 'DOMAIN_USER_COLL'), but I'd rather do this through the web services API if at all possible.

Any info would be greatly appreciated!!

--
Brandon Peters - IT Consultant
Academic Technology
Western Kentucky University

Profile Photo

IESE IT Team — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:01:03 GMT

Hello!

I'm developing a building block where I want to show the profile image of some user profile, but I don't know how to get the photo which users has upload in their profile.

Anybody could help me?

Thanks,

Yolanda

Announcement permission

Tom Gittemeier — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:24:46 GMT

Hi All,

What is the permissions tag to allow publishing announcements?

I am receiving the following error,

java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (blackboard.persist.PersistPermission announcement create)
	java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:323)
	java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:546)
	java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:532)
	blackboard.platform.security.SecurityUtil.checkPermission(SecurityUtil.java:61)

Where are the permissions documented properly? 

Thanks a lot in advance.

Importing tests into Blackboard as QTI packages

Linda McBain — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:11:42 GMT

We are authoring test and feedback questions in our new 3rd party content authoring tool/LCMS (Xyleme), deploying them as a QTI package and then publishing on our Blackboard (9.1, SP11).

We understand that Blackboard supports a modified proprietary version of QTI 1.2 (QTI Lite?) only and it seems that no description element appears within the QTI Lite specification.

We can author this this in Xyleme but it doesn't therefore get imported into Blackboard.

There does appear to be quite a few un-used metadata elements that we could feed the description text through however.

Can anyone provide any advice about working with QTI Lite specification and making use of un-used elements which our developers could try?

Bb ticket Support have suggested using another tool such as Respondus to import the QTI package but we don't want to go down that route if possible as it adds cost and time.

Many thanks

Update on my original posting: I have been told that we cannot get the data to parse from the QTI file currently published from Xyleme and should ask BlackBoard if their deployment wizard can parse the description data from metadata elements within the QTILite XML?

building blocks debugging

A Ibrahim — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:07:08 GMT

hi guys,

i am new to building blocks, i tried to enable debugging using eclipse ,

i changed debug enable to true and port number to 2222 my problem is when i debug the building block using ant script i get BUILD SUCCESSFUL printed in my console but when i go to admin screen on blackboard i do not find the building block althou it appears when i deploy it manually to server as a war package i use bb version 9.1

Announcements and notifications...

Matt Hadgis — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:37:51 GMT

I'm currently using the AnnouncementWS to post announcements in a building block, but this API does not seem to automatically post notifications where applicable for those announcements.

Is there any way that I can accomplish this?

Newbie question

Brian White — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:18:21 GMT

Hi all

I have a few javascript applets that I want to use as custom exam problems in blackboard. I'd like to embed them in web pages thet are served by blackboard and have the ability to submit the student's success or failure to blackboard and have it entered in their gradebook when the student clicks a "submit" button.

I have a few newbie questions:

1) I'm not familiar with blackboard lingo, but I think I'm talking about a PowerLink "Deployable component". Is that right?

2) Is it possible to do what I want? I don't see any similar examples, but it sounds like it should be do-able.

3) If so, can I do it all in javascript on the client so I don't have to worry about java versions and Apple's "war on java"?

4) Is there an example I could steal from?

Thanks for your time.

Brian

Launch LTI tool in new/existing window

Rick K — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:29:52 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I am creating an LTI tool. When my tool is launched from Blackboard I want it to have the entire window -- either take over the existing window or be launched into a new window. I don't want it to run inside an iframe.

Does Blackboard support this?

Thanks a lot for any help!

Rick

Blackboard Learn 9.1 SP 12 API/JavaDoc - where?

Bruce Phillips — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:27:11 GMT

Anyone have the link to the Bb Learn 9.1 SP 12 API/JavaDoc? I searched through Behind the Blackboard but could not find it.

Thank You,

Bruce

BBList collection equivalent

Lang Nguyen — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:36:23 GMT

I currently use BBList to create a collection to store data.

BbList cmlist = CourseMembershipDbLoader.Default.getInstance().loadByCourseIdAndRole(courseId, CourseMembership.Role.STUDENT);

It suggest to use List. is it from java.util.List? or different lib?

Please help.

Thanks

Course sidebar when using bbng tags

Jacob Rhoden — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:31:27 GMT

Just trying to get my head around how to use the new bbng tags. I've got the following jsp page, and I know the course_id is being sent to the page, but the course sidebar is missing, and the breadcrumbs are missing the usual stuff. Ideas??

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8" errorPage="error.jsp" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/bbNG" prefix="bbNG"%>
<bbNG:learningSystemPage ctxId="ctx">
	<bbNG:breadcrumbBar environment="CTRL_PANEL" isContent="false">
		<bbNG:breadcrumb>Heading</bbNG:breadcrumb>
	</bbNG:breadcrumbBar>
	<bbNG:pageHeader>
		<bbNG:pageTitleBar title="Heading">Heading</bbNG:pageTitleBar>
	</bbNG:pageHeader>
</bbNG:learningSystemPage>

Server Side Includes

Hector Urbina Saavedra — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:05:47 GMT

We are designing html documents to display the learning contents for our future courses. We use these html documents by opening them through an iframe in blackboard. We have tried to use Server Side Includes syntax on our html to reuse redundant code (such as code in the header section of the html), but it is not working on our first try.

We created header.html:

and then we tried to include it in our home.html using SSI:

<head>

</head>

</html>

but it's not working.

Are we allowed to use SSI on html documents hosted in blackboard?

Blackboard SHA-512 Password through building block.

Lang Nguyen — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:48:52 GMT

Our current module is using the old method "blackboard.platform.security.SecurityUtil.getHashValue()" to generate MD5 password and now change is needed. How do I generate the HmacSHA512 password through the Building Block?

Please help.

Thanks.

Here is the note

https://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/9.1_SP_12/Administrator/010_Release_Notes/020_SP_12_Release_Notes/Security_Enhancements

Asessment Answers

christopher.white — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:16:26 GMT

Can anyone point me in the right direction concerning accessing student answers it assessments.assignments within Blackboard learn 9.1 programmatically.

I need to be able to extract the answers submitted for questions in an assessment into an external program. I also need to be able to put marks and feedback back into the system.

I have looked through the APIs and can not find anything explicitly for this... Have I missed something or is not possible.

Any advise/suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Chris

Using ContentWS

Matt Hadgis — Wed, 29 May 2013 17:00:04 GMT

I'm attempting to create some content in a course in a module using the ContentWS functionality. The saveContent function is looking for an object of the type CourseIdVO. There's no documentation on this type of object that I can find, does anyone know how I would go about providing a CourseIdVO for this function if I can get the normal Id for a course I would like to save content to?

Thanks in advance.

blackboard.db API documentation

Kumi Hagimoto — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:11:08 GMT

I tried searching everywhere, but haven't been able to find an API documentation for the blackboard.db package. It's used in the code I inherited (and I use eclipse), but it doesn't get a handy JavaDoc popup that gives you all the details. Does anyone have the API doc or a link to it?

Course Term

IESE IT Team — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:01:41 GMT

Hello!

I'm developing a building block where I need to know the Term for a specific Course and I can't find any way to do this.

Anybody could help me?

Thanks,

Yolanda

SP11 javascript debug

Alberto Ortilla — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:04:26 GMT

Hi all,

I am facing some problems with building blocks at the Home page (the one with columns where you can add modules) from SP5 to SP11.

- In SP5 all the module's code were placed inside the portal's HTML including Javascript so it was easy to locate the Javascript and using Firebug and debug the Javascript.

- But in SP11 the module's code is injected in a Div using and AJAX call so it is impossible to debug the Javascript code inside the module.

Two questions then...

1. Is it possible to return to the SP5 behaviour? I mean, the portlet code inside the tabAction HTML code.

2. If not... What can I do to debug my portlet's javascript?

Thanks in advance...

Kind regards

Customize a Login Page Issue

Dona Gibbons — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:59:30 GMT

How do I manage the meta tags from bbNG:genericPage?

I have reviewed the information on "Customize a Login Page" however there is not much to the documentation.

I am looking for more information on what bbNG tags can be used on the Login Page. Which taglib can and cannot be removed from the JSP file.

I have been able to create a customize page that looks and works properly with Firefox and Chrome, however Internet Explorer is giving me an headache.

I been using the Internet Explorer F12 Developer that comes with Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 to review what it sees in the page source code.

Even though the CSS code and HTML code are correct, IE just does not want to display it correctly once place into the JSP file. When I write code in a generic standard web page and test it with Internet Explorer it displays correctly. Does not matter which version of IE used, when in the generic standard web page it displays correctly in Internet Explorer.

However when I take this code from the generic standard web page and place only what is allowed in the JSP file, the Login Page will not display correctly in Internet Explorer.

It appears that Internet Explorer F12 Developer Tool has identifying the culprit causing the code not to function properly is that the Document Mode is set to be IE8 standards by the bbNG:genericPage.

How can I fix this IE=EmulateIE8 tag issue? Prefer to eliminate it if possible, if not how do I override this so the page can display properly?

Thank you,

Dona

Getting organization role name using API

Chris Shepard — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:24:06 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to obtain the user roles inside an organization.

I have tried using the OrganizationMembership class in the API.

However, what I can get is not organization role name (Leader, Participants, Assistant, Organization Builder, etc),

but the normal course role name (Instructor, Student, TA, Course Builder).

Anyone can help me on it?

Thanks a lot.