Dropbox show users' folders that have lost their membership
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Tiffany Stull August 29, 2024 at 7:46 PM
I assume so.
Mark Golbeck August 28, 2024 at 7:29 PM
, do we still need to try to develop this for the current versions of Sakai?
Tiffany Stull May 21, 2019 at 8:43 AM
I think a property is a good idea. Better yet, I'd like a property that can be enabled at the system and/or site level. Such properties give the flexibility to have most sites in the system where the folders hide when users are inactive, and if an individual site has a special use case like the one you mention above, they can request that an administrator/support person enable the property for them (or vice versa - most sites can have folders of inactive users show, and individual sites that have an overwhelming number of inactive users can be edited to have those folders removed).
Daniel Merino May 21, 2019 at 5:39 AM
Just as a note, I think that if this feature is finally developed, it should have a property to disable it. It might break some existing use cases.
For example, we have here an use case where removing folders is a bad idea: We are using Dropbox to manage thesis in a special site type configured for them, where thesis directors have TA role. Directors are added to sections with their assigned students.
In Dropbox, TAs can only see folders of students added to their sections, so they can't see thesis of other directors.
When the end date for submissions is reached, students are disabled or removed from the site, because their work has finished, but the access to their folders is still needed by the directors.
Hiding Dropbox is not an option because TAs don't have site.upd permission, which is needed to see hidden tools. But this permission allows users to do a lot of other tasks, like editing sections, that they should not do.
Daniel Merino May 2, 2019 at 1:36 AM
FYI the behavior of seems to be in a not contributed patch uploaded in SAK-39460.
I think that the patch could be modified to get the proposed behavior in this ticket. Just not displaying the folders instead of changing their attribute to "hidden".
Finally, both behaviors could be present with a property (set to default to ) if there is interest for both.
I don't have time to work in this right now, but I think I could do it in one/two months if there is no hurry.
In other tools like gradebook or assignment if a user is no longer belongs to a site, is removed from the view, thus an instructor won't be able to see the student's task. Nevertheless, in dropbox tool instructors can see both folders and files of a user that is no longer belongs to a site.