<html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>2. Actions Administration</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="html.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.0"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Triggers and Action Execution in Assessment"><link rel="up" href="ch02.html" title="Chapter 2. User Manual"><link rel="prev" href="ch02s01.html" title="1. Manage Permissions"><link rel="next" href="ch02s03.html" title="3. Trigger Definition"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">2. Actions Administration</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch02s01.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 2. User Manual</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02s03.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="d0e87"></a>2. Actions Administration</h2></div></div></div><p>To be able to administrate actions the user must have site wide admin privileges. To admin actions the user must follow the link "Action Administration" in the assessment admin page.</p><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="resources/admin_actions.JPG"></div></div><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p>Register User: create a new user account in the system.</p></li><li><p>Event Registration: register the user to an event.</p></li><li><p>Add to Community: register the user to dotlrn and also to a dotlrn class/community.</p></li></ol></div><p>Actions can be also created, following the link "Add new action":</p><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="resources/add_action.JPG"></div></div><p>The action is formed mainlly by four things:</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p>Name: the desire name that gives an idea of what the action do.</p></li><li><p>Description: short explanation of what the action do, and how its done.</p></li><li><p>Tcl code: the code that its executed to perform the action.</p></li><li><p>Parameter: this are the variables needed in the tcl code, that depends of the user.</p></li></ol></div><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="resources/create_action.JPG"></div></div><p>After the action is created, a link to add the parameters is shown.</p><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="resources/add_params.JPG"></div></div><p>When the link is followed, then a form to create the parameter is shown, there are two types of parameters:</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p>Name: this will take the value from a response given by the user to an item of the assessment.</p></li><li><p>Query: for this type of parameter, the field query is used, and the parameter will take the value or values that the query returns.</p></li></ol></div><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="resources/create_param.JPG"></div></div><p>To delete an action the link "delete" in the action administration page must be followed:</p><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="resources/delete_action.JPG"></div></div><p>Before deleting an action, a confirm message will be displayed, the action will not be deleted if there is some reference to this action (i.e. a trigger that will execute this action).</p><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="resources/action_del_confirm.JPG"></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch02s01.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch02.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02s03.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">1. Manage Permissions </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 3. Trigger Definition</td></tr></table></div></body></html>