Jon Griffin’s Blog

By Jon Griffin
I have added my documents related to ArsDigita, OpenACS and ACS (ArsDigita Community System). They are relevant for anyone wanting to understand OpenACS, it’s history and why some design decisions were made….

By Jon Griffin

Sample

Sample -disabled for now and forever. This is DEPRECATED.

Actual Code

Thanks to Brad Duell who figured all this out and fixed many bugs.

Several procs were modified and added…

Reasons

• Less Complexity
  The new tools::paginate is much simpler while keeping many of the backward compatible features of ad_table/paginate.
• Real Sorting
  Unlike Paginate/ad_table, tools::paginate returns the selected rows after

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The Mail Problem with OpenACS

By Jon Griffin

What we have

acs-messaging

This was really created at the same time as bboard by the (now defunct) Pittsburgh office of AD. It really has no relation to mail per…

PLEASE NOTE - These are historical documents from my ARSDigita Days

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Table Of Contents

• Overview
  • Available Tools
  • Solution Outline
• The Mail Package
• The Notification Package
  • Quick Start - jump here if you simply

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PLEASE NOTE - These are historical documents from my ARSDigita Days

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by Anukul Kapoor and Pete Su

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This is only a DRAFT

I. Introduction

In ACS 3.x, each messaging application (e.g. bboard, general comments, spam, ticket tracker and so on) used its own specialized data model for representing and manipulating messages. ACS Messages provides a common data model and API for these applications. The service provides the following common …

PLEASE NOTE - These are historical documents from my ARSDigita Days

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ACS Messaging was born out of the design of the new bboard. One thing we discovered when researching requirements for bboard and discussion software in general was that there are a variety of ways one may wish to structure and organize threads of messages e.g. in discrete forums with tagged categories, attached to other user objects annotated with user ratings, etc.,. Our design addressed this by separating the store of messages from the organizational data model and any user …

PLEASE NOTE - These are historical documents from my ARSDigita Days

Mail System Requirements
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1.  The system will be able to store messages as rich as MIME
compliant email messages.  In order to do so:

a. 

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