Tool-specific help

The online help tool is your best friend. It will be an extensive source of information as you work your way through this book. Sakai is evolving rapidly, and there will be subtle changes that emerge after publication. Luckily, the developers and Sakai user support staff keep the online help relevant, and focus the text on the action needed to produce results. Each tool has its own section, called on by using the tool's internal name. For example, the Sakai application knows the Announcements tool as sakai.announcements. Most of the time, when there are context-sensitive links to help, the internal name is used as part of the link. To review the text for announcements within the unmodified demonstration, browse the site at http://localhost:8080/portal/help/main?help=sakai.announcements. For other hosts and/or port numbers, simply replace the localhost:8080. Throughout the rest of the book, the relevant URLs will be mentioned. For example, without the host or port parts, for announcements, this is /portal/help/main?help=sakai.announcements.

If you are having trouble following the link's tree structure in the online help, please use its powerful search function. For example, if you want to know which versions of Firefox are currently supported by Sakai, search for the term supported browser.

Numerous large-scale deployments replace the built-in help content with their own help resources. If a help link within Sakai is broken, then you can either use the search functionality to find the missing content, or check the help on one of the sandbox servers.