Josh Holtzman - March 30, 2007
Terms are no longer in sakai.properties [as of Sakai 2.4]. The list of terms (or "AcademicSessions", as they are know in CM), are now managed by the CourseManagementService. You can change which AcademicSessions show up by adding new (or modifying the start and end dates on existing) records in the cm_academic_session_t table.
Currently, there is no UI to do this, so you have two choices: First, you can use an external tool to issue sql insert or update commands. I use Oracle SQL Developer when connected to Oracle, and I use the mysql and hsqldb utilities that come with the server installs. The other option is to write code for sakai that calls the CourseManagementAdministration service. This could be a quartz job, or a sash something-or-other, or better yet, a webapp that allows you to add/modify academic sessions!
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The following approach to configuration is deprecated as of Sakai 2.4. Use above approach instead for recent versions of Sakai. |
John Leasia
Have a look at the sakai.properties file (located by default in C:/sakai/sakai/localfiles/sakai.properties for example) the following can be modified. The termiscurrent value that is true is the term that shows up in the dropdown as the default.
# term terms termterm.count=11 termterm.1 = FALL termterm.2 = WINTER termterm.3 = SPRING termterm.4 = SPRING_SUMMER termterm.5 = SUMMER termterm.6 = FALL termterm.7 = WINTER termterm.8 = SPRING termterm.9 = SPRING_SUMMER termterm.10 = SUMMER termterm.11 = FALL # term years termyear.count=11 termyear.1 = 2003 termyear.2 = 2004 termyear.3 = 2004 termyear.4 = 2004 termyear.5 = 2004 termyear.6 = 2004 termyear.7 = 2005 termyear.8 = 2005 termyear.9 = 2005 termyear.10 = 2005 termyear.11 = 2005 # term titles termlistabbr.count=11 termlistabbr.1 = F03 termlistabbr.2 = W04 termlistabbr.3 = Sp04 termlistabbr.4 = SpSu04 termlistabbr.5 = Su04 termlistabbr.6 = F04 termlistabbr.7 = W05 termlistabbr.8 = Sp05 termlistabbr.9 = SpSu05 termlistabbr.10 = Su05 termlistabbr.11 = F05 # term titles termiscurrent.count=11 termiscurrent.1 = false termiscurrent.2 = false termiscurrent.3 = false termiscurrent.4 = false termiscurrent.5 = false termiscurrent.6 = false termiscurrent.7 = false termiscurrent.8 = true termiscurrent.9 = false termiscurrent.10 = false termiscurrent.11 = false # time format: yyyyMMddHHmmssSSS # term start time termstarttime.count=11 termstarttime.1 = 20030901000000000 termstarttime.2 = 20040101000000000 termstarttime.3 = 20040501000000000 termstarttime.4 = 20040515000000000 termstarttime.5 = 20040801000000000 termstarttime.6 = 20040901000000000 termstarttime.7 = 20050101000000000 termstarttime.8 = 20050501000000000 termstarttime.9 = 20050515000000000 termstarttime.10 = 20050801000000000 termstarttime.11 = 20050901000000000 # term end time termendtime.count=11 termendtime.1 = 20031201000000000 termendtime.2 = 20040501000000000 termendtime.3 = 20040801000000000 termendtime.4 = 20040801000000000 termendtime.5 = 20040801000000000 termendtime.6 = 20041201000000000 termendtime.7 = 20050501000000000 termendtime.8 = 20050801000000000 termendtime.9 = 20050801000000000 termendtime.10 = 20050801000000000 termendtime.11 = 20051201000000000