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Submitted by cleevej on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 00:06.

Hi Everybody,

recently started to use Mahara as a pilot product for a few students at a University in the U.K.

I am only using the demo version at the moment,

can and how would I view a portfolio from the outside world?

what would be the URL?

thanks

c

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In the admin section, under

Submitted by nigel on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 07:16.

In the admin section, under site options, there is a setting to allow public Views. Once you have turned this on, on each View access screen you can allow a View to be seen by the general public.

Public view URL and allowing it to be public but not guessable

Submitted by evanspj on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 20:09.

If the creator has made the view public then the URL is of the form
https://eportfolio.usq.edu.au/view/view.php?id=3
But if you replace the 3 with another number e.g. 10 you can view other public views. The URL is visible when you create the view.

Our users want to make views public (potential employers will not register on the site to view an ePortfolio) without the risk that others can easily guess the id to see it. Once you have the path you can ask Google to search for "by site:the path" and you will see a list of all portfolios that the GoogleBot has visited.

We have added the following to our functional specification:
Alternatives would be for:
* the generated URL to be a limited to one access only
* the generated URL to be accompanied by a password that the view needs to enter
* the generated URL contain a long list of characters to make guessing unlikely

I'll let you know if we manage to get the enhancement up.

Peter Evans

wow ... another one done

Submitted by evanspj on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 20:24.

I was just looking through the release notes for 1.1.0beta2 and I noticed

** Support for "semi-public" views accessible to logged-out users via a cryptic url

so we don't have to beg to get the non-guessable URLs

Peter Evans

Indeed :D. Richard added

Submitted by nigel on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 21:34.

Indeed :D. Richard added this last week. It'll need the kinks ironed out of it for sure, but the basic functionality is there.