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GradeBook released!
Oct, 2008
Solstice adds a grade book to its toolkit!

New Versions!
April, 2008
A new version of all our software is available!

CommonView Released
April, 2008
Check out our latest collaborative tool.

RESTful Web Services
Jan, 2008
Solstice provides support for RESTful development.

CrowdControl

CrowdControl provides widgets that let your application group users together for purposes of authentication, notification, and so forth.

CrowdControl provides a user interface that manages the Solstice::Groups that your application can use. Solstice::Groups are collections of people allowed to access your Solstice tools or collaborate with you.

The groups you set up in CrowdControl may be used across the tools, so you do not have to re-type your list for each tool. Controls are provided for choosing, viewing, editing, copying, and deleting groups.

The included embeddable group chooser allows users to populate their group list.

Dependencies

Solstice - Solstice is a Web application development framework for Perl. Based on the MVC programming paradigm, it provides a sensible layout for Web applications that helps you write applications faster and with fewer mistakes.

Installation

After following direction at Installing Solstice, you're ready to install CrowdControl. As with Solstice, you have the option to install from a tar file, or from subversion.

Downloading Tar Files

cd solstice_apps

Download the current CrowdControl tarball from http://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/download/CrowdControl-current.tar.gz

tar -xvzf CrowdControl-current.tar.gz

Using Subversion

cd solstice_apps
svn co https://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/svn/crowdcontrol/trunk/ crowdcontrol

Configuring CrowdControl

cd crowdcontrol
cp example_config.xml config.xml

In the <keys> section, the following can be changed:

  • org_username: the name of your login types. If you don't have a specific name, you should use something like 'username'

Restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Sources

Browse the sources online

SVN Checkouts

Please note that our SVN servers only accept SSL connections - don't forget that https://!

Tarballs