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hagimotk · ‎09-29-2015

I'm posting this in Developer group, since I can't seem to post anywhere else... We have an external tool ("Our Own Tool") that is placed in the User Navigation area, and in the New UI, it is hidden under an extra layer. In the New UI, when I click on "Account", this is the list of menu items I get: Profile Settings Notifications Files ePortfolios Logout In the Old UI (which we're still using in production), when I click on my name at the right-top corner, this is the list of menu items I get: Home Profile Notifications Files Settings ePortfolios Our Own Tool "Our Own Tool" is missing in the New UI, and one actually has to click on one of the menu items (other than Files) to get to a second set of menu items to get to the original list that we see in Old UI, plus the extra Logout link and our own tool appears under Logout. Home Profile Notifications Files Settings ePortfolios Logout Our Own Tool So here are my questions. Why do we need an extra layer of account menu? If we must have this extra layer, why can't "Our Own Tool" show up in the first list? Instead, users must click on one of the menu items to get to our tool. Is there a tool config needed to make "Our Own Tool" show up in the first menu items list? Thanks! Kumi

hagimotk · ‎09-23-2015

I have an update - The environment section in my XML is working now. To confirm that, after the weekend TEST refresh, I did the following: curl -X GET 'https://[institution].test.instructure.com/api/v1/accounts/[account_id]/external_tools/[external_tool_id]' \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" The domain and launch URL returned (JSON) was correctly pointing to the test instance of our tool. I still had to do this: curl -X PUT 'https://[institution].test.instructure.com/api/v1/accounts/[account_id]/external_tools/[external_tool_id]' \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \ -F 'shared_secret=SHARED_SECRET_FOR_TEST_INSTANCE_OF_THE_TOOL' - only because we have a different shared secret for prod and test tools on our end. If your tool uses the same shared secret across instances, I imagine the tool will just work without having to do anything after the environment section is added to the tool config. Kumi

hagimotk · ‎09-21-2015

I just tried to access again, and it loaded this time. Maybe something got fixed!

hagimotk · ‎09-21-2015

We're seeing the same thing - tries to load the page for a while then blank.

hagimotk · ‎08-18-2015

I'm writing an external tool to add to the User Navigation menu. The menu (Home, Notifications, Files, Settings, ...) seems to go away as soon as the custom tool link is clicked. Is there a setting/tool config to make the menu stay? Thanks, Kumi

hagimotk · ‎08-13-2015

Glad I could help a little - I also wasn't aware of this, so it was good to find out! (And I agree about the documentation.. it does take a little bit of poking around.) 🙂

hagimotk · ‎08-13-2015

Guillaume, is your tool public? It looks like the "custom_canvas_api_domain" may only be returned for public tools. I had to peak into the Canvas code. It will be in canvas/gems/lti_outbound/lib/lti_outbound/tool_launch.rb, if you have your own copy. Or you can browse to it here: canvas-lms/tool_launch.rb at stable · instructure/canvas-lms · GitHub (I may be wrong though - just guessing from the snippet I'm seeing on line 101...

hagimotk · ‎08-13-2015

Interesting.. I get a whole lot more back from Canvas in my request. Maybe you can try adding $Canvas.api.domain (See Variable Substitution: LTI from scratch (ruby) ) Like one poster says in this discussion: Substitution Variables in Canvas https://groups.google.com/d/topic/canvas-lms-users/avudbjncu6s/discussion , I also do not have to do this in order to get the "custom_canvas_api_domain". Kumi

hagimotk · ‎08-13-2015

Hi Guillaume, YMMV, but here's what I see with our external tools. a) One of the request parameter you get is "custom_canvas_api_domain". We're hosted and get "oregonstate.instructure.com" as its value. b) With the course navigation tool, I always see a request parameter "custom_canvas_course_id", which is the canvas internal ID for the course (and you also see this ID in the URL). Depending on how you have things set up, there are also "context_label" and "context_title". For us, this field contains the course ID that our institution uses and is also part SIS_COURSE_ID. Hope this helps, Kumi

hagimotk · ‎06-25-2015

Hi Rebecca, Glad that helped! I meant to include this link in my earlier reply and forgot.. it is documented here: Canvas LMS REST API Documentation Kumi

hagimotk · ‎06-25-2015

Hi Rebecca, If you're doing a SIS Import, your course has a required SIS ID for each course. You can use "sis_course_id:SIS ID" instead of the canvas-assigned internal ID to retrieve courses. For example, our SIS ID format for courses is something like this: TST_100_001_U2015, and it's URL in Canvas may be your_institution.instructure.com/courses/1527386 This is equivalent to saying your_institution.instructure.com/courses/sis_course_id:TST_100_001_U2015 This works in API calls as well. Not sure if this works for your situation, but we have not needed to store internal Canvas ID for our use at the institution. Also the internal Canvas ID changes when course gets reset, so you'd have to know to re-get the ID when that happens. Hope this helps, Kumi

hagimotk · ‎06-08-2015

Hi Becky, I don't check the error message content either, but here's what I do to check the validity of the tokens we store locally, according to this doc: Canvas LMS REST API Documentation (See the paragraph under "Storing Tokens".) I make a GET call and look in the HEADER. If the status is "401" and WWW-Authenticate is set (not blank, when status is 200, you don't get WWW-Authenticate), then I go ahead and re-get the user's access_token to store. (This is what I get in the header, when token is invalid: Status=401 Unauthorized, WWW-Authenticate=Bearer realm="canvas-lms", but I still just check that I get a non-null/non-blank WWW-Authenticate.) We've only had our tools running for about three months since we're relatively new using Canvas, but this has been working for us. If anyone has corrections or better ways to validate access_tokens, I'd love to know, too! Thanks, Kumi

hagimotk · ‎05-22-2015

Thanks for the correction. You're right - I was confusing it with the domain url for the tools in the tool config XML. custom_canvas_api_domain should stay across refresh.

hagimotk · ‎05-22-2015

Thanks Kenneth, for the reply and ideas! It didn't occur to me to create a development version altogether with hard-coded variables. I'll definitely try that. As for the custom_canvas_api_domain value, since I've already re-setup the tools on my test/beta instances after the last weekend refresh, I'll have to wait until the next refresh to see what value I get. I have a feeling that it's going to return the same production domain URL, since all those LTI settings are in the database and that all gets refreshed... but I'll report back with results after the next refresh happens. Kumi

hagimotk · ‎05-18-2015

Hi all, We have a few external tools set up for our institution with test and production instances. We have them set up so that in TEST Canvas Cloud instance, the external tools point to the test instance of the tool. I'm having to remove and (re)set up the external tools in TEST Canvas Cloud instance every three weeks when data gets refreshed from production. Is there a way to prevent this? I have followed the "Test Environment Setting Examples" in Canvas LMS REST API Documentation. But it doesn't seem to work. Maybe I'm doing it all wrong. Has anyone had success with this or any other method? if so, would you mind sharing? Thanks! Kumi

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