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Hi Guys,

I have a case where I have I need to to create a a helper thats accessed from another RSF tool (for purposes of keeping tool dependencies clean). A perfect case for widgets but I need it for sakai 2.

Now there are good examples and docs of using Non-RSF helpers from RSF tools and non RSF tools that use RSF helpers, but there seems to be no RSF-RSF examples.

What I have done:

1)Created a tool that registers in the category "sakai.helper"
2) Followed the examples for invoking a helper at: http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/BOOT/Using+Helper+Tools+from+RSF

Now when I try to access the link to the helper I get an error that the template can't be resolved. If I change the reported viewParamaters to SimpleView parameters it works, otherwise it seems to be trying to resolve the stub template in the target directory.

I assume I'm missing something that needs to be done in registering the helper tool properly?

What is the exact name of the template that it says can't be resolved? There are quite a few examples of RSF-to-RSF helpers, I think for a start we had one in blogwow, but there is certainly one in the framework samples, for example sakai-entitybroker-test at https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/caret/entitybroker-test/trunk shows an example of an RSF app calling an RSF helper defined in a different tool, it uses the EntityBroker to expose the URLs which I recommend, that is it is what we called a "new-style" or AHAH-based helper.

I don't think there are any instances of an RSF tool invoking an "old-style helper" which is itself also written in RSF but this is probably not really advisable anyway. Even if you require to set up an "old-style helper" for some reason, I think it would be better to use the same views via the EB to also expose the function as a new-style helper and make this the preferred and advertised route, especially for new client code, which an RSF client would generally necessarily be...

Now there are good examples and docs of using Non-RSF helpers from RSF tools and non RSF tools that use RSF helpers, but there seems to be no RSF-RSF examples.

Can you provide a URL for documentation of non-RSF tools that use RSF helpers? I would appreciate that, David.

Jim