Move from Opencast 14 to Opencast 16

[gasparuben]

Dear All,

We have upgraded our QA environment to Opencast 16 and have just realized that the method we used to access event details directly from our application no longer works.

Previously, we were able to link directly to an event in the Opencast admin interface, for example:

https://ocweb-qa.cern.ch/admin-ng/index.html#!/events/events?modal=event-details&resourceId=b6c73653-3536-43c7-b6d4-26648ebf1764. This allowed us to open the event details directly after a user clicked a link (assuming they were already authenticated).

I’ve already made the obvious update — replacing admin-ng with admin-ui — but it seems the internal page logic has changed in Opencast 16, and the direct access no longer works as before.

Could someone let's know how to specify the direct URL to the events details on Opencast 16?
Thank you,
Ruben

[mtneug]

The Admin UI was completely reimplemented and this is active by default in 16. You can still switch to the old Admin UI, but it was already removed in 17. To switch in 16, change this setting in etc/org.opencastproject.plugin.impl.PluginManagerImpl.cfg:

opencast-plugin-admin-ng = on

This feature has been requested for the new Admin UI as well. But it seems the development is not progressing at the moment. See opencast/admin-interface#69

[gasparuben]

Thank you Matthias, I have implemented the workaround and wrote an comment on the issue. I believe it's still relevant.