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When I install a LTI with a global_navigation placement, an img tag is created for the icon:

Menu Text

Question 1: How does the Canvas Commons LTI (or other related global_navigation LTI) add an inline svg icon to the global_navigation link?

http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" viewBox="0 0 64 64">

Commons

I can use the Theme javascript to change it from an img tag to an inline svg but it is noticeably slower than the way that the Canvas Commons LTI is doing it.

Also, when installing an LTI with the global_navigation placement the Accounts side menu is opened up by default when the LTI menu item is clicked. I am talking about the element with ID = '#left-side' that includes menu items such as 'Courses', 'People', 'Admin Tools', 'Settings', etc. I can hide it with the Theme javascript but there is a delay.

if (document.title == "LtiWindowTitleHere") {
$('#left-side').hide();
$('#main').css('margin', '0px')
}

Question 2: How does the Canvas Commons LTI (or other related global_navigation LTI) show itself without showing that side menu described above?

Here is the xml configuration I am using:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

 xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticc_v1p0" xmlns:blti="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsbasiclti_v1p0" xmlns:lticm="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticm_v1p0"xmlns:lticp="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticp_v1p0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticc_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticc_v1p0.xsd http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsbasiclti_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imsbasiclti_v1p0.xsd http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticm_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticm_v1p0.xsd http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticp_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticp_v1p0.xsd">

theTitle

theDescription

 name="custom_fields">

 name="canvas_account_id">$Canvas.account.id

 name="canvas_account_name">$Canvas.account.name

 name="canvas_account_sis_id">$Canvas.account.sisSourceId

 name="canvas_api_domain">$Canvas.api.domain

 name="canvas_shard_id">$Canvas.shard.id

 name="canvas_membership_roles">$Canvas.membership.roles

 name="canvas_root_account_id">$Canvas.root_account.id

 name="canvas_global_root_account_id">$Canvas.root_account.global_id

 name="canvas_user_id">$Canvas.user.id

 name="canvas_user_login_id">$Canvas.user.loginId

 name="canvas_masquerading_user_id">$Canvas.masqueradingUser.id

 name="canvas_masquerading_user_user_id">$Canvas.masqueradingUser.userId

 name="person_email_primary">$Person.email.primary

 name="person_name_full">$Person.name.full

 name="person_name_full">$Person.name.full

 name="person_sourced_id">$Person.sourcedId

 platform="canvas.instructure.com">

 name="tool_id">theToolID

 name="privacy_level">name_only

 name="global_navigation">

 name="text">theMenuItemText

 name="url">theLaunchUrl

 name="icon_url">theIconUrl

 name="visibility">admins

 name="enabled">true

 name="oauth_compliant">true

 name="environments">

 name="launch_url">TheTestLaunchUrl?

 name="domain">TheTestLaunchDomain?

 name="test_launch_url">TheTestLaunchUrl

 name="test_domain">TheTestLaunchDomain

 name="beta_launch_url">TheBetaLaunchUrl

 name="beta_domain">TheBetaDomain

 identifierref="BLTI001_Bundle"/>

 identifierref="BLTI001_Icon"/>

Thanks in advance!

MattHanes

I apologize if this is not helpful and I don't have any experience in creating an LTI. However, my thought is that maybe you can try to recreate some of the parameters from the Commons LTI in your XML configuration? When I pull the data for Commons, it has some extra fields that might be something that can be configured in the XML.

So I was thinking that supplying that "icon_svg_path_64" as a parameter or the "canvas_icon_class" might help you with your inline problem. 

And maybe the "display_type" set to full_width is how it launches without the side menu.