LDN - Luminis Developer Network

Just letting everyone know that I have a new job and will no longer be working with Luminis. I may still be working with uPortal and BB9, so will probably continue to lurk...

Lumdev has been one of the bright spots in my Luminis experience: both the site and meeting lumdev members at conferences. Thanks to everyone for all the help. Hopefully I've given some back as well.

Bob Walker

Can someone confirm that links within the portal (LP4) cannot be controlled by skins.

It would appear to me that links are controlled by misc/style.css, which is common to ALL skins and skin templates and is not part of the skin template definition.

Thanks, Bob.

Hello, my name's Bob (hello bob). It's been over a year since my last upgrade...

Moved from Luminis 4.2.0.67 to 4.2.2.68. As always, learned some new things that may help someone.

* Do not mess with $CP_HOME/install.
At some point I went looking for disc space and purged files with names like backup-luminis*.zip. Not a good idea. These files are necessary for backing out a patch.
(You must back out to 4.2.0.0 before you can move up , you've got to get down to get up).

Upgrading from 4.2.0.67 to 4.2.2.68 and have encountered the following problem (in development testing): The login screen no longer displays.

When we attempt to login by going to the portal login page (http://devbox.bc.ca) we are immediatately redirected to https://devbox.bc.ca/cp/home/displaylogin and 'Unable to Connect' browser message comes up. Note that we do not have the extended site-wide SSL enabled, and so ignore the 'Reenable SSL' steps in the upgrade guide.

I've spent a lot of time recently with Luminis Platform 4(LP4) Targeted Announcements(TA) and I think I have come to terms with what they can and cannot do. As well, I've always had an interest in Physics and am a long-standing science fiction fan. In some bizarre way, these three themes have come together in my mind recently.

What are institutions doing with Blackberries and SunONE Calendar and Messaging Server.
Any solutions?
Thanks, Bob.

Is there some way to selectively clear data from the SunONE Calendar?
We have many users that have been using the Calendar for over 4 years, have kept all their data, and are now having difficulties with the CommExpress Calendar client and Firefox (browser is crashing. Works fine in IE. Hopefully resolved in CommExpress 6.3).

In the mean time we would like to selectively clear out some of the data in some of the Calendars. For example, is there a method to clear out all 2006 data for a specific Calendar?

Does anyone know where the Course Leader Activity channel resides on Luminis 4? (That is, where are the class, xslt, jsp or jar files).
I'm thinking of implementing it, but might want to make a small change to the interface.

As well, a few more questions:
- who is using this and to what effect?
- I presume the Course Leader is for instructors and the Course Studio is for students?
- where is (or is there any) documentation for these channels.
- Is there a way to set defaults. I'd like students to see ALL applications by default, not NONE.

Thanks, Bob.

Does anyone know where the channel id comes from?
When a channel doesn't render, something like the following appears in cp.log:
'... u11l1n408: encountered problem while trying to complete rendering ...'

I am trying to match this channel ID (u11l1n408) to a channel in the portal to try to count the number of times the various channels are not rendering.

Thanks, Bob.

The fall term has started, the real test for Luminis 4, which we installed in June.
The summer went fine with Luminis 4, so I thought we were out of the woods, but that seems to not be the case.

We have now joined the ranks of all those other institutions having performance problems on Luminis 4.
We have been in touch with the Response Centre, offered thread dumps, still no solution.