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We recently upgraded our Banner DB to version 8.2. Ever since that upgrade we are having the following issues with our Faculty Dashboard channel:

1) Fall 2010 courses are defaulted into this channel, no matter what we select in the 'From Term'
2) The channel can only display 8 courses, any more and an instructor must link into SSB to get a full listing of their courses.

We just had our first technical call with BlackBoard about the upgrade from CE8 to BlackBoard 9, which we are hoping to do later this year.  A couple of answers they gave as far is the Luminis integration raised some red flags.  I'm looking for any schools out there that have gone to BB 9, or are planning to in the near future.  My primary concerns are as follows:

- the built in Luminis/WebCt integration will no longer work, which we figured going in

We have started to make many modifications to Banner channels (.car files).  One in particular is the Time Reporting channel, as we are implementing Web Time Entry on our campus.  Throughout the .car files for the Banner channels, there are references to '/CHANNELDATA/TXT'.  Such as:

<xsl:variable name="time_sheet_txt" select="/CHANNELDATA/TXT/TIME_SHEET_TXT"/>

Can anyone here shed some light on where this actual CHANNELDATA can be found?

Thanks in advance. 

We are in the process of upgrading our Test system to Luminis version 4.1.0.0. We are using a Parallel Deployment environment with Windows 2003 servers. We are seeing the following error during the upgrade process to 4.1.

$ ./LP-4.1.0.0-windows.exe
[M902] checking prerequisites
Error: [E315] The 'msiexec.exe' external program failed (exit code = 110):
T h e s y s t e m c a n n o t o p e n t h e d e v i c e
o r f i l e s p e c i f i e d .
Remedy: [F000] Contact Sungard Higher Education Support

Our college has recently purchased TracDat, and we are looking to provide single sign on from Luminis in the near future. Has anyone already developed a single sign on to TracDat that you wouldn't mind sharing? We have built custom CPIP connectors already, however I'm not looking to re-invent the wheel if one is already out there.

Thanks

Jonathan!

We are having a problem with certain Banner channels rendering incorrectly in Firefox 2 (haven't tried Firefox 3 yet). Attached are 2 screenshots from our production side of Luminis, set to go live in September. As you will see, the channel information actually displays in the blue (header) for the channel below it. We don't have any customized layout that would cause this issue, this is simply a skin color scheme we have chosen for now.

I recently attempted to install cron for cygwin in our TEST environment, and found the process extremely difficult. I've actually ended up restoring the servers to a previous date to erase all that I had done, but I still want to have another go at this. When I did install cron, I also upgraded all the portions of cygwin that were installed on our systems, which may have caused most of the issues I had. The main issue I had with cron was with the file permissions under /var/cron/tabs/user (kept getting a BAD FILE MODE error in my cronbug.txt file)

I have been asked to look into ways of building a classified section for our Luminis IV environment. I am aware that there was a Classified channel that could be used in Luminis III, but I cannot find any information about using one in IV.

Within Group Studio, Internet Explorer treats Office 2007 files (they have the extra 'x' on the extension: docx, pptx, etc..) as if they are .zip files. I've uploaded both a Power Point presentation (pptx) and a few Word Documents (docx), but when you click on them to open/download, Internet Explorer changes the extension to a zip (ex: Luminis.docx to Luminis.zip). We have seen this issue with both IE 6 and 7. Firefox does not have any problems with these files.

Has anyone else noticed a problem with Office 2007 documents, or found a workaround for this issue?

Thanks

I am trying to enabled an EAS, but have not been able to configure it correctly so far. I followed the steps in the "Luminis™ Platform Security SDK External Authentication Server Implementation Guide Version C Jan 26, 2007 For use with Luminis Platform IV." Here are my configuration settings:

jaas.conf (located in $JAVA_HOME\lib\security)
jaasEas {
com.pipeline.security.authen.JaasEasLegacyLoginModule required prefix=security.ias.eas;
};

in java.security (located in $JAVA_HOME\lib\security)
I have added the following line: