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I've noticed a few recent posts about schools moving away from Luminis (specifically to Liferay & Sharepoint).  I am curious why your switcthing, what your switching to and what else was considered.  Also, what do you expect to lose/re-create because of the switch?

(I'm in no way declaring my school is thinking of switching, I'm just curious of the reasoning.)  I am aware the Luminis & UPortal portals are pretty old school as far as a webportal is concerned.

So, I have a little bit of time to dream of where I'd like to take Luminis.  A while ago, I spoke with someone who told me their portal had received an award at Summitt (I don't think its a very official award).  So I've started thinking, what would an award winning site be like?

So I have two questions for the community
1 - If your portal has received any sort of special recognition, what for?  How did you earn that?
2 - What would a portal be required to have to be "award winning"?  (I realize its subjective.)

We've programmed a portlet-channel that calls the banner database and retrieves/displays a students status.

For the most part it works well, but occassionally we get users complaining the that system gave them different data (applicants saying they see an "accepted" status, and then a few minutes later seeing the correct status of "still processing").

I posted this same question in the Banner Integration Forum, but did it toward the end of work on Friday... not my best timing ever.  Thought I'd blog it to get it in front of everybody.  Thank for your input, this is a minor emergency.

In our realtime events, the PIN is not getting included in person events.

Looks like this conversation comes up once in a while. I'm hoping we can nail down a good setting.

This setting only limits the number of users that can be logging in at any given point in time.  Default is 15 which. 

What are other schools setting this at?  We are thinking of experimenting at 50, we've heard of schools going as high as 30. 

Please let me know what you've set the Maximum Concurrent Logins to and the results you've seen.

thank you.

I'm in the middle of setting up the Digital Measures single sign on.  The next step requires some administrator input, so while I'm waiting on that I thought I'd post the code that will solve 90% of the problem of SSO from Luminis to Digital Measures.

It looks like 1 or 2 people have searched on this in the past so I hope this is helpful.

Attached are 2 files:

I'm creating a channel that queries Banner -- easy enough to do with a JDBC connection.

What I'm wondering is if there is a JDBC connection to the DB that Luminis already has setup and that I can just tap into?  I'd rather do this than have to update the class or a properties file between systems.

Please let me know if you're aware of any abilities like this.

I'm not sure I'm proceeding down tha right path here, but I'm trying to creat a channel that will give  faculty a report showing the enrollments for the classes they will be teaching.

SQL-wise this is easy, the difficult part is we want this in an Excel spreadsheet.  How are other universities doing this?  It doesn't have to be at the Luminis level so no matter what level you've pursued this at, I'd like to hear about it.

I am wanting to modify the Advisor Dashboard channel.  I need to remove the "student" & "both" buttons.

How does one go about modifying these channels that tie into Banner.

I am looking to modify some things and need the IPerson class.  I have not been able to find it.

Does anybody know which .car file (or other zip file) the IPerson object is stored in?  (I actually don't think its in a car, or I should have found it)

thanks