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Lets say you have a channel that you want everyone to execute each time they visit a tab within Luminis. An example could be a channel that tracks certain details about a person's visit. You can have this channel embedded into your nested-tables (or whatever) layout.

Within the nested-tables.xsl file you may have noticed the following element.

<channel fname="org/jasig/portal/channels/cpicons"/>


The element channel is not a known HTML, XHTML, nor XML element but is known to the serialiser that produces the HTML the users gets based on this stylesheet and the supplied XML stream. In this case this is a directive to include the output of the channel with a functional name of org/jasig/portal/channels/cpicons. In this particular case this is the channel that is responsible for outputting the icons across the top (e-mail, calendar, groups, and admin).

If you can think of another type of channel you wish to include on each page (perhaps a local weather channel) all you need to do is when defining the channel give it a functional name and then pick a spot within the nested-tables.xsl to have the channel appear using the above code (changing the value of fname accordingly). You may also wish to select the " Channel Functional Name Accessible Only" option so that users are unable to place two copies of the channel on the same tab.

Luminis version this is known to work on: III.3.3.64