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Mon, 2008-04-14 17:44 — Jason
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Competing with iGoogle and MyYahoo
April 14th, 2008 7:49 am

Drag and drop channels and tabs made easy:) Very cool. Was developed in Luminis IV, so for you Luminis III folks out there, I'm not sure if it will work.
The downside is two system calls per login. 95% of the code is in the theme folder, but nested-tables.xsl and util.js are touched also.
BONUS:: edit $CP_WEBINF/uPortal/properties/portal.properties (big perf. hit)
set_caching=off, root_caching=off, url_caching=off (will allow instant changes on dev box).
channel fname= to add a channel anywhere.

http://www.lehigh.edu/~gas207/luminis.zip
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Whats new in Luminis CMS
April 14th, 2008 10:33 am

After watching the luminis cms presentation, I still think its a bit overkill for our cms needs. The interface looks nicer (all built in flex) and you can use your choice of html editor now (fck, etc..)
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Doing more with Luminis IV
April 14th, 2008 12:18 pm

Was an overview of the new permission and filter groups in Lum IV. One thing that was really interesting was the ability to create a new targeted announcements channel.

You just copy the java class out of the settings in the personal announcements channel, and create a new JSP II channel type, copy the java class line in there, give the channel a parameter of channelID=somenumber

Then you have to give someone permission to send announcements thru the channel using the admin permission gui. Really easy. It is something I'll probably end up doing, to help keep the current personal announcements channel cleaner. Students complain often about too much frivilous announcements pushing their class announcements down and out of site.
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Just got out of a session for Luminis III that talked about ways to create interactive sso channels. It was mostly overview for me. The interesting thing was that they created their own API to access the Luminis data. It was very similar to what we already do with our JSP/iPerson stuff, that I've posted on lumdev before.

The API author said that he'd post the code up on lumdev soon
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Fri, 2008-04-18 00:26 — gskinner

Drag n Drop Theme

Hey Jason, thanks for the summary on the d&d theme I developed. I'll continue to expand this theme to try to create resizable channels. I also spoke with a few people and I think I have better methods to drop channels on empty columns (instead of the placeholder), and a few other things. I also want to clean up some issues I saw with IE6 on the presentation machines (lightbox effect not working). I knew I should have requested firefox (or atleast IE7). The zip file mentioned above is password protected, if anyone is interested, you can email me (gas207@lehigh.edu) with your edu address and I'll let you know the password. I'm hoping to share this code with everyone, without upsetting Sungard. So far so good...

Greg

Fri, 2008-04-18 04:20 — Jason

todo's

I'm a bit behind this week because of the conference, but hopefully I can help with some testing and play around with it a bit on our test system next week.

We are planning a redesign, mostly cosmetic, of our portal, for fall term, so probably between now and the end of summer I'll be tinkering around with nested-tables, the css, and debating js libraries. At some point our main www.pcc.edu designer/developer will get involved also.

Things on my plate might include:
1. tinker with the channel drop icon and get it working with all channels. Seems to error on a few.
2. Perhaps allow the columns to glow or become outlined when dragging a channel, and increase the forgiveness of the drop. I noticed that sometimes it wouldn't drop in the intended column without behind very squarely inside the column.
3. See if I can arrange a load balance test with the code in place. I'd hate to get it perfected and discover that the call to the content/layout code is leaking or inefficient. Although, I suppose it could be disabled for registration days, etc..

Great work man. Your presentation certainly started the conference off right for me:)

Fri, 2008-04-18 11:53 — leisse

Drag and Drop channels/tabs

I am not familiar with this feature. I saw this is some presentations at Summit 08, especially in Luminis Idol, but would like more information if anyone is willing to assist me. We are starting to market our portal (Luminis IV) and this would really be a nice feature to have. We have a lot of functionality, but could use some "cool" features for the students.
Is anyone willing to share the code to do the drag and drop theme?
Thanks,
Jeff
jleisse@immaculata.edu

Fri, 2008-04-18 14:22 — ksmith8

Download It

Jeff,

Download it from up above (http://www.lehigh.edu/~gas207/luminis.zip) , and email greg (gas207 at lehigh dot edu ) for the password. Its really simple.