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Although Luminis IV is reported to have an improved layout manager where we will be able to add channels to a default tab that a particular group of users do not have access to and have them suppressed when they log in this ability is currently lacking in Luminis III.

As I needed this functionality I have come up with a method that allows us to do this. My method makes use of JavaScript and some AJAX to first hide the unauthroised channel and then call the typical URL(the one behind the 'X' button) to remove the channel from the user's layout.

This modification has been tested on Luminis III.3.3 and will require the modification of $CP_ROOT/webapps/luminis/stylesheets/org/jasig/portal/layout/tab-column/nested-tables/nested-tables.xsl as well as obtaining um_utils.js and um_http_request.js (which you can find in the story 'U of M JavaScript functions').

Instructions

1. Backup nested-tables.xsl
2. Open up nested-tables.xsl into your favorite text editor
3. We will be modifing the regularLayout (roughly line 573) and channel (roughly line 871) templates in this file
   1. Just below the start of the regularLayout template you will see a number of script tags for reading in various Luminis JavaScript files. You need to add the following script tags to the end of that block (modify the path to the js files as need be):
      
      <script language="JavaScript" src="/js/um_http_request.js"></script>
      <script language="JavaScript" src="/js/um_utils.js"></script>
   2. Scroll down into you see the body tag (roughly line 629 after the previous modification) and add to the body tag the attribute onload with the value um_remove_unauth_channels()
   3. Just below the start of the channel template (directly below the xsl:param element) you need to add the following HTML/XSL:
      
      <div id="um_chan_{@ID}">
   4. Just before the channel template is finished(roughly line 917) you need to close the div we opened in the previous step with:
      
      </div>
4. Save nested-tables.xsl
5. The system will probably pick up the change to ensted-tables.xsl at some point but to see it imemdiately you should cycle your webserver