LDN - Luminis Developer Network

Hello, all!!!!!

My question is the exact same as found here:
http://www.lumdev.net/node/927
This poster posed the problem perfectly:
"We've had a request from our accounting office to find a way to make student billing and payment information available online to parents. The catch, of course, is that they don't want parents to have access to the student's other information. Is this something that any of you have done? If so, would you be willing to share your strategies? " (kellyda, aka David).

This year at Summit I presented a home grown JSP application that I coined "Luminis Logger". Here at Lehigh University we needed to have better, quantified data on who's logging into our portal, how often, what roles, etc... This home grown application has met that need.

Hello All,

           Here at USD we have some banner modules. Our HR, payroll and some other modules are oralce apps. Considering that we want our employees to use the portal as well, we are thinking that providing single sign-on's to all the oracle apps could be another good reason we can request employees at USD to get to the portal. Now keeping this in mind, i searched for people providing SSO's to oralce apps from the portal but i didn't see anybody have any posting for it.

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. 

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

I am new to Luminis Portal. I have experience in Java/J2EE Development. I am working on deploying car file on the Luminis Server which has Java Files. What is the widely used procedure to deploy these Car Files. Eclipse with Ant or simple plain Javac? I am using eclipse and it compiles the files with Errors which gives me ClassnotFountExcception on Luminis Portal. I am adding library files to the build path to remove the compilation errors, but still getting ChainedRuntimeException.

And also can a Luminis Channel retrieve data from Banner Database directly?

Thanks
Ramya

I have often been disappointed in how the typical custom channel is handled within Luminis. Well the server is chugging away at obtaining the content for display it is holding up the rendering of the tab that they channel is on.

As such I have over the past many months looked at ways that I could develop channels that were more dynamic. The channel would quickly come up and then fetch the required data to display to the user.

Description

Group Activity

This channel will list all groups and courses a user is a member of. For each group/course if there has been recent activity (defined as activity in the last 7 days) they will be provided with a link that will take them directly to that new content.

Figured as I had not posted anything for a while I might as well post a status type update. During Luminis Idol it was pointed out that the Group/Course Activity channel I created back in 2005 as popular as it was no longer runs nicely. (For those unfamiliar with the premises behind this channel go here http://www.lumdev.net/node/426).

This was most apparent when Michael was able to demonstrate during Idol:

1. His home tab took forever to load
2. The Group/Course Activity channel died with a nice 'Timed out' error

Well making some changes to the email channel (found in $CP_WEBINF/cars/email.car) to have the links take you into Horde/IMP I came across the following XSL extension that sungard has created.

cpExtension:formURL(aString)

What this does is create a URL on the Luminis server. You pass it the path to the file/script/image/etc and it will but in the appropriate http://servername/ piece at the start. The path you include needs to start from the root of the server, so no relative pathing.