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.

When we set up a targeted content channel, we put a start and end date on some subsections. It doesn't seem to be working. The subsection remains in the channel well after the end date. Has anyone else had this happen? Any fixes?

We are implementing ODS with Self-Service Reporting (SSR) and wondered if anyone has written anything for SSO from Luminis to SSR and would be willing to share.

We have developed a number of custom channels for Luminis III that get the users' uPortal, and Banner, ID and get personalized information from Banner for display to the user. Cool.

To do this, we use the IPerson object, something along the lines of:
IPerson person = staticData.getPerson();
String username = (String) person.getAttribute("username");

However, with Luminis IV, the 'username' attribute is no longer giving us what we want. It returns the immutable id, not the Banner or userid. Hmmm.

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.

Good day everyone!

We're running Luminis IV over here and we needed to reset the layout of a user who had corrupted their layout by renaming a tab (we haven't applied the hotfix for that yet...). Now there is an article on this site about resetting layouts in III but that didn't work for version IV. Luckily, odds are everything you need to create a Layout Reset Channel is already installed in IV.

So here's what you need before we get started.

1) An admin account
2) Ensure that in your Luminis directory "webapps\luminis\WEB-INF\cars\layoutReset.car" exists.

Hello All,
Does any one knows where I can find the javadoc-api documentation for the uPortal 2.5.3 version?

Thank you,
-Shiva

Adding a system icon to Luminis

Overview

There are many small steps that need to be completed in order to have a new system icon display in Luminis. You will need the source package of the "edu.(your_university).icons" package, access to the cpadmin utility, and an instance of Banner INB open for modification, and the icons themselves.

The convention over configuration method of the class will enforce a consistant naming convention across the system. Choose your role name to be the same as your system name.

Create a CustomIcons.java file

Is there a way to modify the 'My Courses' channel, so that it will actually show the courses instead of the 'Click Here to', where the user has to click on a link to see their courses, profs, etc.. I'm not exactly sure what information we would like to ultimately display, I'm just looking for a start to the process, or some advice from others who have already done this. Thanks in advance!!

Does a user have to be an admin to create/modify a channel? I have not found a way within Groups to give a user access to creating/modifying a channel, without giving them access to all other administrative functions.