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I'm about to start a new position as a portal administrator. I am lucky enough to have the former admin around to show me the ropes, but documentation would still be very beneficial. We are currently running v4 and plan to upgrade to v5 in the near future. If anyone can point me toward any decent documentation I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Hi,
I'm curious about what other schools do for documenting and communicating changes to end users, as a result of Luminis upgrades and patches. Are there any standards or best practices for the same? Do you just use the release notes or document changes in a more user friendly way?

Any input/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Shyam

Hey everyone, I remember a school at Summit speaking about a formal document that they have to control quality of content in their portal. Things like...

* Channel content must be updated at a very minimum every 90 days
* Channel content must meet the institutions color and logo requirements

etc... etc...

We really need to have something like this at my institution, but before I started on one, I wanted to see if someone from the lumdev community had something that they were willing to share.

Thanks
Greg

Hello

I need a little bit of assistance from you guys. I am working with someone to try to create a link in a channel in Luminis. This link needs to run a package that was installed in oracle/banist1 and granted to www_user. This package is basically a simple Oracle package that gets the student's SPRIDEN_ID and then passes the student to another page with the SPRIDEN_ID in a form. This part isn't the important part.

Seeking a SunGard Banner Developer - IT Analyst II for our direct client in Norman, OK, who was recently honored as one of the 100 Best Places to Work in IT. This position offers the opportunity to work for an organization that recognizes and rewards its employees and fosters a dynamic work environment which offers a wide range of career opportunities. This is a direct hire, full time position opportunity with a very stable organization.

We are planning on going live with Luminis IV this Fall with parallel deployment. One of the topics that has come up recently is the concept of an SLA for Luminis. I’m wondering if any of you have created a document or policy that you could share which outlines the level of service you provide for the Luminis portal.

What sort of expectations do your users have for the portal?
Do you provide 24x7 uptime?
Do you have scheduled maintenance time (e.g., for backups or hardware maintenance)?
How often do you have unplanned downtime?
What else should we consider?

Today I read one of Sungard's maillists, and found that the What's New for Luminis (weekly posting) is now going to be hosted on http://www.edu1world.org/CommonsSunGardHE/

Having gone through the sign up process and then had a glance to find the maillist or information that looks like the What's New I must say that I am yet to be impressed. Has anyone else signed up? Has anyone else found the weekly list of Defects and RPEs etc?

Perhaps it is just a lack of familiarity with this particular wiki on my part.

Derek
University of Leeds, UK

The Canadian Banner Users Conference (CBUC) 2010 is being hosted in Victoria, BC from September 28 to 30, 2010.  The Program Committee is seeking Luminis presentation proposals from SunGard clients. Please visit the conference website.

If you are interested in presenting, need a topic or would like some information on what to expect when presenting please feel free to message me.

I am also looking for suggestions on topics you would like to see covered by SunGard representatives.

Hello!

We are planning to have an external system use our LDAP, and want to create an administrative user in the LDAP with limited capabilities, only read and compare, and NOT modify. 

Does anyone have information on how one would set this up? I'm sure we have to create an LDIF file with the user informaiton, but I'm just not sure where the user would be, and how to limit the privlidges.

Thanks!
Christine

It's back: Luminis Idol 2010!

After rave reviews the last two years and champions from 2 different countries, we're looking forward to crowning a new winner this year. 

Contestant Search Underway

We're looking for contestants to take part in our session. Do you have something impressive you want to demonstrate with your Luminis instance? Great UI? Innovative channel? Maybe you've leveraged your portal for other means - there's an audience for that!