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Suppose we have a tab for students that we need to turn on and off once in a while. Is there a way to do this in Luminis 4?
If I go to the layout owner for that tab, I do not see an 'enable/disable' option.

We just don't want to have to recreate the tab everytime we want it to show up.....

Or would I create a separate fragment for this tab, assign the fragment to students, and enable/disable the fragment?

Maybe I just answered my own question?

Input would be appreciated!!

I would like to go directly to http://cmcentral.misericordia.edu/cp/render.UserLayoutRootNode.uP?uP_tparam=utf&utf=/cp/school/main
from a tab. This is entry into our Administrative Services Area. (I'm trying to cut down on clicks). I thought it would be just to cut and paste this into a framed url in the tab. I get to the page, however, it's doubled. And I can't get back.. I have to log out . I'm not sure why. Am I doing something wrong? or maybe just not thinking this through..
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Cathy

I created myself a new user, assigned all the roles: Student, Faculty, Employee. I added specific tabs to each of the layout roles, Student, Faculty, Employee, All Users.

For some reason I can't seem to have the Student tabs and Faculty tabs on the same layout at the same time. Faculty tabs always seem to make the student tabs drop off. As soon as I take off the faculty role from my user, the student tabs show up. I have plenty of room on the row, and can verify that all the tabs work for the individual roles.

Lets say you have a channel that you want everyone to execute each time they visit a tab within Luminis. An example could be a channel that tracks certain details about a person's visit. You can have this channel embedded into your nested-tables (or whatever) layout.

Is there an 'easy' way to make My Courses as a tab? I guess it's not an easy cut and paste the url into the My Courses page.
Thanks...

Hello Guys,
Thank you very much for your help. The response to my previous question about the webserver tuneup was tremendous. I didn't expect almost 200 reads and 6 suggestions. Thank you again.

Hi,
Before i started the project, the Luminis product came with a standard tab called "Tutorial" which i believe was deleted by the previous guy. Now the training committee wants the "Tutorial" tab back. Does anyone know an easy way to restore the lost/not visible tutorial tab? (without messing up the current settings)?

Thanks guys
ask0500

P.S. if this quetion has already been answered, could you give me a hint about where i can find it - thanks.

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').

Attached is my hacking Luminis document revision 0.05.  I plan on creating a series on the site for each item in this, but to save time...

Table of contents-

Modification History 
Introduction
What this document isn’t
Disclaimer
Affiliation
Responsibility
This part is important
My system
Platform
Luminis Version
Development Environment Setup
Get the files
Tools
Code Editor
FTP
Image Editor
Directory Structure
Main Login Page
User Authenticated Page
PageTitle
Session Timeout Script
Alert Message Footer
Cache Control Timeout
Icon Rollover Code
TABS
SCT’s Tab Methodology
My Modification
Active Tab Class Modification
InActive Tab Class Modification
InActive Tab XHTML Modification
Active Tab XHTML Modification
Other Mods
Environmental Variables
Nested Tables.XSL
$mediaPath
$skin
$detachedContent
$baseActionURL
@title
@secure
@minimized
@detachable
@hasHelp
@hasAbout
@editable
@printable
Customize the Calendar Styles and Tabs
Appendix A
CUSTOM SCRIPTS
BOUNCEWEB (BW)
BOUNCE CAL (BC)