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Prioritizing or re-ordering the announcements in the Personal Announcements channel is a common Luminis request I hear. Our district was no different. With all of the messages sent from Course Studio, Group Studio, and Targeted Messages, other important messages (like Banner Smart Events) blend in with the rest or get pushed off the list.

Our solution was to implement 3 Changes:

Recently we used tccmigrator export to dump the TCCs from our TEST system. After backing up our TCCs we rolled back to a previous snapshot (using zfs zones) and then imported the TCCs. We went through and set all the TCCs to be in the 'TCC' channel category. When logged in as a fragment owner with no roles defined we can see the full list of channels when trying to add one to the layout. When logged in as a non-fragment owner but still admin account the list only has a few of the channels. Has anyone seen this before? Is there a setting or something that I missed?

Thanks,
Tom

My requirement seems quite simple, I've just never done any channel development.

All I want to do is display a channel containing a bit of text and a URL with the value of pdsLoginId appended as a URL parameter:

So, if my pdsLoginId is "Fred", the channel would contain the URL

"www.someurl.com?username=Fred"

Any guidance would be most appreciated.

This year at Summit I had the pleasure of presenting/competing in Luminis Idol with some other very talented (and entertaining) folks. Later on I was asked to share some of our mods - particularly the "Tabbed Targeted Content Channel" code. Sorry it took so long, but I'm finally getting around to it. (Banner 8 upgrade has been consuming my life!)

Attached you'll find a zip file with the code and documentation to install and use it. Hope you find it useful. It's been very well received at our colleges.

We recently upgraded our Banner DB to version 8.2. Ever since that upgrade we are having the following issues with our Faculty Dashboard channel:

1) Fall 2010 courses are defaulted into this channel, no matter what we select in the 'From Term'
2) The channel can only display 8 courses, any more and an instructor must link into SSB to get a full listing of their courses.

Hello, everyone! ☺ There is a script in /usr/luminis/bin called addnewbookmark. Has anyone ever used it?

I ran it in our development environment (without fully knowing the implications). NOT a good idea.

If you are working at a university or other institution that makes use of the Luminis portal application delivered by Sungard Higher Education and you're wanting to set up a channel that pulls in survey links from Scantron's Class Climate system for students to fill out course evaluations, this recipe is intended for you.

Hi,

I copied the Financial Aid channel and modified it.  I wanted to add more customizations.  When I do I get an error in the cp.log that says...

org.jasig.portal.PortalException: Failed to find a ZIP entry for 'com/sct/banner/portals/ui/local_sia_faid_stutrack/media/redflag.gif' in resource JAR '/opt/luminis/webapps/luminis/WEB-INF/cars/local_sia_faid_stutrack.car
 

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.