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Recently I've noticed a need for easier access to a user's attributes.

To me it seems like there are two issues : how to access a user's attributes outside of a JSP page and how to access the user's attributes from another application that doesn't have session (iPerson) access.

The solution that I came up with involves creating cookie values to store the attributes.
This solves both problems : most scripting languages have functions to access cookies and with the proper settings other applications within your institution (domain) should be able to access these values too.

Hi all

I heard some schools successfully developed SSO Cpipconnector to Google Email? Could the school share the how's, what's and experience? Thanks!

Alan
PCOM

I'm new to customizing stuff in Luminis so my knowledge of the inner working of Luminis IV is limited. Unfortunately, I'm more of an asp programmer that a jsp programmer so that doesn't help.

We are on 4.1.1.14. Plans are to move to V next year so we have been staying put at this version.

We've created a custom group display for one of our department and have a custom xml log file which writes a user log entry each time a student clicks on a link. We are using GTSession and GTUser methods to obtain user information for the log. Below are two examples

We are currently in the process of migrating our Student Email accounts to Live@edu. What we need to do is to change all of our student email addresses in our Luminis Portal from 'student@harford.edu' to 'student@owlmail.harford.edu'.

Has anyone out there gone through a migration such as this, and what method did you use to change the email addresses?

Thanks in advance!

Jonathan O'Leary
Portal Admin - Harford Community College
joleary@harford.edu

Hi all

I heard some schools successfully developed CAS SSO to Google and BB sites? Could the school share the how's, what's and experience? Thanks!

Alan
PCOM

As was being discussed in article 3880, we use a proxy script for requesting off-domain content from within the portal. I have cleaned up the script we use and added in an extra feature -- modifying retrieved content to request embedded resources through the proxy script. This proxy script can be found at https://bitbucket.org/jsumners/jsp-web-proxy.

Hi all

We are trying to create a CPIP Connector to e-value site but they replied that they do not use LDAP. May someone kindly give us directions how to implement the connector? Thanks!

Alan
PCOM

I previously posted some code that I put together to read user account attributes from LDAP.
To accompany that utility I also wrote another that is able to enable portal accounts.
There are a couple of ways a user's account could end up being disabled :
If users attempt to login too many times successively their account will be disabled
If they attempt to login too many times with the wrong password their account will be disabled

Since these scenarios have a tendency to occur more often than we would prefer (especially after breaks)

We recently launched our production portal (Sept.) and have been learning about portal administration as we go along.
One of the things I found a need for is an easy way to look up LDAP information for a specific user.
The user management tool provided through the Admin menu doesn't always show the information we're looking for (account suspended or disabled, login attempts...) and limiting what information or functionality access a user has would be difficult.

Texas State University is looking to recruit a Programmer Analyst II to design and develop scripts, programs and applications using Oracle tools such as PL SQL, SQL*Plus, and/or higher level languages to meet the needs of users in support of the University's mission. We are implementing Banner and Luminis, and the work of this position is expected to mostly be in support of those systems.

For further details please see https://jobs.hr.txstate.edu, Job Number 2011047.