I agree. At this point, Jetspeed seems to be VERY light in the area of
end-user/portal-user editable portlets. The RSS portlet expects a smart
portal-admin person to assign a fixed RSS feed to the portlet (in the
registry). There is no portlet where a portal user could be provided a list
of newsfeeds to choose from, or enter in an RSS address. The best you can
do now is (as a smart admin) create a whole bunch of newsfeed portlets and
let the end-users choose from a catalog of them.
If I understand your issue it sounds like you want a portlet with an RSS
feed, with certain users able to add content to the feed. Sounds like a
nice portlet. Maybe someone will write one, it doesn't sound too hard.
Hopefully as Jetspeed matures we'll see a site with a list of interesting
portlets appear.
"a piece of software calling itself an interprise information portal"
Yes. I think this is over-stating Jetspeed's capabilities. Jetspeed is
more of an enterprise information portal FRAMEWORK. That is, it provides a
lot of the tools needed to create a portal, but it doesn't provide (out of
the box) many of the things we're now starting to expect from a full blown
"portal". Many portals now are turning into "content management systems", a
layer of complexity on top of what Jetspeed provides.
- Jasen.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Sutton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 12:41 PM
> To: Jetspeed Users List
> Subject: Re: [mail] Re: User editable content
>
>
> I've seen that message saying that it's not possible with the
> RSS portlet,
> but it doesn't answer my question of whether or not there
> exists any portlet
> that offers this user-edit, anyone view functionality. I
> only mentioned the
> RSS/RDF portlet because the output resemled what I'd like to achieve.
>
> It seems crazy that a piece of software calling itself an interprise
> information portal does not have the functionality to allow
> helpdesk people
> to produce/edit news items for viewing by the enitre user base.
>
> Al.
