We don't have as many users as other schools but we have made the portal guest page the default in the clusters and on kiosks around campus for a long time. We also decided to have some interactive content on the guest page - specifically the directory lookup. The performance has never been a problem (300-500 sessions). The performance problems we experience now are more related to heavy use of ajax and javascript which we have now largely curtailed on the guest pages. We set a very short inactivity time out (2 minutes I think). When users login they get reset to a longer timeout value.
The short time out created a little problem because people would walk up to a screen displaying the portal with timed out sessions. They would begin by typing a name into the directory lookup, hit search and the page would just refresh - new session. So we modified the portal session manager and login interaction to maintain the url parameters across sessions - this allows our guest page to behave more like a static page. Changing tabs needs the same altered flow to avoid the user experience that the tab change didn't work. Other folks I have heard of make the entire guest page static - or PHP or something else. I don't think you'd want more than one tab in that case though. Just my thoughts. Susan Parker Grimes wrote: > I would also be interested to know how other schools have approached > this. We are considering making the portal guest page the default > browser home page on all of our campus computer labs. We wouldn't want > the page to be completely static, for instance we would like a weather > portlet and some campus news RSS feeds to be displayed. It seems like > a waste of our uPortal resources to be required to render all of that > stuff all of the time. What about "mimicking" the portal home page > with a simpler technology like php, ruby, or django? Or is it not that > big of an issue to just let uPortal handle the load assuming we have > caching working on our side? > > Parker > Programmer / Analyst > Southern Utah University > > > On 7/31/07, *George Lindholm* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm thinking about putting a static version of the guest page in > front > of our > uPortal to minimize the guest sessions. So I just wondering what other > sites have done and what their experiences have been? > > Thanks > > George > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ITServices, UBC > Senior Programmer Analyst > > phone: 604.822.4375 fax: 604.822.5116 > > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > <http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev> > > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
