Jen, I am looking at taking just a few of the needed parameters for channel creation within uPortal, filtering those down to a small sub-set, and then giving the end user the ability to generate a fixed set of portlet/channel types.
In going through the normal administration screen there are 14 steps to create/publish a channel into uPortal. Our customer base will not have the knowledge or expertise in-house to perform these tasks, generally. I am looking at taking those 14 steps and creating a single administrative portlet that would allow our customers to simply enter, the Title, URL, Channel Type, and Group assignment. That would be it. A single screen. The channel type would be a fixed group of portlets/channels pre-installed under uPortal to give them this ability. If I did have to wait is there a way to speed this up? Is there a cache control that would allow me to adjust the systems ability to re-load or populate the channel cache? - Thomas On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:01 -0400, Jen Bourey wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I'm curious as to what specifically you're looking for here. How > would you want the portlet to differ from the existing administrative > screen? Is it just a question of the channel manager being hard to > use (I would agree that it is!), or are there features that you want > that are missing from it? > > I believe that if you wait a while, new user sessions will eventually > see the updated channel registry. As others have mentioned, the > channel registry is cached for a while, but I don't think it's cached > indefinitely. I think this is a problem you're likely to have to work > around with the channel import files or an administrative portlet as > well. > > - Jen > > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Thomas S. Pangborn > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew, > > Thanks for the information. A portlet would most acceptable. > Is there an example of how to setup this portlet? I have > compiled and installed on uPortal 3.0 and find that there are > some configuration/URL's that are needed. > > Any documentation on this or quick start? > > My real goal here is to generate a channel file using a > simplistic interface in the portlet. The portlet would then > populate the channel file with the dynamic and static content. > At that point I would then use the Cernunnos code to 'create' > the channel specified by the file. Without having to use the > administrative screen. Somewhat of an ad-hoc channel creation > mechanism. > > Thanks, > > Thomas > > > -- > Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher > Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!" > April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA > > Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, > uPortal, and more! > Information/Registration at: > http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html > > Subscribe to the conference blog, The Community Source Way > http://jasig2008.blogspot.com, for news and updates about the > event. > > Join the Conference networking site at > http://ja-sigspring08.crowdvine.com/ > > 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 > > > > > -- > > > > Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education > Solutions: The Community Source Way!" > April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA > > > Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and > more! > Information/Registration at: > http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html > > > Subscribe to the conference blog, The Community Source Way > http://jasig2008.blogspot.com, for news and updates about the event. > > > Join the Conference networking site at http://ja-sigspring08.crowdvine.com/ > > > 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 -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!" April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html Subscribe to the conference blog, The Community Source Way http://jasig2008.blogspot.com, for news and updates about the event. Join the Conference networking site at http://ja-sigspring08.crowdvine.com/ 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
