We have used the Bookmarks portlet for many years and have over 99,000 bookmarks in the database, but I think the majority are inactive. About 150 were created in the past 6 months. A small number considering that we have about 20,000 frequent users and 15 - 18,000 visits per day.
I would be in favor of removing it from the Welcome tab, but retaining it in the overlay for convenience. Although, as I said before, we could download it from github and deploy it separately. We use Google Analytics for our usage stats, and because we do not have the Bookmarks source in the overlay, we have not wired it for usage stats. We do not have the Welcome tab, or any of the tabs that came ootb, except for the Admin Tools. We have created a custom set of tabs targeted at different audiences via DLM. We put Bookmarks on a Resources and Tools tab for faculty and staff. We have had 30 people remove the Bookmarks portlet and 2 add it over the past 6 months. We have simple web proxy portlets for important student links and a separate one for faculty/staff links. We have talked in the past about using pre-populated Bookmarks portlets to replace the web proxy links, but haven't taken action on it. I think the ability to easily pre-populate bookmarks for different populations would be a useful feature that might renew interest in the Bookmarks portlet. Paul -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Drew Wills Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 3:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [uportal-dev] Take BookmarksPortlet out of 4.1? On 12/10/2013 03:02 PM, Jim Helwig wrote: > We can probably dig up some data on usage. To be honest, I don't see it > having prominent position in our redesigned portal. Perhaps it is old > school and I support taking it off the default welcome tab. When I made the suggestion at first I thought this issue was going to be a "no brainer," but I don't want to take something away that people are genuinely interested in having. Maybe we could hear from a few more folks? For those of you who have the Bookmarks, do you have any data on how much it's used? drew -- 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
