I agree with Paul that ability to easily pre-populate bookmarks for
different populations would be a useful feature that might renew
interest in the Bookmarks portlet.
I've proposed an updated roadmap for this portlet, on
[bookmarks-portlet-user@] . Perhaps discussion of vision for this
portlet and how to execute on getting there would best be continued
there and on bookmarks-portlet-dev@?
This thread has been particularly useful, I think, to remind that we
need to be releasing at least a modestly updated version of this portlet
to incorporate the pending pull requests for inclusion in uPortal 4.1 (a
version 1.1.0 of the portlet, say).
Andrew
[bookmarks-portlet-user@]:
https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JSG/bookmarks-portlet-user
On 12/11/13, 8:52 AM, Paul Gazda wrote:
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
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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
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