Archive of the April 2012 uPortal Community Call. Agenda: - uPortal Releases, Recent and Future - uMobile Update - Portlet Updates - Documentation Update - uPortal/uMobile at the 2012 Jasig Sakai - Conference - Q&A

1. Community Call
Sharing Ideas
Enabling Collaboration
Building Community
April 11, 2012

2. Agenda
• uPortal Releases, Recent and Future
• uMobile Update
• Portlet Updates
• Documentation Update
• uPortal/uMobile at the 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference
• Q&A

3. uPortal Releases

4. uPortal 3.2.5
• Coming 4/13
• Addresses data-export performance
• Multi-threaded layout export is now possible
• UW Exported 65k layouts for 240k users in 30 minutes
• 66 additional issues resolved since 3.2.4

5. uPortal 4.0.4
• Released last month
• 43 Bugs Fixed
• Dynamic Skin Configuration
• Batch import/export logging and reporting

6. Dynamic Skin Configuration
• Overrides the default, not the user selected skin
• Set based on attribute or group membership
• Example in renderingPipelineContext.xml
<bean class="org.jasig.portal.rendering.xslt.UserAttributeSkinMappingTransformerConfigurationSource">
<property name="skinAttributeName" value="serverName" />
<property name="attributeToSkinMap">
<map>
<entry key=".*.example.com" value="example.com" />
</map>
</property>
</bean>
<bean class="org.jasig.portal.rendering.xslt.UserGroupSkinMappingTransformerConfigurationSource">
<property name="groupToSkinMap">
<map>
<entry key="pags.studends" value="students" />
<entry key="pags.staff" value="staff" />
<entry key="pags.faculty" value="staff" />
</map>
</property>
</bean>

7. Batch Import/Export
• No longer fails on first error
• All data for the current type is processed
• Each failed entity has a log file written
• Makes debugging data issues much easier
• Makes reading log output much easier

8. uPortal 4.0.5
• Coming 4/13
• Performance improvements to data import
• Runtime performance improvements
• Page load times below 3.2.5
• Memory footprint improvements
• 80% of markup is now shared between users to reduce
cache overhead
• Search UI Updates

9. Search Portlet

10. uMobile Update

11. uMobile 1.1 RC1
• Released last month, GA to follow
• Performance updates
• Bug fixes

12. List-based home screen

13. Inter-module links
Links to
Directory
Links to Map

14. Map Categories

15. uMobile Development
• Recent community call covered development
strategies, including
• External content via IFrame and web proxy
• Mobile portlet development
• Recording available at
http://www.slideshare.net/uportal/umobile-development-

16. Esup-Portail Contributions
• Augmented reality work
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0nzWfI9u8Q
• Testing and bug fixes

17. Portlet Updates

18. Courses Portlet
• Added semester, GPA, and
course credits information to
portlet data model
• New grades overview screen

19. Campus Life Portlets
• Improved mobile views
• New desktop screens

20. Classifieds Portlet
• New contribution from Gary Maxwell at Fort Lewis
• More updates to come!

21. Documentation
Update

22. What's new since the last call?

Administration

Managing Permissions
− https://wiki.jasig.org/x/kRAIAw
− About uPortal permissions, Permissions Administration
Portlet, Viewing and Editing Portal Permissions

“Packaged Stuff”
− https://wiki.jasig.org/x/sAAbAw
− Users can add a whole tab of customized (“package
stuff”) to their layout

23. What's New…

User Interface

UE Development Tips
− https://wiki.jasig.org/x/qICLAg

Understand Skin Organization
− https://wiki.jasig.org/x/HAgoAw

Include JavaScript and CSS Resources
− https://wiki.jasig.org/x/UgQoAw

Set a Default Skin
− https://wiki.jasig.org/x/GAUoAw

24. What's New…

Developers Guide

New Search API
− https://wiki.jasig.org/x/YgAbAw
− Approach used to implement the new search api
included in uPortal 4

Upgrading

Preview New Database Schema
− https://wiki.jasig.org/x/jAMRAw
− Preview the new database schema before attempting
your migration

25. Documentation Feedback
Any Topic Ideas, Feedback, or Corrections:
uportal-user@lists.jasig.org
mccordl@southwestern.edu

26. uPortal @ Jasig-Sakai

27. Conference Overview

28. Pre-conference Seminars
• Adopting uMobile
• Implementing uPortal 4
• Portlet Development Best Practices
• Skinning uPortal: For Developers

29. Sessions to Look For
• uPortal and uMobile Overview Presentations
• uPortal User/Profile/Layout Redesign BOF
• Portal usability
• Portal strategy
• Delivering mobile content
• Demos on innovative portals and portlets
• Developing with Git and GitHub

30. Additional Opportunities
• “Hack-a-thon” room available throughout the
conference
• Project Collaboration Time and Developer Days
Thursday afternoon and Friday

31. Questions and
Open Discussion

32. Feedback?
Suggestions?
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The uPortal Steering Committee
uportal-steering-committee@lists.ja-sig.org
The uMobile Working Group
umobile-working-group@lists.jasig.org