uportal community call april 15, 2010
DESCRIPTION
This presentation is from the uPortal Community Call on April 15, 2010. It includes an update on uPortal 3.2.x and uPortal 3.3 work, an overview of some of the new administration portlets, discussion of what the community wants to see for content management integration and a discussion of a nice student task list portlet UC Irvine has developed.TRANSCRIPT
uPortal Community CallApril 15, 2010
Agenda
• Introduction
• uPortal Status & Development
• Other Community Updates
• Content Management Integration
• University of California Irvine Portal Demo
• Questions
Hold that thought…
Questions and discussion at the end
Additional feedback by email appreciated
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Introduction
uPortal Steering CommitteeElected by the Jasig membership
• Erik Olsson, University of California - Irvine
• Dwight Raum, The Johns Hopkins University
Selected by the uPortal developers
• Eric Dalquist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Jen Bourey, Unicon
Representing the Jasig Board
• Jim Helwig, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair, board liason)
• Jonathan Markow, Jasig Executive Director (ex-officio member)
uPortal Community Calls
Sharing
Collaboration
Community
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February Community Call
• Topics included
• uPortal at the Jasig 2010 March Conference
• uPortal Development Update
• Johns Hopkins University Demo
• Slides and Audio on Slideshare
– http://www.slideshare.net/uportal/uportal-community-call-february-18-2010
Announcements
• The uPortal FAQ has been updated at http://www.jasig.org/uportal/documentation/faq
• Next uPortal Community Call – June 2010
• Look for an upcoming announcement regarding the availability of session recordings from the Jasig Spring 2010 conference – provided by TechSmith
uPortal Updates
uPortal 3.2.1 Release
• First 3.2.x maintenance release
• Features and bug fixes
– Fix for portlet rendering issue
– Can now suppress portlets from mobile view
– Skin and accessibility
• http://www.jasig.org/uportal/download/uportal-321
uPortal 3.3 Priorities
• Portlet 2.0 (JSR-286)
• Removing IChannel Support
• Consistent URLs
• DLM Management in AJAX UI
• Groups & Permissions Management Portlets
• Spring 3.0
uPortal 3.3 Progress
• Portlet 2.0 (JSR-286) updates
• New Group administration portlet
• Permissions administration portlet updates
Portlet 2.0 (JSR-286)
• Pluto 2.0 Features
– Events
– JS/CSS in <head>
– resource serving
• Current status
– Close to support for basic portlet rendering
– Watch out for a milestone release
Administration Portlets
• New Spring webflows suitable for integration with groups and portlet management portlets
• User experience redesign
• More intuitive flow
• http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UP-2557
• http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/Permissions+Manager+Portlet
Permissions Progress
• New user interface features
– Incorporation of wireframe designs
– Browse permissions by owner and activity
• Replaced of IPermissions interface with a new, less channel-specific API
• Refactored owners and activities as JPA-persisted database entities
Groups Progress
• New portlet supports group administration
– Create new member groups
– Update groups and their members
– Delete groups
• Permissions management integration
Next Steps
• Continued refinement of user interfaces
• Allow UI administration of owners and activities
• Add REST services
• Refactor groups and permissions implementations using JPA
– Enforce relational constraints
– Replace custom caching and locking code
Other Community Updates
Fluid 1.2 Release
• jQuery 1.4 and jQuery UI 1.8 support
• Inline edit improvements
• Mobile support improvements
• Updated iPhone and Android themes
• Improved mobile packaging
• Bug fixes to renderer and reorderer
Content Management Integration
CMS Integration Strategies
Internal CMS Integration
• Provide simple WYSIWYG content management
• Combine with new uPortal admin features
– Publishing workflow
– Delegated permissions
• Implementation options
– Build on existing JSR-170 portlet in Jasig Incubator
– Create new portlet implementation
External CMS Integration
• Allow portal to interact with an external CMS
– Management of content to be displayed externally
– Display managed content within the portal
• Use CMIS Standard
– Some CMS products use custom APIs instead
University of California Irvine
Demo
The uPortal Steering Committee
Feedback?
Suggestions?
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