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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.

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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

Questions?

The uPortal Steering Committeeuportal-steering-committee@lists.ja-sig.org

The uPortal Steering Committee

uportal-steering-committee@lists.ja-sig.org

Feedback?

Suggestions?

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