Ideas for new channels
New RSS feeds
- JA-SIG news feed
- Current well-done general news feed (NYTimes, BBC, etc.)
- Specific feeds for student and faculty layouts.
New images or comic strips.
New, narrower IFrame examples.
CGenericXSLT channel displaying useful uPortal links
- up3 manual
- wiki
- JA-SIG newsletter
- email lists,
- list of uportal-driven sites
- commercial partners
Current channels and notes:
General interest
| Channel | notes |
|---|---|
| Google Search | Cool new google search portlet. It'd be great to make this more prominent. |
| pbookmarks | New bookmarks portlet. This is also pretty new and cool. |
| The Motley Fool | RSS feed (CSyndFeed channel). Maybe more interesting RSS feeds out there these days? |
| Salon.com | RSS feed (CSyndFeed channel). Works. |
| stockcharts.com | RSS feed (CSyndFeed channel). Works. |
| Word of the Day |
RSS feed (CSyndFeed channel). Works. |
| Unicon News | RSS feed (CSyndFeed channel). Working and informative. Feed URL: http://www.unicon.net/publish/uniconnews.rss\\ |
| uPortal Developers Reference | RSS feed (CSyndFeed channel). The feed works and seems useful, but I'm not sure it's well named. The content doesn't really seem to be "developer reference" material. Maybe we can just rename this "uPortal News"? Feed URL: http://uportal.org/rss/news/index.xml\\ |
| Number Guessing Game | Custom channel. Is this still useful? Are we using it just as an example of a custom channel? If so, maybe we should rename it "Sample Custom Channel" |
| Rss Portlet | Read multiple RSS feeds from the same portlet. |
| uPortal Home Page | CInlineFrame. The uPortal home page is fairly wide and doesn't display very well in a column. Is there another site that might work better as an example of the IFrame channel? Does it make sense to rename the channel "Sample IFrame Channel" so people know what they're looking at? |
| uPortal Powered Sites | RSS feed from Unicon. Is this being updated? The list is very long, and doesn't really display all that well as an RSS feed, since it gets cut off around the letter C. This might work better as a link somewhere to the list of uPortal production deployments. |
Channel type and feature demos
| Channel |
notes |
|---|---|
| Daily Business Cartoon | CImage |
| Minesweeper | CApplet. Would it make sense to re-title this "Sample Applet"? |
| portal_iccdemo_history | I'm not really sure what the ICC demo channels are, exactly, but it seems like they still work. |
| portal_iccdemo_urlselector | |
| portal_iccdemo_viewer |
Developer and test channels
| Channel | notes |
|---|---|
| CSS Viewer | Still potentially very useful, particularly for developing new skins, but should eventually be updated to also contain JSR-168 styles |
| jasig-test-portlet | A bunch of useful looking portlet mode, title, preferences, etc. test. This seems like more useful for people doing core development. |
| missing-properties | Shows any properties that the properties manager looked for, but did not find. |
| person-attributes | A display of person attributes available to channels |
| snooper | Shows information about the browser, request, etc. |
| test-portlet-1 | Are test 1 and test 2 actually different? |
| test-portlet-2 | Are test 1 and test 2 actually different? |
| thrower | Demonstrates an error. |
| timeout | Demonstrates a channel timeout. |
| timetitle | Demonstrates the ability to dynamically set the channel title. |
| tomcat-number-guess | CWebProxy |
| tomcat-servlet-examples | CWebProxy |
| uportal-data-dictionary | Shows descriptions for tables and attributes used in uPortal. Is this up to date for up3? |
Candidates for elimination
| Channel fname | notes |
|---|---|
| uportal-development-books | Feed is broken |
| dlm.admin.guide | Documentation currently exists in the wiki and the manual |
