Our site makes extensive use of the portals system from a user customization perspective. Here were some of the items that ended up on our list for future enhancement:
- More flexible header/footer control on individual portlets. We ended up just turning off all header/footer generation within portals and resorting to custom function calls (my_portal_header, my_portal_footer) within the portals themselves
- Import the acs 4.x enhancements - primarily, eliminate the need for the adp processing step (we just use a single function call for most of our portals - ACS4 lets us pick between ADP and TCL functions)
- Replace or eliminate the multi-page code - we didn't use it.
- Allow most portals to take an arbitrary number of content lines to display. For instance, if a view of the bboard system, let the user control the number of postings shown.
