Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Improving .LRN

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Posted by Alfred Essa on 06/10/06 08:05 PM

We (Minnesota State Colleges & University System) intend to incorporate Don Baccus's portal package (new portal or whatever it's called) into OpenACS.

We also plan to incorporate the portal mashup demonstrated by Solution Grove (http://www.solutiongrove.com/mashup/portal) into .LRN.

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Posted by Don Baccus on 06/10/06 11:07 PM

Can you be a bit more specific? I did a bit more work on it about six weeks ago (maybe eight), for instance once a portal'd page is viewed future views no longer query the database (results are cached), unlike the .LRN new-portal which always hits the database a couple of times per portlet on a portal page.

Also I'd like to have input into whatever your plans are for future work with it.

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Posted by Alfred Essa on 06/11/06 08:56 PM

Don, the aim is to have the same portal package for OpenACS and .LRN. As you know we have this had a goal for a long time for both projects. I hope we can finally make this into a reality.

Not only will you have "input" I am hoping that you will guide the work.

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Posted by Caroline Meeks on 06/14/06 09:32 PM

Hi Al,

It would be great if you and Don could record your plans in the xowiki page for portals so people can find it after this thread is stale.

Thanks

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Posted by Matthew Coupe on 06/16/06 10:11 AM

Hi Alfred,

How do you intend to incorporate the portal mashup demo? I have been having a look at it for our implementation and have managed to incorporate the shade effects into the portals to some degree, however this caused a strange error with custom portal administration. I was using a new theme I added through new-portal and the ajaxhelper api.

The effects look nice but I haven't been able to pass the neccessary variables to remember the portal state. (eg minimized of maximized)

Matthew

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Posted by Alfred Essa on 06/19/06 03:45 AM

Matthew,

We are close to signing a contract (a matter of days) with an OpenACS company for this work. As soon as we do, we will begin using the Wiki for the approach.