Forum OpenACS Development: Portals question

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1: Portals question
Posted by Matthew Burke on 01/20/03 02:02 AM
It's late (ok, only if you have a sick 1-year-old and have caught his cooties) so maybe I'm overlooking the obvious....

What's the current best practice if you want a site with portals.  I've got 4.6 installed because I was having huge problems getting HEAD to install.  Should I retackle the HEAD release---I thought I read somewhere that the dotLRN portal stuff get mixed into OpenACS but I cannot refind that post.

The other question with obvious answer I am overlooking is: how is the main page on openacs.org done---that's basically the look I'm looking for.

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2: Re: Portals question (response to 1)
Posted by Roberto Mello on 01/20/03 02:20 AM
I'll let someone else fill in the details of portals. AFAIK, dotLRN 1.0 should be installed on 4.6, not on HEAD. dotLRN 1.1 will use 4.7 (when it's released) with all the i18n code.

new-portal is on HEAD, but the information I have is that OpenForce is not done with the refactoring it's doing on the package (so it's new-new-portal).

The main page on openacs.org is done with ETP (Edit This Page) for the middle content. The other boxes around it are done with <include> templates.

You can checkout the source code for openacs.org from CVS, the module is called openacs.org-dev. Look under the www/templates/ directory.

-Roberto

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3: Re: Portals question (response to 1)
Posted by Vadim Makarov on 01/20/03 08:53 PM
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4: Re: Portals question (response to 1)
Posted by Matthew Burke on 01/21/03 03:12 PM
I knew there was an easy answer.  I'm not sure why it didn't occur to me to search on "homepage".  The thread must be there somewhere in my search on "portal" but I never got that far...

Roberto, Vadim---thanks for the help.