Forum OpenACS Development: Oacsrocks-Mashups Package

In Viaro Networks we have developed a package that integrates feeds from different sites and displays them in one page in a portlet way. The portlets includes AJAX Effects (drag and drop, etc).

For a live instance you can go to http://www.oacsrocks.org/oacsrocks-mashups/ .. Screenshots and Demos portlet is included on the package. You can download the package from here http://www.openacs.org/storage/view/oacsrocks-mashups.tar.gz ..

How to add feed portlets:
1. Add them to the News Aggregatos
2. Visit the admin page of oacsrocks-mashups package and add it to the portal

If you have any questions please post them here.

greetings

Hi Malte:

In response for you 2 questions:

a) How could I have the portlet closed when calling the page?
Currently you can't, because it is a beta version there are some things that still need to be implemented .

b) To speed up the loading, have you thought about doing it asynchronously for the closed portlets?

That's a good idea!!, I haven't thought about that, but it can be implemented without so many changes.

Greetings

You can install this package with package manager:
1. Just go to the package manager (after downloading the tar in your working directory).
2. Then click on the Install New Package link, and the package manager will recognize the package.
3.Select it to install and is ready (the package manager will install it for you).

Regards