OpenACS 5-9-0 (CVS tag openacs-5-9-0-final)

Provides a UI for administering site-wide services (including package installation, cache, authentication, and user accounts) for an OpenACS system.

acs-admin 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by OpenACS
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On line interactive documentation for the locally installed Tcl and SQL APIs. Links to the Tcl core and AOLServer online documentation as well.

acs-api-browser 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by OpenACS
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Implements authentication-related security functions for OpenACS, including password, account and session management, bulk account creation etc. Provides a contract based interface for different authentication methods such as PAM or LDAP based authentication.

acs-authentication 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL version 2 license by Collaboraid
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Provides a UI for viewing and running automated tests provided by each package within the OpenACS system. Also provides a UI for managing automatic-rebuild servers as in a test farm.

acs-automated-testing 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL version 2 license by OpenACS
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This package bootstraps OpenACS. If the core packages have not yet been installed, it calls the installer which leads the user through the steps necessary to do so. It also checks that the installation meets the requirements for a successful install of OpenACS.

acs-bootstrap-installer 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by OpenACS
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Provides the API for creating and managing user generated content including full support for versioning, rendering content to the filesystem, folders and composite content items, and other CMS backing functionality. Utilized by Bug Tracker, File Storage, and other packages.

acs-content-repository 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by OpenACS
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Static HTML documentation for the OpenACS core (includes the DocBook sources).

acs-core-docs 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by OpenACS
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The OpenACS kernel contains the core datamodel create and drop scripts for such things as objects, groups, partiies and the supporting PL/SQL and PL/pgSQL procedures.

acs-kernel 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by OpenACS
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Internationalization and localization support routines and admin UI for manipulating Locales, request processor hooks, templating, accessing and managing the message catalog, and locale-specific formatting functions for localizing dates, times, monetary amounts etc.

acs-lang 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by Collaboraid
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This package provides a service for sending messages, queueing messages in the database to ensure reliable sending and make sending a message 'transactional'. Replacement for acs-mail.

acs-mail-lite 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by OpenACS
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Provides generic message services, with email sending. acs-mail-lite and notifications are the prefered packages for delivering this functionality and it is anticipated that this package will ultimately be deprecated.

acs-messaging 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by OpenACS
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Reference Data provides an API to support:

• A common set of reference data.
• Running standard reports on this data.
• Monitoring the usage of reference data.

acs-reference 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by Mayuli Enterprises, LLC
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Service contracts defines an API for the creation of interfaces and discovery of interface implementations. Examples are the contracts used for search which provide a means to get content on a given object and to translate an object_id to a url or the contracts used by dotlrn and new-portals to allow packages to provide portalized panes.

acs-service-contract 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL version 2 license by OpenACS
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Provides for creating subsites within the OpenACS Community System. Aware of parties, groups, users, portraits. Can be themed via a per subsite master template.

acs-subsite 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by OpenACS
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Contains all the core Tcl API, including the request processor, security and session management, permissions, site-nodes, package management infrastructure, etc.

acs-tcl 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL version 2 license by OpenACS
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The templating system provides the tag library and support routines that allow developers and graphic designers to work independently. Templates specify the layout of the page seperately from the contents of the page. Graphic designers work primarily on the layout part of the template (the template), while programmers work primarily a script that generates the the content part of the template (the code). In addition, the template system provides a way to use a single layout specification for many physical pages, so the overall layout of a site can be more easily administered.

acs-templating 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL version 2 license by OpenACS
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Package for storing dynamic translations

acs-translations 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04
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Implemented the search package callback interface for search engine driver using Oracle Intermedia.

intermedia-driver 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04
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Provides an API for packages to provide subscription based email notifications and handle replies. Used by forums, bug-tracker, etc. The currently prefered package for email notifications.

notifications 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by OpenACS
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Provides the default "plain" and "tabbed" themes for OpenACS Subsites. This has been moved out to a separate package, with availability recorded in the database, to make it easier for developer's to create their own themes and distribute and/or install them in package form.

openacs-default-theme 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL version 2 license
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This is the timezone data for the acs-reference data package. Used by acs-lang (among others) for localized times.

ref-timezones 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by Mayuli Enterprises, LLC
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Site wide search implemented with service contracts, currently supports postgres via the tsearch2 driver (OpenFTS still support but deprecated).

search 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL version 2 license by OpenACS
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Provides an implementation for the search packages service contract for searching on postgresql.

tsearch2-driver 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04
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Developer support stores timing and other logged information for requests to support debugging and tuning and supports user switching and a Tcl Shell to invoke arbitrary tcl code on the server.

acs-developer-support 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by OpenACS
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Manage group and shared calendars with download.

calendar 2.6.1d3 released 2015-10-04 on GPL version 2 license by OpenACS
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Handles frequently asked questions Q&A presentation. Can be one Q&A per page or all presented flat. Straightforward application with room for improvement. Support for notification as well as WYSIQYG Editor and Categories - both optional. Category trees are displayed flat. No multiple filters.

faq 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by Ybos Corporation
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Provides a versioned document store with storage in the filesystem or database (depending on configuration). Documents and folders can be permissioned and folders downloaded.

file-storage 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL version 2 license by OpenACS
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This online discussion board software is the successor of the original bboard package. The biggest improvement is a scalable datamodel. Forums supports threaded and flat view, moderation, a stand alone search function as well as integration with the OpenACS search package and integration with the notifications package for email alerts. It also supports reply via email.

forums 1.3d12 released 2015-10-04 on GPL version 2 license by OpenACS
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News publication tool. Publication of plain text or html news items with support for scheduled publication and commentability.

news 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by OpenACS
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This package provides a Request Monitor for OpenACS applications. It computes performance 
summary information such as requests/views per seconds, average response time, number
 of users connected, lists currently active threads, etc. Furthermore it can block 
overactive users (e.g. automated web-bots mirroring the site, users repeating running 
queries, etc.). It provides as well some user tracking (such as whos-online) with 
activity measures, it blocks repeated requests (impatient reloads), tracks switching 
of IP-adresses from users and provides request tracking per user for the monitored 
time window. It contains as well overall url statistics with performance measures.
Updated for circumventing handler calls OpenACS 5.2 for /resources/*. 
0.28 provides calls for listing active communities and users active in these communities. 
0.30 provides a nice graphical chats (many thanks to Nima) and a new interface to the 
     background thread. In addition,  ns_returnfile_background is included; 
0.38 using context form xotcl-core
0.39 brings parameterized counter values

xotcl-request-monitor 0.45 released 2015-10-04 on BSD-Style license by WU Vienna
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XoWiki is a Wiki implementation for OpenACS in XOTcl. Instead of
trying to implement the full set of Wiki markup commands of systems
like MediaWiki, XoWiki is based on a rich text editor and focuses more
on integration with OpenACS (e.g categories, general comments,
ADP-includes). XoWiki combines aspects of wikis (ease of
page-creation) with aspects of a content management system (revisions,
re-usable items, multiple languages). Furthermore, XoWiki allows to
define different types of links such one could define book-structures
(where a navigation structure could be built on the fly) or glossaries
with different kind of word relationships (like synonyms,
etc.). XoWiki supports pages in multiple languages and is localized.

Some features:
  - cross language links
  - inclusion of ADP pages
  - nesting of Wiki-pages
  - large set of includeable content (includelets)
  - search
  - tags
  - categories
  - RSS
  - weblog
  - podcasts
  - notifications
  - web 2.0 gadgets (digg, delicious, my yahoo)
  - audio embedding
  - different appearances (template_file)
  - book-structures
  - prototype pages
  - import/export 
  - virtual presence
  - analysis of collaboration networks
  - forms
  - named/unnamed pages
  - various security policies

xowiki 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on BSD-Style license by WU Vienna
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Note: this version of the package requires acs-event(s) for a helper function. This requirement may go away in the future.

acs-datetime 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by OpenACS
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The events service is primarily intended for use by writers of application packages and other service packages. The service allows developers to specify and manipulate relationships (possibly recurring) between an object and another object.

acs-events 0.6d8 released 2015-10-04 by OpenACS
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This package contains outdated and deprecated functions. These functions might still be important as a temporary measure for application requiring the outdated functions, or it might be used as source for developers to complete some missing functionality in a better way.

acs-outdated 1.0 released by OpenACS Team
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Provides helper procs to generate javascript used for Ajax and generating cinematic effects. Includes Scriptaculous 1.7.1 beta3 with Prototype 1.5.1, ExtJS 1.1.1 and the Yahoo UI Libraries (2.3.0). As of 0.87d, there is now an option to load YUI js source files direct from yahoo (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/hosting/). Lee Denison's template::head is now used to load javascript sources and css. The YUI loader is used to intelligently load YUI sources and css. As of 0.7d, all javascript libraries have been moved to ajaxhelper/www/resources to take advantage of caching. As of 0.8d, the wrappers will now be able to check a global variable to see if the required sources are loaded, this allows helper procs to automatically load the javascript sources you need.

ajaxhelper 0.87d released by Solution Grove
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assessment-portlet 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04
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Create assessments and evaluate.

assessment 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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Provide widgets and datamodel to support attachments on arbitrary objects. Used by forums.

attachments 0.11d2 released 2015-10-04 by OpenACS
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bm-portlet 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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Provides an API for sending messages to a collection of users (which can be chosen via arbitrary sql). Mails can be personalized and can be scheduled for a later date.

bulk-mail 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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calendar-portlet 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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Datamodel for category trees with supporting API and management pages. Provides a widget for general categorization of arbitrary objects and tracks which package instances use which category trees. Also supports localization.

categories 1.1.3d4 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license
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dotlrn-assessment 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04
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dotlrn-bm 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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dotlrn-calendar 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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dotlrn-dotlrn 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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dotlrn-evaluation 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04
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dotlrn-faq 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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dotlrn-forums 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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dotlrn-fs 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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dotlrn-homework 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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dotlrn-news 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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dotlrn-portlet 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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dotlrn-static 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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dotlrn-xowiki 2.1 released 2015-10-04 on BSD-Style license by WU Vienna
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Course Management

dotlrn 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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evaluation-portlet 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04
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This package allows the professors and TAs to assign tasks to the students and to grade them, and to the students to upload their answers and see their grades.

evaluation 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04
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faq-portlet 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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forums-portlet 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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fs-portlet 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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General comments provides the widgets and UI to support commentability on any object. There is also an admin interface to edit/hide/delete comments.

general-comments 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by OpenACS
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New Portal Package aka NPP. Portals are used to aggregate content from different sources within a single page. Props to Ian Baker for "Portal".

new-portal 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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news-portlet 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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An interface to the tDAV webDAV package. oacs-dav provides services to offer webDAV access to content repository data.

oacs-dav 1.2.0d3 released 2015-10-04 by OpenACS
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profile-provider 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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Countries supplies the ISO 3166 Country data for acs-reference.

ref-countries 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by Mayuli Enterprises, LLC
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This is the ISO 639-1 language reference data (with languages names in English).

ref-language 5.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by Mayuli Enterprises, LLC
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Basic support for RSS generation and parsing. RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. This package can be used to publish site content in a manner useful to other websites and webservices.

For each item (news event, ticket, bboard message, ...) that you want to publish, you create a property list that describes that item (url to item, title of item, description of item, etc.). You pass a list of those items (and some other parameters) to rss_gen, and it will generate your XML for you. You can also implenent a set of functions that satisfy the RSS service contracts and the RSS can be recreated from a scheduled procedure.

• RSS 0.91 specification
• RSS 1.0 specification

rss-support 0.4d2 released 2015-10-04 by OpenACS
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static-portlet 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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Expanded functionality survey package derived from simple-survey.

survey 5.9.0 released by OpenACS
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theme-zen 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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user-profile 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 by DotLRN Consortium
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Records views of objects, tracks summary count per object and can be used for displaying which objects are "new" to a given user.

views 2.9.0 released 2015-10-04 on GPL license by Xarg
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This component contains some core functionality for OpenACS
applications using XOTcl. It includes
XOTcl thread handling for OpenACS (supporting persistent and
volatile threads) and a definitions for
documenting XOTcl object, classes and methods 
integrated with the api-browser of OpenACS. Documented
procs and instproc an be created using the methods ad_proc
and ad_instproc. This component  provides as 
well an XOTcl Object and Class browser, as well as
means to control the recreation of objects and classes
when components are reloaded. 
0.23: contains a major overhaul of the Generic classes. Object preliminary 
      object layer for content repository, oo templating
0.36: caching support for cr-items
0.38: important change: uses cr_items.name instead of cr_revision.title 
      to label content items. This effects as well the api (lookup uses -name instead of -title). 
0.40: updating package_id in acs_objects, requires now OpenACS 5.2.*
0.41: supporting storage_type file, on_submit method and html for forms
0.43: context and connection context
0.44: use connection_context, sch regression test works
0.45: xo:db require operations
0.48: policies
0.49: stored procedures object proxies (postgres and Oracle)
0.51: require package
0.52: distinguish between ImageField and ImageAnchorField, start using slots, 
      multivalued form entries, bulk-actions, improved localization, improved sql layer (:.xo::db::sql)
0.70: oo interface to acs-object, acs-object-types and cr-items/revisions based on XOTcl slots 

xotcl-core 0.140 released 2015-10-04 on BSD-Style license by WU Vienna
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xowf 0.44 released 2015-10-04 by WU Vienna
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xowiki-portlet 2.1 released 2015-10-04 on BSD-Style license by WU Vienna
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