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Distributed Layout Management was designed by Sungard SCT in the 2.1 uPortal release timeframe but was only available in the version of uPortal included in Sungard SCT's Luminis product. The DLM Administrator's Guide is located here DLM Administration Guide. DLM was contributed back to the uPortal code base in uPortal version 2.5. It is an extension of SLM and uses SLM's User Preferences channel for modifying a user's layout and editing fragment contents. DLM provides the ability to define fragments that get pushed to end users but allows the maintainer of the fragment to determine just how much of the pushed fragment can be edited by the end user. If such restrictions are later changed then changes made to a fragment by the users will be replaced with the original content of the fragment. See Distributed Layout Management for more information.
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