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uPortal's flexible,enterprise-grade APIs allow adopters to cleanly extend the portal to meet local requirements and integrate with other campus services. A modular architecture maintains a separation between portal and portlet code, resulting in a lightweight deployment with separately upgradeable components.
uPortal 4 brings many enhancements to the platform's core framework, including:
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uPortal uses a highly performant and extensible Group API allowing the portal to consume and combine group data from multiple sources, including LDAP, Active Directory, Grouper, and custom databases. Other permissions and group features include:
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uPortal also includes an exceptionally powerful authorization system used to
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determine user's layout, content, and allowed access. Groups can also be based on user attributes.
Portal Administration
Updates to portal administration in uPortal 4 make it simpler than ever to create, assign, and manage groups, permissions, and content.
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