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The My VT uPortal Quick Start was released to the uPortal community in 2006 in response to all the positive attention we received for our own portal work at the time. It was never officially supported by Virginia Tech and was merely offered as a proof-of-concept to show how one could push the boundaries of uPortal. Future plans for My VT are to move to DLM with a much simpler UI that is lightweight, clean, and easy to support. |
Virginia Tech is pleased to offer a uPortal 2.4.2 Quick Start with most of our My VT modifications applied. For a preview/summary of our changes, take a look at our online tour.
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What's in the Quick Start
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This script will do the following:
- Stop tomcat
- Deploy any code/XSLT changes you've made
- Reset the uPortal database using data.xml
- Publish a sample channel profile provided
- Publish the sample fragments
- Start tomcat
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Publishing a Channel
At the command line, run: ant pubchan -Dchannel=<Channel Filename>
Example: ant pubchan -Dchannel=cnet-news-com.xml
Publishing Fragments
At the command line, run: ant pubfragments -DfragmentFile=<Path to Fragments File from uPortal root>
Example: ant pubfragments -DfragmentFile=/properties/al/fragment.xml
Adding a User
At the command line, run: ant md5passwd -Dusername=<Username>
Example: ant md5passwd -Dusername=bcjones
Known Bugs
- Images for folders and channels in the Content Subscriber channel do not work. The image files are licensed by VT and cannot be distributed, I have not yet updated the XSLT to point to generic versions.
- The uPortal 2.4.2 XHTML output sometimes puts a random > into the output. This is not a problem with the My VT mods, but a problem with out of the box uPortal.