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This feature is being developed (primarily?) by UW-Madison for use in the redesigned UW-Madison portal.

Favorites is a different way of interacting with layout.

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Feature branch for favorites portlet: https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/tree/UP-3896 , leading to this pull request: https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/pull/290 .

Some features have come into this branch via pull requests, vis:

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Edit controller checks if signaled nodeId is deletable.  Adds errorMessage render parameter if needed.  Adds successMessage render parameter if success.

That the re-order glyph appears even when there's only one item of a type (only one favorited portlet or only one favorited collection) is a feature not a bug: on design consult, the suggestion was that the glyph is worth retaining to communicate to the user that if he or she had more items, they would be re-order-able.

Adding to favorites

Add to Favorites is added to the per-portlet options menu:

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Anyway, those ordering restrictions seem like false requirements.  If you actually have those requirements, please do get in touch and/or jump in to help implement support for them – our own feelings at Wisconsin are that we probably want to leave re-ordering wide open for end-user customization if they care enough to re-order. 

mUniversality perks

Favorite collections will appear in your mUniversality list view!

Who's interested in adopting / working on this?

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