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<portlet-preference>
     <name>Initial_Release_Date</name>
     <readOnly>true</readOnly>
     <value>21-02-2010 00:04:00</value>
</portlet-preference>
<portlet-preference>
     <name>Release_Date</name>
     <readOnly>true</readOnly>
     <value>Feb 5, 2014<<value>15-09-2013 00:04:01</value>
</portlet-preference>
<portlet-preference>
     <name>Release_Notes</name>
     <readOnly>true</readOnly>
     <value>Responsive Design!</value>
     <value>Doesn't Break</value>
     <value>Adds the ability to have Screenshots</value>
     <value>Adds the ability for version notes</value>
     <value>Search works</value>
     <value>See your favorite apps</value>
</portlet-preference>

 Initial Release Date is optional. Initial release date is a Joda Time "DateTime" field. The value of the preference should be "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss".

Release Date is optional.  Release date is a Joda Time DateTime field.  The value of it should be "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss".

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The showManagedPortlets is true by default.  This preference will add to the displayed set, portlets that a user can manage.  Note, that if showAllPortlets is true, the showAllPortlets set will already include any managed portlets.

Proposed: Add another preference to hide certain admin portlets.  So you can show all but a few (ex: Portal Administration)

Categories

Listed on every portlet's entry page is a list of categories that a portlet belongs too.  Clicking any of the categories will send the user back to the initial landing page with the category clicked in the filter.

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Screenshot after the Entertainment category is clicked.  Notice the filtering!

Featured Portlets!

In class org.jasig.portal.portlets.marketplace.PortletMarketplaceController is a static field:

private static String FEATURED_CATEGORY_NAME="Featured";

Any portlet with that as a category will become a "Featured" portlet.  Featured portlets are highlighted on the main landing page.  0 featured portlets and nothing (including the label) is shown.  If there is an odd number of featured portlets, the first appears in the middle, then the rest appears 2 per row.  The label is in the message.properties file for easy changing.

Image Added

Ratings!

Ratings are shown to the user on the entry page of a portlet.  User can select 1-5.  

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First Epic Completed

Where is the code so far?

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The University of Wisconsin is currently in a redesign and is working towards the mockups pictured above.

Is this the end?

No.  UW has planned more improvements and is excited for other's suggestions and contributions.

What if I don't want to use this.

Turn off marketplace rating aggregation here by commenting these lines

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# Every Six Hours
org.jasig.portal.aggr.PortletRatingAggregatorImpl.AggregatePortletRatingsPeriod=22284000

<task:scheduled ref="portletRatingAggregator" method="aggregatePortletRatings" fixed-delay="${org.jasig.portal.aggr.PortletRatingAggregatorImpl.AggregatePortletRatingsPeriod}" />

Turn off marketplace search results here by toggling the comment lines:

<!--Toggle one of the next two via comment
        	Marketplace and PortletRegistry search are very similar.  Marketplace provides searching of
        	portlet preferences marked as screen_capture_x and will include a link to the marketplace
        	entry and possibly more to come
         -->
        <!--
        <bean class="org.jasig.portal.portlets.search.portletregistry.PortletRegistrySearchService"/>
        --> 
        <bean class="org.jasig.portal.portlets.marketplace.MarketplaceSearchService" />