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- Working in uPortal PDF Open Office - A document written about uPortal from the perspective of a technical user/content editor. It starts with a discussion of how uPortal uses XML and XSLT to create the final user layout. It continues with and in-depth analysis of the how to create a new channel with the content manager, how to make a new look and feel and an introduction to fragments. This document is relevant to uPortal 2.2 and later.
Upgrading uPortal
Upgrading
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uPortal is now documented in the uPortal manual wiki space.
- Easing database upgrades - Provides hints on upgrading the uPortal database
Channel Management
Channel
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Configuration
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management is now documented in the uPortal manual wiki space.
Configuration
Configuration is now documented in the uPortal manual wiki space.
User Interface Management
- User Layout Management - This page describe how to create Simple User Layouts. The user layout represents an abstraction of the structure of the content available to the end user.
- Fragments and Layout Management Approaches - This page describes the different layout managers available in uPortal (SLM, ALM, DLM)
- Layout management in uPortal 3 - This page describes layout management for uPortal 3 (primarily the Aggregated Layout Manager)
- Template layouts - This page describes how to create template layouts.
- Changing the uPortal Look and Feel - A PDF document which describes how to change the uPortal Look and feel - by Justin Tilton (IMM)
- Developing themes with Nested Divs - Terence Ordona's web site devoted to theme and skin development using HTML div tags
- Distributed Layout Manager
- 03 Distributed Layout Management
- 02 DLM Administration Guide - This document describes how to use the Distributed Layout Management approach to pushing layout fragments to users and selectively locking aspects of the portal in place.
- Defining DLM Fragments
- Defining DLM Fragments ala ALM
- DLM Data Model
- DLM Migration Requirements
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- User Management - This page describes how to manage user accounts and set up uPortal to use a directory such as LDAP.
- Groups Manager Channel - A description of the Groups Manager channel that is used to manage groups, group memberships and their associated permissions.
- Composite Group Service Guide - Describes the design of the composite group service, especially configuration info. Updated for uPortal 2.3.
- 99 Developer's Guide to Groups - A group service how-to for developers, with lots of example code.
- Groups and Permissions - A separate space has been dedicated to Groups and Permissions as it has become a separate project.
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