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[10:24:36 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> (1) we could use a PortletPreference (e.g. showUpdates, default true)
[10:25:11 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> (2) we could add a method to the CourseWrapper like isShowUpdates()
[10:27:19 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> do either of those grab you? #1 is similar to how we do lots of things, and offers free UI support; #2 is perhaps more flexible since you could make the choice DAO by DAO or even Course by Course
[10:35:14 CST(-0600)] <athena> sorry, got pulled off on something, reading
[10:36:07 CST(-0600)] <athena> can't we just not display those areas if no announcements or books exist?
[10:37:07 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> we can... but then a course the doesn't currently have an announcement looks the same as one that never will
[10:37:41 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> in that case we won't be signaling the user that this is a place where you might find announcements in the future
[10:37:53 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> or books for other courses, etc
[10:41:41 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> i had been leaning toward the portletPreferences angle... figuring that most schools who would want to shut it off would want to for all courses (so the flexability of #2 wouldn't come into play often)
[10:42:17 CST(-0600)] <athena> that sounds reasonable
[10:42:25 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> cool
[10:42:49 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> it's easy to find those options, since you see them in publishing
[10:53:40 CST(-0600)] <athena> yep
[10:53:46 CST(-0600)] <athena> sounds good to me
[14:31:50 CST(-0600)] <jwennmacher> EricDalquist: Many thanks for identifying the spring portlet bug back on 10/11 with spring annotation handlers. I ran into it with the Calendar Portlet and verified that Spring 3.1.3 fixes the issue I'm having
[14:32:01 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist>