uPortal 2 Implementors (customization)

uPortal Implementors documentation

General

• 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 Guide: 2.1 to 2.3/4 - Describes how to upgrade uPortal 2.1 to uPortal 2.3/2.4
• uPortal 2.4.2 to 2.5.0 Upgrade Procedures - Describes how to upgrade uPortal 2.4.2 to uPortal 2.5.0
• Easing database upgrades - Provides hints on upgrading the uPortal database

Channel Management

• Channel Admin (version 2.6+) - This document describes how to extend the list of links that appear when selecting the Channel Admin link.
• Portlets in uPortal - Describes how to work with JSR 168 Portlets in uPortal 2.3/2.4

Configuration

• Properties - This page contains a complete list of all properties files used by uPortal.
• Production Setup

User Interface Management

• Layout Management - This page describe how to create User Layouts. The user layout represents an abstraction of the structure of the content available to the end user.
• 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
• 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.

Groups and User Management

• 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.
• Developers Guide to Groups - A group service how-to for developers, with lots of example code.

Other uPortal Services

• uPortal Tools - A description of tools that come with uPortal for managing the datastore, user management, and stylesheet management
• uPortal Concurrency Services Describes caching and locking services for portal entities. |
• Channel ARchives - Describes how to use CARs to deploy channels.