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 Manager Channel - The is a placeholder for a Channel Manager page. It needs content.
- Channel Admin (version 2.6+) - This document describes how to extend the list of links that appear when selecting the Channel Admin link.
- Working with 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 and configuration files used by uPortal.
- Production Setup
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
- 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.
- Developer's Guide to Groups - A group service how-to for developers, with lots of example code.
- The Person Attributes Group Service -\ Person Attributes Group Service
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.