Desired Portlets and Portlet Features
Desired Portlets
New Portlets
What is cool in incubation: https://wiki.jasig.org/display/PLT/Home
Notification (directed announcements) portlet from Andrew Wills
- Displays notices based on feeds
- One-liners in initial view
- Click to expand to see a paragraph or two of details
- Groups notifications by category and UI shows notification counts per category
- Does this overlap with the generic announcements portlet?
- Merging functionality between existing announcements and directed notifications
- Use 'role' based layout attributes to denote how the portlet is dispayed in the layout
Other interesting in-progress portlets from uMobile:
Desired Portlets & Features
Generic screen scraper portlets for data pulls instead of RSS?
Degree Audit Portlet
- Allow students to go through degree audit
Payroll/HR Information Portlets
- Display pay stub, leave, benefits information
Courses Portlet
- In development for uMobile
- List Courses
- Announcements
Portlet Packaging & Default Data
Mock data vs live demo data vs local data
The uMobile quickstart pulls in live data from a bunch of random places
If we start pulling in live data feeds we need to commit to update the portlets to provide better handling of error cases (missing data feeds, etc) so that generic errors aren't shown.
Look at more live demos of other Jasig projects and do integration of those.
How Publicize Portlets
- Create a "Cutting a Portlet Release" page with steps to create a release and update all relevant pages
- Move 'static' portlet release info to www.jasig.org and make the wiki page a more generic location for information about the portlet