uPortal IRC Logs-2008-10-14

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[04:21:36 EDT(-0400)] <higpetter> [exec] Downloading: http://developer.ja-sig.org/maven2/javax/script/script-api/1.0/script-api-1.0.pom
[04:21:36 EDT(-0400)] <higpetter> [exec] Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/script/script-api/1.0/script-api-1.0.pom
[04:21:36 EDT(-0400)] <higpetter> [exec] Downloading: http://developer.ja-sig.org/maven2/groovy/groovy-all/1.0/groovy-all-1.0.pom
[04:21:36 EDT(-0400)] <higpetter> [exec] Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/groovy/groovy-all/1.0/groovy-all-1.0.pom
[04:21:39 EDT(-0400)] <higpetter> all the time
[04:21:43 EDT(-0400)] <higpetter> and it takes tiiiiiime
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[10:50:38 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> higpetter: I hear you on those invalid poms
[10:50:40 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> really annoying
[10:51:04 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> hopefully we'll eventually find some real maven2 artifacts for those
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[12:45:29 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> we're running into all sorts of ugly stuff with the uP3 CSS
[12:45:48 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> what kinds of stuff?
[12:45:49 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> all of globally scoped styles for table, th and td elements are causing issues
[12:46:31 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> yeah, we are still having problems with proxied content containing tables with a width set to 100%, stuff like that
[12:46:54 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> not affecting all browsers, but definitely quirky
[12:46:59 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> yeah
[12:47:09 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> realizing that as nice as the new theme/skin are
[12:47:19 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> there are issues with assumptions about control over portal content
[12:47:34 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> yep
[12:48:23 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> our CMS (SiteExecutive) by default spits out a bunch of quirky CSS that does not always play well with our portal
[12:48:42 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> we developed a CMS template that alleviates most of the headaches, but still...
[12:49:58 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> so you guys are doing new theming/skinning too?
[12:50:22 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> yeah
[12:50:32 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> in-house?
[12:50:42 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> we had our UI folks port our existing skin (that they did) to uP3
[12:50:51 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> the portal part of it was much easier
[12:51:00 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> but now we're running into these CSS interaction issues
[12:51:03 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> wow, great – wish we had UI folks in-house
[12:51:08 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> right
[12:52:04 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> dju get a chance to read my post re: delegated channel management permissions?
[12:52:52 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> nope
[12:52:58 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> k
[12:53:00 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> and I probably won't for another week
[12:53:09 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> that's fine, i know it's crunch time for you guys
[12:53:39 EDT(-0400)] <chrisdoyle> what i have is working for us for right now, but it's not necessarily the "best" approach
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[13:52:57 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> EricDalquist: for portlet spring webflow
[13:53:07 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> have you successfully managed to redirect back to a flow on end?
[13:55:12 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> not sure what you mean
[13:56:31 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> for the <end-state> element
[13:56:45 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> i'd like it to go back to the beginning of the flow
[13:56:48 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> or back to the first view page
[13:56:50 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> or something
[13:57:04 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> take a look at the attribute swapper
[13:57:08 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> it has no real end state
[13:57:24 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> yeah, i saw that
[13:57:32 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> maybe i should just go with that
[13:57:34 EDT(-0400)] * athena7 sighs
[13:57:39 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> the documenation is so freaking useless
[14:01:07 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> does having an end-state give you something more?
[14:01:46 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> probably not
[14:01:58 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> more of my frustration is not understanding why that doesn't actually work
[14:02:47 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> wish I could help more ... going crazy trying to undo what the yahoo CSS did to all of our tables in our portlets
[14:02:56 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> no i understand
[14:02:59 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> i'm going crazy myself
[14:03:22 EDT(-0400)] <athena7> by the way, i'm going to be away and out of reach of email this friday through the end of the month
[14:03:59 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> ok
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