uPortal IRC Logs-2012-02-24

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[09:49:53 CST(-0600)] <dd_> hello

[09:50:44 CST(-0600)] <dd_> i'm using uportal 3.2.4 and was wondering if there was a way to set the default page layout column count for all current and future users to the 2 equal width option

[12:42:50 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> EricDalquist, I found the reason of my yesterday´s problems

[12:42:59 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> yay! (I hope)

[12:43:08 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> it turns out that jTDS does not support SQL server 2008

[12:43:13 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> ah

[12:43:18 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> so it is the jdbc driver?

[12:43:21 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> yes

[12:43:32 CST(-0600)] * EricDalquist feels bad that you're stuck with mssql

[12:43:49 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> on monday i´ll try to forcefylly use SQLServer2005Dialect

[12:43:55 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> sounds good

[12:44:08 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> that will require schema changes, though

[12:44:33 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> but the worst of all - looks like development of jTDS is slowing down

[12:44:39 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> last commit was 5 months ago (sad)

[12:44:45 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> are there any other JDBC drivers for sqlserver?

[12:44:50 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> I'm having fun fighting with hsqldb

[12:44:56 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> Official from Microsoft

[12:45:11 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> haven´t tried that one... yet

[12:45:13 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> its barfing on updates to multiple tables from concurrent TXs

[12:45:25 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> even though the same thing works on oracle (tongue)

[12:45:54 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> damn... today we joked that we´ll have to switch back to Postres

[12:46:07 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> (smile)

[12:46:41 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> is that what you started this project on?

[12:47:00 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> we´re currently running on Postgres (uPortal 3.1+patches)

[12:47:05 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> ah

[12:47:28 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> but MSSQL is our main SQL platform after all

[12:48:05 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> i was wondering why noone has forked jtds project

[12:48:14 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> was googling around and couldn´t find such forks

[12:48:17 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> huh

[12:48:18 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> weird

[12:48:39 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> i really like the way github works - i assume that could be the right place where to look

[12:48:51 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> yeah

[12:49:08 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> I'm loving using git for our vendor branch

[12:57:24 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> ahh ... have to switch hsqldb to mvcc

[14:24:02 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> yay ... starting hsql in mvcc mode makes it all happy

[15:20:54 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> Hi guys

[15:20:59 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> I have a question about the portlet channel

[15:21:08 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> hi

[15:21:10 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> for JSR 168 spring portlets

[15:22:15 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> There is a parameter 'portletApplicationId', and my question is: Should it match the name of the .war file? Or should it be the artifact ID? We're using a Maven multi module portlet, as well... so if it matches the artifact ID, should it be the parent, the core, or the app (which contains the .war target)?

[15:22:56 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> it is the webapp name as it is deployed in tomcat

[15:23:12 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> that is used to do the cross-context lookup of the portlet webapp

[15:24:31 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> hm. So I could look into tomcat after it is deployed to find out? Would it be a folder name?

[15:24:39 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> yeah

[15:24:45 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> cool. thank you!

[15:24:57 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> unless you did something special it would be the WebAppName bit of WebAppName.war

[15:25:05 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> sweet

[15:25:20 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> what version of uPortal are you using?

[15:30:00 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> Hm, I'm not certain. I think 2?

[15:30:05 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> Not the newest version

[15:30:11 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> (smile)

[15:32:04 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> Is there a spot I can check in my apache folder to find that?

[15:32:17 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> 3 is the newest version of uPortal, right?

[15:32:28 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> 4.0.3 is the latest release

[15:32:48 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> not sure what the best way to check the version is in a deployed uPortal

[15:32:49 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> Oh, maybe it's 3, then

[15:32:54 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> its changed from version to version

[15:33:13 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> Cool. I'm logged into a local version of it, and it says '3.1.1' at the bottom of the screen. So I guess it's 3

[15:35:24 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> that would be 3.1.1 (smile)

[15:35:36 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> cool

[15:35:41 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> oh, right

[15:35:42 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> yes

[15:35:43 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> lol

[15:36:11 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> I have another question about the channel: What is the difference between the 'fname' and the 'name'? (as XML tags)

[15:36:44 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> fname is a unique, url safe name used for easier direct access to a channel

[15:36:57 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> name is what the administrator sees in the admin UIs

[15:36:59 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> title is what the end user sees

[15:37:05 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> so you might have:

[15:37:15 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> title: Payroll Information

[15:37:24 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> name: Payroll Information - Students

[15:37:33 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> fname: payroll_info_students

[15:37:57 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> and then a different channel with "- Staff" and "_staff"

[15:38:10 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> Oh, cool. Thanks!

[16:00:00 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> Ok, I'm still having difficulties getting it to run... so, in WEBINF, what are the mandatory files? I have a 'Dashboard-portlet.xml', 'applicationContext.xml', 'log4j.xml', 'portlet.xml' and 'web.xml'

[16:00:18 CST(-0600)] <Sam4242> I think I must have one of the XML parameters incorrect somewhere