uPortal 4.1 Manual Notes

Moving to uPortal 4.1 from uPortal 4.0

Ability to use Permissions to hide "Customize" and "Add tab" from Authenticated Users (UP-3693,UP-3694)

By default imported Permissions entries allow all Authenticated Users to add tabs to their layout and can use the 'Customize' menu to alter their layout.  You can adjust the permissions to limit this capability.

Database Module Added Called uportal-db (UP-3835)

The 4.0.x versions of uPortal require that the following properties in the parent pom be updated to change which database driver is deployed with each module/portlet.

        <jdbc.groupId>groupId</jdbc.groupId>
        <jdbc.artifactId>artifactId</jdbc.artifactId>
        <jdbc.version>version</jdbc.version>

With this new module the control for which drivers are deployed is in one pom and allows for multiple drivers to be deployed based on need.  There are example drivers commented out to allow devs and sys admins to uncomment as needed.

uPortal 4.1 Requires a 3.0 servlet container

With uPortal 4.0 Tomcat 6(2.5 servlet container) could be used to deploy but with uPortal 4.1 the container needs to be 3.0.  Tomcat 7 is recommended to meet this need.

How to convert portlets to using the new respondr theme