About this Manual

This document is a community authored and updated guide for Installing, Deploying, and Customizing the uPortal Portal Framework. This manual covers uPortal 4.3.x.

Quick Start

Learning about uPortal -> What is uPortal, what can it do for you, and how do I install it

Beginners -> Where do I start? I am ready to use uPortal but I have no idea what to do first.

Administrators -> You are a uPortal portal administrator and responsible for the day-to-day operation and maintenance.

Developers -> You are a developer interested in creating a portlets and performing customizations.

uPortal 4 Features List

Based upon open-standards and Java,XML, XSLT, JSP and J2EE development
Scalable to over a million users
Pluggable API’s
Sophisticated layout management
Validate user credentials against multiple backing credentials stores, including databases and LDAP.
Ships with libraries and sample configuration for integration with Jasig’s Central Authentication Service (CAS)
Frequently integrated with single sign-on frameworks like PubCookie and Shibboleth
User attribute service draws data from multiple sources
Included LDAP and RDBMS query support.
Components and the framework for connecting together more complex identity management system
Powerful and flexible user group management system
Base groups dynamically on user attributes
Nested groups may be implemented
Layout system permits fragments and portlets to be presented to users in combinations determined by personal user attributes, preferences, group memberships, and the application of configurable and extensible layout component audience rules.
uPortal includes an exceptionally powerful authorization system used to define and check each user who is permitted to take what actions in what contexts.
uPortal supports permissions for access to layout fragments, individual portlets, group administration, and channel publication.
Images included via CSS
Flyout navigation menus and left-hand sidebar. The new flyout navigation menus now work with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
Ability for most institutions to easily skin, configure, and lightly edit the default theme in order to achieve their desired results rather than having to start from scratch or maintain a large list of local changes.
AJAX preferences implementation has been migrated to the jQuery JavaScript toolkit for fast page loading times and JavaScript performance
ext messages abstracted to a messages XML file
Includes built-in support for channels presenting syndicated feeds, images, bookmarks, web proxies, inline frames, and custom standards-adherent JSR-286 and JSR-168 portlets.
One can now easily update or import channels, users, layouts.
The ease of migration between uPortal versions provides an easy method to clean the database and remove stranded items.

Questions

Questions or comments about uPortal or manual pages should be posted on the uportal-user email list. Commenting on manual pages is not a good way to get support for local uPortal issues.