[10:18:18 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> you there athena?
[10:20:08 CST(-0600)] <athena> yep
[10:20:48 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> oh hey
[10:21:01 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> so the CoursesPortlet
[10:21:40 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> there are some schools that can't get at updates or books for the details screen, or both
[10:21:59 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> in their integration i mean... they can't get at the data
[10:22:17 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> naturally, they want to hide those areas in the display
[10:22:32 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> i would like to offer them a standard way to do that
[10:22:45 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> rather than just commenting-out those areas in the JSP
[10:23:32 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> i originally thought we could just set the list to null, but the classes generated by jaxb don't seem to support that
[10:24:05 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> so i have 2 other ideas, and i like to see if you fancy one of them
[10:24:36 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> (1) we could use a PortletPreference (e.g. showUpdates, default true)