Cheryl Palafox-Stewart of Sinclair College discusses implementing their new uPortal home page. The project involved customizing uPortal with tabs, notifications, and a carousel. Staffing needs were considered, and outside help was hired to assist with complex customizations like token replacement in URLs, JSON, and templates.
12. Not So Simple Token Replacement
Drilling into JSON at the right level
Replacing in URL
Replacing in alternativeMaximizedLink
Replacing in widgetTemplate
What tokens?
What values?
When? (Promises on User object)
Hinweis der Redaktion
We need a photo of us together. We introduce ourselves and our institutions
Share with the audience that this will be like an Charlie Rose interview
Cheryl, why did you want to upgrade from 4.2 to uPortal-Home / uPortal 4.3?
What was the appeal?
Did you consider other approaches?
You were not going to just take uPortal-Home and skin it. What was your vision? What are some of the customizations you can spotlight?
At the start, how many hours did you figure this project would take? Did the customizations concern you?
How were you initially staffed? I noticed a mix of strong and not so strong technical skills. Was this evident at the start? How did losing Jeannette affect the project?
Did you know you were going to need outside help from the beginning?
Let’s start talking about the customizations we did for Sinclair.
Carousel(!), Updating icons with numbers, cleanup, SSP “Completed” integration
jQuery carousel hack. Hack of a hack …. Final solution was touse
Tabs from uPortal, (+) student tab, colorized tabs
When we were guessing the amount of work, things like this made conservative estimates look optomistic.