uPortal 2.6 Drag and Drop

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uPortal 2.6 Drag and Drop

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Current Status

• Most features copied from preferences channel.
• Brower compatibility IE6, IE7, Firefox, Safari.
• Fails back if scripting is disabled.

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Javascript Resources

• Dojo!
• Portal dojo classes
• ajax-preferences.js

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Java Resources

• Servlets
• Channel registry
• Ajax callback targets
• Theme Param Injector

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Skin Resources

• skin_preferences.css
• Extra icons

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Channel Editing

• Move
• Delete
• Min/max

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Channel Editing
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Adding Channels

• Browse channels by category
• Search channels
• Use channel without adding to layout

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Browsing Channels
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Searching Channels
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Editing Tabs
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Page Layout
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UI Testing Results

• Confusing terminology
• Channel adding should be more obvious
• Drag and drop tabs?
• Simplicity
• Users want less tabs
• Possibly too many features

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Unimplemented Features

• Skin selection
• Resetting a layout
• Setting the active tab
• Moving columns
• Moving channels to a new tab

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CSyndFeed
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Google Maps
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Google Search