[Building Sakai] Portals and transactions

[Steve Swinsburg]

In Sakai 2.6, the macros.vm for the portal was been split up into  
separate files that just include each other. So you can either edit  
source to change things around or do it via CSS to hide and reposition  
things.

I had to edit a fair bit of the portal source in our custom build and  
it was fairly straight forward since it was just HTML with some logic  
thrown in. We may even be re-writing the portal markup completely so  
we can truly skin it 100% and have our new University styles inherited/ 
updated remotely.

cheers,
Steve


On 13/11/2009, at 11:26 PM, Sean Keesler wrote:

> My experience is that changing the xsl-portal is a lot easier than the
> default portal that Sakai runs with OOTB.
> To use the xsl-portal set the following sakai or local.properties:
>
>               portalPath=/xsl-portal
>               toolPath=/xsl-portal/tool
>               loggedOutUrl=/xsl-portal
>               xslt-portal.cacheTemplates=false (while developing the
> look and feel...set it to true to improve performance after you're
> done)
>
> Your skin will include all of the your css files and an xsl file which
> you can copy from:
> osp/xsltcharon//xsltcharon-portal/xsl-portal/src/webapp/WEB-INF/ 
> transform/portal.xsl
> as a starter. If you don't specify one, that is the one it ends up
> using.
>
>> From there you can modify your portal html with XSL and skin it  
>> with your CSS.
>
>
> Sean Keesler
> 130 Academy Street
> Manlius, New York 13104 USA
> 315-663-7756
> sean.keesler at threecanoes.com
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Tania Tritean <ttritean at loi.nl>  
> wrote:
>> Any ideas about the problems below?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Tania
>> Tritean
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:26 PM
>> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> Subject: [Building Sakai] Portals and transactions
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have 2 questions, if somebody can help meJ :
>>
>>
>>
>> Question 1 – About Sakai Portals (sakai version 2.5.3)
>>
>>
>>
>> How can we create a new Sakai portal? I’ve been looking for some
>> documentation on this or maybe a short guide on creating/adjusting  
>> Sakai
>> portals, but didn’t find anything atm.
>>
>> For example we would like a portal that contains only the header  
>> (with the
>> Sakai logo and the login) and the content sections displayed.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Question 2 – About transactions on Sakai Services
>>
>>
>>
>> We are using several Sakai services on various purposes, and we  
>> would like
>> to have everything transactional.
>>
>> How can we wrap this services in transactions?
>>
>> Here is the list of the Sakai services we are using is:
>>
>> -          org.sakaiproject.component.api.ServerConfigurationService
>>
>> -          org.sakaiproject.user.api.UserDirectoryService
>>
>> -          org.sakaiproject.tool.api.SessionManager
>>
>> -          org.sakaiproject.site.api.SiteService
>>
>> -          org.etudes.mneme.api.SubmissionService
>>
>> -          org.etudes.mneme.api.AssessmentService
>>
>> -          org.sakaiproject.authz.api.AuthzGroupService
>>
>> -          org.sakaiproject.entity.api.EntityManager
>>
>> -          org.sakaiproject.tool.api.ToolManager
>>
>>
>>
>> We tried an approach like bellow:
>>
>>             <bean id="transactionalServerConfigurationService"
>> class 
>> = 
>> "org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionProxyFactoryBean 
>> ">
>>
>>                         <property name="transactionManager"
>> ref 
>> = 
>> "org.sakaiproject.springframework.orm.hibernate.GlobalTransactionManager 
>> "/>
>>
>>                         <property name="target"
>> ref="org.sakaiproject.component.api.ServerConfigurationService"/>
>>
>>                         <property name="transactionAttributes">
>>
>>                                    <props>
>>
>>                                                <prop
>> key="*">PROPAGATION_REQUIRED</prop>
>>
>>                                    </props>
>>
>>                         </property>
>>
>>             </bean>
>>
>>
>>
>> but it didn’t worked for all services for the list above.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can someone give us a hint about how this should be done? (maybe our
>> approach was not the right one)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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