[Building Sakai] Proposed minor enhancement: SAK-23567 NeoPortal site title handling

[Adrian Fish]

Hi José,

I see from the JIRA ticket that a technical discussion is well under way. I
think your approach is fine and is a sensible improvement over basic
truncation. I'll move over to the JIRA ticket now. Thanks for the work :)

Cheers,
Adrian.


On 30 May 2013 22:32, José Mariano Luján <jmariano at um.es> wrote:

> Hi dev list,
> Today, on the CLE Call, we discussed jira *SAK-23567 [1]* which is a
> feature request from Univ. of Murcia. The CLE Team thinks that some
> discussion from the list is needed so, please, consider taking a few
> minutes to look at it. It would be much appreciated.
>
> *Use case*
> Our CLE installation features many long site titles, as in, "This is the
> subject part I", "This is the subject part II".  In each case, truncating
> the site titles at position X results in site titles that are
> indistinguishable from one another (e.g., "This is the subj..."). We need
> greater flexibility than what the current solution provides.
>
> *Proposed Solution (patches provided)*
> We patched
>
> portal-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/portal/charon/site/PortalSiteHelperImpl.java
>       portal-render-engine-impl/pack/src/webapp/vm/neoskin/includeTabs.vm
>
> Note the introduction of 2 new properties
>
>       site.title.cut.method = customize the cut method. Default 100:0.
>       site.title.cut.separator = separator string. Default ...
>
> We basically use a couple of new properties to choose the way we want to
> cut the title displayed. The value 'cut.method' has the format X:Y, wich
> means that X is the percent of maxlength at the beginning and Y is the
> percent of maxlength at the end. Now, if you choose 50:50 and [...],
> the above example, will get something like "This is[...]part I" and "This
> is[...]part II".
>
> An example of how it could work. Screenshots attached on the jira.
>
>    # Max length for site title display
>    # Default 25 characters
>    #site.title.maxlength=25
>
>    # Cut method for site title display
>    # Default 100:0 display the first site.title.maxlength characters and
> the separator string at the end
>    # Other values:
>    # 0:100 display the last site.title.maxlength characters and the
> separator string at the beginning
>    # 50:50 display first site.title.maxlength*50% characters the separator
> string and the last site.title.maxlength*50%
>    #site.title.cut.method=100:0
>
>    # Separator string used to separate characters in cut method
>    # Default ...
>    #site.title.cut.separator= ...
>
> *Proposed fix version*
> Trunk (2.10), 2.9.3
>
> Feel free to review or comment, your help is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Mariano
>
> [1] - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23567
>
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