[sakai-pmc] Sakai support for better OOTB integration with uPortal

[Aaron Zeckoski]

All sounds good to me.
:-)
-AZ

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> It will be done in the sample data load activated on sakai.demo=true
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25267
>
> I've also created a Jira to move the mercury site into the demo load and
> remove from normal build - that was suggested before. No one knows what
> mercury is and why its not called 'test site'... Comments in the ticket:
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25268
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Is there a jira for this? How would the change be implemented?
>>
>> On Sep 27, 2013 2:51 AM, "Steve Swinsburg" <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> The Sakai Connector Portlet has passed the Jasig/Apereo incubation
>>> process and is in the midst of being incorporated into the next uPortal
>>> release.
>>>
>>> This portlet uses the trusted mode of the Basic LTI support in Sakai to
>>> allow a user with the same username in both systems to embed tools from
>>> their Sakai sites inside uPortal.
>>>
>>> Sakai currently has LTI configuration in the experimental sakai props to
>>> support this, ie the demo of uPortal hooks up to the Sakai experimental
>>> server.
>>>
>>> It so happens that uPortal ships with an admin user so for that user the
>>> OOTB experience works fine. However uPortal also ships with two other demo
>>> users called student and faculty. These have no equivalent in Sakai so the
>>> demo does not work for those users. These users are important in
>>> demonstrating the various layouts and portlet that uPortal offers.
>>>
>>> What I propose is that these two users are added to Sakai by default. The
>>> student would be an access user in mercury, the faculty would be a maintain
>>> user.
>>>
>>> This also ties in with my earlier emails of providing a better OOTB
>>> experience for Sakai.
>>>
>>> Please reply with any comments or concerns. I would like to get this in
>>> as soon as I can if there are no objections.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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