I have to run off and do family things the rest of today - but I just updated the portlet - and it works swell now in uPortal 2.5 - previously it did not work so well - missing commons-collections.jar.
A cool new feature is that parameters in the portlet.xml can be overridden by adding preferences in the uPortal admin interface - so you should *NEVER* have to touch the portlet.xml file.
Another cool feature is the mighty-morphing web.xml which works in either Pluto 1.0 or Pluto 1.1 without needing a patch - just drop into Sakai's or uPortal's webapps directory and let it fly!
Two important parameters to set in uPortal's channel setup are:
sakai.host = http://localhost:8083
sakai.secret = plugh-xyzzy
And another fun one is
sakai.allowpref = true/false
If this is set to false - the user cannot set prefs via Edit-mode. Of course in uP2 you can disable the Edit button - but for portals that show the edit button - this pref stops pref changes from happening even if users find their way into edit mode...
If you want to hack look and feel - open up the war and edit "feed.vm" - a Velocity template for the output production.
Documentation is coming.
Posted by csev at July 4, 2007 01:45 PM