UPortal Presentation Layer For FLUID Summit September 27, 2007 Susan Bramhall, Yale University Presentation+Layer

uPortal Presentation Layer

For FLUID SummitSeptember 27, 2007

Susan Bramhall,Yale University

http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/uPortal+Presentation+Layer

Summer 2007 JA_SIG Conference

DLM the uPortal Pushmi-pullyu:

http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/download/attachments/6063795/DLM-TheuPortalPushmi-Pullyu_Bramhall-Helwig-JA-SIG_20070626.ppt?version=1

Good conceptual overview of DLM





What is a layout?

tab

colu

mn

channels

A fragment is a piece of a tree

tab

colu

mn

channels

tab

colu

mn

channels

A predefined fragment including 2 tabs, 3 columns, several channels

How is the “tree of content” created?

• Some content is pushed to the user

• Some is subscribed to by the user

• Some is allowed to go anywhere on the tree

• Some must remain is a certain place

That is the layout manager’s job

uPortal 2.0 December 2001

• Justin Tiltonhttp://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/download/attachments/13455/looknfeel.pdf

(Works in IE)

This is a great presentation of base uPortal presentation / layout management using Simple Layout Manager.

With thanks to uPortal 2.0 architect

Peter Kharchenko:

http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/download/attachments/13455/looknfeel.pdf

http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/download/attachments/13455/looknfeel.pdf

SLM issues…

• Layouts were based on template selected based on user attributes.

• Whenever the user modified the layout the ENTIRE layout tree was saved

• User never saw changes to template after that

Summer 2007 JA_SIG

Conference

• Mark Boyd Summer 2007 DLM seminarhttp://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/download/attachments/6063795/DlmSummer2007.ppt?version=1No notes but excellent presentation of 2.6 Distributed Layout

Manager as released in 2.6 plus features in Luminis IV not yet in uPortal

http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/download/attachments/6063795/DlmSummer2007.ppt?version=1

http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/download/attachments/6063795/DlmSummer2007.ppt?version=1

What is DLM?

Fragment

Fragment

User Owned

What is DLM?

FragmentOwned Tab

Fragment OwnedChannel

User OwnedChannel

DLM History

2001

2002

uPortal adopted by Campus Pipeline, DLM work starts

DLM 1.0 pushed fragments debut in Luminis

2003

2004

2005

2006

ALM work begins in earnest

SCT asked to contribute DLM

DLM 1.0 debuts in uPortal 2.5

DLM 2.0 Processing Pipeline

2007DLM 2.0 in Luminis

DLM History

• DLM 1.0 (uPortal 2.5)

– Pushed fragments– Variable Restrictions– User Modifications to fragment– XML file based configuration

• DLM 2.0– Graceful Fragment Degratation– Processor pipeline (uPortal 2.6)– Subscribed fragments – Fragment Manager channel/DB based configuration

uPortal Layouts: pre-DLM

UP_LAYOUT_STRUCTUP_LAYOUT_PARAM

LayoutStore Loads

StructureXSLT

LayoutManager manages

ThemeXSLT

uPortal Layouts: DLM Style


DLM LayoutStore

Loads

DLMStructure

XSLT

DLMLayoutManager

managesDLM

ThemeXSLT ILF

PLF

FragmentCache

Merge

ILF = Incorporated Layout Fragment (user’s viewed layout)

PLF = PersonalLayoutFragment (user’s persisted layout)

uPortal Layouts: Fragment Owners


DLM LayoutStore

Loads

DLMStructure

XSLT

DLMLayoutManager

managesDLM

ThemeXSLT ILF

PLF

FragmentCache

ILF = Incorporated Layout Fragment (user’s viewed layout)

PLF = PersonalLayoutFragment (user’s persisted layout)

same

Configuring DLM Fragments

Dlm.xmlFragment

owner

Audience

PrecedenceProperties

Configuring Fragments

• <development base dir>/properties/dlm.xml• <web-app base>/WEB-INF/classes/properties/dlm.xml

– Properties.– Fragment account declarations.– Audiences that receive those fragments automatically.

DLM.XML Properties

• <dlm:property name='defaultLayoutOwner' value='fragmentTemplate'/>

– Identifies account whose layout should be copied for any newly created fragment accounts.

DLM.XML Properties

• <dlm:property name='layoutDecorator' value='someClass'/>– Deprecated.– Identifies implementation of interface

org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.LayoutDecorator.• public void decorate (Document layout,

IPerson person, UserProfile profile)

– Allowed customizations to post-merging layout.

DLM.XML Properties

• <dlm:property name='org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.RDBMDistributedLayoutStore.fragment_cache_refresh' value="5"/>– Determines refresh period of cached fragment layouts

for layout change propagation to other servers.– Value in minutes.

DLM.XML Fragments

• <dlm:fragment name='Entertainment' ownerID='ent-lo' precedence='100'>

– name = name of fragment, shows when owner is logged in.

– ownerID = username for account whose layout is the fragment’s layout.

– precedence = determine’s ordering and bumping rights. If same as another fragment then index of declaration in dlm.xml is used.

– Content is zero to many <dlm:audience> tags.

DLM.XML Audiences

• <dlm:audience evaluatorFactory=‘<someClass'> – Audience identifies who should get the fragment

layout.– Factory must implement

org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.EvaluatorFactory.• public Evaluator getEvaluator( Node audience );

– Audience parameter is DOM representation of audience tag’s XML content.

– Content must be well-formed XML understood by declared factory.

DLM.XML Audiences

• <dlm:fragment name='Entertainment' ownerID='ent-lo' precedence='100'>

<dlm:audience evaluatorFactory= 'org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.providers. PersonEvaluatorFactory'>

<paren mode="NOT"> <attribute name="username" mode='equals' value='guest'/> </paren>

</dlm:audience>

</dlm:fragment>

Determines

Demo

– All users but guest should see Entertainment fragment.

– Entertainment fragment owned by ent-lo account.– Changes to layout should appear for other users.

DLM.XML Audience Factories

– Factory implements org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.EvaluatorFactory.

• public Evaluator getEvaluator( Node audience );

– Evaluator interface• public boolean isApplicable( IPerson person );

– If any audience evaluator answers true then the fragment is granted.

– Four factories included in org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.provider package.


– AllUsersEvaluatorFactory• No content. • Always returns true.

– GuestUserEvaluatorFactory• No content.• Returns true if IPerson.isGuest() returns true.


– PersonEvaluatorFactory• Evaluates IPerson.getAttribute(name) values.• Audience can have one to many paren or attribute elements

and “ORs” their responses together.• Paren element has single attribute “mode” with allowed

values of “AND”, “OR”, and “NOT” and nested element outcomes combine accordingly with NOT acting as if it contained a nested, envelopting “OR” paren.

• Attribute element has three attributes:– name: used as the key for IPerson.getAttribute(key).– mode: can be “contains”, “startsWith”, “exists”, “equals”,

and “endsWith”.– value: is the value used for comparison


– PersonEvaluatorFactory quiz• <dlm:audience evaluatorFactory=…>

<attribute name=“eyes” mode=“equals” value=“green”/> <attribute name=“eyes” mode=“equals” value=“hazel”/> <attribute name=“eyes” mode=“equals” value=“brown”/></dlm:audience>

• Will grant the fragment to anyone with green or hazel or brown eyes.



<paren mode=“NOT”> <attribute name=“eyes” mode=“equals” value=“green”/> <attribute name=“hair” mode=“equals” value=“blonde”/> </paren></dlm:audience>

• Will grant the fragment to anyone without both green eyes AND blonde hair. If they have one or the other or both they don’t get it.

• Expression: NOT( eyes=green OR hair=blonde)• Expression: (eyes NOT green) AND (hair NOT blonde)



<paren mode=“NOT”> <attribute name=“eyes” mode=“equals” value=“brown”/> </paren> <attribute name=“eyes” mode=“equals” value=“brown”/></dlm:audience>

• Will grant the fragment to anyone with eyes NOT(brown) OR brown so everyone gets it.


– GroupMembershipEvaluatorFactory• Inherits same logical expressions as in

PersonEvaluatorFactory

• “attribute” element only supports attributes:– mode: “memberOf” and “deepMemberOf”– name: name of the group being checked for membership


– GroupMembershipEvaluatorFactory quiz

• <attribute mode=“memberOf” name=“Everyone”/>– true for Sam, false for Jill.

• <attribute mode=“deepMemberOf” name=“Everyone”/>– true for both Sam and Jill.

Everyone

Students

contains

Sam

Jill


– Extra Credit quiz• <dlm:fragment …>

<dlm:audience evaluatorFactory=“PersonEvaluatorFactory”> <attribute name=“eyes” mode=“equals” value=“brown”/> </dlm:audience> <dlm:audience evalutorFactory=“GroupMembershipEvaluatorFactory”> <attribute mode=“memberOf” name=“Students”/> </dlm:audience></dlm:fragment>

– Multiple audience tags OR’ed together.– Eyes equal brown OR member of Students.

Custom Evaluator Factories

• If you need it, build it.

– Factory implements org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.EvaluatorFactory.

• public Evaluator getEvaluator( Node audience );

– Evaluator interface• public boolean isApplicable( IPerson person );

DLM.XML Fragment Precedence

• Location, Location, Location – screen real-estate is not created equal.

– DLM’s merging algorithm pushes tabs from granted fragments into user’s layout view.

– Tabs to left bump tabs to the right off of the screen.

– Channels at top bump channels at the bottom off of the screen.

– Identical precedence reverts to index in dlm.xml.

DLM.XML Fragment Precedence

• <dlm:fragment name=‘A‘… precedence='100'>• <dlm:fragment name=‘B‘… precedence=‘50'>• <dlm:fragment name=‘C‘… precedence=‘75'>• <dlm:fragment name=‘D‘… precedence=‘50'>• User tab “E” • and no restrictions (to be discussed shortly)

Quiz: In what order would merged tabs appear?

A C B D E

DLM 2.0 Features

• Graceful fragment degradation (uPortal 2.6)

• Processor pipeline (uPortal 2.6)

• Subscribe Fragments

• Fragment Manager channel/DB based configuration

Processing Pipeline

• Parameter Processors

processParameters( )

DistributedLayoutManagerProcessLayout

Parameters()

Pro

cess

ing

Pip

e

UserInstance

processParameters() method called on all

processors

getContentHandler( )

User InstanceContent Handler

SAX Event Stream

Processing Pipeline

• SAX Processors

User InstanceContent Handler

DistributedLayoutManager

getUserLayout()

Pro

cess

ing

Pip

e

UserInstance

SomeContent Handler

returns

Processing Pipeline

• Configured in properties/dlmContext.xml– <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">

<beans> <bean id='dlmProcessingPipe‘ class="org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.processing.ProcessingPipe singleton="false"> <property name="fixedProcessors">…</property> <property name=“optionalProcessors">…</property> </bean>

– </beans>

Processing Pipeline in uPortal 2.6

• Defined by dlmContext.xml

• ThemeParamInjector– Passes full name to theme

• RegularViewChannelRemover– Watches for removal of channel

• AjaxPreferencesThemeParamInjector– Sets isAjaxEnabled and isLoggedInUser

Examples

• ExampleStickyTabEnforcerWatches for a tab with name "Sticky Tab" and if

found sets that tab as the currently active tab on every request

• ExampleBookmarksRemoverAlters the SAX event stream coming from the

DistributedLayoutManager by stripping out any events related to a channel with name="Bookmarks".

Nowadays layouts are not everything

https://portal.yale.edu/Login?userName=demo&password=demop

Documents

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