Re: [uportal-dev] Static guest page experiences

2007-08-02 Thread Vangel V. Ajanovski
Our uPortal installation is also serving our institution homepage. Why do I do it that way, and not with static pages? Because I always wanted to try to implement a guest-user tailored experience and have a smart portal without even logging in. For example: have one web site content layout fo

Re: [uportal-dev] Static guest page experiences

2007-08-01 Thread Susan Bramhall
And our future plans / wishes... We already use multiple guests for different populations. That's easy to do using a person factory that chooses the appropriate one based on a url parameter. What we would really like is to allow weak "authentication" via a cookie so that a user actually gets

Re: [uportal-dev] Static guest page experiences

2007-07-31 Thread Jason Shao
On Jul 31, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Parker Grimes wrote: > I would also be interested to know how other schools have > approached this. We are considering making the portal guest page > the default browser home page on all of our campus computer labs. > We wouldn't want the page to be completely st

Re: [uportal-dev] Static guest page experiences

2007-07-31 Thread Susan Bramhall
We don't have as many users as other schools but we have made the portal guest page the default in the clusters and on kiosks around campus for a long time. We also decided to have some interactive content on the guest page - specifically the directory lookup. The performance has never been a

Re: [uportal-dev] Static guest page experiences

2007-07-31 Thread Parker Grimes
I would also be interested to know how other schools have approached this. We are considering making the portal guest page the default browser home page on all of our campus computer labs. We wouldn't want the page to be completely static, for instance we would like a weather portlet and some campu

[uportal-dev] Static guest page experiences

2007-07-31 Thread George Lindholm
Hi all, I'm thinking about putting a static version of the guest page in front of our uPortal to minimize the guest sessions. So I just wondering what other sites have done and what their experiences have been? Thanks George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITServices, UBC Senior Programmer Ana