Re: [uportal-dev] Notifications/Alerts/Announcements

2011-12-25 Thread Bruce Tong
The Facebook stuff probably does deserve its own thread. I only mentioned it because the notification stuff would be involved and because it would have to be pushed to Facebook, so there may not be a user created event to trigger things. As for authentication, I've not thought that through. I've b

Re: [uportal-dev] Notifications/Alerts/Announcements

2011-12-22 Thread Jen Bourey
Hi Bruce, Thanks for the feedback! > (A) If we are talking about having many notification portlets in a > portal, each specific to certain content/sources, then... > > (A1) When a portlet has one or more things to be considered a > notification, that the portlet be adorned with a badge indicatin

Re: [uportal-dev] Notifications/Alerts/Announcements

2011-12-22 Thread Jen Bourey
Hi Bruce, Thanks for the feedback! > (A) If we are talking about having many notification portlets in a > portal, each specific to certain content/sources, then... > > (A1) When a portlet has one or more things to be considered a > notification, that the portlet be adorned with a badge indicatin

Re: [uportal-dev] Notifications/Alerts/Announcements

2011-12-20 Thread Bruce Tong
I'm not sure this kind of stuff perfectly matches your request, or not, but... (A) If we are talking about having many notification portlets in a portal, each specific to certain content/sources, then... (A1) When a portlet has one or more things to be considered a notification, that the portlet

Re: [uportal-dev] Notifications/Alerts/Announcements

2011-12-19 Thread Anthony Colebourne
Hi Jen, This proposal sounds really great, though having not yet got started with 286 Portlets I really cannot comment further. An interesting use case we have though is that we want to display content specific notifications. E.g. scheduled downtime of our student system. There are several

[uportal-dev] Notifications/Alerts/Announcements

2011-12-19 Thread Jen Bourey
Hi all, I wanted to open a discussion around some of the notifications-type use cases we're starting to explore as part of the uMobile project. The excellent new notifications (from University of Manchester) and alerts (in the Jasig Widget Portlets) portlets have inspired a lot of thought abou