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Team #8

Exercise Handout

In this exercise you will publish a channel. Channels in OneStart are the core building blocks of content that the portal is built on. In this particular exercise we will be creating channels of type text. There are also channel types of URL, RSS, and Cache.

In the future we may provide additional channel types such as List of Channels Channel, which would allow grouping of channels into a channel as links, keeping the permissions assigned to each individual channel and therefore only showing the appropriate links. We also may in the future provide channels that can be in the form of portlets based on the Java Community Specification for portlets (JSR 168 ). This would allow for dynamic code to determine the content of the channel.

The common thing that permeates all different types of channels is that they must be registered in OneStart via the publishing interface.

Exercise #1 - Create a narrow column text channel that has 6 focus links

First you will need to download the narrow column focus channel template from:



You should be able to right click in the browser window that you navigated to the above url with and view source. Once viewing source, save this as a file to your desktop under the name team8.html.

Now that this has been saved, set up the channels contents by modifying the Links section of the team8.html file by pointing it to 6 different urls. The urls are up to you and your team.

Next you will need to login to OneStart, and navigate to the publishing interface.

Since we are publishing a new channel of type “text” select the text channel link.

Fill in the title of the channel to be “Team 8”

Give the channel a description, up to the team.

Paste the content from the team8.html file into the Text Content text area.

No edit link url is required. *but this can be used for channels that offer user customization (likely would require the channel to be a program example is bookmarks)

Change the height in portal to 150 pixels

No change to detach height or width is required

Leave detach only unchecked

Leave application team unselected

Leave OneStart unique work blank

Leave the start date defaulted to today

Leave the end date blank

Fill in a contact email for the channel to be onestart@indiana.edu (normally this would be the contact email for any problems or questions about the channel or its contents)

Click the Next button.

Now we are on the groups section of channel publishing. This is where you can specify who should be able to see the channel as well as who should be able to edit the channel through channel publishing.

OneStart supports publishing to Role groups (determined through associations with the university (BL-STUDENT, IN-STAFF, etc), User groups (determined through ADS, all members of the ADS groups that are added to a channel can see the channel through the explorer and add it to their pages), and Publisher groups (again determined through ADS, and any members of these groups can modify the published settings of this channel).

Today we will just be adding a user and a publisher group to our channel.

Select Group Type “user”

Fill in the group name of “BL-UITS-ONESTART-TRAINING”

Click the save button

Select Group Type “publisher”

Fill in the group name of “BL-UITS-ONESTART-TRAINING”

Click the save button

You should now have one group showing the in “Groups allowed to view channel” and “Groups allowed to edit channel” tables.

Click the Next button.

Now we are on the Category selection page. This selection determines where the channel will show up in the channel explorer which can be used on its own or in the personalization interface.

Select the “Administration” category

Click the Finish button. (There are further non-required publishing options that can be accessed by clicking next, but for todays exercise we will not use any of those options)

Now we are on the Overview Screen, where we get a chance to make sure everything looks correct. Once you have glanced over the settings for the channel, click the finish button, and now your channel should be published and active in Onestart. You can verify this by going to the explore interface, and navigating to the “Administration” folder and looking for your channel.

Exercise #2 – maintaing a tab in a tabset

Under Publish, go to Edit a tabset, and click on the Training tabset

When you do this you are effectively becoming the training tabset user. Acting as this user we will be able to establish the content that we would want our users to see when they come to this tab.

Once you have become this user (should be able to tell as there will be a red header indicating you are modifying the published tab). Select the tab that has been named Team 8.

Now click on the small edit image located on the tab. This will bring up the personalization interface.

Choose a 3-column layout for your tab

Populate your tab with the channels created by all the teams in this class.

▪ Add channels created by teams 1, 2, and 3 in the leftmost narrow column.

▪ Add channels created by teams 4, 5 and 6 in the middle wide column.

▪ Add channels created by teams 7 and 8 in the rightmost narrow column.

Save your changes, view the tab, and then logout. And log back in. You should now see the tab that you set up in your available tabs in OneStart either through the all roles role or staff role.

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