May 2008 Archives

There's a new Channel available in the OneTech Portal. Institutional Research has recently asked me to create a channel with a link to the Argos Reporting Tool which is an online reporting tool to extract information from Banner. Any Faculty or Staff member can add this channel to OneTech, but you must contact Intuitional Research to gain access to the system.

To add the channel click 'Content/Layout' in the top left of screen. Select the tab you would like to put the channel on. Click an 'Add Channel' button where you would like to place the channel. Select 'Applications' in the drop down menu and click 'go'.  Select 'Argos Reporting Tool' in the next list and click 'Add Channel.' Then click 'Back to Welcome tab' in the top left.

The Arkansas Banner Users Group (ABUG) annual conference was today at the University of Central Arkansas. My wonderful counter part (your DBA) decided to volunteer us to present on something having to do with Luminis (OneTech). So after some discussion, we (collectively) decided to do a presentation on how we are going to handle the upcoming password policy within Luminis and Banner. So after 5 weeks of preparation and many, many, many hours of attempting to reverse engineer Luminis code attempting to find a solution, we presented on our topic today. Attached is the slide deck of our presentation "Password Issues with Luminis and Banner" or as our DBA likes to call it "Luminis, Banner, and Passwords, Oh My!"

*Edit* I've fixed the issue with the web server and have attached the correct file.

The Luminis Content Management System (LCMS) team announced the release of the upgrade version 3.3 on Monday, April 7, 2008. The LCMS team posted the following:

 

Luminis CMS 3.3 represents the second phase of our delivery on user experience, performance, and quality improvements. Better user experiences and better performance at both the client and server levels are included with this release. Luminis CMS 3.3 is also the most thoroughly tested of our releases to date - a product of our continuing commitment to incremental increases in testing rigor. Testing for Luminis CMS 3.3 also included early release activities with several clients, to whom we give special thanks.

 

What this means for you

1. Simplified site navigation creation, styling, and management
2. Easy changing of page layouts
3. Direct publishing for faster workflow review or live site updates
4. Improved in-context editing and user feedback
5. Multiple item selection
6. User choices around expired/expiring content display
7. Mac Safari 3 browser support
8. Performance improvements
9. Defect corrections

 

We have tentatively scheduled the upgrade to occur the weekend of May 16.