Adding portlet category support?

["Setera, Craig" <Cr...@Kingland.com>]

I'm still learning my way around the Jetspeed code, so pardon me if this is
a silly question.

I can foresee that with content feeds and various other portlets, our users
are going to quickly become overwhelmed by the amount of available content
that can be added to their portal.  What would be very nice would be a way
to associate a "category" with each portlet or content stream.  The
customizer could use that information to present a view to the user such
that they can distinguish different types of portlets.  For instance,
portlets from "moveover" could be distinguished from "internal" news feeds.

How difficult would something like this be to add?  I'm certain that I will
not be able to add this at this stage, but could consider adding the support
as I learn more about the code.  Is this perhaps something already being
worked on?

Thanks,
Craig

Craig Setera
Sun Certified Java Programmer/Developer/Web Component Developer
Senior Software Architect, Kingland Systems Corporation
craig.setera@kingland.com  (507) 536-3605


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RE: Adding portlet category support?

[David Sean Taylor <da...@bluesunrise.com>]

We should consider this in the next iteration.
The Portlet API doesn't cover this subject. Have you seen the proposal?
The javadocs are in the cvs under
\proposals\portletAPI\javadoc\api\index.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Setera, Craig [mailto:Craig.Setera@Kingland.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 7:10 AM
> To: 'Jetspeed Developers List'
> Subject: Adding portlet category support?
>
>
> I'm still learning my way around the Jetspeed code, so pardon
> me if this is
> a silly question.
>
> I can foresee that with content feeds and various other
> portlets, our users
> are going to quickly become overwhelmed by the amount of
> available content
> that can be added to their portal.  What would be very nice
> would be a way
> to associate a "category" with each portlet or content stream.  The
> customizer could use that information to present a view to
> the user such
> that they can distinguish different types of portlets.  For instance,
> portlets from "moveover" could be distinguished from
> "internal" news feeds.
>
> How difficult would something like this be to add?  I'm
> certain that I will
> not be able to add this at this stage, but could consider
> adding the support
> as I learn more about the code.  Is this perhaps something
> already being
> worked on?
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
> Craig Setera
> Sun Certified Java Programmer/Developer/Web Component Developer
> Senior Software Architect, Kingland Systems Corporation
> craig.setera@kingland.com  (507) 536-3605
>
>
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