Apereo Notification Portlet

This is a Sponsored Portlet in the uPortal project.

Configuration

Java Properties

Some configuration settings for the Notification portlet are managed in Java properties files that are loaded by a Spring PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer. (Other settings are data, managed in the "portlet publication record" a.k.a. portlet-definition.xml file; these are covered elsewhere in this doc.)

The properties files that are sourced by Spring are:

classpath:datasource.properties
classpath:configuration.properties
file:${portal.home}/global.properties
file:${portal.home}/notification.properties

For a definitive, comprehensive list of these settings you must look inside datasource.properties and configuration.properties. (This README may be incomplete and/or out of date.)

The `portal.home` Directory

uPortal version 5 uses a directory called portal.home for properties files that live outside of -- and have the ability to override properties files within-- the webapp in Tommcat. Please review the README file for uPortal-Start for more information on this sytem.

The Notification portlet sources the shared global.properties file, as well as it's own (private) file called notification.properties in the portal.home directory.

Using Encrypted Property Values

Within the properties files that are sourced by Spring, you may optionally provide sensitive configuration items -- such as database passwords -- in encrypted format. Use the Jasypt CLI Tools to encrypt the sensitive value, then include it in a .properties file like this:

hibernate.connection.password=ENC(9ffpQXJi/EPih9o+Xshm5g==)

Specify the encryption key using the UP_JASYPT_KEY environment variable.

Notification Web Components

This project provides UI components for Apereo uPortal that are modern Web Components. These components are intended to replace the previous generation of components for uPortal based on Java Portlets (see below).

The Web Components work differently from the earlier components. They do not interact with data sources through the Portlet API, but rather through a collection of REST APIs. Unlike portlets, configuration of data sources for the REST API is global: it applies equally to all components that work with them.

Data Sources for the Notifications REST API (Web Components)

The following data sources are available for use with the REST APIs and the Web Components that work with them. According to convention, the configuration for these APIs and data sources goes in a notification.properties file within portal.home.

ClassLoaderResourceNotificationService

This data source reads notifications from one or more files in the Java classpath in the standard Notification JSON format. Use the following property to specify the location(s) of JSON files in the classpath.

Example:

ClassLoaderResourceNotificationService.locations=demo/demoNotificationResponse.json,demo/demoNotificationResponse2.json

DemoNotificationService

The DemoNotificationService is a specialization of the ClassLoaderResourceNotificationService designed for demonstrations. Use the following property to specify the location(s) of JSON files in the classpath.

Example:

DemoNotificationService.locations=demo/demoNotificationResponse.json,demo/demoNotificationResponse2.json

RestfulJsonNotificationService

This data source reads notifications from one or more remote URLs in the standard Notification JSON format. Use the following property to specify the URLs to read.

RestfulJsonNotificationService.serviceUrls=https://my.university.edu/notifications

RomeNotificationService

This data source converts RSS into notifications. It reads from one or more feeds. Use the following property to specify feed URLs.

RomeNotificationService.feedUrls=https://my.university.edu/announcements/rss

Java Portlet-Based UI Components

As it's name implies, this project was originally developed as a collection of Java Portlet (JSR-286) technology user interface components. This project is evolving away from portlets -- and toward UI widgets based on Web Components -- but the portlet-based components are still available.

The following UI components in this project are portlet-based:

notification
notification-icon (though there is a replacement based on Web Components)
emergency-alert
emergency-alert-admin

The following subsections cover configuration of portlet-based UI components.

Publication Data

Besides Java properties, some configuration settings are managed as data in the Portlet Publication Record (the portlet-definition.xml file in uPortal). These settings are defined on a per- publication basis, so you can have several publications of the same portlet with each of them configured differently.

Filtering

You can filter the notices that come from data sources in the publication record. Use the following portlet preferences to exclude some notices from appearing in the display:

Portlet Preference	Possible Value(s)
FilteringNotificationServiceDecorator.minPriority	Number between 1 and 5
FilteringNotificationServiceDecorator.maxPriority	Number between 1 and 5
FilteringNotificationServiceDecorator.requiredRole	Either 'true' or 'false'; a value of 'true' enables role checking, but a notice must define an attribute named 'org.jasig.portlet.notice.service.filter.RequiredRoleNotificationFilter.requiredRole' to be subject to filtering.

Modal Notifications

The modal display strategy presents notices in a Bootstrap modal dialog. If the notice defines actions, they will be rendered as buttons at the bottom of the dialog; any button will dismiss the dialog, as well as invoke the spe,cified action server-side. Notices that do not define actions will offer a 'close' (x) option in the upper-right corner of the dialog.
This feature could be used for a Terms of Service pop-up that must be accepted before accessing the portal.

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