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Wednesday, October 8th, 8:00 am
VCCCD Luminis Implementation
Rupinder Kaur, Mike Rose, Bill Pearce
Ventura County CCD
VCCCD Luminis Implementation
Presented on behalf of….
ConfigMan and the
Immutables!
VCCCD Luminis Implementation
Topics of discussion:
• Project Overview (Bill)
• Implementation Details (Mike, Rupinder)
– Logon Wizard
– Single sign-ons
– Skin Template Customization
– Hot Javascript Techniques
– Alert emails
– Omni-Update interface
– Banner INB and SSB channel creation and
deployment
– Training
Project Overview
Goals of Implementation:
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Do no Harm!
Replace functionality of EmployeeCentral
Provide for a seamless transition
Clean up data and procedures
– Banner User ID
– GOAEACC (SPRIDEN_ID and Oracle ID)
– GOAEMAL
– Third-party ID
– HR Procedures
• Two phases – faculty/staff (August), students (Spring
2009)
Project Overview
Schedule:
• Demos mid-2007
• Contracts negotiated Summer/Fall 2007
– Luminis Basic
– ADAP/SAF
– Gmail interface
– SLC Training and CBT
• Standard Sungard Implementation Schedule
– Tech Assessment, Planning, Installation
– OIG, Content Planning, Organizational Planning
– Data Integration Consulting
– ADAP/SAF Installation
Project Overview
Some highlights…and lowlights:
• Tech assessment
– Late discovery that we were a district of 3 colleges –
added in load balancer, 8 portal servers
– Discovered we were behind on Student release
• Tech Planning Workshop
– Prelim agenda said 3 days on-site
– Notified the week before that it was a 2-hour
conference call
– Should have been 3 days on-site
• College and district participation, aka herding cats
• Reserved words – Policy, District Office
Project Overview
Some highlights…and lowlights:
• Separate content planning sessions – colleges, and
district office
– Colleges had their ideas for a layout
– DAC wasn’t real happy
– Compromise was reached on layout based on roles
• Names
– Marketing, PIOs decided on C3
– Initially called MyWebstar – 99.99% sure it was ok
– Of course, the .01% rule held
– Now called MyVCCCD
• Blackboard Vista issues
– Has to be same logon as Luminis (not ID number)
– CRN/Term was reversed for sections
Project Overview
Installations:
• First install in UPGR (Sungard)
– 4 days on site – teaching/learning experience
– Followup to resolve problems over the next two
weeks
• Subsequent Installs (Colby, VCCCD staff)
– Complete test install – 3 days
– PROD install - .5 days
– Sungard certification
• PROD re-install (MyVCCCD)
– Wanted a clean install – including load-balancer
– 3 days – issues with LB, Vanity URLs
– Channel reinstall–3 days (.5 day work, 2.5 days, um..)
• Biggest task was the Luminis patches.
Project Overview
Logons/Passwords:
• Luminis is the authoritative source
• Third-party ID
– Increased to 20 characters (could be 30, but for AD)
– First_lastnnn for Students, flastnnn for employees
• Initial password
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PIN at time of user load to Luminis – problem if changed
PIN in Banner was upper-case, not case-sensitive in SSB
AD was passSSSS (last 4 of SSN)
Implemented GOBTPAC trigger – ssSSSS, pre-pend “pa”
• Luminis/AD/Oracle rules – Luminis was LCD
• Logins from public websites (MC, OC, VC)
• Immutable ID/Workflow
– Workflow needs immutable ID for external authentication
– Changed to use TP ID – no change in WF (already Banner)
– Auto-populate Workflow users at some point
Project Overview
Portal layout:
• Scoped Roles
– Employee
– Employee@LOC (DC, MC, OC, VC)
– Faculty
– Faculty@LOC
• Tab Default Order
– Hidden Emergency Tab
– My College
– Faculty Resources
– Work Life
– Employee Resources
– Banner Testing
– My Tab
Project Overview
Slick Stuff Mike and Rupinder will show:
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Priority Alerts – Lotus DB Email
Content Management – Omni Update
Shortcuts to Webstar (SSB) menus
Backoffice bolt-on
Report Viewer bolt-on
Links to other databases (non-SSO) and for
secondary users (i.e., BANSECR) in PROD
• Pull downs for Employee Benefits, Application
Downloads
• Workflow
• Training and Documentation
Portal Features
Portal Feature
Announcements
Content Management
Shortcuts to SSB
Reportviewer bolt-on
BackOffice bolt-on
Banner Non SSO links
Created using Channel
Lotus DB/Email Priority Alerts
Omni Update
Quicklinks etc
My Applications-WebStar
'Lumlinks'
Shortcuts
My Applications'Lumlinks'
Reportviewer SSO
My Applications'Lumlinks'
Backoffice SSO
Omni Update
Banner Testing tab
Announcements Channel
-Known as Priority alerts
-Use email to populate the Priority alerts channel
-Have a specific email address to target each college location
-Expiration date defaults to 7 days from posting
-Message of email becomes the text of announcement
-Selected individuals have permission to send
-Can send attachments
As easy as 1-2-3
1. Email your announcement
Announcements Channel
2. Receive confirmation
Email
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Priority Alerts Channel is populated!
Content Management
-Use OmniUpdate instead of Luminis built-in editor
-College website uses this for content building
-Staff already knew how to use this-no need to learn a new
web editor-Minimal training needed for uploading content.
-More flexibility in design of the channels
-Placed direct edit links (as icons) in the ‘OmniUpdate’
channels to the OmniUpdate software.
Show-Employee Quicklinks channel
Shortcuts to WebStar (SSB) menus
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Needed all ‘Application’ links in one place in the portal
Luminis built in channels did not work for us
Did not retain their settings-Expand/Collapse menus
Needed ‘targeted’ links-to go to a specific location in
Webstar
- Created separate ‘deep links’ to Webstar menus
- Rendered ‘in-frame’
- Controlled by user ‘roles’.
Demo-Personal Information link
SSO to Report viewer and BackOffice
- Needed links to Webstar bolt ons
- Placed SSO links along with other application links
- Controlled by user roles. E.g. Backoffice only appears for the
backoffice ‘role’
Demo-Reportviewer link
Links to Other Databases
- Created Banner Testing tab to house all links to non_PROD
Databases for Banner, Webstar etc.
- Also created a subscribable non-SSO PROD channel for
secondary users (e.g. to log in as BANSECR)
Demo-Banner Testing Tab and PROD channel
SSB Account Creation Wizard
• Initial login complicated/confusing
– Rolled out MS Active Directory, Outlook &
Luminis at the same time
– Luminis ADAP & SAF
– Multi-College District (AD at different stages)
• Advertising/Visibility – Get the word out
– Employee Flex Day Workshops
– All Faculty use SSB
SSB Account Creation Wizard
Live Demo
Custom GCF SSO
Built GCF SSO to:
• Lotus Notes
• Intranet
• MS Outlook Web Access
– Problems with delivered MOWA GCF and OWA 2007
• Logout of OWA also ends luminis session
• Always uses OWA “Light”
– Solution: Use GCF Template from clayton.edu
• lumdev.net/node/2081
• GCF PD Issue:
– es.mowa.configURL=http://localhost:8008/cpipconnector/mowa/GetConfigVersion2
Template Modification
Custom Skins (deployskintemplate)
Problems:
• In PD, Must be Repeated on Each Portal
Server
• Requires Server Restart to Take Effect
Template Modification
Solution:
• Store CSS and JS files in shared directory
$CP_SHARED/site/vcccd/
• Small Hack to custom.xsl
Template Modification
Benefits:
• Improve Style &
Formatting
• Animations & AJAX
Gotchas:
• Possible
Performance Hit
“LumLinks”
Easy Way to:
• Open Any Channel Full-Frame
• Open Any URL Within Luminis Frame
• Open CPIP/GCF SSO Pages
Benefits:
• Links Work in Any Channel Type
• Easy to Port Content Between PROD/TEST
• Features Can be Combine
“LumLinks”
Example (SSB SSO In-Frame):
• Normal Link:
<a href="http://lumupgr.vcccd.edu/cp/tag.idempotent.render.userLayoutRootNode.uP?
uP_tparam=utf&utf=/cp/ip/login%3Fsys%3Dsctssb%26url%3Dhttps%3A//webstar01.vccc
d.edu%3A7781/UPGR/ twbkwbis.P_GenMenu%3Fname%3Dbmenu.P_GenMnu" >
Personal Information</a>
• LumLink:
<a lumlink="lgheader" cpipsys="sctssb“
href="twbkwbis.P_GenMenu?name=bmenu.P_GenMnu">
Personal Information</a>
• Live Demo
Other Customizing
• Custom Icons (Role Based)
– Luminis User Interface Customization Guide
– Watch out for upgrades!
• Bookmark Channel Default Links
– Bookmarks Plus Table: upc_bookmarks
– Bookmarks Table: upc_bookmarks_ng