Re: Make JForum Portlet site aware

Hello Wilhelm,

>we are using Jahia's JForum portlet in our portal, and
>are quite happy

Since your company is based on a german speaking country I wonder 
if you could solve the UTF-8 (or better the umlaut) problem with 
the JForum Portlet. If you aren't using hsqldb I would be highly 
interested in how you fixed/tweaked the Portlet to not create 
garbage.

Cheers
Daniel Zimmermann


On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:59:37 -0700 [email protected] wrote:
>Hi devlist folks!
>
>currently we are using Jahia's JForum portlet in our portal, and 
>are quite
>happy. Now we want to extend our portal solution that it supports 
>more than
>one site, on a single platform. For this reason we also want the
>JForum-Portlet to be "site-aware" - i.e. on each site an 
>administrator can
>instantiate and configure a forum for it's own. E.g. If company A 
>on site A
>instantiates a forum it should not see or disturb forum content of 
>company
>B on site B, and vice versa.
>
>I have thought about of adding a site_key field to each relevant 
>JFORUM
>TABLE, and passing somehow the current site_key to the JForum 
>DAO's, so
>that it can be considered within the queries. This solution has 
>drawbacks,
>because I have to change the DB-schema and make also many changes 
>in the
>JForum Source Code. Another problem are the caches, that JForum 
>uses, I
>think in a "site-aware" solution I have to disable them, which 
>surely will
>decrease perormance ..... Doing all this it will also make it 
>difficult to
>switch to a newer version of JForum portlet, if one will come...
>
>So my question is, if anyone has a better advice, for 
>accomplishing this
>task.... ?
>
>Or is there maybe another Portlet or template that fits more 
>better for
>"site-awareness" .....?
>
>____
>kind regards
>Wilhelm Berger