The Ektron Portal Framework: Building your own Widgets

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The Ektron Portal Framework Building your own
Widgets

• Eric Darbe, Product Marketing Manager
• Alpesh Patel, Platform Engineering Manager

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Summary of presentation

• Agenda
• What is a Portal?
• More than just moving stuff around on the page
• Technical Overview
• Building your own widgets on the Ektron Portal
  Framework
• Modifying existing widgets
• Creating your own widgets
• The Future of the Framework
• Ektron Template Builder
• Q A

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What is a portal?

• According to Gartner, an enterprise portal has
  to
• Aggregate content
• Integrate Applications
• Expose Processes

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The Ektron Portal Framework More than moving
stuff around on the page.

• Make your site their site
• Create a more interactive, engaging experience
• Grow your user base and increase Web site
  stickiness
• Deploy Digital Dashboards
• Manage common tasks through one centralized
  interface
• Integration with external systems (i.e. ERP,
  CRM, etc)
• Development Platform
• Integration framework for developers
• Build widgets, applets and feeds

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Technical overview

• Ektron Portal Framework
• What is it?
• Why did we need to build it?
• Total markup control
• AJAX
• Simplify widget creation
• Show sample
• How did we build it?
• Used Ektron JavaScript Library AJAX
• Implemented using MVC pattern
• Event Modeling
• Create
• Edit
• Close
• Minimize
• Maximize

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Demo

• Modifying existing widgets
• The text box control
• Building a .NET User Control as Widget
• US postal service zip code look up

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The future of the Ektron Portal Framework

• Near term
• Template builder
• Management control over employee display
• Permissions on widgets
• Anonymous personalization
• Longer Term
• Analytics driven portals
• Suggested personalization

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Questions

• QA