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Suffolk County Community College on Long Island in New York is looking for a consultant to migrate its current v5.2 portal from one hosted location to another. We cannot do a direct copy as the system architecture of the new location will require a reinstall of Luminis. The college has a significant amount of content in our current location and we are not sure how best to migrate from one location to another. We have asked Ellucian for help but have not received any significant response.

Suffolk County Community College, Long Island, NY, is looking for a Luminis Portal Developer. The incumbent will play a key role in the implementation and migration to Luminis V and in support for the development of student centered applications such as a Virtual Learning Commons (VLC). The College’s current portal is built on the Luminis IV.

For additional information please see:

http://www.sunysuffolk.edu/About/Employment.asp?id=467

I'm new to customizing stuff in Luminis so my knowledge of the inner working of Luminis IV is limited. Unfortunately, I'm more of an asp programmer that a jsp programmer so that doesn't help.

We are on 4.1.1.14. Plans are to move to V next year so we have been staying put at this version.

We've created a custom group display for one of our department and have a custom xml log file which writes a user log entry each time a student clicks on a link. We are using GTSession and GTUser methods to obtain user information for the log. Below are two examples