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Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets

By : Jonas X. Yuan
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Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets

By: Jonas X. Yuan

Overview of this book

<p>Liferay Portal is the world's leading open-source portal platform built on Java and Web 2.0 technologies. Corporations use it to provide a unified web interface to data and tools scattered across many sources. <br />Liferay Portal uses the latest in Java, J2EE, and Web 2.0 technologies to deliver solutions for enterprises across both public and private sectors. Liferay Portal's flexibility allows it to be deployed in a number of different scenarios to meet key business needs. Some of the key business benefits are:</p> <ul> <li>A rich, friendly, intuitive, and collaborative end-user experience</li> <li>A single point of access to all information</li> <li>High adaptability to the demands of fast changing markets</li> <li>Highest value</li> <li>Lowest costs</li> </ul> <p>This book is a complete guide to building an intranet with Liferay (version 4.4)&mdash;assess your needs, install the software, start using it, deploy portlets, customize it per your requirements, and train users. The book focuses on leveraging the Liferay framework by configuring the XML files, without changing the underlying Java code. Each chapter gives practical guidance on how to install, use, and customize Liferay. There are many step-by-step examples for better understanding.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Adding And Managing Articles


Finally, we are ready to create an article based on the above Images and Documents. For example, we need to create an article called “About us” with Texts, Images and Links to Documents as shown in the following figure (named as Original Required View). Obviously, Liferay Journal would be very useful for this purpose.

Thus, as an administrator of the enterprise “Palm Tree Publications”, you need to create a Page called “Articles”, under the PageAdmin” at the Book Lovers Community and moreover, add the Journal portlet in the page, “Articles” first. Let’s build this article.

Adding A Structure

First of all, we need to create a structure for the above article. A Structure, named “Structure About us”, defines the dynamic parts of the article “About us”. Let us create the Structure as follows:

  1. Add a page named “Articles” under the PageAdmin” of the Book Lovers community.

  2. Add the Journal portlet in the Page,Articles”, of the Book Lovers Community.

  3. Click the Structures...