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Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets

By : Jonas X. Yuan
Book Image

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

Working with Mail Portlet


In order to let employees manage their emails, we can use the Liferay Mail portlet. As an administrator of “Palm Tree Publications”, you need to create a Page called “Mail” under the Page, “Community” at the Book Lovers Community Public Pages and also add the Mail portlet in the Page, “Mail”.

Experiencing Mail Management

First of all, login as “Palm Tree”. Then, let’s do the above as follows:

  1. Add a Page called “Mail” under the Page “Community” at the Book Lovers Community Public Pages, if the Page is not already present.

  2. If the Mail portlet is not already present, add it in the Page, “Mail” of the Book Lovers Community where you want to manage mails. You will see the Mail portlet as shown in the following figure.

Note

Let’s assume that we set up the mail domain as “cignex.com” in the Enterprise Admin portlet for testing purposes, as we have a mail engine with this mail domain already. Of course, you could set up the mail domain as “book.com”, or something else, if you...