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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook
May, 2015 | 300 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook
Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Installation and Basic Configuration
Installation and Basic Configuration
Introduction
Quick running Liferay on a Tomcat bundle
The Liferay setup wizard and first login
Setting up the developer's environment
Creating a custom portlet
2
Authentication and Registration Process
Authentication and Registration Process
Introduction
Changing the default authentication settings
Setting up e-mail notifications
Customizing the registration form
Overriding the default login page with the administrator defined page
Setting up a password policy
Integration with CAS SSO
CAS and the Liferay user's database
Liferay and the LDAP integration
The magic trio: Liferay, CAS, and LDAP
3
Working with a Liferay User / User Group / Organization
Working with a Liferay User / User Group / Organization
Introduction
Managing an organization structure
Creating a new user group
Adding a new user
Assigning users to organizations
Assigning users to a user group
Exporting users
4
Liferay Site Configuration
Liferay Site Configuration
Introduction
Creating an organization and a standalone site
Site configuration
Creating and customizing private and public pages for the site
Using page templates and site templates for quick site and page creation
Enabling local live staging
Enabling remote live staging
Enabling page versioning
5
Roles and Permissions
Roles and Permissions
Introduction
Creating and configuring roles
Assigning user roles
Creating a role-dependent portlet
Checking permissions in a custom portlet
6
Documents and Media in Liferay
Documents and Media in Liferay
Introduction
Managing files in Liferay using the Documents and Media portlet
Managing document types and metadata sets
Integration with the Amazon S3 cloud
Data migration between storage hooks
7
Working with Content
Working with Content
Introduction
Managing and displaying web contents
Creating a new structure
Creating a new template
8
Search and Content Presentation Tools
Search and Content Presentation Tools
Introduction
Tagging and categorizing content
Asset Publisher as a search-based tool for content presentation
Defining application display templates for Asset Publisher
Search portlet – basic configuration
Solr installation and configuration
9
Liferay Workflow Capability
Liferay Workflow Capability
Introduction
The Kaleo Web Installation
The Single Approver workflow for the user creation process
The web content creation and the fork-join workflow
Kaleo conditions in a message board example
Kaleo timers
10
Collaboration Tools
Collaboration Tools
Introduction
Setting up a blog for the intranet
Setting up a wiki portlet
Setting up a forum for an intranet
Banning a user for an inappropriate post
Setting up the calendar as a personal tasks management tool
Using bookmarks as good container to store favorite links
Tracking social activities of site members
Using the announcements portlet for group messaging
11
Quick Tricks and Advanced Knowledge
Quick Tricks and Advanced Knowledge
Introduction
The language properties hook
Setting up the portal session time and session policy
Configuring Liferay with the SMTP server
Intranet protection by the antisamy-hook plugin
Migrating content from one database to another database
Using Liferay Service Bus for communication between portlets
Clustering Liferay Portal
12
Basic Performance Tuning
Basic Performance Tuning
Introduction
Scalable infrastructure
Setting up database access for the master/slave configuration
Enabling JS and CSS minification
Turning on the CDN host
Disabling unused Liferay features
JVM tuning
Index
Index

Chapter 2. Authentication and Registration Process

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Changing the default authentication settings

  • Setting up e-mail notifications

  • Customizing the registration form

  • Overriding the default login page with the administrator-defined page

  • Setting up a password policy

  • Integration with CAS SSO

  • CAS and Liferay users' database

  • Liferay and the LDAP integration

  • The magic trio: Liferay, CAS, and LDAP

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