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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

By : Filipowicz
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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

4.8 (4)
By: Filipowicz
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Overview of this book

If you are a Java developer or administrator with a technical background and want to install and configure Liferay Portal as an enterprise intranet, this is the book for you. In short, reusable recipes help you realize business goals as working features in Liferay. This book will also give you useful hints on how to easily improve the default functionality of the system and its performance.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Sections
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Installation and Basic Configuration
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1. Installation and Basic Configuration
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Introduction
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Quick running Liferay on a Tomcat bundle
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The Liferay setup wizard and first login
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Setting up the developer's environment
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Creating a custom portlet
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2. Authentication and Registration Process
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2. Authentication and Registration Process
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Introduction
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Changing the default authentication settings
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Setting up e-mail notifications
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Customizing the registration form
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Overriding the default login page with the administrator defined page
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Setting up a password policy
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Integration with CAS SSO
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CAS and the Liferay user's database
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Liferay and the LDAP integration
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The magic trio: Liferay, CAS, and LDAP
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3. Working with a Liferay User / User Group / Organization
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3. Working with a Liferay User / User Group / Organization
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Introduction
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Managing an organization structure
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Creating a new user group
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Adding a new user
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Assigning users to organizations
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Assigning users to a user group
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Exporting users
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4. Liferay Site Configuration
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4. Liferay Site Configuration
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Introduction
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Creating an organization and a standalone site
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Site configuration
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Creating and customizing private and public pages for the site
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Using page templates and site templates for quick site and page creation
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Enabling local live staging
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Enabling remote live staging
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Enabling page versioning
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5. Roles and Permissions
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5. Roles and Permissions
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Introduction
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Creating and configuring roles
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Assigning user roles
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Creating a role-dependent portlet
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Checking permissions in a custom portlet
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6. Documents and Media in Liferay
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6. Documents and Media in Liferay
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Introduction
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Managing files in Liferay using the Documents and Media portlet
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Managing document types and metadata sets
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Integration with the Amazon S3 cloud
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Data migration between storage hooks
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7. Working with Content
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7. Working with Content
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Introduction
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Managing and displaying web contents
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Creating a new structure
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Creating a new template
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8. Search and Content Presentation Tools
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8. Search and Content Presentation Tools
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Introduction
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Tagging and categorizing content
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Asset Publisher as a search-based tool for content presentation
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Defining application display templates for Asset Publisher
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Search portlet – basic configuration
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Solr installation and configuration
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9. Liferay Workflow Capability
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9. Liferay Workflow Capability
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Introduction
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The Kaleo Web Installation
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The Single Approver workflow for the user creation process
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The web content creation and the fork-join workflow
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Kaleo conditions in a message board example
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Kaleo timers
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10. Collaboration Tools
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10. Collaboration Tools
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Introduction
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Setting up a blog for the intranet
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Setting up a wiki portlet
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Setting up a forum for an intranet
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Banning a user for an inappropriate post
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Setting up the calendar as a personal tasks management tool
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Using bookmarks as good container to store favorite links
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Tracking social activities of site members
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Using the announcements portlet for group messaging
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11. Quick Tricks and Advanced Knowledge
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11. Quick Tricks and Advanced Knowledge
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Introduction
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The language properties hook
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Setting up the portal session time and session policy
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Configuring Liferay with the SMTP server
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Intranet protection by the antisamy-hook plugin
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Migrating content from one database to another database
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Using Liferay Service Bus for communication between portlets
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Clustering Liferay Portal
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12. Basic Performance Tuning
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12. Basic Performance Tuning
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Introduction
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Scalable infrastructure
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Setting up database access for the master/slave configuration
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Enabling JS and CSS minification
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Turning on the CDN host
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Disabling unused Liferay features
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JVM tuning
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Index

Creating a new user group

Sometimes, in addition to the hierarchy, within the company, there are other groups of people linked by common interests or occupations, such as people working on a specific project, people occupying the same post, and so on. Such groups in Liferay are represented by user groups. This functionality is similar to the LDAP users group where it is possible to set group permissions. One user can be assigned into many user groups.

How to do it…

In order to create a new user group, follow these steps:

  1. Log in as an administrator and go to Admin | Control panel | Users | User Groups.
  2. Click on the Add button.
  3. Provide Name (required) and Description of the user group.
  4. Leave the default values in the User Group Site section.
    How to do it…
  5. Click on the Save button.

How it works…

The user groups functionality allows us to create a collection of users and provide them with a public and/or private site, which contain a bunch of tools for collaboration. Unlike the organization, the user...

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