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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

By : Piotr Filipowicz
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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

4.8 (4)
By: Piotr 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
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Index

Managing document types and metadata sets

As was mentioned in the previous recipe, each file, while provided with metadata, becomes a document. By default, each document consists of information, such as name, description, category, tags, permissions, or related assets. Very often, the basic set is not sufficient. In such cases, it may be necessary to create a new document type, which allows us to provide a file with specific additional information.

How to do it…

It this recipe, we will describe how to define different types of documents and teach how to compose and use metadata sets.

Creating a new document type using metadata sets

To add a new document type, perform these steps:

  1. Log in as an administrator and go to Admin | Site Administration | Content | Documents and Media.

  2. Click on the Manage button.

  3. Select the Document Types option.

  4. Click on the Add button.

  5. Enter the Name of the type of document.

  6. Enter a description of the type of document.

  7. Determine Metadata Fields, which will be available in...

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