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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

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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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. 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

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

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

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

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

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

Introduction

Managing and displaying web contents

Creating a new structure

Creating a new template

8. 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

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

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

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

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

Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

By : Filipowicz

Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

By: Filipowicz

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