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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

About the Authors

Piotr Filipowicz is a Liferay architect and senior developer at eo Networks S.A., Poland. He is an expert in content management systems (CMS). Piotr currently holds the position of team leader in a group involved in developing Liferay-based software. His accomplishments in enhancing and creating various Liferay components are evident from his various successful implementations. His experience and knowledge are supported by certificates such as Liferay Portal Administrator, Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java Platform, and Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 platform. Piotr is also one of the founders of the www.liferay-guru.com blog, which contains a lot of information on Liferay and the CMS world.

Since 2002, he has created various kinds of IT systems, ranging from desktop applications to CMS applications, supporting large banking and financial systems. His main area of interest is web applications. Piotr uses Java and J2EE technologies on a daily basis, but he is open to learning other technologies and solutions. He holds a master's degree in software systems from Bialystok University of Technology, Poland.

I would like to thank my family for their patience and tolerance during all those hours that I spent in front of my laptop writing this book. Many thanks to my lovely wife, Eliza, for her patience and support towards her always busy husband. This book wouldn't have been possible without her help. I would also like to thank my parents and parents-in-law for their love, understanding, and encouragement.

Last but not least, I sincerely thank all my team members at work for the support and valuable information I got from them. Also, many thanks and appreciation to the entire Packt Publishing team and our reviewers, Giuseppe Urso, Pierpaolo Cira, and Zoltán Fiala, for their constructive criticism and help in enhancing my writing style. It was a great pleasure working with them.

Katarzyna Ziółkowska is employed at eo Networks S.A., Poland, as an IT analyst. She is designated as the head of the analysis section. Her work focuses on government websites and intranets, corporate business applications and websites. Katarzyna is a specialist in content management systems. She has been working with Liferay Portal since 2010 and has designed various products based on this technology using not only its default functionalities, but also expanding them and designing entirely new modules.

Since 2003, her main areas of interest revolved around business process modeling, managing business requirements, understanding user's needs, and designing usable systems. She is also one of the authors who writes on www.liferay-guru.com, where she shares her experience and knowledge on Liferay Portal CMS.

Katarzyna is certified in Prince 2 Foundation, Agile Project Management Foundation, and is a Professional Scrum Master. She is also a member of International Institute of Business Analysis. She holds a master's degree in arts in Russian philology from the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Applied Linguistics, Poland.

I would like to thank Krzyś for his unwavering support and understanding. I would also like to thank Szymon Gołębiewski; he is the reason my adventure with Liferay began.

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