In the intranet website bookpub.com of the enterprise Palm Tree Publications, it would be nice to provide an environment for employees to discuss book ideas and proposals. It would also be nice to share important and interesting content with other users inside or outside of the intranet website, content tagging, and publishing. The Message Boards portlet (also called discussion forums) provides a full-featured discussion forums solution. Tags and taxonomies provide a way of organizing and aggregating content. The Asset Publisher portlet allows us to publish any type of content, including Message Boards messages as if it were web content—filtering either through a set of publishing rules dynamically or by manual selections.

In the preceding chapters, we revealed the page and group boxes in the portal-group-page-content pattern. In this chapter, we're going to open the content box and first introduce you to the item "Message Boards" in...