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Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets

By : Jonas X. Yuan
Book Image

Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets

By: Jonas X. Yuan

Overview of this book

<p>Liferay Portal is the world's leading open-source portal platform built on Java and Web 2.0 technologies. Corporations use it to provide a unified web interface to data and tools scattered across many sources. <br />Liferay Portal uses the latest in Java, J2EE, and Web 2.0 technologies to deliver solutions for enterprises across both public and private sectors. Liferay Portal's flexibility allows it to be deployed in a number of different scenarios to meet key business needs. Some of the key business benefits are:</p> <ul> <li>A rich, friendly, intuitive, and collaborative end-user experience</li> <li>A single point of access to all information</li> <li>High adaptability to the demands of fast changing markets</li> <li>Highest value</li> <li>Lowest costs</li> </ul> <p>This book is a complete guide to building an intranet with Liferay (version 4.4)&mdash;assess your needs, install the software, start using it, deploy portlets, customize it per your requirements, and train users. The book focuses on leveraging the Liferay framework by configuring the XML files, without changing the underlying Java code. Each chapter gives practical guidance on how to install, use, and customize Liferay. There are many step-by-step examples for better understanding.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Working with Calendar


As an administrator at “Palm Tree Publications”, you need to satisfy the basic business requirements incorporated in a featured business intranet such as scheduling meetings, sending meeting invitations, checking for attendees’ availability and so on. Thus, you may need to provide an environment for Users to manage events, and share calendar at the PageCalendar” under the PageCommunity” of the Book Lovers community.

Adding Events

First of all, let’s add an Event, “Monday Meeting”, at the Book Lovers community as follows:

  1. Add a Page named “Calendar” under the Page, “Community”, of the Book Lovers community.

  2. Add the Calendar portlet in the Page, “Calendar”, of the Book Lovers Community where you want to manage Events and share Calendar, if Calendar portlet is not already present.

  3. Click on the Add Event button.

  4. Enter Title such as “Monday Meeting”, Description such as “First Meeting”, Start Date, Duration, Type such as “Meeting”, and so on.

  5. Set Permissions by clicking on...