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Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development

By : Jonas X. Yuan
Book Image

Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development

By: Jonas X. Yuan

Overview of this book

<p>Liferay portal is one of the most mature portal frameworks in the market, offering many key business benefits that involve personalization, customization, and workflow. If you are a Java developer who wants to build custom web sites and intranet applications using Liferay portal, this is where your search ends.<br /><br />This book shows how Java developers can use Liferay as a framework to develop custom intranet systems, based on Liferay portal platform thus helping you to maximize your productivity gains. Get ready for a rich, friendly, intuitive and collaborative end-user experience!<br /><br />The author's experience customizing Liferay using Java enables him to explain in a clear and precise manner how to build custom systems on top of Liferay portal. <br /><br />Using this book you can customize Liferay into a single point of access to all an organization's data, content, web content, and other information from both existing in-house applications (HR, CRM) and external sources (such as Alfresco, FatWire, Magnolia, Vignette).</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development
Credits
About the author
Acknowledgement
About the reviewer
Preface

Setting up the most popular journal articles


In a web site, we will have a lot of journal articles (that is, web content) for a given article type. For example, for the article type Article Content, we will have articles talking about product family. We may want to know how many times the end users read each article. Meanwhile, it would be nice if we could show the most popular articles (for example, TOP 10 articles) for this given article type.

As shown in the following screenshot, a journal article My EDI Product I is shown via a portlet Ext Web Content Display. Rating and comments on this article are also exhibited. At the same time, the medium-size image, polls, and related content of this article are listed, too. A view counter of this article is especially displayed under the ratings. Moreover, the most popular articles are exhibited with article title and number of views under related content. All these articles belong to the article type article-content. That is, the article in the...