Book description
A practical guide to adopting portal development best practices in an Enterprise world
About This Book
- Discover the new features and updates in Liferay including the concept of CMS, and collaboration applications with relevant examples and screenshots
- Set up the navigation structure for the Enterprise intranet
- Full of illustrations, diagrams, clear step-by-step instructions, and practical examples to show you the integration between different applications such as LDAP, SSO, and Liferay Social Office
Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone who is interested in the Liferay Intranet Portal. This book is for both beginners and more experienced portal developers who need to create an enterprise intranet portal for their business. It will be handy for IT professionals who know the basics of how the portal technology works and need to integrate different open source technologies.
What You Will Learn
- Be introduced to the all new features of Liferay 6.2
- Understand the different controls/actions to make the portal work for an Enterprise
- Manage users, organizations, sites, user groups, and roles and also set up portal permissions
- Set up a forum and get detailed descriptions of categorization, tagging, and Asset Publisher
- Enable Wiki to share knowledge among users and create new dynamic data list and poll portlets
- Handle federated search and OpenSearch and deploy search-based portlets
- Implement web content management with a different approach in the portal
- Employ community tools such as invitations, bookmarks, page comments, and page ratings
- Manage Liferay's document and media portlet
In Detail
To develop an intranet portal for an Enterprise, Liferay is the only open-source portal development platform that has a high scale graph for the developer to extend any component. It provides high end integration with other applications. By using this book, both beginners and more experienced users will be able to create an intranet portal easily.
This book will be your pocket reference to Liferay. It will explain to you the new features of Liferay, including Liferay Sync and the Recycle Bin. It will help you to integrate with other key applications such as LDAP, SSO, and Alfresco 4.x and above. You will be introduced to documents, web content, and image management. You will move onto Liferay Sync's new tool to synchronize documents and media files to the local system. You'll discover the Market Place, the newest feature of Liferay. Liferay Social Office and its integrations are also thoroughly explained.
This book is packed with practical examples that will help you to develop an intranet portal quickly and easily.
Style and approach
Clear step-by-step instructions to develop an intranet portal for Enterprise. It describes new features and updates in Liferay with clear explanations, and is complete with images, tips, and tricks.
Table of contents
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Liferay Portal 6.2 Enterprise Intranets
- Table of Contents
- Liferay Portal 6.2 Enterprise Intranets
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. Introducing Liferay for Your Intranet
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Liferay Portal makes life easy
- Hosted discussions
- Collaborative documents using wikis
- Team and individual blogs
- Shared calendars
- Document management – CMS
- Web content management – WCM
- Personalization and internalization
- Workflow, staging, scheduling, and publishing
- Social networks and Social Office
- Liferay Sync and Marketplace
- More features
- Everything in one place
- Introducing Palm Tree Publications
- Introducing Liferay Portal's architecture and framework
- Service-oriented architecture
- Summary
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Liferay Portal makes life easy
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2. Setting Up a Home Page and Navigation Structure for the Intranet
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Experiencing the portal
- Getting portal pages
- The working of the portal
- Experiencing portlets
- Using the portlet container
- The life cycle of a portlet
- Terminologies, scope, and hierarchy within the portal
- Setting up the portal
- Setting up production servers
- Setting up domains
- Shortening the URL
- More options for portal installation
- A flexible deployment matrix
- Building the Palm Tree Publications site
- Setting up portal pages
- Customizing portlets
- Navigating the structure of an intranet site
- Bringing pages together in action
- Sharing portlets within a portal page
- Configuring Control Panel
- Summary
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Experiencing the portal
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3. Bringing in Users
- Enterprise, departments, and locations
- Organizations
- User groups
- Users
- Sites
- Authentications
- Roles
- Authorization
- Configuration of portal navigation
- Summary
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4. Forums, Categorization, and Asset Publishing
- Message Boards
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Customizing Message Boards
- Setting up
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Assigning permissions
- Site Administration | Content | Message Board | Messages
- Site Administration | Content | Message Boards Category
- Site Administration | Content | Message Boards Messages
- Site Administration | Content | Message Boards Thread
- Site Administration | Content | Message Boards General Permissions
- Site Administration | Application | Message Board | Application Permissions
- Using Message Boards effectively
- Categorization and tags
- Asset Publisher
- Summary
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5. Understanding Wikis, Dynamic Data Lists, and Polls
- Understanding Wikis
- Converting documents with OpenOffice
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Dynamic Data List
- Creating new Dynamic Data List
- Adding a new record
- Viewing data in Dynamic Data List
- Editing the data
- Dynamic Data List Display
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Assigning permissions
- Site Administration | Content | Dynamic Data List | Lists
- Site Administration | Content | Dynamic Data List | Dynamic Data Lists Record Set
- Site Administration | Content | Dynamic Data List | General Permissions
- Site Administration | Applications | Dynamic Data List Display | Application Permissions
- Understanding Polls
- Summary
- 6. Blogs, WYSIWYG Editors, and Social Networking
- 7. Understanding Sites
- 8. Document and Media Management
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9. Web Content Management
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Web Content
- Managing Web Content
- The Web Content Display portlet
- The Web Content Search portlet
- Scheduling Web Content
- Staging page publication
- A workflow for Web Content
- Summary
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Web Content
- 10. Marketplace, Social Office, and Audience Targeting
- 11. Server Administration
- Index
Product information
- Title: Liferay Portal 6.2 Enterprise Intranets
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2015
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782162841
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