Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook : Over 60 Hands-on Recipes to Help You Efficiently Create Complex and Highly Personalized Enterprise Intranet Solutions with Liferay Portal 6.x CE

Cover 1 Copyright 3 Credits 4 About the Authors 5 About the Reviewers 7 www.PacktPub.com 9 Table of Contents 10 Preface 14 Chapter 1: Installation and Basic Configuration 20 Introduction 20 Quick running Liferay on a Tomcat bundle 22 The Liferay setup wizard and first login 27 Setting up the developer's environment 30 Creating a custom portlet 35 Chapter 2: Authentication and Registration Process 40 Introduction 40 Changing the default authentication settings 41 Setting e-mail notifications 45 Customizing the registration form 49 Overriding the default login page with the administrator defined page 52 Setting a password policy 53 Integration with CAS SSO 57 CAS and the Liferay user's database 62 Liferay and LDAP integration 66 The magic trio: Liferay, CAS, and LDAP 69 Chapter 3: Working with a Liferay User / User Group / Organization 76 Introduction 76 Managing an organization structure 77 Creating a new user group 83 Adding a new user 85 Assigning users to organizations 91 Assigning users to a user group 93 Exporting users 94 Chapter 4: Liferay Site Configuration 96 Introduction 96 Creating an organization and a standalone site 97 Site configuration 105 Creating and customizing private and public pages for the site 109 Using page templates and site templates for quick site and page creation 114 Enabling local live staging 118 Enabling remote live staging 120 Enabling page versioning 122 Chapter 5: Roles and Permissions 124 Introduction 124 Creating and configuring roles 125 Assigning user roles 129 Creating a role-dependent portlet 131 Checking permissions in a custom portlet 134 Chapter 6: Documents and Media in Liferay 138 Introduction 138 Managing files in Liferay using the Documents and Media portlet 139 Managing document types and metadata sets 149 Integration with the Amazon S3 cloud 152 Data migration between storage hooks 158 Chapter 7: Working with Content 160 Introduction 160 Managing and displaying web content 160 Creating a new structure 172 Creating a new template 176 Chapter 8: Search and Content Presentation Tools 182 Introduction 182 Tagging and categorizing content 183 Asset Publisher as a search-based tool for content presentation 190 Defining application display templates for Asset Publisher 194 Search portlet – basic configuration 196 Solr installation and configuration 199 Chapter 9: Liferay Workflow Capability 204 Introduction 204 The Kaleo Web Installation 205 The Single Approver workflow for the user creation process 207 The web content creation and the fork-join workflow 212 Kaleo conditions in a message board example 216 Kaleo timers 219 Chapter 10: Collaboration tools 222 Introduction 222 Setting up a blog for the intranet 223 Setting up a Wiki portlet 226 Setting up a forum for an intranet 229 Banning a user for an inappropriate post 233 Setting the calendar as a personal tasks management tool 235 Using bookmarks as good container to store favorite links 237 Tracking social activities of site members 240 Using the announcements portlet for group messaging 241 Chapter 11: Quick Tricks and Advanced Knowledge 248 Introduction 248 Language properties hook 249 Setting Portal session time and session policy 252 Configuring Liferay with the SMTP server 253 Intranet protection by the antisamy-hook plugin 255 Migrating content from one database to another database 257 Using Liferay Service Bus for communication between portlets 260 Clustering Liferay Portal 266 Chapter 12: Basic Performance Tuning 274 Introduction 274 Scalable infrastructure 275 Setting database access for the master/slave configuration 279 Enabling JS and CSS minification 282 Turning on the CDN host 284 Disabling unused Liferay features 285 JVM tuning 287 Index 290 Over 60 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently create complex and highly personalized enterprise intranet solutions with Liferay Portal 6.x CE About This Book Learn how to use Liferay Portal to create a fully functional intranet enterprise with a clear structure and database of all departments and employees of your company Save your time and money by taking control of your data, documents, and business processes Packed with step-by-step, real-world examples to help you with the installation, deployment, and configuration of Liferay and to help you run powerful tools for your employees or clients Who This Book Is For If you are a Java developer or administrator with a technical background and want to install and configure Liferay Portal as an enterprise intranet, this is the book for you. In short, reusable recipes help you realize business goals as working features in Liferay. This book will also give you useful hints on how to easily improve the default functionality of the system and its performance. What You Will Learn Build a corporate knowledge base for all employees in your organization Configure site and page templates for departments in your company Design and implement roles and permissions to fit your organization Define efficient business processes using XML representation Integrate with LDAP, CAS SSO, and Solr search engine Improve your portal with caching, clustering, indexing, searching, and more Use effective taxonomy and folksonomy to organize documents and articles In Detail Packed with easy-to-follow recipes, this practical guide will show you how to unleash the full power of the Liferay Portal. Starting with performing a basic installation and running Liferay, the book will take you all the way through to building intranet structures, managing users, setting permissions, defining workflows, and creating sites that will act as the main communication tool for employees in your company. Furthermore, many recipes will show ready-to-use solutions from real-world case studies. At the end of the book, we will show you how to optimize Liferay's performance and how to use its advanced built-in tools. After reading this book you will be ready to install, run, and use Liferay as a powerful intranet solution.

About This Book

• Understand core administrative tasks such as deployments, purging, startup and shutdown, configuration, and backup and recovery
• Manage, monitor, and troubleshoot SOA composites and OSB services
• Follow step-by-step instructions to easily and quickly install a highly available two-node cluster

Who This Book Is For

With topic areas ranging from simple to complex, this book is intended for novice, mid-level, and experienced administrators of the Oracle SOA Suite 12c platform as well as Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database administrators interested in diving into the product.

What You Will Learn

• Navigate Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control
• Monitor and manage the Oracle SOA Suite 12c infrastructure
• Deploy and promote code
• Monitor and manage services
• Configure and administer the environment
• Manage the dehydration store and enterprise scheduler service
• Troubleshoot Oracle SOA Suite 12c infrastructure
• Set up backups, recovery, and high availability

In Detail

Oracle SOA Suite 12c is the most comprehensive and integrated infrastructure in the market today that is used to build applications based on service-oriented architecture.

With the vast number of features and capabilities that Oracle SOA Suite 12c has to offer come numerous complexities and challenges for administration. Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administrator's Guide covers all the core areas of administration needed for you to effectively manage and monitor the Oracle SOA Suite environment and its transactions, from deployments, to monitoring, to performance tuning, and much, much more.

This book will help you to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot SOA composites and OSB services from a single product set. Understand core administrative activities such as deployments, purging, startup and shutdown, configuration, backup, and recovery. Also learn about new features such as Oracle Enterprise Scheduler, lazy loading, work manager groups, high availability, and more.

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionWhat you will learnBuild a corporate knowledge base for all employees in your organizationConfigure site and page templates for departments in your companyDesign and implement roles and permissions to fit your organizationDefine efficient business processes using XML representationIntegrate with LDAP, CAS SSO, and Solr search engineImprove your portal with caching, clustering, indexing, searching, and moreUse effective taxonomy and folksonomy to organize documents and articlesWho this book is forIf you are a Java developer or administrator with a technical background and want to install and configure Liferay Portal as an enterprise intranet, this is the book for you. In short, reusable recipes help you realize business goals as working features in Liferay. This book will also give you useful hints on how to easily improve the default functionality of the system and its performance.