Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Intranets -- Table of Contents -- Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Intranets -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Questions -- 1. Introducing Liferay for your Intranet -- What are we going to build? -- Hosted discussions -- Collaborative documents using wikis -- Team and individual blogs -- Shared calendars -- Document stores-CMS -- Web Content Management-WCM -- Personalization and internalization -- Workflow, staging, scheduling, and publishing -- Social network and Social Office -- And more... -- Everything in one place -- Introducing Palm Tree Publications -- Liferay portal framework -- Service Oriented Architecture -- Enterprise Service Bus -- Why use Liferay to build an intranet? -- It has got the features we need -- It's easy to set up and use -- It's free and open source -- It will grow with you -- It works with other tools -- It is based on "standards" -- What else can Liferay do? -- Corporate extranets -- Collaborative websites -- Content management and web publishing -- Infrastructure portals -- Finding more information -- Summary -- 2. Setting Up a Home Page and Navigation Structure for the Intranet -- Experiencing the portal -- Getting portal pages -- What's happening? -- Experiencing portlets -- Using the portlet container -- How does the portal work? -- Working of portlets -- Portlet lifecycle -- Terminologies, scope, and hierarchy -- Setting up the portal -- Using the Liferay portal bundled with JBoss 5.x in Windows -- Using Liferay portal bundled with Tomcat 6.x in Linux -- Clean and restart -- Setting up production servers -- Setting up domains -- Shortening the URL -- More options for portal installation.

Flexible deployment matrix -- Building pages -- Adding pages -- Removing pages -- Adding portlets -- Removing portlets -- Changing layout templates -- Setting up portal pages -- Managing pages -- Adding a child page -- Changing the display order -- Editing a page -- Multiple languages -- Friendly URL -- Page icon -- Copying pages -- Deleting a page -- Changing the look and feel: themes -- Customizing portlets -- Portlet Look and Feel -- Setting up portlet configuration -- Navigating the structure of an intranet site -- Configuring portal -- Configuring portal paths -- Customizing portal configuration -- Adding extended properties files -- Portal structure -- Portal context -- Terms of Use -- Reminder queries -- Session settings -- Layout types -- Default user public layouts and private layouts -- Default admin -- Guest layouts -- Friendly URL -- Look and Feel -- Dock bar menu -- What's happening? -- Dock bar menu in themes -- My Places -- Database connections -- JNDI name -- Properties -- Populating with default data -- Transaction isolation -- Custom SQL -- Mail configuration -- Mail session -- Java-mail -- Mail hook -- Bring pages together in action -- Page Comments -- Page Ratings -- Page Templates -- Page Flags -- How do you share portlets within a portal page? -- Configuring Control Panel -- Administration -- My Account -- My Pages -- Configuration and settings -- Adding custom portlets -- What's happening? -- Summary -- 3. Bringing in Users -- Enterprise, departments, and locations -- Role-based access control -- Role and permission -- User -- Organization and Location -- UserGroup and Community -- Organizations -- Adding a top-level Organization -- Managing organizations -- Adding child organizations -- Viewing organizations -- Searching organizations -- Editing an organization -- Deleting an organization -- Assigning users to an organization.

Using organizations in an effective way -- Locations -- Adding a location for the enterprise -- Adding locations for main organizations -- Viewing locations -- Searching locations -- Editing a location -- Deleting a location -- Assigning users to a location -- Using locations in an effective way -- Organization settings -- Organization types -- Organization forms -- Overriding assignment and membership -- Hierarchy, tree, and Shared Global -- Organization hierarchy -- Organization tree -- Shared Global -- User groups -- Adding a user group -- Managing user groups -- Viewing user groups -- Searching user groups -- Editing a user group -- Deleting user groups -- Assigning users to a user group -- Users -- Adding users -- What's happening? -- Adding more users -- Adding users in bulk -- Creating an account on the fly -- What to do when a user forgets the password? -- Managing users -- Viewing users -- Searching for users -- Editing a user profile -- Deactivating a user -- Activating a user -- Deleting a user -- Impersonating a user -- Using the Actions tab -- User settings -- User forms -- Overriding user-related properties -- Authentications -- General configuration -- What's happening? -- Basic authentication -- Auto login -- LDAP authentication -- What's happening? -- Using LDAP effectively -- LDAP authentication chain -- CAPTCHA -- SSO authentication -- What's happening? -- OpenID authentication -- NTLM authentication -- Open SSO authentication -- SiteMinder authentication -- Authentication token -- Roles -- Adding a role -- What's happening? -- Managing roles -- Viewing roles -- Searching roles -- Editing a role -- Deleting roles -- Assigning members -- Using roles in an effective way -- What's happening? -- Authorization -- Permission -- Permissions in scope -- Assigning portal-level permissions -- Assigning individual portlet permissions.

Using permissions in an effective way -- Permission algorithms -- What's happening? -- Data migration -- Summary -- 4. Forums, Categorization, and Asset Publishing -- Message Boards -- Managing categories -- Adding categories -- Editing categories -- Deleting categories -- View RSS feeds -- Managing threads -- Adding threads -- Editing threads -- Deleting threads -- Viewing RSS feeds -- Managing posts -- Adding posts -- Editing posts -- Ban users -- Deleting posts -- Viewing posts -- Searching posts -- Viewing My Posts -- Viewing Recent Posts -- Viewing Statistics -- Viewing Banned Users -- Subscribing categories and threads -- Unsubscribing from categories and threads -- What's happening? -- Customizing Message Boards -- Setup -- What's happening? -- Ban and unban users -- Thread views -- Using Message Boards as a mailing list -- Message Boards in scope -- Friendly URL -- Archive, Export, and Import -- Portlet configuration -- Assigning permissions -- The permissions on Message Boards portlet -- Permissions on Message Boards content -- Permissions on category -- Permissions on message -- Using Message Boards effectively -- Category hierarchy -- Semantics and Ontology -- Categorization -- Tagging assets -- Folksonomies -- Taxonomies -- Tags administration -- Tags portlet -- Categories portlet -- Tags configuration -- Tags publishing -- Assigning permissions -- Permissions on portlet -- Permissions on tags -- Permissions on tag, vocabulary, and category -- Tags in scope -- Using tags effectively -- Folksonomies -- Taxonomies -- What makes tags interesting? -- Category Tree -- Why it doesn't merge both kinds of tags using ontology -- Asset Publisher -- Main features -- Configuration -- Selecting assets manually -- Selecting assets dynamically -- Flexible operators support -- Customization -- What's happening? -- Enhancement.

Configurable look and feel -- Share assets across groups -- Summary -- 5. Wikis, Web Forms, and Polls -- Wikis -- Managing nodes -- Adding nodes -- Editing a node -- Deleting a node -- Viewing RSS feeds -- Importing pages -- Managing pages -- Adding pages -- Viewing pages -- Searching pages -- Adding comments -- Adding ratings -- Subscribing nodes and Wiki pages -- What's happening? -- Assigning permissions -- Permissions on the Wiki portlet -- Permissions on Wiki -- Permissions on Wiki nodes -- Permissions on Wiki pages -- Using the Wiki portlet effectively -- Characteristics -- Pros and cons -- What can Wikis be used for? -- Using Liferay wikis -- Classic mode -- Creole mode -- HTML mode -- Plain text mode -- Configuration -- What's happening? -- Wiki in scope -- Wikis in communication -- Enhancement -- Publishing wiki pages -- Why the Wiki Display portlet? -- Assigning permissions -- What's happening? -- Converting documents with OpenOffice -- How to integrate OpenOffice -- Configuration -- What's happening? -- Convert documents -- Web forms -- The Web Form portlet -- How does it work? -- View mode -- Edit mode -- What's happening? -- Assign permissions -- Enhancement -- Alloy UI Forms -- Orbeon Forms -- How does it work? -- Create forms -- Polls -- The Polls portlet -- Editing a question -- Deleting a question -- Viewing votes -- What's happening? -- Features -- The Polls Display portlet -- How to achieve it? -- What's happening? -- Features -- Assigning permissions -- The Permissions on Polls portlet -- Permissions on the Polls Display portlet -- Permissions on Polls -- Permissions on Polls Questions -- Using polls effectively -- Polls versus surveys -- Polls in scope -- Use Polls through JSON services -- Enhancement -- Summary -- 6. Blogs, WYSIWYG Editors, and RSS -- Blogs -- Adding entries -- Managing entries -- Editing entries.

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