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- Cover
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Table of Contents
- Preface
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Chapter 1: Planning Your Portal
- What is Liferay Portal?
- + Time for action – browsing sites based on Liferay Portal
- + Time for action – comparing Yahoo! and YouTube
- Time for action – finding the source code of Liferay Portal
- + Liferay Portal architecture
- + Main Liferay Portal features
- Time for action – watching Liferay Portal portlets in action
- + Preparation for Liferay Portal installation
- + Time for action – finding RAM information
- + Time for action – installing JDK
- + Time for action – installing MySQL database server
- Time for action – installing OpenOffice
- Time for action – starting OpenOffice service
- + Time for action – checking the OpenOffice service
- Summary
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Chapter 2: Installing a Liferay Portal Instance
- Getting started
- Liferay with Apache Tomcat
- Time for action – deploying on Tomcat
- Liferay with JBoss Application Server
- Time for action – deploying onJBoss AS
- Liferay with GlassFish
- Time for action – deploying in GlassFish
- Liferay with Oracle WebLogic
- Time for action – configuring Weblogic
- Configuring Oracle WebLogic
- Deploying Liferay on WebLogic
- Liferay on existing Tomcat
- Time for action – deploying Liferay
- Database configuration
- + Time for action – creating the database
- Time for action – changing the file
- Summary
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Chapter 3: Understanding Portal Basics and Theming
- Understanding a portal
- Navigating Liferay
- + Time for action – signing in to Liferay Portal
- + Time for action – creating a new page and adding a portlet
- Time for action – accessing a portal with a normal user account
- + Getting an overview of Liferay Portal Architecture
- + Basics of the Control Panel
- Time for action – creating a new user
- Changing Portal's look and feel with themes
- Time for action – installing a new theme and applying it to the portal
- Summary
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Chapter 4: Tips and Tricks-Advanced Configuration
- Renaming our portal
- Time for action – changing our portal name
- SSO with OpenID
- Time for action – using OpenID for authentication
- Ask users to accept terms before accessing Liferay
- Time for action – enabling Terms of Use
- Time for action – changing Terms of Use
- E-mail notifications
- Time for action – enable notification for account creation
- Adding custom attributes for User
- Time for action – giving the option to add a user's favorite sport
- OpenOffice integration
- Time for action – enabling OpenOffice integration
- Changing the hostname
- Time for action – changing our portal name
- Mail server
- Time for action – enabling the mail server
- Summary
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Chapter 5: Building your First Liferay Site
- + Designing the site – painting the full picture
- + Knowing the portal requirements
- + Organizing users in an organization and a community
- Time for action – creating organization for CIGNEX Neighborhood
- Time for action – understanding actions associated with the
- + organization
- Time for action – creating a community for CIGNEX Neighborhood
- Time for action – understanding actions associated with the community
- User groups—arbitrary collection of users
- Time for action – adding a user group to CIGNEX Neighborhood
- Time for action – understanding the actions associated with the group
- Time for action – creating a page template for the Bowlers Table of Contents
- Summary
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Chapter 6: Managing Pages, Users,
and Permissions
- Checklist
- + Creating pages for the Neighborhood site
- + Time for action – creating pages for Neighborhood communities
- Time for action – providing a HTML title and friendly URL for a page
- + Exploring the User section
- Time for action – creating a user and assigning an administrator role
- + Time for action – modifying user details
- Time for action – assigning a user to communities and organizations
- Disabling the option to register for the site for guest users
- Time for action – disabling the Register option for a guest user
- + Exploring role/permission management in Liferay
- + Time for action – creating a role to manage pages
- Time for action – assigning community/organization Administrator role
- Time for action – defining permissions for a bookmark entry
- Summary
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Chapter 7: Creating and Publishing Content
- + Content management preview
- Uploading images
- Time for action – uploading an image file
- + Creating web content
- + Time for action –adding content to the welcome page
- Time for action – creating a structure
- Time for action – creating a template
- + Time for action – creating template-based content
- Time for action –migrating static content from an existing site using the web content portlet
- + Displaying web content
- + Time for action – adding content to the Welcome page
- + Time for action – selling houses online
- Time for action – populating the registration page
- Uploading documents
- Time for action – uploading a video file
- Time for action – uploading a PDF file
- Showing a PDF file link in web content
- Time for action – embedding a link for a PDF file
- Enabling comments for web content
- Time for action – enabling comments for content
- Disclosing decrypted Congress documents
- Time for action – displaying documents
- + Managing content
- + Time for action – using the web content list portlet
- Time for action – adding the asset publisher portlet
- Converting web content to formatted files
- Time for action – adding a file conversion feature
- Summary
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Chapter 8: Exploring Communities
- Prerequisite
- Setting up an online game using Flash Portlet
- Time for action – setting up an online game using Flash Portlet
- Adding Web Content Display to announce a cricket match
- Time for action – announcing a cricket match
- Using Video Portlet to share Neighborhood videos
- Time for action – sharing Neighborhood videos
- Sharing Neighborhood photos using Image Gallery
- Time for action – sharing Neighborhood photos
- Exploring chat functionality to enable chat between Neighborhood members
- Time for action – exploring chat functionality
- Integrating Open Social Gadgets in Neighborhood site
- Time for action – integrating Open Social Gadgets
- Creating bookmark of useful links using Bookmark Portlet
- Time for action – creating bookmarks of useful links
- Conducting polls in the Neighborhood site using Polls Portlet
- Time for action – creating bookmarks of useful links
- Changing language of Neighborhood site using Language Portlet
- Time for action – changing language using Language Portlet
- Displaying breaking news as a carousel on the Neighborhood site
- Time for action – displaying breaking news as a carousel
- + Defining a search on the Neighborhood site
- + Time for action – searching all content
- Time for action – searching for Web Content
- Summary
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Chapter 9: Setting up an Online Shop
- Getting started with online store setup
- + Online shop configuration
- + Time for action – configuring an online shop page
- + Time for action – configuring tax rate and currency
- + Time for action – configuring payment through PayPal
- Time for action – installing a plugin to provide PayPal Sandbox environment support
- + Time for action – configuring the shipping cost
- + Time for action – configuring the insurance cost
- Time for action – configuring the e-mail templates
- + Shopping items
- + Time for action – item category creation
- + Time for action – item creation
- + Shopping cart
- + Time for action – adding items to the shopping cart
- Checkout process
- + Time for action – making a payment
- Order management
- + Time for action – processing the order
- Promotion offers
- + Time for action – promoting offers
- Summary
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Chapter 10: Liferay Server Administration
- Getting started with server administration
- Monitoring and managing server resources
- + Time for action – monitoring and controlling Liferay resources
- Managing log levels
- + Time for action – configuring the log levels
- Time for action – changing log levels permanently
- Managing file upload size and types
- Time for action – configuring document library file settings
- Monitoring portal sessions
- Time for action – monitoring live user sessions
- Configuring multiple portals on the same Liferay server
- Time for action – configuring another portal instance
- Virtual hosting of communities and organizations
- Time for action – virtual host configuration
- Implementing the staging environment
- + Time for action – configuring staging environments
- Time for action – scheduling publication of portal changes
- Summary
- Appendix A: PayPal Test Account Configuration
- Appendix B: Pop Quiz Answers
- Index
Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series, each chapter follows the creation of a fictional neighbourhood site to demonstrate an aspect of Liferay portal with practical examples, screenshots, and step-by-step instructions.All you need in order to benefit from the Liferay Beginner's Guide is programming experience. No prior knowledge of Liferay is required, although experienced Liferay portal programmers who need to get up to speed with its latest features will also find this book useful.
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Publication year : 2011
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