23 Jan

Liferay Training - Portal and System Administrator Training, 24-25 September 2012

Summary
Liferay is enterprise portal/intranet portal with open source license. Liferay is the only open source solutions that become a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant. Liferay is an effective solution for collaboration and communication within the company, content management and knowledge management.

This training, provided by Softbless, will equip participants about the concept of Enterprise Portal, and the concept of Liferay in particular, including the use and administration of Liferay.

Schedule
Training will be held on : 24-25 September 2012 at9AM-5PM

Location
Training will be held at PTSoftblessSolutions office,KompPerkantoranMitraMatramanBlokA2no 11,JlMatramanRayano 148, JakartaTimur, Indonesia.

Facility
Participants will get manual, snack, lunch, and certificate from Softbless.

About trainer
  • You will be trained be experienced trainers, and who have been participating in Liferay Official Training
Investment
The training will costRp3.500.000 (PPN included).

Capacity
Maximum capacity : 8 persons.

How to register
  • Fill in registration form on :https://www.softbless.com/content/Liferay-training-registration
  • Tranferpayment to :
    • BCA, Account No: 3428777877, PTSoftblessSolutions
  • Payment must be received 3 days before the training
  • Cancellationfee :
    • 100% > 5 working days before training day
    • 50% <= 5 working days before training day
Syllabus

Portal Administrator :
  • Liferay Portal Introduction
  • Enterprise Portal/Intranet portal concept
  • Organizations, Users and Roles
  • Web Content
  • Document and Image Management
  • Blogs, Message Boards and Wiki
  • Dynamic Data List
  • Workflow

System Administrator :
  • Basic Custom Theme
  • Liferay installation and Configuration
  • Intragration with LDAP
  • Clusting and Load Balancing

Contact Person :
For more information, please contact :
  • TutiIzzati, email : tuti@softbless.com, phone : (021)85918058-59, HP : 085715848086
  • TiurLumbanGaol, email : tiur@softbless.com, phone : (021)85918058-59, HP : 0818181183

Remarks :
Participants must bring their own laptop with wireless connectivity.Softblessdoes not provide PC for participant

21 Jan

Performance Tuning in Liferay

There are several things to consider in improving the performance of Liferay:

1. Properties
There are several configurations on-ext.properties portal that can improve performance:
last.modified.check=false
Disable checking last modified date on server side CSS and Javascript
theme.css.fast.load=true
Load the theme’s merged CSS files for faster loading for production
javascript.fast.load=true
Load the javascript files for faster loading for production

2. Servlet Filters
Disable all unused servlet filter
 SSO CAS
 SSO NTLM
 SSO OpenSSO
 Sharepoint Filter
Comment all servlet filters are not used in the file: liferay-portal-6.0.6\tomcat-6.0.29\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\web.xml

3. Portlet
Disable all the portlets that are used in a way comment on the file: liferay-portal-6.0.6\tomcat-6.0.29\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\liferay-portlet.xml

4. Memori
Increase JVM Tuning by editing the file: \liferay-portal-6.0.6\tomcat-6.0.29\bin\setenv.bat

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Duser.timezone=GMT -XX:NewSize=700m -XX:MaxNewSize=700m 
-Xms2048 -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -XX:SurvivorRatio=20 -XX:ParallelGCThreads=8"

If memory servers over 8 GB with 4 processors.

20 Jan

Online Preview in Liferay

Steps to install the online preview Liferay on linux:
1. Install ImageMagick:
apt-get install imagemagick
2. Log in as Administrator Portal
3. Navigate to ControlPanel -> Administration Server
4. On the menu tabs select External Service
5. To activate ImageMagick, check the enable ImageMagick
6. Fill Path with / usr / bin, how to find out by typing in the terminal :
"which convert"

Default settings:

imagemagick.resource.limit.area=2GiB
#imagemagick.resource.limit.disk=16GiB
#imagemagick.resource.limit.file=256
imagemagick.resource.limit.map=1GiB
imagemagick.resource.limit.memory=2GiB
#imagemagick.resource.limit.thread=2
#imagemagick.resource.limit.time=3600
note: "sign # is not filled"
Default setting: 
ImageMagick

Change to::

imagemagick.resource.limit.area=3GiB
imagemagick.resource.limit.disk=10GiB
imagemagick.resource.limit.file=512
imagemagick.resource.limit.map=3GiB
imagemagick.resource.limit.memory=2GiB
imagemagick.resource.limit.thread=1
imagemagick.resource.limit.time=3600

 ImageMagick

20 Jan

Features of Liferay Sync on Liferay 6.1

Liferay Sync is a product of Liferay, specifically on Liferay 6.1 Enterprises Edition, to make easy file sharing process for their user, as easy as drag-and-drop ways. Liferay Sync products allow users to synchronize their folders and then edit, move or delete them and also log all user document changes and versions. This service almost has a similar feature by the others private cloud services, like Box.net and Dropbox. By Liferay Sync the users now can access documents stored within a Liferay instance from their mobile devices and desktops, both desktop and mobile environments with support for Windows, Mac OS, and iOS.
 
Liferay Sync is a product of Liferay, specifically on Liferay 6.1 Enterprises Edition, to make easy file sharing process for their user, as easy as drag-and-drop ways. Liferay Sync products allow users to synchronize their folders and then edit, move or delete them and also log all user document changes and versions. This service almost has a similar feature by the others private cloud services, like Box.net and Dropbox. By Liferay Sync the users now can access documents stored within a Liferay instance from their mobile devices and desktops, both desktop and mobile environments with support for Windows, Mac OS, and iOS.
 
Liferay Sync is a product of Liferay, specifically on Liferay 6.1 Enterprises Edition, to make easy file sharing process for their user, as easy as drag-and-drop ways. Liferay Sync products allow users to synchronize their folders and then edit, move or delete them and also log all user document changes and versions. This service almost has a similar feature by the others private cloud services, like Box.net and Dropbox. By Liferay Sync the users now can access documents stored within a Liferay instance from their mobile devices and desktops, both desktop and mobile environments with support for Windows, Mac OS, and iOS.
 
Edwin Chung, Liferay's VP of Product Management, state that “Liferay Sync was designed to combine the benefits of a web application with the user interaction benefits of a desktop or mobile application”. Below some a brief features Liferay Sync.
 

Authentication Service

This feature is integrated by existing authentication systems. Liferay Sync is automatically records your securely authenticate and existing credentials. Therefore, when the user has been access documents and sites before, it will be visible without separate the user password anymore.

Documents and Media Sync

This feature helps files synchronize immediately, both on document or media item. The user who not using Liferay Sync, they are still able in taking document which are uploaded and shared by other user before by other Just in Time Sync feature.
View of ​Liferay Sync Configuration Setting
 

Just in Time Sync and Simple Sharing

The file document will be available by Just in Time Sync feature. This feature is using over-the-wire traffic minimizing method. A certain file type will viewed as it types, document files or PDF will be viewed as PDF, another office program were also able in edited and saved as it file types (such as word documents will be saved as word documents).

Liferay Integration and Multiple Sites Features

Liferay Syn is completely integrated with Liferay Portal, which allows users to synchronized documents which will be tagged, commented on, categorized and participate in workflow. The user will be able can manage documents across all their sites in Multiple Sites.

Offline Support and Native Clients - OS and Mobile

According to Edwin Chung, “While Office Web Apps and Google Docs require you to store a copy on the server and edit documents in a browser, Liferay Sync allows users to leverage any desktop or mobile office package, such as MS Office, OpenOffice, iWork, or Photoshop, to edit and save documents locally while either online or offline.”. Therefore offline support is Powerful Document-Sharing Abilities feature on Liferay Sync. This is a key benefit for Liferay users in accessed their documents in offline, then the documents synchronize when users are back online.