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
The training will costRp3.500.000 (PPN included).
Capacity
Maximum capacity : 8 persons.
How to register
Portal Administrator :
System Administrator :
Contact Person :
For more information, please contact :
Remarks :
Participants must bring their own laptop with wireless connectivity.Softblessdoes not provide PC for participant
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
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
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=700mIf memory servers over 8 GB with 4 processors.
-Xms2048 -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -XX:SurvivorRatio=20 -XX:ParallelGCThreads=8"
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 setting:
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=2GiBnote: "sign # is not filled"
#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
Default setting:
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
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.
20
Jan
Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1
The Document Library portlet on previous version was changed and renamed into Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1. Some new features you should know on Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1 are:
Document Types and Metadata Sets
In Liferay Documents and Media, when the user requires keeping their files into a document, the users required to fill out the fields defined by the metadata which set the document types. So the user will be easy to remember their document by adding a defined metadata into their document. Furthermore, by adding metadata information, the user will be easy finding their document by searching facility.
The Document Library portlet on previous version was changed and renamed into Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1. Some new features you should know on Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1 are:
Document Types and Metadata Sets
In Liferay Documents and Media, when the user requires keeping their files into a document, the users required to fill out the fields defined by the metadata which set the document types. So the user will be easy to remember their document by adding a defined metadata into their document. Furthermore, by adding metadata information, the user will be easy finding their document by searching facility.
The Document Library portlet on previous version was changed and renamed into Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1. Some new features you should know on Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1 are:
Document Types and Metadata Sets
In Liferay Documents and Media, when the user requires keeping their files into a document, the users required to fill out the fields defined by the metadata which set the document types. So the user will be easy to remember their document by adding a defined metadata into their document. Furthermore, by adding metadata information, the user will be easy finding their document by searching facility.
In addition, when the users need to create a new document types, the user should define one or more metadata sets information to associate with document type. The user can define "Main Metadata Fields" or select "Additional Metadata Fields" from Add button located in top of dialog button.
Automatic Preview Generation
This feature are powerful and help user to preview documents, image or video first, before they need to download it and also browse media what they are looking for. Document preview is according types of the content. Types of document available to preview before the user download from Documents and Media whenever it's possible are: Office documents (such as .docx, .pdf, .odt, .ppt, etc.), multimedia (play various video and audio media formats from the browser, configured by Xuggler in audio and video player configuration), OpenOffice/LibreOffice, and ImageMagick (pdf conversion).
Sample of multimedia automatic preview generation
Document Type Restrictions and Workflow per Folder
This feature is powerful feature to enforce rules for documents uploaded by users. So the user not able to add all types of document, only certain document types to add to a folder. As default configuration, a parent folder is not accessible by child folders and can be customized by editing the folder and selecting the allowed document types.
Only certain types of document and workflow can be added
WebDAV Access
WebDAV or Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set of method to permit the user in create, edit, move, or delete files stored on web servers. Therefore, the user can access their documents and folders in Liferay's Documents and Media library from they own machine's file manager. For example, when the user create new image in folder by Documents and Media and uploaded it, then they can access the folder and also the image using a browser and Liferay's web interface by appropriate permissions from administrator. Therefore, the user needs to log in to the portal in credential and find WebDAV URL where the user likes to access. This feature is also support most major operating system and also desktop environment, including Linux (both KDE and GNOME), Mac OS, and Windows.
20
Jan
OpenOffice Integration Liferay
Installing
OpenOffice in your Operating System:
If your OS is XP / Windows7 follow these steps:
1. Install OpenOffice.org v2.0.3 or any other version.
2. Navigate to C: \ Program Files \ OpenOffice.org \ Programs folder in the command prompt .
3. run the following command:
soffice-headless-accept = "socket, host = 127.0.0.1, port = 8100, URP,"-nofirststartwizard.
4. Then Restart
If your Linux Operating System follow these steps:
1. Install Package v2.0.3 OpenOffice or any other version.
2. Run the following command from the Command Prompt: cd / usr / lib / LibreOffice / program .
3. sudo . / soffice - headless - accept = "socket, host = 127.0.0.1, port = 8100; URP;" - nofirststartwizard.
4. Then Restart
Enable OpenOffice in Liferay:
1. Log in as Administrator Portal.
2. Navigate to ControlPanel -> Administration Server.
3. On the menu tabs select External Service.
4. To activate the check box on OpenOffice enable openoffice.
5. If you want to change the port you can change it.
6. Then Save Settings.
Implement the functionality in Open Office web content portlet:
1. Now you add a portlet in the portal Web Content Display in one page.
2. Then navigate to your portlet configuration page.
3. Select Add Web Content and write the Title and content of information that will be created,
4. Click Publish.
5. It will appear articel that have been made earlier.
6. On the Web Content Display portlet
Navigate to Settings / Options -> select Configuration
Below Enable Conversion To we check box PDF, DOC, TXT, ODT, RTF.
7. Then save.
8. It will appear the option Convert PDF, DOC, TXT, ODT, RTF.
If your OS is XP / Windows7 follow these steps:
1. Install OpenOffice.org v2.0.3 or any other version.
2. Navigate to C: \ Program Files \ OpenOffice.org \ Programs folder in the command prompt .
3. run the following command:
soffice-headless-accept = "socket, host = 127.0.0.1, port = 8100, URP,"-nofirststartwizard.
4. Then Restart
If your Linux Operating System follow these steps:
1. Install Package v2.0.3 OpenOffice or any other version.
2. Run the following command from the Command Prompt: cd / usr / lib / LibreOffice / program .
3. sudo . / soffice - headless - accept = "socket, host = 127.0.0.1, port = 8100; URP;" - nofirststartwizard.
4. Then Restart
Enable OpenOffice in Liferay:
1. Log in as Administrator Portal.
2. Navigate to ControlPanel -> Administration Server.
3. On the menu tabs select External Service.
4. To activate the check box on OpenOffice enable openoffice.
5. If you want to change the port you can change it.
6. Then Save Settings.
Implement the functionality in Open Office web content portlet:
1. Now you add a portlet in the portal Web Content Display in one page.
2. Then navigate to your portlet configuration page.
3. Select Add Web Content and write the Title and content of information that will be created,
4. Click Publish.
5. It will appear articel that have been made earlier.
6. On the Web Content Display portlet
Navigate to Settings / Options -> select Configuration
Below Enable Conversion To we check box PDF, DOC, TXT, ODT, RTF.
7. Then save.
8. It will appear the option Convert PDF, DOC, TXT, ODT, RTF.
20
Jan
Liferay MarketPlace (En)
In August 2012, Liferay
have officially launched their Liferay Marketplace
to this world. Where, The Liferay
Marketplace is an application store which designed
specifically for Liferay users. A Liferay Marketplace
initial is announced in May 2012 at the East Coast Symposium. Liferay,
Inc. is a provider of open source portal and also leads in enterprises.
This enterprise has offers more than 70 applications for enterprises
use. Independent software vendors (ISVs) and other developers are
requested by Liferay to begin build their application for Liferay
Marketplace during a launching of Liferay Marketplace.
As the third party, the ISVs will support Liferay in creating the application as the next stage of Liferay step in developing Liferay Marketplace. ISVs will develop additional function of Liferay application in transaction and payment processing functionality. The availability of Liferay application in the market is an essential step for Liferay, in present high access to their user around this world. Additionally, Liferay Marketplace provides ISVs a new distribution channel in presenting their enterprise application to a global audience that includes over 500,000 deployments of the Liferay platform around the world.
Liferay application was able accepted the concept of application store from others application provider, such as Microsoft and Cisco. Instead of the concept of consumer space, Liferay was rising as a fixture of the enterprise user. In addition, people who are often used other application and opens Alfresco, will recognize Alfresco as a solution for their customer in finding and acquiring platform extensions. Liferay application have a simple application with its one-click capability to others application provider, especially customer who use a phones or their tablet.
As a formal Liferay Marketplace site, this site provides a dozens of application, templates, and themes. This market place content will support Liferay customer in expanding and straighten Liferay implementation. Presently, Liferay Marketplace site is providing application browsing based on their category or searching according its keywords.
Liferay Marketplace site page
In Liferay Marketplace, visitor/ user will able to find the most popular application or detail information of application. ISVs have committed to providing their innovative application for Liferay Marketplace application store. In addition, instead of searching based on the keywords or the category, the customer was able review Liferay application and also downloads this application from public repository. Then, the user can runs this application, after installing this application in their local portal or Liferay portal. Therefore, it will adapted and broaden operation for Liferay user, simple and fast processing in technical or non-technical for the user.
Liferay's Chief Software Architect, Brian Chan, stated that, “Liferay Marketplace supports multiple goals we have wanted deliver over the last few years.”. Additionally, Liferay Marketplace is a solution for Liferay user in saving their times and their cost. "It greatly enhances our customers’ abilities to extend their existing web solutions in a manner that saves them on time and the costs associated with solution upgrades. Also, in keeping with Liferay’s longstanding commitment to creating value for the open source community, Liferay Marketplace aims to make it easier for a larger community of developers to share and distribute innovations as easily consumable modular applications.”, Chan said.
Liferay application store is not only for personal use, but this market place is also a place for the software vendor and Liferay developer in exhibit and sells their application functionality in developing for the portal. Application in market place must be running in Liferay 6.1 or later. Liferay carry out validation process to application component, before this application is publish for the customer. These validations are:
• Checking by basic antivirus or malware
• Clear application title, description, image or etc
• Testing Functionality (basic test)
Even Liferay have performs for the malware checking, Liferay is does not guaranteed on malware free or pass the security standard procedure. However, this problem is not exclusive in Liferay application store. Organization in Liferay development and application validation function is expected not introducing any security issues.
“The Liferay Marketplace allows anyone to have their applications be seen and deployed by our users around the world,” Chan said. “We believe this will allow Liferay and the Liferay community to deliver more innovations faster than ever before to enterprise customers.”
As the third party, the ISVs will support Liferay in creating the application as the next stage of Liferay step in developing Liferay Marketplace. ISVs will develop additional function of Liferay application in transaction and payment processing functionality. The availability of Liferay application in the market is an essential step for Liferay, in present high access to their user around this world. Additionally, Liferay Marketplace provides ISVs a new distribution channel in presenting their enterprise application to a global audience that includes over 500,000 deployments of the Liferay platform around the world.
Liferay application was able accepted the concept of application store from others application provider, such as Microsoft and Cisco. Instead of the concept of consumer space, Liferay was rising as a fixture of the enterprise user. In addition, people who are often used other application and opens Alfresco, will recognize Alfresco as a solution for their customer in finding and acquiring platform extensions. Liferay application have a simple application with its one-click capability to others application provider, especially customer who use a phones or their tablet.
As a formal Liferay Marketplace site, this site provides a dozens of application, templates, and themes. This market place content will support Liferay customer in expanding and straighten Liferay implementation. Presently, Liferay Marketplace site is providing application browsing based on their category or searching according its keywords.
Liferay Marketplace site page
In Liferay Marketplace, visitor/ user will able to find the most popular application or detail information of application. ISVs have committed to providing their innovative application for Liferay Marketplace application store. In addition, instead of searching based on the keywords or the category, the customer was able review Liferay application and also downloads this application from public repository. Then, the user can runs this application, after installing this application in their local portal or Liferay portal. Therefore, it will adapted and broaden operation for Liferay user, simple and fast processing in technical or non-technical for the user.
Liferay's Chief Software Architect, Brian Chan, stated that, “Liferay Marketplace supports multiple goals we have wanted deliver over the last few years.”. Additionally, Liferay Marketplace is a solution for Liferay user in saving their times and their cost. "It greatly enhances our customers’ abilities to extend their existing web solutions in a manner that saves them on time and the costs associated with solution upgrades. Also, in keeping with Liferay’s longstanding commitment to creating value for the open source community, Liferay Marketplace aims to make it easier for a larger community of developers to share and distribute innovations as easily consumable modular applications.”, Chan said.
Liferay application store is not only for personal use, but this market place is also a place for the software vendor and Liferay developer in exhibit and sells their application functionality in developing for the portal. Application in market place must be running in Liferay 6.1 or later. Liferay carry out validation process to application component, before this application is publish for the customer. These validations are:
• Checking by basic antivirus or malware
• Clear application title, description, image or etc
• Testing Functionality (basic test)
Even Liferay have performs for the malware checking, Liferay is does not guaranteed on malware free or pass the security standard procedure. However, this problem is not exclusive in Liferay application store. Organization in Liferay development and application validation function is expected not introducing any security issues.
“The Liferay Marketplace allows anyone to have their applications be seen and deployed by our users around the world,” Chan said. “We believe this will allow Liferay and the Liferay community to deliver more innovations faster than ever before to enterprise customers.”
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