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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
Dec
Liferay as a Main Alternative for Your Enterprise Portal
Liferay
can be the main alternative for company as an enterprise portal/intranet
portal solutioin. Liferay
Portal is easy to use and open source licensed. So companies that want
high valued Enterprise Portal solutions can divert his choice to
Liferay. Liferay Portal provides the facilities, both intranet and
extranet.
Customization in Liferay is easier. It uses a drag & drop, so users only need a mouse to select the menu you want displayed. If companies need tools for collaboration and knowledge management, such as instant messaging, blogs and wikis, and access to all content, and information organization.
The interface displayed Liferay is very interesting and easy for users to use existing facilities, content management is also easy to use, users or developers do not need to have to master programming language in detail, and no special skills required during installation of the portal site. In this installation, the package has been integrated Liferay with other packages, such as Apache Tomcat web application server and Java Runtime Environment.
Liferay Portal provides a clear view of the general interface and the menu is made as simple as possible, so that all levels of users can use it.
Some special features that exist in Liferay are as follows:
Flexible Portal Integration Framework , Liferay Portal allows users, administrators and developers integrate content and services from backend applications and support several methods, including SOAP, REST, RSS and APIs.
Out-of-the-box tools , Liferay provides various tools for CMS and Collaboration functionality
Secure Single Sign On (SSO) , only with a one-time authentication, users can securely and comfortable access to all menus
Customization Tools , an administrator can make adjustments, make changes, add users or other attributes such as name, company, date, or other information considered important, all of which can be performed without any modification of the database. Liferay also provide support facilities to the page content sites, blogs, share documents and data storage folder, and messages that exist on the forum, the wiki is very reliable if needed in the enterprise portal.
User Personalization , if given the right of access by adminitrator, then the user is entitled to configure the portal page by adding, deleting, or fill the position of the content. Users also can store data and later distributed to other users who are still in one network.
Content-Based Sharing , Liferay considered reliable in sharing content and messages that are sent through the facilities of the forum, so users do not need to use email only to to send messages. Liferay also provides a menu for users in making changes in content and appearance
Basically, Liferay is able to make the enterprise portal as required, some other interesting features are also very worth to try and developed further.
Customization in Liferay is easier. It uses a drag & drop, so users only need a mouse to select the menu you want displayed. If companies need tools for collaboration and knowledge management, such as instant messaging, blogs and wikis, and access to all content, and information organization.
The interface displayed Liferay is very interesting and easy for users to use existing facilities, content management is also easy to use, users or developers do not need to have to master programming language in detail, and no special skills required during installation of the portal site. In this installation, the package has been integrated Liferay with other packages, such as Apache Tomcat web application server and Java Runtime Environment.
Liferay Portal provides a clear view of the general interface and the menu is made as simple as possible, so that all levels of users can use it.
Some special features that exist in Liferay are as follows:
Flexible Portal Integration Framework , Liferay Portal allows users, administrators and developers integrate content and services from backend applications and support several methods, including SOAP, REST, RSS and APIs.
Out-of-the-box tools , Liferay provides various tools for CMS and Collaboration functionality
Secure Single Sign On (SSO) , only with a one-time authentication, users can securely and comfortable access to all menus
Customization Tools , an administrator can make adjustments, make changes, add users or other attributes such as name, company, date, or other information considered important, all of which can be performed without any modification of the database. Liferay also provide support facilities to the page content sites, blogs, share documents and data storage folder, and messages that exist on the forum, the wiki is very reliable if needed in the enterprise portal.
User Personalization , if given the right of access by adminitrator, then the user is entitled to configure the portal page by adding, deleting, or fill the position of the content. Users also can store data and later distributed to other users who are still in one network.
Content-Based Sharing , Liferay considered reliable in sharing content and messages that are sent through the facilities of the forum, so users do not need to use email only to to send messages. Liferay also provides a menu for users in making changes in content and appearance
Basically, Liferay is able to make the enterprise portal as required, some other interesting features are also very worth to try and developed further.
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