20 Jun

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 multim​edia 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 Mar

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.

20 Feb

Indonesian Language Translation for Liferay

We hereby annouce that the Indonesian Language Pack for Liferay have been included in the latest version of Liferay .

Softbless submits Indonesian Language Pack just a moment before the launching of Liferay 6. So if you want to try the Indonesian translation for Liferay, just download and install the latest version of Liferay.

If you find bugs or want to give improvement to this translation please contact us at info@softbless.com. Your contribution will be very useful, or here

3 Feb

Liferay

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Liferay is Enterprise Portal and Intranet Portal solution with open source license. Liferay is the only open source solution that included in leader quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, as a head to head competitor with Oracle WebCenter, websphere IBM, Microsoft Sharepoint, SAP Netweaver and Opentext portal. It's an effective solution for collaboration and communication within the company, content management, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and knowledge management.
Some of the special features that exist in Liferay are as follows:
  • Flexible Integration Company Portal, allows users, administrators and developers to integrate content and services from the backend application in several methods, including SOAP, REST, RSS and API.
  • Out of the box tools, some of the functionality : CMS, Collaboration, document management and social networking. Some portlets are ready to use include: Calendar, Blog, Document Management, Wiki, Image Gallery, Chat Portlet
  • Secure Single Sign On (SSO)
  • Flexible Customization, an administrator can make adjustments, to make changes, add users or change attributes such as name, company, date, or other information that is considered important, all of which can be done without any technical modifications.
  • User personalization, with the appropriate permissions, the user has the right to do or configure the enterprise portal page by adding, deleting, or fill the position of content. Users also can store data compression and later distributed to other users who are still in the network.

Services that we provide for Liferay:

  • Liferay consulting
  • Liferay development
  • Liferay implementation
  • Custom Portlet Development
  • Customization
  • Integration with LDAP (OpenLDAP, Active Directory, LDAP Zimbra, etc)
  • Single Sign On (SSO) configuration
  • Custom Workflow with Kaleo
  • Training and Workshop
  • Support & Maintenance
  • Alfresco integration
  • Custom Theme Development
  • Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
  • Performance Tuning
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Liferay
  • Upgrading version
  • Web Services
  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Based Integration
  • High Availability Configuration (clustering and Load balancing)
Softbless Solutions has extensive experience and resources as well as the provider of implementation services in Indonesia,  make us your partner in the implementation of Liferay, please contact us here.

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