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 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 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.

20 Dec

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

6 Mar

Enterprise Social Network Indonesia

Enterprise Social Network Enterprise Social Network Indonesia is a system of social interaction between users who work together in a company that aims to make communication and collaboration between users faster and more accurate. The use of this system makes it easy for you to connect with all company users, share information, manage teams, develop ongoing projects and most importantly, this system can be a place to form groups where each user can convey their ideas. Enterprise Social Networking is different from social networks in general, enterprise social media is more professional and is used within the scope of the company only. So that all your important information will be safe and can only be seen by users who have access rights to your company.a.

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Problems that often occur if there is no Enterprise Social Network Indonesia :

  • Difficulty integrating existing social networking systems with enterprise technology infrastructure
  • A common social interaction system has the potential for information or data leakage because the system can be accessed by many people without security permissions.
  • The process of exploring information and data is quite difficult to do because there is no place for each user to provide their ideas or suggestions.
  • Collaboration between teams with limited distance is still difficult to do so that the decision-making process of a project becomes slow

Benefits :

  • Ease of sharing information between users, making it easier to connect with each company user and can easily find out the latest information.
  • The project development process is easy to do because of the many ideas submitted by each user in helping the success of a project.
  • Employee productivity increases as they feel more connected to each other and communication goes both ways.
  • Good integration that can improve the quality of the intranet network so that participation and feedback in business applications increases.
  • Creating a good business culture with more open communication and being able to adapt to all changes in the existing business.
  Liferay supports Enterprise Social Networking Applications with Open Source licenses. This year, it is again in the Leader category in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, providing solutions for your business needs.

Liferay facilitates user interaction and system integration within the company

And has 16 years of experience in implementing systems to simplify the business processes that you manage.

Features Enterprise Social Network Indonesia :

  • Content publishing and sharing, each user can easily update content, share links, poll the hottest topics, hold events and ask questions.
  • Conversation and post, users can have conversations and connect in two directions so that results can be directly sent or shared with other users.
  • Group management, you can determine which users can view, read, update, delete content or articles that have been created.
  • Intranet/community, the existence of intranet facilities facilitates the integration of other applications;
  • Knowledge base/ Wiki, Provides a forum for collaboration of experts/Subject Matter Expert (SME)
  • News Feed, a feature to provide ideas to start a conversation between users.
  • Notes, users can easily make notes on the content or articles created
  • Task management, the task management feature makes it easier to delegate tasks related to a project.
 
Softbless's experience and expertise is very helpful in implementing Enterprise Social Networking applications using Liferay.
Please contact us for a consultation for business development. Softbless provides implementation, installation, customization, support and training for Liferay. The solutions we provide play an important role in the progress of your company.

Ask questions/book a meeting regarding Enterprise Social Networking :

19 February 2023   By    Enterprise Portal, Liferay, Portal Intranet