Liferay Portal Customizing to Business Needs
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This document discusses customizing Liferay Portal for business needs. It provides an overview of Liferay and common customization scenarios. It then discusses the key environments, tools, and techniques needed for customization, including the Plugins SDK, Liferay IDE, and Developer Studio. Common customization decisions are outlined relating to information architecture, content, sites, roles and authentication, workflows and more. Finally, it provides an example of a content-centric customization focusing on basic techniques and methodology.
Liferay Portal Customizing to Business Needs
- 1. Customizing Liferay Portal for Business Needs @shubhamnagar Director – InfoAxon Technologies 1
- 2. Discussion Points Brief Introduction Understanding Liferay Environments, about Liferay Customization Scenarios Tools & Techniques needed Key Customization Live Demo Action Approaches
- 3. Liferay – A Brief Introduction Horizontal Portal Platform to Develop “Web Experiences” Enterprise “Container” Online Application for Web Employee Community Integration platform Intranet & Centric Social Platform and diverse Extranet Simple Web Network Platform experiences Site with Platform Extended such as BI CMS and Web Content Enterprise Dashboards Collaboration Management Service , Big Data Platform Platforms portals 100’s of Open Source Extensive Rich “Application Rich with Liferay Open Integration Portlets” to Security CE and Standards and Web UI build Web Features Liferay EE Support Support Experience 3
- 4. Setting Context to Liferay Customization Intranet Extranet Extended Content Centric Integration Collaboration Enterprise Service Platform Platform Platforms Platforms •Ranging from •Employees •Limited Content •Liferay used more simple web site connect and BUT more as Container to content centric share information dynamic web •Brings existing portals. •Typical Intranet applications services, data, •E.g. news sites, applications •Services exposed content from reports, •Rich in Social and to vendors, other sources documents, Collaborative Feel customers, •Renders Web information •Enterprise Social partners applications by platforms Networks •Provides “Back calling services to •Less integration end” Services to other systems with other other web enterprise interfaces systems Customization defined by “Character” of the Portal Platform 4
- 5. Setup of required environment, tool kits and techniques or development approach to help customize Liferay for your Business Needs Environment, Tools and Techniques for Liferay Customization 5
- 6. Customization Environment Liferay Developer Plugins SDK Liferay IDE Studio • Command Line • Uses Plugins SDK • Pre-Bundled Based • Available as: version of Plugins Environment • Extension of SDK and Liferay • Uses Apache Ant Eclipse IDE for IDE or Maven Liferay • Mainly used for • Generates a • Bundled with Liferay Skeleton Project Liferay Enterprise • Location for Developer Development Customized Studio Project • For Development • Used for Portlets, using CE and EE Theme versions Development 6
- 7. Key Customization Decisions Information Taxonomy Hierarchy (or Categorization Pre-defined Architecture not) Tags Content Assets Structure Templates Private or Single or Sites Public Sites Multiple Sites Personalization Site Templates Role and Organizational Roles & Identity Authentication Structure Permissions Integrations Portlets and Reuse Analysis New Dynamic External App Applications Apps Integrations Theme & Look UI Design Navigational Usability Page Templates and Feel Model Patterns & Layout 7
- 8. Scenario – Content Centric Platform Example: Content Rich site with different content types Collaboration used to share content and interact around content Focus: Basic Customization Techniques and Methodology to adopt 8
- 9. Creating the right information architecture for your Business Information Architecture 9
- 10. Top Level Navigation 10
- 11. Vocabularies and Tags 11
- 12. In most cases it’s the content that drives usability and UI decisions Content 12
- 13. Content Publishing Separate Basic Identify “Structured” Content Content • Simple Web Page Identify “Content Articles Types” • Documents • FAQs • Media • HOW TO’s • Guides • KB Article • Glossary • Updates 13
- 14. Publish Basic Web Content 14
- 15. Define Content Structure for New Content Types 15
- 16. Define New Content Items 16
- 17. Define Templates Templates are scripts that tell Liferay how to display content in the structure Use your favorite script method (CSS, FTL, Velocity Macros, XSL) Each Structure is actually a XML document that gets “Transformed” using above methods resulting in dynamic HTML 17
- 18. Determine the overall Site Architecture for your solution Sites and Organizations 18
- 19. Sites Sites are “Content and Collaboration Spaces” visualized for your business. Each Site will have Its own • Set of public and private pages • Page Templates • Branding • Members • Content 19
- 20. Site Creation 20
- 21. Organization and Users Optionally make an Organization Populates Users to Organization 21
- 22. Define Roles for your overall solution and create user identity integrations if required Roles and Identity Integrations 22
- 23. Roles 23
- 24. Identity Integrations 24
- 25. Workflows to enable content approval cycles Workflows 25
- 26. Configure Default Workflows 26
- 27. Once the overall structure is set, Use populate pages with portlets and dynamic applications to create your web experience. Creating Web Experiences using Themes, and Portlets 27
- 28. Build Web Experiences Review Key Portlets that you wish to reuse Develop CSS and Look and feel for Portlets Define your own UI views and develop New Portlets Integrate other applications into Liferay using Liferay Services API 28