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Liferay Portal Administrator's Guide, Third Edition
by Richard Sezov, Jr.
$29.99 plus shipping and handling
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Created for the Enterprise, Technology to Help Developers, Supported Technologies, Languages
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Initial Setup
- Editions of Liferay, Obtaining Liferay, Installing a Bundle, Installing Liferay for an Enterprise
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Configuration
- Liferay's User Interface, Portal Architecture, Using the Control Panel, Global Server Settings
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Liferay Collaboration Suite
- Scopes, Archived Setups, Permissions, Sharing, Blogs, Calendar, Chat, Mail, Message Boards, Wikis
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Advanced Liferay Configuration
- The portal-ext.properties File, Plugin Management, Liferay Services Oriented Architecture
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Enterprise Configuration
- Liferay Clustering, Distributed Caching, Workflow, Deploying a Customized Liferay, Performance Tuning
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Maintaining a Liferay Portal
- Liferay Monitoring Using Google Analytics, Backing Up a Liferay Installation, Liferay's Logging System, Upgrading Liferay
Highlighted Wiki Articles: Getting Started with Liferay Portal 5.2
These Wiki articles will get you started with the installation and deployment of Liferay Portal 5.2.
| New Features List | Read a general list of the new features in Liferay Portal 5.2. For specific feature information, read the blog entries included below. |
| Quick Installation Guide | The Quick Installation Guide has been updated for Liferay Portal 5.2. |
| Database Connection Configuration | Important: Default database configuration methodology has been changed in 5.2. Please read this wiki article to find out more. |
| How to Delete 7Cogs Sample Data | Please see this page for instructions on removing the sample content. |
Highlighted Blog Entries: In-Depth Review of Features and Improvements
Liferay's engineering team has been explaining 5.2's new features in these informative blog entries.
| General List of Improvements | Get an overview of the new features in 5.2. |
| New Feature: Liferay Control Panel | Liferay Portal 5.2's new administrative interface simplifies portal management. |
| New Feature: Mutiple Blogs, Forums and Wikis Per Community | Now each Liferay site can have more than one instance of the collaboration tools. |
| New Feature: Web Content Management System Enhancements | Now Liferay's WCM supports dynamic lists, automatic document conversions, and a print mode. |
| Improved User Administration | The interface for managing users, profile information, roles, and membership is streamlined. |
| Improved Front End Performance | Read about enhancements to the Theme Builder and Javascript performance. |