Day 1

Social Office Administration is a one day course that brings you up to speed on the basics of using and managing Social Office. First, we examine the functionality that the Social Office plugin adds to Liferay Portal. Then we discuss how you can use Social Office to effectively implement and manage collaborative sites.

You start by learning how the basic building blocks of Social Office – sites, applications, and users – interact with each other. We then break down each of these major concepts with several exercises on the specifics of working with each one. For users, we examine how the Dashboard helps users access and manage relevant information. For sites and applications, we discuss how you can quickly create pre-built sites that come loaded with collaboration tools using the Social Office site template. We also work through exercises showing how to set up and manage Social Office in real world situations. Additionally, we look at some other tools and concepts that Social Office shares with Liferay, like roles, teams, and the control panel.

To close out the course, the class works together to design and build a collaboration portal with the types of sites and roles that your organization would need.

By the end of the day, you will understand how to effectively use Social Office, both as an end-user and an administrator.