Liferay Portal 5.0

Enhanced collaboration for the Enterprise.

In version 5.0, Liferay introduces its newly enhanced Collaboration Suite, featuring major enhancements to Liferay Message Boards, Blogs and Wiki. These tools are fully equipped with RSS support, email notifications, dynamic tagging, rating systems and social bookmark links. In conjunction with Liferay Portal’s flexible system of communities and organizations, 5.0 offers practical tools to unlock the latent value in your community. Other collaboration enhancements include:

  • A dynamic tagging system for user-driven categorization
  • AJAX-based mail client that allows users to send email directly from the portal
  • Shared calendars, chat and polls
  • Direct portlet publishing to the MySpace and Facebook networks
  • Ability to leverage iGoogle gadgets directly within portal deployment

 

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Additional Enhancements in Liferay Portal 5.0

 

Back End:

  •  JSR 286 Compliance
  • Full WebDAV support
  • LDAP Integration enhancements
  • Expanded support for Web Services – Liferay offers support for SOAP and REST-style JSON Web Services for lightweight, maintainable code and to support AJAX-based user interfaces.
  • Integration with ICEfaces and jQuery for dynamic AJAX-enabled UI, Pentaho for Business Intelligence, Intalio for Business Process Management, and Terracotta for scalability and high availability.

 

Flexible Organizations

Liferay Portal’s framework is what allows users to fully leverage the potential of 5.0’s enhanced collaboration tools in an enterprise setting. Liferay Portal was designed such that users within your enterprise can belong to multiple unique organizations and communities within those organizations. Access and rights to these organizations, communities, and even the individual sets of applications used by each group, can be granted to those outside the enterprise as well.

 

Content Management System:

  • Full and Partial Staging - Staging is a feature of Liferay Portal that allows users to edit live pages without committing their changes until they are ready.
  • Asset Publisher Portlet - This portlet allows you to publish any piece of content in your portal as though it were a Journal Article, either through a set of publishing rules or by manually selecting it.
  • Multiple Document Uploads and Conversion
  • Article View Counter - This is implemented via AJAX, which allows us to take advantage of our caching mechanism to be sure that the counters on cached pages are updated. The Asset Publisher portlet can take advantage of the counter by ordering pages by the number of views.
  • Import / Export improvements with a UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) for portal objects.

 

Message Boards

Liferay Portal 5.0 includes a full-fledged Message Boards portlet that rivals standalone products in its feature set with all the benefits of a portal environment. Message Boards are a perfect solution for facilitating conversations within a department or project team that is collaborating around shared ideas, or for capturing and sharing the tacit knowledge of your workgroup.

  • Includes support for sticky posts, statistics, recent posts, RSS, email-based subscriptions, avatars, threads management (move to another category), and full fine-grained permissions.
  • See our Message Boards in action!

 

 

 

 

Blogs

Liferay’s Blog Portlet is designed to provide the best features of modern blogging tools coupled with the benefits of the community-centric nature of Liferay Portal. This allows users to convey information and facilitate conversations around blogs directly in the context of a website, intranet, extranet, or social network. Liferay Blogs use the same social computing tools found in the Message Boards and Wiki for a unified user experience and content base.

  • Features include RSS support, threaded user and guest comments, email notifications of blog replies, tags and labels, an entry rating system, and social bookmarking links, .
  • A Blog Aggregator portlet groups together all blog entries in the entire portal or in a particular organization.
  • Check out Liferay's own Blogs!

 

Wikis

 

Liferay’s Wiki in version 5.0 is comparable to industry-leading Wiki products (both proprietary and open source). Of course, Liferay’s Wiki also benefits from being part of Liferay Portal, enjoying built-in user management, LDAP integration, permissions, multiple Wikis per installation (scoped by community or organization), and access to the full library of Liferay collaboration tools such as blogs, forums, shared calendars, document library and content management.

Collaborate on collective knowledge with Liferay’s built-in Wiki, with versioning and reversion capabilities.