Collaborative Platform Using Liferay Portal

Numerous sites have developed naturally. You might have developed your group by utilizing separate tools: first a forums application, and after that a wiki for collaborative documentation, and possibly a collaborative. It could be hard (and error-prone) to join the sum of these applications so your clients can utilize them consistently. Appreciatively, Liferay incorporates a suite of collaboration applications you can utilize, and they're all integrated together. 

Liferay Portal offers each standard community collaboration application that is accessible. These applications go from particular benefit application like a calendar and email, to community-building applications like message boards, polls, and wikis.

Figure 1.5: Liferay Portal's message boards are as completely emphasized as any standalone forum application, with the included profit that they're mixed with whatever remains of the system.

This is a suite of integrated applications with all the characteristics of comparable, standalone applications. For instance, Liferay Portal's message boards incorporate categories and subcategories, message threads, captcha, RSS feeds, email notice, posting through email, and considerably more. At the same time more than this, the applications are integrated with whatever remains of Liferay Portal's framework. Clients log in, and their profiles are utilized immediately by the message boards and the various collective applications. Further more as we'll see later, functionality from the inherent applications might be added to your to give emphasizes like remarks in your software, and you don't need to compose any code to do it.

Liferay Portal's wiki is an alternate case of a full-emphasized collaborative application. It has support for composing pages in a WYSWYG editorial manager, or more progressed clients can utilize the simple to-study standard Wiki Creole syntax. Clients can comment on wiki articles, and it keeps a full history of each change that is been made, permitting clients to return again to any change. It likewise support RSS feeds (just about every Liferay application does) so you can subscribe to see new articles as they are posted. Every site can have one or more wikis, and every wiki can have one or more top-level nodes.

Figure 1.6: Liferay Portal's wiki empowers clients to synergistically make complex articles. Clicking the Details link shows the full history of the article, including the author of every change.

We could experience all of Liferay Portal's collaborative applications in a comparative manner, however we should spare that for the body of the book. Liferay Portal's suite of collaborative applications incorporates a blog (finish with blog total characteristics so you can distribute numerous clients' blog entires in one place), a chat applications for clients who are online in the meantime, message boards, a wiki, a knowledge base that you can use to distribute a library of technical articles, a polling system you can use to have clients vote on certain inquiries, and individual benefit provisions like a calendar and email.

Liferay Portal incorporates each application you'll have to empower clients to work together. Next, we'll see how you can use Lifeay Portal as a social platform.



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