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21st May 2016

Difficulties with Liferay 6.2 & Previous versions

Unused Items

• Fat Liferay– Unused Liferay Portlets

on PROD• Need Ext/Hook

– To remove/hide.

Classification

• No classification of Web Contents

Non Intuitive Flow

• Older version of UI components

• Bootstrap 2.3.2

Turtle UI• To get a task done

– Multiple page loads– Many clicks

UI

Platform

Content Management

UI

Platform

Content Management

UI

• Single Page Application• Left Pane

– Control Panel– User Space

• Right Pane– Application Menu– Simulation of UI

Single Page Application

Supported using Senna JS and AlloyUI Surface

Senna JS - http://sennajs.com/

Awesome response time – All the time

Better speeds - Faster access on Mobiles

Bootstrap 3

Focused on Mobile First

Grids for all devices

Better control for multiple devices at once.

New Collections of Forms, images & Modals

Where are my options?

UI

Platform

Content Management

OSGi

• Updated Directory sturcture

• OSGi Directory contains– Jar and War files for all

components in LR7

• Easy to remove a module. Just delete the jar.– STOPPED com.liferay.dictionary.web_1.0.2

• Add a jar to deploy– STARTED com.liferay.dictionary.web_1.0.2

Console log

Console log

OSGi

Since 1999

Lightweight, Fast and Secure Framework

OSGi Standards compliant

Service Registry

Loosely coupled

Manages module lifecycle dynamically

OSGi Benefits

Reduces complexity

Modular Architecture

Reduces Maintenance

OSGi & Liferay

Existing porlets as OSGi modules

New Portlet development as modules

Service builder powered modules

Lucene

• Core of All major search engines

• Supported by Apahce• Embedded to Liferay till

version 6.x

Luke

• Helps – to see Lucene Indices– to run Lucene Queries

Solr

• Wraps Lucene• Better than ‘Just Lucene’

Elasticsearch

New Addition

Why Elasticsearch?

Important Factors

Opensource

Distributed, Scalable, Highly Available

RESTful, JSON

Faster search (sub 100 ms)

Built-in Redundancy

How it happens in Liferay?

• Portal specific configuration– Index = liferay-0

• Instance specific configuration– Index = liferay-instanceId e.g. liferay-20202

• Type = LiferayDocumentType• Document Ids

– com.liferay.portal.kernel.model.User_PORTLET_20250– com.liferay.message.boards.kernel.model.MBThread_PORTLET_31042– com.liferay.wiki.model.WikiPage_PORTLET_31329

• Document– JSON documents

UI

Platform

Content Management

Managing Web Contents

Organize contents in Folders

• Folders can be created– Just like in Documents

and Media

Creating Contents

Brand New Alloy Editor

Simple

Inline

Plus button to add elements e.g. table, image etc.

Helps to see HTML and preview

Content Area

Preview Pane

Blog Template

I wish I could mention my friend just like I do on Facebook, Twitter etc.

@Mentions

Workflow and Restrictions

• Web Contents– Folders can be created– Restrictions on Structures– Separate Workflow per folder (choice)

• Documents and Media– Restrictions on Document types– Separate Workflow per folder (choice)

Geo Locate Your Content

• Geo Locations can be added to content• Asset Maps • How to -

– Create Structure with Geo Location Element– Define a template– Create Web Content for that Structure

• Custom Fields

Localized Mail Notifications

• Localization Support• For each type of Mail notifications

– Account Created Notification– Password Reset – Email Verification– Password Changed

Thank You

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