Liferay Web Content Management Overview

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Liferay Web Content Management Overview

Liferay Portal includes a complete Web Content Management System that enables you to build rich web content that can be combined with application portlets, widgets and gadgets. Liferay Portal, with its included WCM, provides you powerful yet easy-to-use tools with sophisticated features like one-click page creation and easy rich text editors to build web pages, websites and web applications.

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1. WebSite and Content Creation From simple articles with text and images to fully functional websites, Liferays WCM helps you create and maintain content with ease and efficiency. Some of the basic features of Liferays WCM include: a. Easy-to-Use Web Publishing i. ii. iii. i. ii. i. One-Click Page Creation Drag-and-Drop Site Maps Asset Publisher vs. Web Content Display Easy Rich Text Editors Live Page Editing Structure Comments

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c. Structures and Templates d. Scheduling and Workflow Approvals e. Multi-Language Support f. Staging g. Export/Import Pages and Sites h. SEO
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2. SHared doCUMent and Media Library Additionally, Liferay Portal and WCM include a full document and image library. Enterprise-wide document and image libraries allow groups to store, tag, lock, search for and leverage assets in web pages or download them for use offline. By leveraging Liferays strong community aspects, individual document libraries are made available to each community or domain as defined within the portal. Individuals also benefit from their own document and image library where they can store assets in the cloud. The multi-domain document library has the following features and more: a. Multi-Format Document Lib (docs, videos, etc.) b. Multiple File Uploads c. Organizing Documents and Content d. Document Conversions e. Document/Video Previews f. Thumbnail Generation

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3. USer featUreS and deSktoP integrationS Liferay is integrated to allow users to work with Microsoft Office files located on their local drive and automatically sync them to a Liferay document repository. Content syndication provides the ability to transmit or receive information with greater depth and immediacy. Liferay Sync offers offline synchronization for documents within the Liferay document library. Liferay supplies a platform for content, applications and document services that provide integration between a users desktop and online experience. Some of the features that simplify a users online experience are: a. Integration with MS Office (for document storage/retrieval) b. Content Syndication c. Content Virtualization / Dynamic Virtual Hosting d. Liferay Sync 4. roLe-baSed ControLS and WorkfLoW When you publish an asset in Liferay, you have the option to apply workflow approvals. This can be used for standard web content, but it may also apply to other types of content within the portal. Users can lock, open, edit and save a document that is then processed for approval before it is available to share with others. Liferay includes a complete workflow engine that can be used to coordinate how content is reviewed and published. When individuals work in a team to manage web content, role-based control allows others to review and approve the content before it is published live. (Workflow definitions can be done using standard BPEL.) a. User-Driven Workflow & Approval: Many types of content can be defined to require a workflow process for approvals before being published or made available to others. b. Access Control: Liferay provides content and access to content/features based on a users identity. This allows content, applications, pages and sites to be defined as available or not given a persons formal identity (e.g., a user in the sales organization can access specific pages that other users cannot). c. Roles and Delegation: Workflows can be controlled by predefined user roles (i.e., a users manager must approve before content is published). Additionally, users can define delegation authority based on predefined identities. 5. WCM indUStry and eMerging StandardS Liferay supports an extensive set of industry and de facto standards (i.e., widely used standards within the web/portal/ collaboration industry). Some recent standards added that are significant for web content management are: a. CMIS: Available Liferay 6.0 allows a standard interface for content management systems. Liferay can support other enterprise content management systems that support CMIS. Liferay 6.1 will support multiple simultaneous CMIS repositories. b. JSR 170: Java standard similar to CMIS. c. Open Social: Allows the deployment of gadgets that support Open Social standard. Additionally allows applications and content to support access based on a self-defined friend network or group of community users. d. BPEL (Business Process Execution Language): Liferay supports BPEL for the definition of workflows with the portal, allowing users to leverage external workflow definition editors. Liferay can additionally leverage external workflow engines.

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6. CoLLaboration ServiCeS Websites often add collaborative social features to standard content or applications. Liferay includes many social and collaborative services that can be used within a website or portal. For example, a site may enable users to add comments or rate articles, provide users a full forum discussion area, or allow users to see other users online. Sites may also enable users to define their own community sections and control the users and content or applications available to users within the community site. Liferay combines collaborative sites with static content sites or portals and allows a set of collaboration services permit developers to build powerful new applications and sites beyond what standard Web Content Management systems have done in the past. Some of the features not already listed are: a. Workspace Publishing b. Blogs, Wiki, Forums c. Presence, Chat and Messaging d. Self-Defined Friend Network (Social Graph) e. Community Sites 7. enterPriSe integration tooLS Web content viewed within a portal can be manually created or may come from external sources integrated with Liferay Portal or into portlets. For example, an inventory portlet may integrate with an external inventory control system and display current inventory levels per warehouse. As a web platform, Liferay provides multiple methods to integrate with external content and data. Liferay can be leveraged in a sophisticated Service Oriented Architecture as well as used for simple integrations via REST or RSS subscriptions. Liferay as a platform allows developers to easily integrate using: a. REST, SOAP, API-based integration support (HTTP+, JSON, Atom Pub, Liferay EXT/Hook, etc.). b. Extreme scalability and reliability allowing developers to integrate multiple external services and make them available to millions of users. 8. SearCH Search is a vital aspect for any portal since it allows users to find desired content within a massive data repository. Integrated with tagging and metadata capabilities, Liferays multi-tier search provides the ability to search across all assets within the portal in which they have access, while also restricting them from assets in which they do not. Some key features in Liferay search are: a. Ad-Hoc Tagging b. Metadata Headers (using Sitemap protocol) c. Categorization d. Multi-Tier Search e. Search within Files f. Search Optimization g. Open Search h. Faceted Search

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