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Liferay Portal Development make simpler the development of internal, external, and channel websites--specially those which allow users to login for personalized services or views and those that need a workflow approval process to update content and integrate or aggregate multiple existing services. Single presentation layer is provided with Liferay portal development for integrating all enterprise systems into a single easy to use interface for end users.
User Personalization
Depending on what an administrator allows, users can personalize portal pages by adding, removing, positioning content or portlet attributes. These pages can be made public or kept private.
Flexible Enterprise Integration Framework
Liferay Portal is a central presentation layer platform that enables users, administrators and developers to integrate content and services from backend or legacy applications. Liferay supports number of methods to integrate, including SOAP, REST, RSS, as well as proprietary API's.
Role Based Content Delivery
Portals allow multiple user types to access a single URL and access a unique page view based on the users role, group, organization or personal preferences. Liferay Portal provides a central platform for determining enterprise content policy, including who can edit and publish content, files, communities, files and applications.
Granular, Role-Based Authorizations
To ensure that the right people control the right information, portal administrators can assign individual users or groups of users different "roles" that grant changing levels of access and editing rights to specific communities, files, applications and tools.
Out-of-the-box Tools
Liferay Portal provides more out of the box portlets than any other portal on the market. Included are Liferay CMS and Liferay Collaboration offering web publishing, content management, collaboration and social networking.
Single-Click Configuration
A fast, responsive interface makes Liferay Portal easy to use for everyone in your organization. Typically time-consuming tasks likeediting a page layout, adding new applications and content, and changing look and feel can be done in a couple of clicks without refreshing the page.
Secure Single Sign On (SSO)
Combine and access your content and applications in one place. Liferay Portal can pull all of your different systems together and make them available by logging in just once through secure SSO.
Dynamic Drag & Drop
Liferay Portal was the first portal to offer this feature, allowing users to move different elements around in the portal by dragging and dropping them into place.
Custom Fields
While Liferay development administrators can add, edit, customizeand change user attributes directly from Liferay, without changing their database.Liferay 6 extends this support to Pages, Web Content, Blogs Entries, Documents and its folders, images and its folders, bookmarks and its folders, forum messages, calendar events and wiki pages.Liferay also offers a framework so that developers can leverage this functionality in their custom portlets to support custom fields for their own entities.
Workflow Framework
Liferay Portal development allows you to incorporate workflow into any of your own custom portlets by leveraging Liferay's workflow APIs. This provides a better end user experience; saves your development team a lot of effort by reusing Liferay's workflow administration tools; and provides seamless integration with all supported workflow engines.
User-Driven Workflow & Approval
Liferay Portal allows users to create their own workflow and define the number of approval paths based on their own unique business requirements and operational needs.
Rules Engine Integration
Advanced personalization via Drools allows for "contextual personalization", the specification of content, functionality, and features based on a user's location, activities, and their other self-defined profile attributes.
Communities & Organizations
Liferay users can be instinctively grouped into a hierarchy of "organizations" or cross-organizational "communities," providing flexibility and ease of administration.
Auditing & Performance Monitoring
To help administrators to monitor the portal's performance and better optimize resources, Liferay Portal gives administrators access to key performance statistics for all portlets and portal pages. Meanwhile, our Portal Auditing feature allows administrators to track and manage user activity within the portal.
Work From Your Desktop
Click the link ofLiferay Portal from your desktop, drag your files into familiar "WebDAV" desktop folders and they are automatically uploaded to your portal.
Search & Tagging
Tag web content, documents, message board threads dynamically share important content with other portal users.Users can then search for information within specific portlets, communities, within the entire portal and even within external integrated applications.
Multi-language Support
International or multi-lingual organizations get out of the box support for multiple languages. Users can toggle between different language settings with just one click. You can also easily add other languages.
