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Liferay Portal 4.0 - User Guide
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Liferay Portal 4.0 - User Guide

Joseph Shum

Alexander Chow

Release Candidate 1

Revision History
Revision Updated:Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Table of Contents

Preface
1. User Administration
1. Overview
1.1. Administration Portlets
1.2. User
1.3. Organizations and Locations
1.4. User Groups
2. Enterprise Administration Portlet
2.1. How to view, search, add, and edit organizations
2.1.1. Viewing Organizations
2.1.2. Searching Organizations
2.1.3. Adding Organizations
2.1.4. Editing Organizations
2.2. How to view, search, add, and edit locations
2.2.1. Viewing Locations
2.2.2. Searching Locations
2.2.3. Adding Locations
2.2.4. Editing Locations
2.3. How to view, search, add, edit, deactivate, restore, and delete users
2.3.1. Viewing Users
2.3.2. Searching Users
2.3.3. Adding Users
2.3.4. Editing Users
2.3.5. Deactivating Users
2.3.6. Restoring Users
2.3.7. Deleting Users
2.4. How to view, search, add, edit, delete, and assign user groups
2.4.1. Viewing User Groups
2.4.2. Searching User Groups
2.4.3. Adding User Groups
2.4.4. Editing User Groups
2.4.5. Deleting User Groups
2.4.6. Assigning Users to User Groups
3. Organization Administration Portlet
3.1. How to view and edit your organization
3.1.1. Viewing your organization
3.1.2. Editing your organization
3.2. How to view, search, add, and edit locations that belong to your organization
3.2.1. Viewing Locations
3.2.2. Searching Locations
3.2.3. Adding Locations
3.2.4. Editing Locations
3.3. How to view, search, add, edit, and deactivate users that belong to your organization
3.3.1. Viewing Users
3.3.2. Searching Users
3.3.3. Adding User
3.3.4. Editing User
3.3.5. Deactivate User
3.4. How to view, search, add, edit, delete, and assign user groups
4. Location Administration Portlet
4.1. How to view and edit your location
4.1.1. Viewing your location
4.1.2. Editing your location
4.2. How to view your organization
4.3. How to view, search, add, edit, and deactivate users
4.3.1. Viewing Users
4.3.2. Searching Users
4.3.3. Adding Users
4.3.4. Editing Users
4.3.5. Deactivating Users
4.4. How to view, search, add, edit, delete, and assign user groups
2. Community Administration
1. Overview
2. Communities Portlet
2.1. How to view, search, add, edit, and delete communities
2.1.1. Viewing Communities
2.1.2. Searching Communities
2.1.3. Adding Communities
2.1.4. Editing Communities
2.1.5. Deleting Communities
2.2. How to view, add, edit, permission, delete, manage look and feel for, and import/export pages for a community
2.2.1. Viewing Pages
2.2.2. Adding Pages
2.2.3. Editing Pages
2.2.4. Permission Pages
2.2.5. Deleting Pages
2.2.6. Manage Look and Feel for Pages
2.2.7. Import/Export Pages
2.3. How to assign users to a community
2.3.1. Assigning Users Directly to a Community
2.3.2. Assigning Users Indirectly to a Community
2.4. How to join and leave an open community
2.4.1. Joining an Open Community
2.4.2. Leaving an Open Community
2.5. How to control permissions in a community
3. Page Settings link
3. Security and Permissions
1. Introduction
2. Entity Definitions
2.1. Resources
2.2. Permissions
2.3. Roles
2.4. Users
2.5. Organizations and Locations
2.6. Communities
2.7. User Groups
3. Administration
3.1. Creating a Role
3.2. Assigning Company Permissions to a Role
3.3. Assigning Community Permissions to a Role
3.4. Assigning Roles
3.5. Assigning Individual Portlet Permissions
3.6. Assigning Default Permissions
3.7. Assigning Individual Permissions
3.8. Special Case: Assigning Individual Permissions to Locations
3.9. Delegating Permissions
3.9.1. Portal Permissions
3.9.2. Community Permissions
3.9.3. Page Permissions
3.9.4. Portlet Permissions
3.9.5. Enterprise Admin Permissions
3.9.6. Role Permissions
3.9.7. Personal Community Permissions
4. Admin Portlet
1. Server Tab: Shut Down Server
2. Enterprise Tab: Edit Enterprise's Profile
3. Portlets Tab: Set Minimum Required Roles for Portlet Access
4. Users Tab
4.1. Live Session: View Current Users and End User's Session
4.2. Authentication: User Account Authentication
4.3. Default Communities and Roles: Setg Default Community Names and Roles
4.4. Reserved Users: Reserve User ID and Email
4.5. Mail Host Names: Add Mail Host Name
4.6. Emails: Automatically Generated Emails
5. LDAP Integration
1. Installing Apache Directory Server
2. Installing LDAP Browser
3. Inputting User in LDAP Browser
4. Integration
6. Auto Deploy Portlets
7. Deploying Community Themes
8. Adding Layout Template
9. Content Management System
1. Introduction
1.1. Document Management
1.2. Publishing
2. Document Management Portlets
2.1. Document Library
2.1.1. Adding a Document
2.1.2. Referencing a Document
2.2. Image Gallery
2.2.1. Adding an Image
2.2.2. Referencing an Image
2.2.3. Viewing Image Slideshow
3. Journal Portlet
3.1. Definitions
3.2. Structures
3.2.1. Structure Creation
3.2.2. Editing Structures
3.2.3. Structure Deletion
3.3. Templates
3.3.1. Template Creation
3.3.2. Editing Templates
3.3.3. Template Deletion
3.4. Articles
3.4.1. Article Creation
3.4.2. Editing Articles
3.4.3. Article Deletion
4. Journal Display Portlets
4.1. Journal Articles Portlet
4.2. Journal Content Portlet
5. Other CMS Features
5.1. Breadcrumb Portlet
5.2. Navigation Portlet
5.3. Associating Navigation Links with Articles and URLs
5.4. Layout Design Templates
10. Message Board Portlet
1. Adding Category
2. Adding Thread
3. Editing Category and Thread
4. Deleting Category and Thread
5. Thread Subscription
6. Configuring Subscription Emails
7. Recent Posts
8. Statistics
11. WYSIWYG
1. Inserting Images
2. Inserting Links
2.1. Linking to a Document
2.2. Linking to a Page
2.3. Linking to an Image
12. Configurations
1. Properties
2. Authentication
3. Look and Feel
13. Internationalization
1. Languages

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3.1. Example Permissions
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