The Liferay 7 meetup organized by Azilen Technologies on 21st May, 2016 was undeniably a successful Meetup. Brief Overview given by Ravi Gupta & Hetal Prajapati on Liferay 7 Technology. Find here Presentation.

1. Tech Meetup
-7
Powered By:
@azilentech
#AzilenTechMeetup
21st May 2016

2. Difficulties with Liferay 6.2 &
Previous versions

3. Unused Items
• Fat Liferay
– Unused Liferay Portlets
on PROD
• Need Ext/Hook
– To remove/hide.

4. Classification
• No classification of Web
Contents

5. Non Intuitive Flow
• Older version of UI
components
• Bootstrap 2.3.2

6. Turtle UI
• To get a task done
– Multiple page loads
– Many clicks

7. UI
Platform
Content Management

8. UI
Platform
Content Management

10. UI
• Single Page Application
• Left Pane
– Control Panel
– User Space
• Right Pane
– Application Menu
– Simulation of UI

15. 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

16. Bootstrap 3
Focused on Mobile First
Grids for all devices
Better control for multiple devices at once.
New Collections of Forms, images & Modals

17. Where are my options?

21. UI
Platform
Content Management

22. OSGi

23. • Updated Directory
sturcture
• OSGi Directory contains
– Jar and War files for all
components in LR7

24. • 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

25. OSGi
Since 1999
Lightweight, Fast and Secure Framework
OSGi Standards compliant
Service Registry
Loosely coupled
Manages module lifecycle dynamically

26. OSGi Benefits
Reduces complexity
Modular Architecture
Reduces Maintenance

27. OSGi & Liferay
Existing porlets as OSGi modules
New Portlet development as modules
Service builder powered modules

28. Lucene
• Core of All major search
engines
• Supported by Apahce
• Embedded to Liferay till
version 6.x

29. Luke
• Helps
– to see Lucene Indices
– to run Lucene Queries

30. Solr
• Wraps Lucene
• Better than ‘Just Lucene’

31. Elasticsearch
New Addition

32. Why Elasticsearch?

33. Important Factors
Opensource
Distributed, Scalable, Highly Available
RESTful, JSON
Faster search (sub 100 ms)
Built-in Redundancy

34. 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

35. UI
Platform
Content Management

36. Managing Web Contents
Organize contents in Folders
• Folders can be created
– Just like in Documents
and Media

37. Creating Contents
Brand New Alloy Editor
Simple
Inline

38. Plus button to add elements e.g. table, image etc.
Helps to see HTML and preview
Content Area

41. Preview Pane

42. Blog Template

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

44. @Mentions

45. 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)

49. 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

50. Localized Mail Notifications
• Localization Support
• For each type of Mail notifications
– Account Created Notification
– Password Reset
– Email Verification
– Password Changed

52. Thank You
#AzilenTechMeetup