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Liferay 6.0 (Preview Release)

Thank you for choosing Liferay Portal. With this preview release, you'll get to see the latest advancements in Liferay. This document should serve as a quick guide through Liferay.

Contents

  1. Features
  2. Installation instructions
    1. Sample Data: 7Cogs, Inc.
  3. Preparing for Production
  4. Professionally Supported
  5. Licensing

I. Features:

The following are the new and improved features in this preview release, for more information about the feature list, visit: New features for Liferay Portal v6.0

  1. Content and Knowledge Management
    1. Sharing Content
    2. Tags and Categories
    3. Custom Attributes
    4. Abuse Reporting
    5. Showing the Difference
    6. Asset Publisher and Filters Galore
    7. Knowledge Base Plugin
    8. Integrated Workflow
  2. Platform Management
    1. Portlet Performance Monitoring
    2. Auditing
    3. Analytics and Tracking
    4. All for One, One for All
    5. Scripting Based Management
    6. Sharding
  3. UI and Usability
    1. Clear, Concise Navigation
    2. Improved UI for the Document Library
    3. One Click Page Creation
    4. One Click Communities Creation
    5. Self-Explanatory Content Authoring
  4. Extension and Integration
    1. Generic Asset Framework
    2. Alloy UI Framework
    3. Rules Engine Based Personalization
    4. Scripting Framework
    5. Reuse the Features of Liferay's Portlets
    6. Integration with External Sytems

II. Installation instructions

All Liferay bundles are designed so that they can be installed and used within minutes. Learn more at:

Quick Installation Instructions

After following this instructions you'll have a fully functional Liferay Portal installation with several default users.

Sample data: 7Cogs, Inc

Sample Data

This Liferay bundle includes some sample data to showcase Liferay Portal's capabilities. You will find several users, organization and web pages already created belonging to a fictitious company called 7Cogs.

Removing the sample data

To remove the sample data that is included in the bundle follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Control Panel > Plugin Installation, search for 7cogs-hook and remove it.
    Note: some application servers may not support hot undeploy using this method. In those cases follow the instructions of your application server to undeploy 7cogs-hook.war
  2. Stop the Liferay Portal server
  3. Delete the data in your database or point to a new database
  4. Start the Liferay Portal server
  5. Use a browser to access the server and login using the following credentials:

III. Preparing for production

Liferay Portal Administration Guide

The Liferay Portal bundle uses an embedded database to make installation fast and easy.

To find out more about how to install it in a production environment read the Liferay Portal Administration Guide available at Liferay's documentation pages

Learning more

The following resources are recommended for learning more about Liferay Portal and getting help if needed:

IV. Professionally supported

Liferay Portal provides all the benefits of Open Source plus all the benefits of professionally supported software. Liferay offers a variety of services all around the world including:

Learn more about Liferay's professional services at our website and contact us for pricing.

V. Licensing

Liferay is licensed under LGPL. The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is an open source license that is a variant of the more restrictive GNU General Public License (GPL). LGPL-licensed software can be distributed with other open source or proprietary software more freely than GPL-licensed software. For more information please visit: http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-portal/lgpl.

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