4. LIFERAY COLLABORATION SUITE
Liferay Portal ships with a robust suite of collaboration applications which you can use to build communities of users for your site. These applications are best-ofbreed applications with all the features you would expect of standalone versions that are outside a portal. The difference with Liferay's collaboration suite, however, is that all of the applications share a common look and feel, security model, and architecture. And they inherit all of the strengths of being a part of the Liferay development platform, so you can use them in combination with Liferay's user management and Content Management features to build a well-integrated, feature-rich web site. This chapter will focus on the use of Liferay's collaboration suite. You will learn how to set up and administer: •
Blogs
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Calendars
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Chat
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Message Boards
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Wikis
You will see how all of these features can work together to provide an enhanced experience for your users, as well as giving you the tools to help build a community that keeps coming back.
Scopes New in Liferay 5.2 is the concept of Scopes as it applies to portlets instead of roles. As we learned earlier, roles can be scoped by the portal, by a community, or by an organization. This means that the role only takes effect for the scope in which it resides.