Understand liferay data models

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userguide seem to have some information

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Idea of users

An enterprise has organizations

An organization has locations

Locations have users

In short

enterprise/(n)locations/(n)users

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Organization represents a corporation such as LifeRay

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An organization has locations or offices in various places

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A user can belong only to a single location

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A user group or group is an independent entity

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user groups are orthogonal

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users can belong to any number of groups

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Roles and permissions are assigned to groups

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Attributes of a location

Name
Country
Region
status
City

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Attributes of Organization

Name
Country
Region
Status

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User Group Attributes

Name
Description

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"Group" is renamed to "community"!

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A community has a collection of pages

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A page will have a number of portlets

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A community should have one or more pages

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Public communites allow self registration

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private communities are controlled by an admin

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Communities are exposed to users via a "My Places" portlet on the user page

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Everything in liferay is tied to a community

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More on communities

Communities are managed via the Communities Portlet. This portlet can be used to create, update, and delete communities; control the permissions of communities (including permission delegation); manage the pages of communities; assign users to communities (either directly or indirectly); and join or leave open communities.

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Attributes of a community

Name
Description
open/closed

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A community has a 'directory' of pages

Essentially pages and their children, and not folders though

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I am on page 31 of the userguide so far

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A page can have child pages

It is not clear if a child has further children.

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Each page is displayed as a tab

The child pages are listed inside that tab.

It is not clear if the display of these pages and children is configurable?

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A page can be a public page or a private page

public page is for guests and private only if you are logged in and belong to that community

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Attributes of a page

public/private
which community
name
language
hidden/not
friendy url

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structure of a friendly url

http://server-name/web/community-friendly-url/page-friendly-url

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what does the look and feel of a page look like?

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