Customer Driven Innovation using Liferay and SFDC (CRM)

What is Ideation Architecture?

Engaging with customers online has been one of the most effective practices followed by organizations in the last few years. These interactive communications with customers, while being highly reliable, provide a huge opportunity for an organization to promote their strongholds. By identifying the right social channels, organizations can promote their technical knowhow and educate customers about their developments.
 

Social media on web portals have become a mainstay in today's world. Companies are making great effort to engage the visitors to their web sites or portals to see their popularity on the various Social Media tools.
 

Liferay has enhanced the workflow and content approval process significantly in it's recent 6.0 release.  Liferay now supports two workflow engines - Kaleo and jBPM.  Content Managers can flexible manage the content creation and approval processes.

This article is about extending Liferay Portal workflow to custom assets.

By Default, a workflow definition can be applied on six out-of-box assets like Blogs Entry, Comments ,Web Content , Document Library Document, Message Boards Message and Wiki Page as shown below.

I am very glad to announce that I have created a portlet to display Google Charts. I have named it as Google Chartlet and it is available as a community plugin to download.
This portlet demonstrates how to use Google charts to generate reports in Liferay.
This portlet is made using charts4j.

We at CIGNEX developed a theme in Liferay Portal which could be used by many communities with different look and feel.   Which means you develop theme only once and use as different themes in various liferay portal sites.

We achieved this functionality by using a theme and by overriding the existing theme look and feel with the theme admin portlet. 

We at CIGNEX developed online PDF Viewer Portlet using ICEFaces and ICEPdf frameworks. It is based on ICEPDF reference implementation.  This PDF Viewer portlet provides following features.

• It is integrated with liferay's document library. So if we add this portlet on any community/organization page. It allows us to browse pdf documents available in document library.

When you extend or customize Liferay Portal, usually you end up using the default Liferay database.
 
Some clients require that their data be stored in a database other than Liferay database when they customize the Portal application using Liferay.  This may be because their data is sensitive and they want additional security.  Some corporates such as Banking and Insurance have strict security policies and compliance in place to protect the data.
 

Background

Liferay is widely used Open Source portal with wide variety of features.  It manages content of various kind ex. Blogs , Wiki , User Information , Documents etc. In such case searching becomes one of the key aspect, by default liferay is bundled with lucene search indexer. From version 5.1.x liferay has made search engine pluggable and currently provides plugin integration with popular enterprise search engine Solr. In this blog I will share details about Solr ,  benefits of using solr in Liferay and solr-web (plugin to do integration between solr and liferay).