12 Must Have Features Of Liferay Portal Development
12 Must Have Features Of Liferay Portal Development
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“To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.”- Aries Spears
Choosing a technology to develop portals is a tough task. And more so choosing a technology that can serve for a long term. Longevity of a portal, application or a software is the key factor in long term IT strategy of any enterprise. Liferay Portal Development has the right mix of features and functionalities that help them achieve their goals.
Liferay DXP offers many out-of-box and custom features for both its community and enterprise edition customers to integrate within their portals. But, here are the top 12 features that must be included in any portal development project.
1. Portlet Sandboxing
Liferay DXP allows developers to bifurcate and exclude specific portlets from execution into multiple JVMs that provide greater resilience to infrastructure.
2. Simple UI Development
Liferay DXP has a single presentation later that integrate all enterprise systems under a single easy to use interface for all end-users. It simplifies internal, externa, and channel websites development for personalized services. This in-turn helps smoothen workflow approval processes that integrate and update content. This feature helps enterprises enhance productivity using Liferay DXP.
3. Single-Click Configuration
Allowing users to configure modules, plugins and access functions, Liferay DXP provisions for easy implementation of multiple modules on a single platform.
4. Workflow and Framework
Leveraging Liferay DXPs workflow APIs, enterprises can incorporate custom processes into custom portlets. This enhances end-user experience. Reusing these components, a seamless integration with workflow engines us established with administrator tools.
5. Rules Engine Integration
Drools provisions for advanced personalization for all the stakeholders. Content, features and functionalities can be customized based on user’s location, accessibility rights and activities with defined attributes.
6. Auditing & Performance Monitoring
Accessing stats of key performances of the resources to better optimize them is easier with Liferay DXP. It provides information lie hits per page, avg. load time, requests per minute for all portlets and pages. This helps in Liferay Performance Tuning and Portal Optimization that allows administrators to track and manage user activities.
7. User Personalization
Users have the ability to set personalization for their favorite content, images and other features provided they have the access from administrators. These pages can be published on a website or kept private depending upon the organizational requirements.
8. Cloud Support
Liferay DXP has dynamic virtual hosting feature that enable developers to create websites using same components with vanity URLs, custom themes, pages and applications. This is one of the main reasons for enterprises investing resources and finance in Liferay DXP for no frills portal upgrade and migration.
9. Role Based Content Delivery
Liferay DXP caters multiple users to access single pages and URLs. It strictly controls the accessibility using various filters like groups, departments, silos and organizational preferences for individuals and branches. It also provides a central platform for users to amalgamate their ideas and thought for a rapid content delivery and publishing within the portal and communities.
10. Custom Fields
Administratorstors can customize, edit, add, and change user attributes in Liferay DXP without affecting the database. This feature support Pages, Web Content, Blogs Entries, Documents and its folders, images and its folders, bookmarks and its folders, forum messages, calendar events and wiki pages. Liferay also offers a framework so that developers can leverage this functionality in their custom portlets to support custom fields for their own entities. This feature sets Liferay different from other digital experience platforms.
11. Mobile Provisioning
This feature is a test case for Enterprise Mobility goals for enterprises. It articulates frameworks and features to define various portal behaviors of mobile devices. It also helps in working on various device platforms like iOS, Android, Xamarin etc.
12. Search & Tagging
This feature helps businesses expand using inbuilt ECM Software utilizing Liferay DXP. This feature caters individual users to search for the required content, documents and other files along with tagging them to dispose, secure and store at secure locations to retrieve them when needed.
Conclusion
Liferay has the potential and abilities that can empower enterprises with digital experience platforms. Liferay Portal Development interconnects various silos of the enterprise under a single umbrella providing personalized online experiences to users.
