Configuring Additional Portal Settings

Go back to the Control Panel, and click on Portal Settings under the Configuration heading. We’ve already looked at the options available from the General and Authentication links. Now let’s examine the other portal settings options.

Users

If you click on Users from the Portal Settings screen, you’ll find three tabs: Fields, Reserved Credentials and Default User Associations.

The Fields tab allows you to enable/disable the following fields:

  • Enable/disable requiring the Terms of Use

  • Enable/disable user screen names autogeneration

  • Enable/disable requiring the last names

  • Enable/disable the birthday field

  • Enable/disable the gender field

The next tab is Reserved Credentials. You can enter screen names and email addresses here that you don’t want others to use. Liferay will then prevent users from registering with these screen names and email addresses. You might use this feature to prevent users from creating IDs that look like administrative IDs or that have reserved words in their names.

The Default User Associations tab has three fields allowing you to list (one per line) sites, roles, and user groups you want new users to become members of automatically. By default, Liferay assigns new users to both the Users role and the Power Users role.

If you have defined other user groups, sites or roles you want newly created users to be members of by default, enter them here. For example, you may have defined site templates in certain user groups to pre-populate end users’ private pages. If there is a particular configuration you want everyone to have, you may want to enter those user groups here.

Mail Host Names

Mail Host Names appears after Authentication and Users on the Portal Settings screen of the Control Panel. You can enter other mail host names (one per line) besides the one you configured on the General tab. This lets the portal know which mail host names are owned by your organization.

Email Notifications

There are five tabs under the Email Notifications page of Portal Settings. The Sender tab allows you to set the portal’s administrative name and email address. By default, these are Joe Bloggs and test@liferay.com. You can change them to whatever you want. This name and email address will appear in the From field in all email messages sent by the portal.

Figure 17.3: You can customize the email template for the email messages sent to users who have just created their accounts.

Figure 17.3: You can customize the email template for the email messages sent to users who have just created their accounts.

The other four tabs are Account Created Notification, Email Verification Notification, Password Changed Notification and Password Reset Notification. These tabs allow you to customize the email messages that are sent to users each time any of those four events occur.

Figure 17.4: You can refer to this list of variables thats available for use in email templates.

Figure 17.4: You can refer to this list of variables that's available for use in email templates.

A list of tokens, entitled “Definition of Terms,” is provided so you can insert certain values (such as the portal URL or the user ID) when you are setting up the custom email messages.

Content Sharing

The Content Sharing section of the Portal Settings area of the Control Panel allows you to choose whether or or not site administrators can display content in sites from other sites they administer. For example, suppose that a certain user is a site administrator of two sites: Engineering and Marketing. The checkbox in the Content Sharing section of Portal Settings determines whether or not the site administrator can display content from the Marketing site in the Engineering site and vice versa.

The Content Sharing section of Portal Settings also allows you to choose a behavior for whether or not subsites can display content from parent sites and for configuring the defaults. There are three options:

Enabled by Default: This means that subsites can display content from parent sites by default but this can be disabled by a site administrator.

Disabled by Default: This means that subsites cannot display content from parent sites by default but this can be enabled by a site administrator.

Disabled: This means that subsites cannot display content from parent sites and this behavior cannot be changed by a site administrator.

Identification

The identification section has several links for addresses, phone numbers and other information you can configure in your portal. This allows you to set up contact information for the organization that owns the portal. Developers can query for this information in their applications.

Miscellaneous: Display Settings

This section allows you to set the default portal language and the time zone. You can also set up a portal-wide logo which appears in the top left corners of portal pages.

Figure 17.5: You can specify various display settings for your portal including options for the default language, other available language, time zone, portal logo, and default themes for the portal and Control Panel.

Figure 17.5: You can specify various display settings for your portal including options for the default language, other available language, time zone, portal logo, and default themes for the portal and Control Panel.

Liferay’s default theme is configured to display the portal logo. For custom themes, you can choose whether or not to display the logo. Be careful to choose an image file that fits the space. If you pick something too big, it might overlap with the navigation. Next, let’s look at how to customize different types of portal assets using custom fields.

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