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Community templates

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  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: 5.1.0
  • Component/s: None
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Description

It would be quite usefull to add the ability to create communities based on templates which were either bundled with Liferay or user defined.

Description: As an extension to the Liferay Archive mechanism, it would be quite usefull to be able to pre-bundle community templates within Liferay such that at the enterprise level, the administrator could select from a list of templates listed during the Community creation stage. The templates could include default resources, certain default roles pre-assigned to those resources, such that it would be easy later to assign users to those roles. Instructor, Students, Teaching Assisant, etc...

The list might include something like these:

  • Simple Private Single Page (Navigation left, Content right)
  • Simple Public Single Page (Navigation left, Content right)
  • Simple News (P1 - Public = Navigation left, Content right, P2 - Private = Journal, Doc Lib, Image Gal)
  • Simple Course (P1 - Private = Navigation, Calendar, PXtoY - Instructor Area)

These would be pre-configured LAR files available from some pre-defined or configurable directory on the server, but should be user definable as well (user having enterprise admin privilages that is), such that new templates could be uploaded.

Issue Links

is duplicated by

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. LEP-723 copying structres/templates from community to community

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. LEP-1138 Journal Articles - Templates from other communities

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

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Brian Chan added a comment -

Great idea... shouldn't be too hard to implement either.

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Brian Chan added a comment - Great idea... shouldn't be too hard to implement either.
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Jorge Ferrer added a comment -

At Germinus we have implemented a very similar feature on top of Liferay 3.5. We had an XML file which describes website templates specifying:

  • The theme of the site
  • Number and the names of the initial layouts
  • The portlets in each column of each layout
  • The initial preferences for each of the portlets

We found this functionality to be of great value to users because they had a preconfigured site from the beginning giving them time to learn how to configure the site manually.

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Jorge Ferrer added a comment - At Germinus we have implemented a very similar feature on top of Liferay 3.5. We had an XML file which describes website templates specifying: The theme of the site Number and the names of the initial layouts The portlets in each column of each layout The initial preferences for each of the portlets We found this functionality to be of great value to users because they had a preconfigured site from the beginning giving them time to learn how to configure the site manually.
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Micah Wedemeyer added a comment -

Also, please make this accessible programmatically, through the community creation service or something similar.

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Micah Wedemeyer added a comment - Also, please make this accessible programmatically, through the community creation service or something similar.
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Jason Poley added a comment -

this would be very useful! the templates should be done in velocity so they can be hot deployed. and possibly mirror more corporate site designs than the user community has produced. This would be of great benefit, and is a very good idea

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Jason Poley added a comment - this would be very useful! the templates should be done in velocity so they can be hot deployed. and possibly mirror more corporate site designs than the user community has produced. This would be of great benefit, and is a very good idea
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Joel Kozikowski added a comment -

See http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Community_templates for current discussion

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Joel Kozikowski added a comment - See http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Community_templates for current discussion
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David Paterson added a comment -

This is a great idea. Novell's old NPS product had this community template concept, a very simple one, and it was quite useful.

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David Paterson added a comment - This is a great idea. Novell's old NPS product had this community template concept, a very simple one, and it was quite useful.
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Vasile Dirla added a comment -

I have implemented a patch for adding the sharing Structure/Templates across comunities.

That patch adds the posibility to access these structures/templates through the shortcuts.

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Vasile Dirla added a comment - I have implemented a patch for adding the sharing Structure/Templates across comunities. That patch adds the posibility to access these structures/templates through the shortcuts.
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Vasile Dirla added a comment -

There are the sources for sharing structures/templates across different comunities. (for Liferay 4.3.3)

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Vasile Dirla added a comment - There are the sources for sharing structures/templates across different comunities. (for Liferay 4.3.3)
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Jorge Ferrer added a comment -

Hey Vasile,

Thanks for posting it, since it may be very useful for other people.

We will not be able to apply it to our code since we were already planning to implement that same feature for v 5.0 in a very different way. Basically we plan to allow for a global scope (or several global scopes) that can hold not only structures and templates but also other types of entities. Any entity placed in this scope will be available to all of the existing communities and organizations.

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Jorge Ferrer added a comment - Hey Vasile, Thanks for posting it, since it may be very useful for other people. We will not be able to apply it to our code since we were already planning to implement that same feature for v 5.0 in a very different way. Basically we plan to allow for a global scope (or several global scopes) that can hold not only structures and templates but also other types of entities. Any entity placed in this scope will be available to all of the existing communities and organizations.
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Mark Liedtke added a comment -

Is there any news on when this will be completed?

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Mark Liedtke added a comment - Is there any news on when this will be completed?
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Juan Fernández added a comment -

This has already been implemented in Liferay 6.0 and it's called "Sites Templates"
Thanks for your feedback!

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Juan Fernández added a comment - This has already been implemented in Liferay 6.0 and it's called "Sites Templates" Thanks for your feedback!

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  • Assignee:
    Brian Chan
    Reporter:
    Raymond Auge
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