Liferay 6.1 CE released - A first brief review!

Its a new year for a new chance to get better in all that things we failed or where we couldn´t gettin better in the past time.
This belongs not only to us but also to our near business partners as well. As that said Liferay does worked out my new-year-call in a pretty short time with Liferay 6.1 CE which has been released recently.
Are you still on Liferay 6.X or lower? Lets migrate your solutions for your customers on sunday to Liferay 6.1 because there are many fancy things around there… i smell something good here and i guess this has something todo with Liferay.

Notice: the next week i will create a review about the CMIS-Interface of Liferay 6.1. I will test it against Alfresco! Stay tuned!

At a glance - all is gettin good - at least at the very end. Until then we see how we can make better our current situation.

In Advance: Many “small” killer changes!

Firstly, if you start Liferay at the very first time you have to talk with Liferay about your taste regarding initial portal-settings which will be stored in a separated file called wizard.properties. Some initial properties like portals-name can be passed on it here.
If you have reached the main page you see at a glance that the UI has been slightly enhanced and looks more clearly since 6.0. If you going through the dockbar-actions on the top you might imagine some new actions right there.
Especilly the control-panel (the action has been moved to the “Go To” actions) has been completely refined. Many “small eyes changes”(which were surely big in their development) have been done. For instance, the Social Equity feature says more clearly what settings we can change here and which consequenes collaboration-actions can have on user-listings (Top Users Dashlet, Ranking etc.).
A new nice feature is the ability to get a first imaginatine on how REST-Services can be called. Therfore Liferay introduces a developer-page where you can see and test REST-Services directly in the browser.

Do Document-Management, hurry up!

As im a longterm ECM-Specialist my personal passion belongs to document-mangement. I just loving to increase productivity, lower overhead on customersite. Now you are able to perform better document-management practices with Liferay. You are now able to create custom datatypes with custom metadata. Your metadata can have text, date, number, associations as attributes with multilanguage support - its just the Liferay-Way!


Look at the first picture. Ive created my own datatype called “Offer” with my own attributes. On applying this documenttype on a new document you can see in the image how it feels like:
As you can see - a webpreview will be created as well. Do you want any more for Liferay 6.1?