Quickstart Guide

This Quickstart Guide assumes its' reader has a basic level of competence with the Liferay portal. As such it will not cover Liferay management topics such as how to create pages or add or remove portlet applications to a page.

Installation

The MyPlaces Landing Page Hook comes in the form of a Web Application Archive. It may be installed by copying to the <liferay-install-path>/deploy folder or via Control Panel > Plugins Installation > Install More Portlets > Upload File.

Configuration

The MyPlaces Landing Page Hook only has one configuration option: "myplaces.landing-page.flag=true". This attribute needs to be placed in the description of the community containing the desired landing page. If signed in as an administrator, the community description can be accessed by:

  1. Opening the 'Manage' menu from the administration toolbar
  2. Choosing the 'Control Panel' menu item
  3. Clicking the 'Communities' option in the 'Portal' subsection of the left hand side of the Control Panel
  4. Clicking the 'Actions' button corresponding to the community which contains the target landing page and choose the 'Edit' option from the context menu which appears.
  5. Add the attribute "myplaces.landing-page.flag=true"  to the 'Description' text area (below the community name input field).

Licence Information

The MyPlaces User Hook licence information can be reviewed on the page http://<hostname>/myplaces-landingpage-hook/license.