Liferay Social Office - Is there a Related Content portlet? - liferay

I'm looking for the Related Content portlet in Liferay, and in particular for Social Office. I know about the Asset Publisher and Related Assets portlet. But I can seem to find the Related Content portlet? I'm using 6.1 CE of Liferay and I just installed the newest Social Office CE yesterday. Was this portlet removed/deprecated?
This page claims that there is this feature: http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-social-office/features
And this page says the portlet should already be there. But I don't see it.
http://www.liferay.com/documentation/social-office/2.0/user-guide/-/ai/lp-2-0-soen01-social-office-features-0
Any help would be great. Thanks.

Related Assets will only display when there actually are related assets. Further, AFAIK it will not show when you show all blogposts (the documentation says it's on the Blogs page), but when you select one article.
Alternatively, if you have sufficient permissions, enable "Edit Controls" in the dockbar and the portlet will appear (greyed out and without content).
Another alternative, if it indeed is not there, you might be able to change the social office site template and add it to the template.

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Use a web content portlet

I am using web content portlet to develop a portal.
Each page has common theme (which includes header and footer) and we have many portlets placed on each page.
One of the portlet on right side is menu which is common on many pages.
I could have kept it as a part of theme but the menu can be subject to change in future and the end user who will be handling the portal is non-developer.
So if they want to change some data in that menu portlet, they will have to change it on every page which leads to duplication of effort.
Like I said, since end user is a non-developer, I cannot make that portlet part of the theme.
So is there any way where one web content portlet be created once and used on many pages?
You can embed web-content in theme as per link
Here articleId as in above link, you can set in theme-setting, refer to link
I have found a solution right now. If anyone has abetter solution than this..they are most welcome. I would like people to share alternate and better solutions
I am using Liferay 6.2
What I did was added a new web content display portlet which like I said created a new blank web content display portlet.
So my usual method was to add content to this portlet. THis was the method I followed. You can click on Select Web Content button and then select the already created portal from the list and you are done. NO need to create duplicate portlets

Converting Vignette Portlets to Liferay Portlets

As the title states, i'm trying to convert these Vignette portlets into Liferay portlets.
Is there any documentation on this anywhere? I've searched the entire Internet
-When trying to deploy my WARs right off the bat, I'm getting a "missing liferay.plugin.packet.xml" which tells me the entire portlet must be reconfigured to work with Liferay.
-Running Liferay 6.1.1 ga2 on Web Logic 12c server
Cheers!
You mean "liferay-plugin-package.xml", don't you?
You will find such a file in the source of Liferay at /portal-web/docroot/WEB-INF/liferay-plugin-package.xml. For other examples just download sources from other Portlets (Github or Liferay-Marketplace).
Besides some other values, this file defines how Liferay should handle your war (layout-template, portlet, theme).
EDIT: As the marketplace does not allow (plz see the comment in: liferay-plugin-package_6_1_0.dtd) portlets having an liferay-plugin-package.xml, I would recommend to use the corresponding properties file.
Reference file (in the portal sources): /definitions/liferay-plugin-package_6_1_0.properties

Which is the Liferay equivalent of a IBM WebSphere Portal / WCM Menu?

I've developed with WPS and WCM for several years and now I am also learning Liferay. I can't help but compare the features and I understand that in Liferay some things are done differently.
I would like to know the best practices to manage the following simple example:
A simple page with a carrousel with several images and links
Google analytics inserted in the page (Reusable in most pages)
The following is how I'd solve it in IBM WPS:
A HTML component with the Google Analytics code that is called in every page (I can't find how to do this in Liferay)
A content definition of an image and a link.
Create several contents for each image and link.
Create a menu that shows the list of content in the form of a carrousel (I can't find how to do this either in Liferay)
I am aware that Liferay has a list portlet and content that has repeatable items. I know I could use these, however its much more usable if I can have on content for each image/link and one reusable HTML snippet of code.
How should I solve this in liferay in the most efficient way?
Thanks!
You have to use Liferay Web Content portlet for creating the carousel. This is available in Control Panel. For your particular requirememnt you have to create a dynamic web content, which involves using of Velocity language and javascript to iterate over a set of images. Infact if you see Liferay's website, the home page has this kind of stuff.
For Google Analytics there are two ways. Liferay is not just meant for creating one site, it caters creation of multiple sites. Each site has a group of pages. You can create site from Control panel again. In the site settings you have this option to add google analytics id. So with each site can have different google analytics id.
If you want to do it at a global level, we add the google analytics script snippet in the Theme of liferay.
To get a better understanding of all the jargons used in Liferay, you have to atleast go through Liferay's documentation. And while going through it you have unlearn what you have previously learned. Liferay has hell lot of features than Websphere portal.
http://www.liferay.com/documentation/liferay-portal/6.1/user-guide

Different Message Board Portlet on different page in Liferay 5.2.3

Is it possible to implement different Message board portlet on different page in Liferay 5.2.3. But now if I am adding Message Board on two pages same posts are coming. I want these to be totally separate from each other. Can anyone help me in this regard.
I do not recall having scope content in 5.2.3 Liferay 6 does support page scoped content, so you can have different MB or blogs or wiki portlet on different pages of same community/org.
To check if scoping is supported in Liferay 5.2.3, Add MessageBoard portlet on a page. Click on Configuration(Its under look and feel icon of the portlet) and see if you have Scope tab. If you have Scope tab then, Liferay 5.2.3 supports scoping. Click on Scope tab. Select the current layout scope and click on save.
If you dont see Scope tab in Configuration option of the portlet, then it can confirmed that Liferay 5.2.3 does not support the feature you are looking for and you have to upgrade to Liferay 6

Liferay : custom Web content Display List Portlet

I'm beginner in Liferay, and I need to customize the portlet webcontent display list.
I added a portlet in my page Home, and I managed to see the recent news that I created.
The news is displayed in a table (title, author and date display).
I want to display the news like this:
- The date of the news (above the title of the news)
- The title of the news (which is a link to the news)
I tried to create a structure, but I do not see commits its work?
Thank you to enlighten me?
PS: sorry for this English !!
Liferay is available in source - did you look at the implementation of the webcontent list portlet? You can either create a jsp hook for that portlet or just reimplement a similar one based on what you find in there...
As you say you'd like to customize Webcontent display list I assume you don't want its default behaviour. Once you know what to change in this portlet, read about jsp hooks, create a hook with the jsp changes you'd like (if it's limited to jsp changes) and deploy it.
Liferay's development documentation should have the information that you need, otherwise continue in the wiki on liferay.com
Edit: Also, you might want to look at AssetPublisher - maybe this provides a few more options for formatting your output.
Generally Liferay web content in journalarticle table. I have referred Liferay 6.0 Version.
Now, for showing liferay custom portlet view, you should use Liferay Portlet Creation and Liferay Service Builder.
Here are two useful article on those -
1> Liferay MVC Portlet
2> Liferay Service Builder
Now make the service for journalarticle table and use those in your portlet.
Some useful fields of journalarticle table for your reference are - title, createDate etc.

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