Liferay Communities

• Liferay has 3 different ways of site types with different codes/constants.
• All Organization Sites would be by default “Private” type. I.e, Users of these will be managed by Site Administrator or Moderator.
• Each type represents a different  behavior
  • Private: Only Site Administrator or Moderator will assign the user to site
  • Restricted: User can request for site assignment and Moderator or Site Administrator will Accept/Reject the request.
    • User will not see any of the Site Assets until site assignment Accepted.
  • Open: User can manage himself to join or leave this type of Communities in Liferay.
  • Each community row in group_ will be tagging this “type_” to identify community type by Liferay.

Sites

Following are the site related db tables

group_

• Created site will be stored in the group_  table
• Type_=1|2|3
  • Restricted=2
  • Private=3
  • open=1
•  Site=0 Site is in Inactive (not available), will not be displayed in the Dockbar and scope

groups_orgs

•  The relation between sites and orgs will be available in the groups_orgs table

team

•  Created teams will be available in team table by based on site wise

groups_permissions

•   Relation between site and permission will be stored in the group_permission

groups_roles

• Relation between sites and roles will be stored in the groups_roles

groups_usergroups

The relation between the sites and the associated User Groups

Virtualhost

• The list of hosts are stored in the Virtualhost (ex: alliance1.com, hq.alliance1.com)