Social Portal Extension Setup

Get the latest gCube Portal Bundle

http://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/GCube_Portal_Installation and install it.

Get the needed dependencies for the Social Extension

Social Networking Library from maven (get the latest) nexus-search;quick~social-networking

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.gcube.portal</groupId>
  <artifactId>social-networking-library</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

• Create a folder _social-library in $GLOBUS_LOCATION/lib
• Copy in the yet created floder the SNL Dependencies & the Netflix Astyanax Dependencies:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.netflix.astyanax</groupId>
  <artifactId>astyanax</artifactId>
  <version>CHECK THE VERSION IN SNL POM</version>
</dependency>

• Get the latest ASL Social Extension and copy it into the $GLOBUS_LOCATION/lib/_application-support-layer folder

Notifications

For notifications to work you will need to deploy the Notification Servlet on the Portal. The client code is instead implemented in the social-dockbar-hook provided in the portal bundle.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.gcube.portal</groupId>
  <artifactId>notificationchecker</artifactId>
  <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <type>war</type>
</dependency>

Create the Social Portal Layout on Liferay

The Layout of the Data e-Infrastructure Gateway Community must be updated, the following pages should be created (pay attention to friendly url and the hidden property)

• Workspace
  • Name: Workspace
  • Friendly URL: workspace
  • Visibility: hidden

• Messages
  • Name: Messages
  • Friendly URL: messages
  • Visibility: hidden

• Notifications
  • Name: Notifications
  • Friendly URL: notifications
  • Visibility: hidden

• Profile
  • Name: Profile
  • Friendly URL: profile
  • Visibility: visible

• Join New
  • Name: Join New
  • Friendly URL: join-new
  • Visibility: visible

Populate the pages with the related portlets.

Required portlets and Configuration steps

The following portlets need then to be installed on the portal:

• portlets-user.join-new-environment
• portlets-user.myvres
• portlets-user.newsfeed
• portlets-user.notifications
• portlets-user.shareupdates
• portlets-user.messages
• portlets-user.socialprofile

The following widgets has to be installed under $GLOBUS_LOCATION/lib/_ext

• portlets-user.wsmailwidget
• portlets-user.application-news-widget

please note that in order to use the correct webapp context the notificationcheker servlet installation folder should be notificationchecker, so you should rename the folder under $CATALINA_HOME/webapps from notificationchecker-X.Y.Z to notificationchecker

Staging Procedure

The Cassandra Cluster needs to be "staged" the first time you are going to use it.

• Create the RuntimeResource for the Cassandra Cluster
  • The Runtime Resource with name SocialPortalDataStore of type Database must be created in the root Vo of the infrastructure.
    • The Access Point part should have the following settings:

...
 <AccessPoint>        
         <Description>$CLUSTER_NAME</Description>
         <Interface>
            <Endpoint EntryName="$KEYSPACE_NAME">$HOST:$PORT</Endpoint>
         </Interface>
....

• Create the RuntimeResource for the Files Storage
  • The Runtime Resource with name SocialPortalDataStore of type FTPServer must be created in the root Vo of the infrastructure.
    • The Access Point part should have the following settings:

...
 <AccessPoint>        
         <Description>FTP Server</Description>
         <Interface>
            <Endpoint EntryName="D4Science.org FTP Server">ftp.d4science.org</Endpoint>
         </Interface>
....

• Setup the KeySpace
  • This was not automatized yet. Please contact Massimiliano Assante