Organizing users in an organization and a community

We have all the requirements for the CIGNEX Neighborhood portal. If you remember the section we discussed in the beginning of this chapter, Designing the site—Painting the full picture, we mentioned that we should always start with the information about the users. As per our requirements, the portal users are organized in a structured grouping. They are also interested in other activities and want to collaborate with one another using the portal.

Let's see how Liferay can help us to meet these requirements.

Organization—structured grouping of users

An organization in Liferay represents an organization in real life. The organization can be a very small organization like a sports club in our neighborhood or it can be as large as a Fortune 500 company. Liferay Organization can be used to replicate any organization in the real world.

The organization is a hierarchical collection of the users. It is also possible to create a sub-organization under...