Creating a new structure

Liferay gives users interesting features: structures and templates. Structures provide information about possible fields in our content, and templates are responsible for rendering these fields as an article in a frontend (for instance, in the Asset Publisher or Web Content Display portlet).

Let's assume that our goal is to define a new structure and template called Internal publication. This structure consists of the following fields:

Name	Type	Required	Repeatable
Author	Text	Yes	No
Department	Select	Yes	No
Project	Text Box	No	No
Client	Text	Yes	No
Content	HTML	No	No
Attachment	Documents and Media	No	Yes

How to do it…

In order to define a new structure, it is required that you log in as a user with the Add Structure permission in the Web Content section. To achieve this goal, go through the following steps:

1. Log in as an administrator.

2. Go to Admin | Site Administration | Content | Web Content.

3. Click on the Manage option and choose Structures...