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The Calendar portlet generally works the way you would expect a calen- dar to work. It inherits its interface from the rest of Liferay's portlet library, so you should find common tasks in the same place that you find them in other Liferay portlets.

To get started, you may want to click the Permissions button. Here you can find a list of roles with check boxes denoting whether the role has the

Add Event or the Export All Events permission. By default, only the owner has

permissions to do these things, which means that, by default, the Calendar portlet is set up to be used in one's personal space. Out of the box, Liferay de- faults to putting a Calendar portlet on all users' private pages, so this is ex- pected. If you are going to be using the Calendar as a shared calendar, you may want to modify some things here.

First, create a portal, community, or organization role and add the users to whom you wish to grant access to the calendar to the role. Then come back to the Calendar portlet and click the Permissions button. Check the boxes next to the role(s) that should have access to one or both of the functions (Add Event or Export All Events). Then click Submit.

Now you are ready to begin using your calendar. Click the Add Event but- ton. You will see a form that allows you to fill out all the information for your event.

Start Date/Time: The date and time the event starts. Duration: How long the event will last.

All Day Event: Check this box to disassociate time from the event and

make it last all day.

Time Zone Sensitive: Leave this box checked to make sure that the

portal keeps track of the event regardless of time zone.

Title: The title of the event.

Type: Select from a number of pre-configured event types. You can

change these in the portal-ext.properties file.

Permissions: Determine who can view and edit the event.

Repeat: If the event repeats on a schedule, select the schedule (daily,

weekly, monthly. etc.)

End Date: If the event repeats on a schedule but there is an end to the

set of meetings, enter the end date.

Reminders: Select whether to send a reminder, how long before the

event to send it, and through what medium (email, SMS text message, or in- stant message) to send it. Note that this feature is integrated with your pro- file on the portal, so you will need to fill out your mobile phone number and / or instant messenger IDs in order to use those features.

When you have finished adding your event, click Save.

You can view calendar events by day, week, month, year, or in a simple list.

Chat

Liferay's Chat portlet gives you a convenient way of allowing your users to send each other instant messages when they are logged into your web site. It appears as a bar at the bottom of every page, showing who is logged on, their statuses, and any chats the logged-in user has had open.

The Chat portlet is very simple to use. To change the settings, click Set-

tings (found near the lower right corner next to Online Friends). Here you can

set your status, whether to show if you are online, and whether to play a sound if someone sends you a message while you have the window or tab in the background.

The portlet shows you the number of your friends who are online. To chat with one of them, click the Online Friends link and then click the friend's name. You can then begin chatting with him or her. You can have multiple chats open at a time, and even have one or more of them minimized.

The Chat portlet is distributed with the Liferay bundles, but is not in- cluded as part of the .war distribution, as it is a separate plugin. If you in- stalled the Liferay .war manually on your application server, you can install the Chat portlet by going to the Control Panel, clicking Plugins Installation, and then clicking the Install More Portlets button. Find the Chat portlet in the list, click on it, and then click Install.

Mail

Liferay's Mail portlet enables your users to interact with their email us- ing an easy to use, ubiquitous web interface. If your mail system supports the IMAP protocol, you can use the Mail portlet to integrate your users' mail with the rest of your web site. You can also connect the Mail portlet to a mail ac- count provided by Google.

The Mail portlet is distributed with the Liferay bundles, but is not in- cluded as part of the .war distribution, as it is a separate plugin. If you in- stalled the Liferay .war manually on your application server, you can install the Mail portlet by going to the Control Panel, clicking Plugins Installation, and then clicking the Install More Portlets button. Find the Mail portlet in the list, click on it, and then click Install.

To connect the Mail portlet with an email account, click the Add a New

Email Account link. From there, you are given a choice between a Custom

email Account or a Gmail Account. Choose the option that you wish, and fill out the form that appears.

For a Gmail account, all you need to do is provide your email address and your password, and the portlet will take care of the rest.

For a Custom Mail Account, the following fields are necessary:

Address: The email address which receives mail for this account. Login: The user name for logging into the account.

Password: The password for logging into the account.

Incoming Settings: The host name for your IMAP (Internet Mail Access

Protocol) or POP server.

Incoming Port: The port upon which the IMAP or POP service is run-

ning.

Use Secure Incoming Connection: Check this box to use an encrypted

connection to the server, if your server supports it.

Outgoing SMTP Server: The host name of your SMTP (Simple Mail

Transfer Protocol) server.

Outgoing Port: The port upon which the SMTP service is running. Use Secure Outgoing Connection: Check this box to use an encrypted

connection to the server, if your server supports it.

When finished, click Save. Your new email account now appears as a tab at the top of the page along with the button for adding a mail account. In this way, you can add as many mail accounts as you want in order to view them in the portlet.

If you click the tab for the mail account you just configured, you will be brought to an interface which allows you to read your mail and compose new messages. To read a message, click on it. To compose a new message, click the

Compose Email link on the left side of the portlet. You will be brought to a

form which allows you to compose an email message using the same rich text editor that appears everywhere else in Liferay. You can read, reply, and cre- ate messages, as well as manage all of your folders in Liferay's Mail portlet.

The Mail portlet is a great way to integrate a familiar service with other collaboration features that Liferay provides.