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Organize and Structure Large Liferay site

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I am creating a very large site using the liferay CMS. The site is composed of many departments & sub departments.  I needed to know the best way to organize the site using the communities and organization functions. All the previous CMS systems I managed were organized within a standard folder system.  Please provide examples if able. Thanks in advance.
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EE is a great place and you would probably get "some answers" here howEver it would be much faster and smarter to ask bigger Liferay community and close the question here.

I had a go with a Liferay once but I dont remember the config too good. It has been changed probably over the time anyway.

VIsit to get general info http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/ee
Visit to read liferay WIKI with a lot of info http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/wiki
Ask a question on Liferay Forum http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/forums
Finally if you still dont find your answer, send your question to support or sales
http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/about_us/contact_us

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Mike
Just curious - with the most popular open source CMS systems being Drupal and Joomla, why did you choose Liferay?  Perhaps I am prejudiced as an open-source PHP developer, but it just seems common sense to me that one would want to go with the most widely known systems.  These would give you (1) the largest community of fellow developers, (2) the largest collection of add-ins and plug-ins, (3) the most "eyes on the problem" when new releases occur.

Just a thought - and a genuine curiosity. ~Ray
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Wasn't my choice.  I am a big fan of drupal. However Liferay was chosen before I was hired.
Yep, I know how that goes.  Thanks and good luck with it!
Drupal and Joomla are great for small and average pages.

I have used it myself many times.

But know I have few pages going busier (over 1500 a day) and my easy to get open source toys are starting to kill the hosting and cause loads of problems.

Liferay seems to more enterprise and should be better for Google too. They dont like too many copies and less popular cms is almost sustom CMS. Better indexing, less likely to be hacked. There are not to many known ways of hacking it etc...

How are your queries on Liferay site going anyway??

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Mike
Can you be more specific when you say queries. No database work is being used.  The site is structured by departments that contain sub departments.  I originally was going to try use the communities function similar to the way I would use the folders in another system. Each community would act as a folder and I would create a sub community within that folder.  However It looks like in the long run this could cause a lot of clutter and ultimately a management nightmare.  I thought the organization functions would also help, but realized the true propose of it.
I wanted to ask: how are doing solving your problem??

Have you asked on Liferay forum or emailed Liferay support?

They are the best ones to ask.

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Mike
Yes. I have the same question posted on the Liferay forum.  But I figured I would post here just in case.  As it stands, I have received no responses from their site as of yet.
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