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New Liferay Sync UI

Liferay has released a beta of the new version of Liferay Sync, the popular document sharing add-on for Liferay. Download it from the Downloads page, read the official documentation, and see below for more details on this release!

Downloads

You can get Liferay Sync (server and clients) from the Downloads page. Note that for Liferay Portal 6.2 you will need to update your Liferay installation by installing the the beta 3 version of the Sync Connector Web plugin (sync-web) and (optionally) the Sync Admin plugin (sync-admin-portlet), and then update your desktop and/or mobile clients with the beta release.

What's New?

• A completely revamped, modern and intuitive UI for both Mobile and Desktop.
• Sync Desktop allows connections with multiple portal instances.
• Administrators can decide which Sites can be sync'd and which cannot.
• Administrators can pause / resume syncing, configure max connection counts, and more.
• Smart differencing - Sync only sends and receives minimal differences when files are updated - not the whole file - no matter the file type..
• For more details, and a free demo, don't miss tomorrow's Sync 3.0 Liferay LIVE Webinar with the Sync team.

Upgrading

If you are already using Liferay Sync and want to upgrade your environment to try out Sync 3 Beta, you first upgrade your server-side Sync Connector Web (sync-web) plugin by downloading the new beta version from the downloads page and dropping it into Liferay's hot deploy folder (see the Installing Plugins Manually section of the Plugin Management documentation for more details if you are not familiar with deploying plugins). Same for the Sync Admin (sync-admin-portlet) plugin, if you want to try that too. No data migration is necessary.

To update your clients, simply install the new versions to replace the old versions. You will need to re-configure your connection settings after installing the Beta (but your old settings won't be deleted in case you want to downgrade later).

This release is a Beta release, and you are encouraged to try it out and give feedback to Liferay. However, it is not a supported release and is therefore unsuitable for use in production environments!

Compatibility

See the downloads page for details, but basically:

• Sync 3 (Desktop) requires Liferay Portal 6.2 with an updated Sync Connector Web (sync-web) plugin
• Sync 3 for Mobile requires Liferay Portal 6.1+ (with no plugin required) or Liferay Portal 6.2+ with the updated Sync Connector Web (sync-web) plugin.

If you're on 6.2 you can also use the Sync Admin plugin (sync-admin-portlet) for additional server-side config options.

Documentation

Known issues

• Liferay Sync Mobile can only connect to one Liferay instance (but does support multiple Sites within that instance). Liferay Sync Desktop can connect to multiple instances.
• Liferay Sync Mobile will only download file contents on demand (when you select the files) to conserve network bandwidth and limited storage on most devices.

Bug Reporting and Feedback

Sync Mobile users will find a Send Feedback button on the app's configuration screen. Alternatively, for Sync Desktop and Mobile users, you can post a message in the Liferay Sync forum describing the issue along with any relevant screenshots, stack traces from log files, environmental descriptions, etc. it's also a good place to start discussions about features you desire in future releases and provide feedback in general.

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