Best practices/structure for a service provider portal (7.4) https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=119785294&threadId=121656421 2026-04-06T04:47:37Z 2026-04-06T04:47:37Z Max H https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=121656420 2023-02-23T20:59:03Z 2023-02-23T10:15:12Z

<p>I am new to Liferay and am creating a service provide portal. I need some advice on how best to use the various Liferay structures to realise this portal.</p> <p>Basic requirements are:</p> <ul> <li>There needs to be a main public website <ul> <li>There needs to be a public directory list of service providers <ul> <li>List must be searchable</li> <li>Each list entry must display basic information about each service provider in a card, e.g. name, image, services provided, location etc</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Each service provider must: <ul> <li>have their own public and private website</li> <li>have their own members</li></ul></li></ul> <p>My first thinking is to create each service provider as a organization with an organization site. (The only issue I have here is that I cannot get the organization site to be public for all widgets - there seem to be permission issues in that guests do not have permissions for the widgets like calendars/dynamic lists etc in an organization site)</p> <p>Then for the directory listing there seem to be multiple options which are confusing for me:</p> <ul> <li>Dynamic Data Lists <ul> <li>Is it posisble to use organisations as backing data for a dynamic list?</li> <li>Or do I have to create an entry in a dynamic list and an organization for each new service provider?</li></ul></li> <li>Collections <ul> <li>It seems that collections can be backed by a dynamic data list, but have additional capabilities like search/filter?</li> <li>Is it then better to use thius than a dynamic data list?</li> <li>Is there a filter widget to display the search filters?</li></ul></li> <li>Content sets <ul> <li>Because each service provider will have a set of content liek text, images, links and descriptions in a card template, are content sets applicable?</li></ul></li> <li>Other liferay data structure?</li> <li>Develop my own portlet <ul> <li>Would it be easier to just develop my own portlet to implement the service provider list?</li></ul></li></ul> <p>Any direction would be helpful. Thank you.</p>

Max H 2023-02-23T10:15:12Z