RE: Resources Importer - Liferay 7.1 - New Solution

Marta Santos, modified 6 Years ago. New Member Posts: 22 Join Date: 3/21/17 Recent Posts
Hello everyone,


I am creating a Liferay 7.1 theme and I want to include structures and templates in it.


On this Liferay Portal website page it says that "Resources Importer is deprecated as of Liferay Portal CE 7.1":

https://dev.liferay.com/pt/develop/tutorials/-/knowledge_base/7-1/importing-resources-with-a-theme


So I want to know what is the new suggested alternative.


Can anyone help me with this?


Thank you.

Best regards,

Marta Santos
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Olaf Kock, modified 6 Years ago. Liferay Legend Posts: 6441 Join Date: 9/23/08 Recent Posts
Marta Santos

On this Liferay Portal website page it says that "Resources Importer is deprecated as of Liferay Portal CE 7.1":

https://dev.liferay.com/pt/develop/tutorials/-/knowledge_base/7-1/importing-resources-with-a-theme

So I want to know what is the new suggested alternative.
There's no suggested alternative yet, and I don't understand why it's already deprecated nevertheless. However, as I understand 7.2 will come with a new technique which is simpler & more powerful. The name constantly escapes me, but for 7.1, Resource Importer is the way to go. Just don't over-invest, because in 7.2 you'll want to use the new stuff.

Spoiler-alert: Its implementation has been built in the Commerce project, where they needed to create a lot of content for the demo site. But it wasn't fleshed out enough in 7.1 to call it a final version. Lots of changes to be expected between what Commerce used back then and what's expected in 7.2.

And as 7.2 is still about the future: Take this information with a grain of salt. ;)
Marta Santos, modified 6 Years ago. New Member Posts: 22 Join Date: 3/21/17 Recent Posts
Thank you very much for your clarification Olaf.


Best regards,

Marta Santos
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Andrew Jardine, modified 6 Years ago. Liferay Legend Posts: 2416 Join Date: 12/22/10 Recent Posts
I have the hardest time remembering the name as well and I always want to say "Site Templates" ... but we already have those!

I believe they are "Accelerators" ... or in this case it would be a "Site Accelerator"