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Dave Truong | Feb 2, 2017 8:09 PM

A search for a better SDK A little over a year ago, the Dev Tools Team began a new project hoping to fix the issues we encountered with the Plugins SDK. We had just finished modularizing our...

David H Nebinger | Feb 2, 2017 6:14 AM

When you start reviewing Liferay 7 CE/Liferay DXP code, you run into a lot of annotations in a lot of different ways. They can all seem kind of overwhelming when you first happen upon them, so I...

David H Nebinger | Feb 2, 2017 5:10 AM

Alt Title: Cool things you can do with OSGi Introduction So one thing that many organizations like to stand up in their Liferay environments is a "health check". The goal is to provide a simple...

Javeed Chida | Jan 30, 2017 4:43 PM

Let me begin by clarifying that this post has nothing to do with the Harry Potter universe. But seriously. You know what I mean by wizards, don’t you? Those helpful series of screens that gather...

Jan Eerdekens | Jan 23, 2017 8:46 PM

I've been working with Liferay for quite some time now, but I must confess that I still haven't really made the switch from Velocity to Freemarker for my templates. Even though I know there are a...

Javeed Chida | Jan 19, 2017 11:19 PM

This short post brings together the little pieces critical to crafting an ADT in velocity to provide direct download links to documents in your Documents and Media repository. You will find parts...

David H Nebinger | Jan 18, 2017 5:30 PM

So in a recent project I've been building I reached a point where I believed my project would benefit from being able to issue user notifications. For those that are not aware, Liferay has a...

Neil Jin | Jan 12, 2017 4:51 PM

The purpose of this tutorial is to let you know how to involve a 3rd part js lib in metal soy portlet and how to use them in ES6 script. In Liferay DXP we provide abundant OOTB js lib to help...

David H Nebinger | Dec 30, 2016 4:11 AM

So recently I was asked, "How can panels be removed from the My Account portlet?" It seems like such a deceptively simple question since it used to be a supported feature, but my response to the...

David H Nebinger | Dec 21, 2016 4:59 AM

Recently I was working on a fragment bundle for a JSP override to the message boards and I wanted to wrap the changes so they could be disabled by a configuration property. But the configuration is...

Greg Amerson | Dec 13, 2016 4:34 AM

Hello all, First off I wanted to let everyone know that we have released a new milestone for Liferay IDE 3.1 You can install it into your Eclipse using below updatesite below:...

Olaf Kock | Dec 9, 2016 3:55 PM

Once again: Devcon is over (actually, for quite a while now) and it's time to look back. If only because the Recap site is public. You can now watch the video recordings of presentations that...

Javeed Chida | Dec 8, 2016 5:42 PM

(or) Why categories are so much more than nestable tags "I LOVE tags," Jaffer managed despite a mouthful of spiced lamb ouzie. Sergei was finding the younger guest a bit annoying. The kid had...

David H Nebinger | Dec 6, 2016 5:07 PM

So the Liferay workspace is pretty handy when it comes to building all of your OSGi modules, themes, layout templates and yes, even your legacy code from the plugins SDK. But, when it comes to...

Eduardo P. García | Dec 2, 2016 12:53 PM

One more year, it's been great to meet many of you at our events. This time I dedicated one of my workshops to the migration of 6.2 plugin projects to Liferay 7.0. I knew that some of you had...

Lauri Hiltunen | Nov 22, 2016 6:28 AM

Software should be modular. It has been a core thought of developers and architects for quite a long time. The microservices style of development and deployment is a thing now, and different...

Koen Olaerts | Nov 21, 2016 7:38 PM

At Coin we have developed SimpleEdit, a new and improved way for editing your documents stored in Alfresco or Liferay. Now that Liferay has moved on to DXP, we are in the process of upgrading...

Javeed Chida | Nov 11, 2016 4:18 PM

In my last technical post titled Content SEO - Hidden in Plain Sight, I exposed a caveat in the way the title of a content item is auto-crafted by Liferay. Here’s an excerpt from that article,...

Fabian Larroca | Oct 31, 2016 1:57 PM

Build Around MDX I cannot make the case to encourage you to write MDX. It's a complex query language, underutilized, supported by major vendors*, but after 20 years of existence still struggle to...

Dave Truong | Oct 19, 2016 8:20 PM

I mentioned last time in The State of Maven Development, that we were missing a few items for our Maven users. Well I have good news... You can now build themes in Maven! In pom.xml: <build>...

Marcos Castro | Oct 13, 2016 9:08 AM

Hi everyone! In our final entry of the series, we are happy to introduce a theme that you can use to create your own subscription site. Welcome to 1975 London!. "A music site as example" ...

Olaf Kock | Oct 12, 2016 3:20 PM

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. It will run with all...

Maarten van Heiningen | Sep 29, 2016 1:05 PM

This blog is part of a series of entries on Mobile First with Liferay Screens. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Mobile First with Liferay Screens – part 3 The future The world of mobile is on the...

Javeed Chida | Sep 27, 2016 7:14 PM

After a thirty-minute train ride sitting amidst super-excited teenagers, even the energized atmosphere of a downtown Chicago Tuesday morning seemed like a peace cloud. Anyway, got to the Hilton in...

Javeed Chida | Sep 26, 2016 9:14 PM

Here's a running note dump of my day 1 at Liferay Symposium North America 2016, here in Chicago. This is just to pique your curiosity if you couldn't make it out here AND your interests happen to...

Olaf Kock | Sep 20, 2016 7:22 AM

Two episodes (or an eternity) ago, I spoke to Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering. We didn't have enough time to finish the conversation, so we continued a while after - and then I buried the...

Antonio Pol | Sep 19, 2016 7:56 AM

As many of you know, a while ago we presented AlloyEditor as the result of our quest for a delightful and productive editing experience. Alloy Editor was included by default as the rich editor in...

David H Nebinger | Sep 16, 2016 5:16 AM

Introduction So I'm doing more and more development using pure Intellij for Liferay 7 / DXP, even debugging. I thought I'd share how I do it in case someone else is looking for a brief how-to....

Javeed Chida | Sep 15, 2016 3:55 PM

It cannot be that it was just forgotten, This fundamental feature, thus I sought Through thick of forum, blog, e'en post ill-gotten Until my quest returned me to the spot Where sat the creature...

Jan Eerdekens | Sep 14, 2016 2:51 PM

In the beginning of the year I had some fun creating the CRaSH portlet. Once it is deployed, it allows a portal administrator to work with the portal/JVM in a very flexible way using a command line...

Nate Cavanaugh | Sep 8, 2016 6:13 PM

It’s been awhile since I’ve had a chance to clarify both our current status as well as our future direction, so I wanted to do that here. This blog post will be mainly a high level overview of...

Maarten van Heiningen | Sep 5, 2016 2:07 PM

This blog is part of a series of entries on Mobile First with Liferay Screens. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Mobile First with Liferay Screens – part 2 Phlink Part 1 of our blog series was about...

Neil Griffin | Sep 2, 2016 9:36 PM

On August 29, 2016 Liferay released a new version of Liferay Faces based on the new Liferay Faces Version Scheme. Because of our efforts towards greater modularity, many of the Liferay Faces...

Marcos Castro | Sep 1, 2016 11:29 AM

Hi everyone! Today, in a not-so-unexpected turn of events, we proudly present you Porygon. "Start your own digital magazine" The new Porygon theme has been designed to get you started with...

David H Nebinger | Aug 26, 2016 5:18 AM

Introduction In part 5 we started the portlet code. We added the configuration support, started the portlet and added the PanelApp implementation to get the portlet in the control panel. In this...

David H Nebinger | Aug 26, 2016 1:36 AM

Introduction In the first four parts we have introduced our project, laid out the Liferay workspace to create our modules, defined our DS service API and have just completed our DS service...

David H Nebinger | Aug 20, 2016 6:35 AM

Introduction In part 3 of the blog, the API for the Filesystem Access project was flushed out. In this part of the blog, we'll create the service implementation module. The Data Transfer Object Now...

David H Nebinger | Aug 20, 2016 1:32 AM

Introduction In part 2 of the series we created our initial project modules for the Filesystem Access Portlet project. In part 3, we're going to move on to flushing out the DS service that will...

Marcos Castro | Aug 16, 2016 11:59 AM

Hi everyone! A week ago we started the new serie of blog entries about our new themes for Liferay 7. Today, we gladly present you our second theme: Westeros Bank: "A bank case" The Westeros...

Jamie Sammons | Aug 15, 2016 6:37 PM

I am pleased to announce the release of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA3! [Download Now] What's New Overriding LPKG Files: A while back I wrote a blog entry on patching OSGi modules. The original...

Javeed Chida | Aug 13, 2016 10:30 PM

The Glorious Simplicity of Structure Inheritance This field (highlighted yellow) on a structure editing screen is what I am talking about. When I first saw the words Parent Structure there, the...

Marcos Castro | Aug 5, 2016 11:23 AM

Hi everyone! For a long time themes have been one of the most required features in Liferay, and as we announced during last year, Liferay 7 will be a game changer. This will be the first out of...

Olaf Kock | Aug 5, 2016 10:17 AM

Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions...

David H Nebinger | Aug 5, 2016 1:22 AM

Introduction In part 1, the filesystem access portlet project for Liferay 7 was introduced. In this part, we're going to use Blade and Gradle to set up our basic project structure. We're not going...

David H Nebinger | Aug 5, 2016 12:27 AM

Introduction So I've been doing some LR7 development recently. It's an exciting and challenging platform to get your head around and I thought I would just work up an example portlet, spread it...

Bryan H Cheung | Jul 18, 2016 11:11 PM

Today I’m writing to announce that we are discontinuing support for Liferay Connected Services and Audience Targeting for Liferay Portal 7 Community. The main factor behind the decision was the...

Jamie Sammons | Jul 14, 2016 7:43 PM

I wanted to share some testing that I have been doing in terms of patching OSGi modules and adding the patched modules to your own Liferay installations. One of the many benefits to modularity is...

David H Nebinger | Jul 14, 2016 3:51 AM

So I'm a long-time supporter of ServiceBuilder. I saw its purpose way back on Liferay 4 and 5 and have championed it in the forums and here in my blog. With the release of Liferay 7,...

Maarten van Heiningen | Jul 13, 2016 8:26 PM

This blog is part of a series of entries on Mobile First with Liferay Screens. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Mobile First with Liferay Screens Mobile has changed the world and will go on doing...

David H Nebinger | Jul 7, 2016 3:55 AM

It's going to happen. At some point in your LR7 development, you're going to build a module which has runtime dependencies. How do you satisfy those dependencies though? In this brief blog entry...

Neil Griffin | Jul 6, 2016 7:45 PM

UPDATE: September 2, 2016 - Visit www.liferayfaces.org for a convenient web page that helps you determine your archetype:generate command and/or required dependencies. The Liferay Faces team is...

Dave Truong | Jul 6, 2016 12:30 AM

There's been some confusion over state of Maven support for Liferay. As the Product Manager for Developer Tools, I feel responsible for the confusion and felt the need to clear up any questions....

Javeed Chida | Jun 29, 2016 6:14 AM

I came across the idea of a generic template recently, and put it to good use. If you don't know what I mean by generic template, let me clear that up right away. A generic template is really...

Daniel Tyger | Jun 15, 2016 11:15 PM

We recently had a request for our users to be able to check if their email address has been a victim of a known data breach per the awesome API and data stores provided at...

deveshree zawar | Jun 9, 2016 10:09 AM

Plugin is the core of Liferay portal development in its various forms. “Plug-in” as the word enunciates is an add-on to perform additional features. It can be blended into an application to enhance...

Zeno Rocha | Jun 3, 2016 7:14 PM

If you have been in touch with the Liferay community in the past years, you've probably heard about Senna.js before. We first introduced this project in late 2014 and since then we've been...

Jose M. Navarro | May 30, 2016 10:21 PM

Lately, we’ve being working on an event tracking system for Liferay Screens. Nothing fancy: just another Flurry or Google Analytics for mobile apps. The best part is the information collected will...

Jamie Sammons | May 27, 2016 4:43 PM

I am pleased to announce the release of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA2! [Download] What's New Inline Image Editor: The new image editor allows for simple image editing directly from within Liferay...

Allen Ziegenfus | May 24, 2016 10:45 AM

Liferay DDLs are quite useful for dealing with small sets of custom data, for which it would be overkill to create a new service. Our event microsites use DDLs extensively for displaying speaker,...

Marcos Castro | May 23, 2016 11:02 PM

Hey guys, today I am going to speak about a concurrent topic, how to replace Bootstrap 2.3.2 CSS in Liferay 6.2 for new Bootstrap 3.x, I have received a lot of questions about it, and I helped all...