Blogs

Victor Valle | Jul 3, 2018 11:20 AM

Typography Several reasons and their benefits drove us to a change from Source Sans Pro to System font: System fonts are always more legible as they are designed more consciously and they are...

Jamie Sammons | Jul 2, 2018 10:30 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 CE GA1! Known Issues List of known issues Downloads Download the release now at: www.liferay.com/downloads or deploy now at...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 29, 2018 5:03 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 RC 1 Download Now: Sourceforge Fixed in RC 1 List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 RC 1 List of known issues in Liferay 7.1...

Milen Dyankov | Jun 27, 2018 7:00 PM

The report appeared recently on various security related sites and it is being "promoted" via social media networks such as Twitter. It talks about a perceived vulnerability for the pingback...

David H Nebinger | Jun 26, 2018 5:58 PM

Just a quick blog, likely one that I would want to add to over time... Cluster Notes When setting up a Liferay cluster for SAML, before enabling you should connect to each node and, in the SAML...

Zeno Rocha | Jun 18, 2018 11:42 PM

When we sat down to create the community.liferay.com site we had some ambitious goals in mind. We wanted to build a place where the community could feel at home. We wanted them to know that they're...

Olaf Kock | Jun 14, 2018 12:29 PM

If you are working with Liferay for a while now, you might still remember a feature that went missing with version 6.1 - but there was a way to get it back. Also in 6.2 and 7.0. Now that Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 12, 2018 4:52 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Beta 3 Download Now: Sourceforge Fixed in Beta 3 List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 Beta 3 List of known issues in...

Iván Zaera Avellón | Jun 8, 2018 8:15 AM

A real life example of the use of bundler 2.x This is the last of a three articles series motivating and explaining the enhancements we have done to Liferay's npm bundler. You can read previous...

Iván Zaera Avellón | Jun 7, 2018 7:12 AM

How we are fixing the problems learned in bundler 2.x This is the second of a three articles series motivating and explaining the enhancements we have done to Liferay's npm bundler. You can read...

Iván Zaera Avellón | Jun 5, 2018 3:12 PM

What is the problem with bundler 1.x This is the first of a three articles series motivating and explaining the enhancements we have done to Liferay's npm bundler. You can learn more about it in...

Carlos Hernandez | May 31, 2018 11:17 PM

Liferay integrates out of the box with Piwik and Google Analytics. However, doing analytics with ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana, is not much harder: https://youtu.be/os5gqpnC0GA How to do it?...

Jamie Sammons | May 29, 2018 4:58 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Beta 2 Download Now: Sourceforge Fixed in Beta 2 List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 Beta 2 List of known issues in...

Vikash Kumar | May 29, 2018 11:24 AM

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Tim Telcik | May 24, 2018 4:09 PM

Scenario You are hosting Liferay Developer Studio with Mac OS 10.13 (High Sierra) You want to use Liferay Developer Studio 2.2.x with Java 7 and Liferay Developer Studio 3.x with Java 8 Liferay...

Ashley Yuan | May 23, 2018 3:45 AM

Hello all, Today we are pleased to announce the official release of Liferay IntelliJ Plugin. Liferay IntelliJ Plugin is a plugin for Jetbrains IntelliJ to support developing Liferay components. For...

Jamie Sammons | May 22, 2018 7:11 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA7! Download Now! What’s New ElasticSearch 6.0 - Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA7 now adds support for ElasticSearch 6.x. ...

Fady Hakim | May 19, 2018 2:28 PM

You want to know more about Liferay Mobile strategies? Check my new video series about Liferay Mobile. Let me know if you have any question. Video 1 https://youtu.be/R48gQ6bnQpo Video 2...

Jamie Sammons | May 18, 2018 9:21 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Beta 1 Download Now: Sourceforge Github New in Beta 1 Modern Site Building - Display Pages: Users can now map Basic Web...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | May 15, 2018 3:01 PM

Liferay Faces Portal 3.0.2, Bridge Impl 4.1.1, Bridge Ext 5.0.2 Released Liferay Faces Portal 3.0.2, Bridge Impl 4.1.1, and Bridge Ext 5.0.2 have been released with support for PrimeFaces 6.2,...

Alexander Valencia | May 12, 2018 4:58 PM

I recently took an online course to learn more about TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript that provides optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and much more. Whenever I'm in the process of ...

Vikash Kumar | May 11, 2018 11:16 AM

portal.properties ----------------------- journal.article.form.default.values=content,abstract,categorization,display-page,related-assets,permissions,custom-fields,Publish History...

Jamie Sammons | May 8, 2018 9:31 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Alpha 2 Download Now! Alpha 2 primarily focuses on being a bug fix release. List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 Alpha 2...

Daniel Tyger | May 7, 2018 1:12 PM

We have a lot of distributed web content management in our Liferay installation and many articles are undoubtedly edited many times over a period of years. Let's take a look...: select count(*)...

Vikash Kumar | May 5, 2018 9:17 AM

Refer https://web.liferay.com/web/antonio.junior/blog/-/blogs/12168124 and create web service client for Portlet_DL_DLAppService. package com.lr.ws.soap.fileupload; import...

David H Nebinger | May 4, 2018 2:23 PM

When you are upgrading to DXP on SQL Server, it is recommended to set the following property in the portal-upgrade-ext.properties file: verify.process.concurrency.threshold=10000 Otherwise you can...

Daniel Tyger | Apr 30, 2018 1:47 PM

Do you have a lot of documents in your Liferay instance? It may be worth it to clean out old document versions... Let's take a look: mysql> select count(*) from dlfileentry; Returns 12,300. mysql>...

Daniel Tyger | Apr 24, 2018 9:40 PM

Getting ready to upgrade to DXP from Liferay 6.2? You reached the section of the documentation about pre-upgrade preparations that will speed up the process? Me, too. With much appreciation to...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:41 PM

Overview Sometimes you need to manually reindex some, or all, of the content search indices. Liferay Portal 6.2 provides search indexing functions for many content types. e.g. Blog Document Journal...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:24 PM

Overview The Liferay Portal user session timeout is defined by the session timeout value. The article outlines potential solutions for configuring the user session timeout (see Solutions below)....

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:20 PM

Overview Liferay Portal uses many internal (Spring) services and equivalent web services (SOAP, Rest/JSON) to implement many functions. Many of these services require passing a company ID or portal...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:16 PM

Overview A problem we someetimes face with our Liferay Portal enterprise (EE) customers is configuring and resolving data sync issues across nodes in a cluster. Thsi article provides some tips and...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:13 PM

Overview This article outlines a process to resolve Liferay Portal patch collisions with custom portal plugins Background The Liferay Patching Tool can be used to patch a Liferay Portal 6.1 or 6.2...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:09 PM

Overview Sometimes ... things do not go to plan when using mail (email) in Liferay Portal. However you can quickly find the cause by logging the outbound mail message. You can enable additional...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:05 PM

Overview Patching info for the Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE) may be identified using the Liferay Portal patching tool natively or via the Patching Tool Info plugin in the Control Panel....

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 2:58 PM

Overview This brief article outlines a high level solution for using the Liferay SAML 2.0 EE Provider plugin as the SAML SP in a clustered node environment. The solution extends from using Liferay...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 2:53 PM

Overview The article outlines configuration for tracing the Liferay SAML 2.0 Provider EE plugin (SAML plugin). The SAML plugin enables Liferay Portal 6.2 EE to act as a SAML Service Provider (SP)...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 2:48 PM

Overview According to Wikipedia, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), pronounced "sam-el" is, "... an XML-based, open-standard data format for exchanging authentication and authorization...

Ashley Yuan | Apr 18, 2018 6:04 AM

New Installers Released Hello all, We are pleased to announce a new release of Liferay Project SDK 2018.4.4 installer, Liferay Project SDK with Dev Studio Community Edition installer and...

David H Nebinger | Apr 17, 2018 3:12 AM

Introduction So in any production system, there is typically a desire to capture metrics, use them to define a system health check, and then monitor the health check results from an APM tool to...

Dennis Ju | Apr 16, 2018 9:01 PM

May 25 is fast approaching. Every business impacted by GDPR should be well underway in preparing for the changes to data processing set forth by the regulation. To address the heightened...

David H Nebinger | Apr 16, 2018 2:26 PM

Introduction I have never liked one aspect of Liferay logging - it is not persistent. For example, I can't debug a startup issue unless I get the portal-log4j-ext.xml file set up and out there. Not...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 12, 2018 10:51 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Alpha 1 Download Now! We announced the Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program on February 19th alongside our first 7.1...

Neil Griffin | Apr 11, 2018 3:15 PM

I'm happy to report that according to the following graph from Maven Central, the download stats for Liferay Faces are trending upward. In fact, our downloads have approximately doubled with an...

David H Nebinger | Apr 10, 2018 4:08 AM

Introduction Recently I was building a fragment bundle to expose a private package per my blog entry, . In the original bnd.bnd file, I found the following: -dsannotations-options: inherit Not...

Minhchau Dang | Apr 10, 2018 1:05 AM

When you compare a CE release with an EE release, you'll find that there are a few additional modules that are only available in EE releases. In Liferay terms, these are called "private" modules....

David H Nebinger | Apr 7, 2018 3:33 PM

Introduction So once you've been doing some Liferay OSGi development, you'll recognize your component properties stanza, most commonly applied to a typical portlet class: @Component( immediate =...

Iacopo Colonnelli | Apr 7, 2018 12:40 PM

Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA6 Release was announced about 2 weeks ago and Liferay containerisers may desire to upgrade their Docker container to the new Liferay version. Well, this is a not so hard...

David H Nebinger | Apr 6, 2018 1:01 AM

Just a quick blog post to talk about compile time vs runtime dependencies in the OSGi container, inspired by this thread:...

David H Nebinger | Mar 28, 2018 2:48 PM

Introduction On a project recently I had a Theme war and, like those themes you can download from the MarketPlace, I also had pages, contents and documents imported by the Resources Importer (RI)...

Jamie Sammons | Mar 27, 2018 4:47 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA6! Download Now! What’s New Bug Fixes - Liferay 7 Portal CE GA6 is mainly a bug fix release and contains over 800...

Neeraj Gautam | Mar 25, 2018 2:50 PM

Introduction This blog covers Liferay DXP SP4 integration with Microsoft ADFS (2.0) through SAML 2.0 (Liferay SAML plugin 3.1.1). Please note as per new update in Liferay SAML plugin, you don't...

David H Nebinger | Mar 23, 2018 6:28 PM

This one is for my good friend Milen... Sometimes he frustrates me, but he always forces me to think... Introduction So if you've done any Liferay 7.x CE or DXP development, you may have...

Olaf Kock | Mar 19, 2018 10:00 AM

An episode on the "Per" things: Performance and Permissions. I spoke to Preston Crary, who amazingly was not mad at me for losing an earlier recording. We're talking about these (and more) topics...

David Gomez | Mar 13, 2018 11:40 PM

Everyone wants to see Liferay Portal in their native language, and version 7.1 will support up to 45 different languages. On the road to the release of Liferay 7.1 we are launching the Community...

David H Nebinger | Mar 7, 2018 12:42 AM

Introduction So originally I presented the blog post, Fronting Liferay Tomcat with Apache HTTPd daemon, but that post featured my partiality for using mod_jk to connect HTTPd and Tomcat. Personally...

David H Nebinger | Mar 7, 2018 12:19 AM

A good friend of mine, Minhchau Dang, pointed out to me that I have frequently used OSGi version ranges in my blogs. I explained that I was concerned that I didn't want to bind to a specific...

Carlos Hernandez | Feb 24, 2018 1:52 PM

Q-Have you ever wondered if you can customize your Elastic Search, so that on your searches in Liferay, not only the words you're searching for come up in the results but also synonyms of these...

David H Nebinger | Feb 23, 2018 8:35 PM

So the question comes up how to do Liferay upgrades. I'm not talking here about the technical details of how you upgrade one particular plugin to another type of plugin, what kinds of API changes...

Jonas Choi | Feb 23, 2018 6:21 PM

Tomcat 8.5 is an in-between version of Apache Tomcat 8.0 and 9.0. According to the Apache site, it contains some features in 9.0 that have been backported to 8.0. This version of Tomcat is...