Blogs

Zeno Rocha | Jun 17, 2015 12:03 AM

Originally published on Medium At Liferay we have more than 600 employees spread in 18 different offices all over the world. Some of these people work with similar stuff but they may not interact...

Martin Yan | Jun 16, 2015 5:47 PM

It might be the most universal and recognizable store in the world. Walk by street corners and chances are you’ll see a bright green sign with the red and orange “7” aglow, beckoning visitors to...

Vikash Kumar | Jun 4, 2015 2:26 PM

package com.space.archiveprocess; import java.io.StringReader; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Date; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.List; import...

Ruud Kluivers | Jun 4, 2015 7:40 AM

In Nederland denken we vaak dat we vooroplopen en ons positief onderscheiden van de rest van de wereld. Zelfoverschatting is een zorgwekkende eigenschap en de feiten zijn niet altijd in...

Lauri Hiltunen | Jun 1, 2015 5:45 PM

Sometimes you need to perform actions which relate directly to your Liferay portal and your site structure. In some cases getting the handle on the layout needed might be a bit tricky though. You...

Angela Wu | Jun 1, 2015 4:53 PM

Reimagine Digital Engagement Through an All-in-One Platform Being digital should be at the heart of what you do to provide customers with rich, compelling online experiences. To thrive, and not...

Ken Dong | May 29, 2015 11:19 PM

When 6.2 was first released, there was a lot of buzz surrounding things like responsiveness out-of-the-box, application display templates, updated control panel, and the recycle bin. We heard good...

David H Nebinger | May 29, 2015 8:09 AM

Introduction In my last blog post I had a little rant about the old version of Font Awesome included with Liferay 6.2 and how it would always be out of date because they seem to keep adding new...

David H Nebinger | May 23, 2015 2:12 AM

Introduction So I'm not the best theme person around. I'm less a UI guy and more of an implementation person. Honestly I hate working on themes. Maybe it's just me, but all of the styling work...

Martin Yan | May 23, 2015 12:08 AM

Our experiences with corporate brands and products are rapidly evolving with the influx of new technology. As consumers, we are looking for companies that can provide us more content pertaining to...

Jose M. Navarro | May 22, 2015 10:06 AM

Dear community, we have exciting news to share with you today. But before the announcement, let me tell you a brief story: one year ago, I was trying to learn the fundamentals of Liferay, hacking...

David H Nebinger | May 22, 2015 1:32 AM

Introduction So this is a concept that comes up from time to time on the forums - How do I return a non-database complex object from my ServiceBuilder-generated service layer? The common answer is...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | May 21, 2015 11:59 AM

Step 1. Liferay Migration to 6.0.6 1. Create 5.2.3 DB dump (db.sql). 2. Create database for LR 6.0.6 (db606). 3. Load 5.2.3 dump into 6.0.6 database: mysql -uroot -p1 db606 < db.sql; Delete all...

Vikash Kumar | May 21, 2015 10:54 AM

import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.LinkedList; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; import java.util.StringTokenizer; import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchResponse;...

Martin Yan | May 20, 2015 7:42 PM

At Liferay, we seek to empower people with the right resources to help them achieve what they could not achieve on their own. We know there are people who possess amazing vision, and some who just...

Miroslav Ligas | May 20, 2015 8:52 AM

If you are a portlet developer you have many options how to develop the portlets. There are many framework that make your everyday struggle easier. In this blog post I would like to talk about one...

Jorge Ferrer | May 16, 2015 11:18 AM

Here at Liferay we don’t stop and we just took out of the oven the fifth Milestone of the upcoming Liferay 7 release. If the previous milestone marked the beginning of the Community Expedition...

Janne Hietala | May 13, 2015 2:01 PM

We're proud to announce the release of Valamis 2.3 Enterprise Edition – an update for award winning Learning eXperience Solution. The new version introduces various improvements to Valamis core...

Salman Khan | May 13, 2015 11:13 AM

In reference to the blog. One among the large set of features that Liferay provides is its ability to support multiple languages. And we all know Liferay is the most flexible portal for...

Neil Griffin | May 12, 2015 5:41 PM

Project News The Liferay Faces team is hard at work on several projects and I would like to bring you up-to-date with our progress. Support for Liferay Portal 7.0 In early May I attended the...

Lauri Hiltunen | May 11, 2015 3:57 PM

Creating configurable portlets allow site administrators to customize the behaviour of the portlet the way they want to. The core feature set can be expanded dynamically by changing the portlet...

Meera Prince | May 8, 2015 9:47 AM

Liferay Inter Portlet Communication (IPC) is mechanism to communicating one Portlet to other Portlet. JSR 168/ Portlet 1.0 have very limited capability to provide Liferay Inter Portlet...

Vikash Kumar | May 8, 2015 5:03 AM

setInterval(function() { var url = '<portlet:actionURL><portlet:param name="javax.portlet.action" value="getXXXMethod" /><portlet:param name="userid"...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | May 7, 2015 1:04 PM

New Liferay Faces Release - Alloy Input Components Juan and Vernon have already blogged about many exciting portal components and the amazing alloy:accordion component, so I want shine a spotlight...

Martin Yan | May 5, 2015 5:22 PM

Over the years, Liferay has been able to provide many individuals and organizations a unique platform to give them a stronger presence on the web. But we aren't able to accomplish this mission...

David H Nebinger | May 5, 2015 4:59 PM

So Vaadin has a complete set of basic widgets (checkboxes, input fields, comboboxes, etc.) and some advanced controls (date picker, menu bar, table, etc.). They also have the Add-On directory which...

David Zhang | Apr 30, 2015 5:50 AM

How to catch MySQL SQL with tcpdump in Linux Introduction This idea of post is from my previous one: Liferay and P6spy, with the help of P6spy, we can get the formatted Hibernate SQL without "?"...

Jan Eerdekens | Apr 29, 2015 7:38 PM

The problem While doing some work for a client I ran into issues with the preview generation for some PDFs. While it did generate a preview image for each page of the document, the text on it was...

Olaf Kock | Apr 29, 2015 10:10 AM

Update! Wir treffen uns am Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2015, 18:30 Uhr in den Räumen der Inovex GmbH: Valentin-Linhof-Straße 2, 81829 München - Vielen Dank für die Unterstützung an Peter Dimitri von...

Sampsa Sohlman | Apr 28, 2015 9:34 AM

Introduction I decided to write this blog as I did find out that this is the area of the Liferay that has not been documented at all? So this blog post can act as documentation for this. So let's...

Shannon Chang | Apr 24, 2015 4:00 PM

Takeaways from intra.NET Reloaded Boston Modern organizations are increasingly seeing the value of trading in their notoriously outdated and static intranets for social and collaborative digital...

Lauri Hiltunen | Apr 24, 2015 5:56 AM

Portlets are components which create a portal application. They can function without any knowledge of other portlets, or can be configured to be dependent of one another in many ways. You can...

James Falkner | Apr 23, 2015 4:38 PM

If you've attended any Liferay Symposium, Solutions Forum, or Developer Conference in the last few years you've undoubtedly seen the companion mobile app that attendees can use to see up-to-date...

Vikash Kumar | Apr 23, 2015 2:27 PM

Liferay LDAP Configuration Manual Goto LDAP settings from Control Panel->Portal Settings. Under Configuration, click Authentication->LDAP. To enable LDAP, check "Enable", simple enough. Under...

Vikash Kumar | Apr 23, 2015 2:26 PM

Manual to support preview of different file format Install OpenOffice in local system to work with LifeRay in order to display the preview of different types of file. LifeRay will interact with...

Vikash Kumar | Apr 23, 2015 2:02 PM

According to JSR-168: Portlets are web components -like Servlets- specifically designed to be aggregated in the context of a composite page. Usually, many Portlets are invoked to in the single...

Bejond Shao | Apr 23, 2015 3:42 AM

Recently, some customers met an issue that after installing sp9 or any conponent that contains LPE-10066 ( LPS-40597), web contents won't show to guest or site member. The reproduction steps: 1....

Martin Yan | Apr 22, 2015 5:29 PM

Communities are essential to shaping our identities. They bring people together through a common activity or belief and provide us a context in which we are able to interpret ourselves and one...

Adam Brandizzi | Apr 20, 2015 1:57 PM

If the line below is executed in a JavaScript console, what will be the value of hour? var hour = new Date(2015, 9, 18, 0).getHours(); The intuitive answer is zero, and it is right in most...

Neil Griffin | Apr 17, 2015 11:38 PM

On April 28, 2015 Liferay released Liferay Faces 4.2.0-beta: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-beta JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 Release Notes Feature Complete This new version of Liferay Faces is just about...

James Falkner | Apr 15, 2015 2:19 PM

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA4! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Vernon Singleton | Apr 14, 2015 8:53 AM

Continuing in the spirit of Juan Gonzalez’s excitement over the new portal components, let me introduce a new Liferay Faces Alloy component which will be included in the the upcoming GA release. ...

Meera Prince | Apr 13, 2015 6:55 AM

Liferay have introduced Expando API to extending existed Liferay tables to add additional columns rather than creating new tables in the database. Logically its look like new tables in Liferay...

Juan Gonzalez | Apr 9, 2015 6:45 AM

Hi everyone! As you may know there are many exciting things that had been done so far in the last year for Liferay Faces. This is the first of a blog series about all of these improvements and new...

Shannon Chang | Apr 7, 2015 5:32 PM

A little over a year ago, iBeacons made their way to the retail market in a mass deployment to 254 Apple stores. Since then, they’ve had technology enthusiasts and event marketers alike...

Dave Truong | Apr 7, 2015 5:53 AM

This is a story about two sisters, Portal and Platform. Their father, Brian Chan was a strict and careful man. He knew his daughters could help the world so he made sure they were always very...

Kan Zhang | Apr 5, 2015 1:40 AM

Issue Recently I worked on a Liferay 6.1 to 6.2 upgrade project. The Liferay was configured to use sharding with three database schemas. During the upgrade process, an exception is thrown: ...

James Falkner | Apr 2, 2015 4:41 PM

It's been about 1 month since we launched the Liferay 7 Community Expedition! I first want to thank all of you that have spent your valuable time and brain cycles to help with Liferay 7...

Janne Hietala | Apr 2, 2015 12:15 PM

The traditional way of learning has started to go through some major reforms. This is happening in both education and in enterprises. Instead traditional course based learning where users are...

James Falkner | Apr 1, 2015 4:25 PM

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.3a! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start] [Detailed...

Fady Hakim | Apr 1, 2015 3:26 PM

Hi All, I will show you the steps to install liferay 6.2-SP10 on JBoss EAP 6.2 1 - Download the below files: - Jboss EAP 6.2 from here and unzip the folder, This directory is referred to as...

Annika Sinnecker | Mar 25, 2015 4:56 PM

The following information is only relevant for German speaking members: Wer mehr darüber erfahren möchte, welche rechtlichen Aspekte bei Nutzung der Community und der Liferay Enterprise Edition zu...

Martin Yan | Mar 25, 2015 1:12 AM

More than ever before, people are foregoing their desktops and accessing services primarily through their phones and tablets. A strong mobile strategy is now a must-have for businesses. But what...

Jan Eerdekens | Mar 19, 2015 10:00 PM

Last year I spent a lot of time looking into how AngularJS could be used in a portal environment, more specifically Liferay. That research culminated in a pretty technical and quite lengthy blog...

Shahbaz Khan | Mar 19, 2015 5:35 AM

In this article, we will be discussing about how to become a good liferay developer. This article is mainly for the people who are willing to learn liferay technology and would like to know the...

Juan Fernández | Mar 18, 2015 9:06 AM

Dear community: I'd like to make an important announcement today. I've been presenting and demoing Liferay Cloud Services at Symposiums, events and customer visits for quite some time now, and...

Olaf Kock | Mar 17, 2015 9:01 AM

One message that I have to give out in trainings doesn't fail to stun the students: When you deploy multiple hooks that override the same JSP in Liferay, you will first get undefined behavior and...

Martin Yan | Mar 17, 2015 12:58 AM

Has open source software now become the preferred choice for enterprises? According to a Black Duck Software report, over half of all enterprises will utilize or contribute to open source in some...

Dave Truong | Mar 15, 2015 12:17 AM

Happy Pi Day everyone! You guys should take a look at this site which makes some cool art from the number π. Also reminds me also that I have two raspberry pi's that need some attention. Anyone...

Olaf Kock | Mar 13, 2015 8:17 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...