Blogs

David H Nebinger | Apr 14, 2024 4:11 PM

Introduction In my recent blog, Introduction to Liferay Objects, I used Objects and Liferay OOTB facilities to have a list of Course Registrations and UI interfaces for submitting a new Course...

David H Nebinger | Apr 10, 2024 6:15 PM

Just a quick post today to highlight the Liferay Circles of Success Meetups! It’s a meetup group hosted by my friends and Liferay experts, Andrew Jardine, Chris Mount, JR Houn and Eddie Chow. They...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | Apr 9, 2024 8:20 PM

Introduction Liferay Objects is a cool no-code feature that allows us to define full-featured entities - integrated with all Liferay Frameworks and providing auto-generated Headless API for...

Sai Tejesh | Apr 5, 2024 9:02 AM

Recently, these was a scenario when the third party wants to use liferay application as IDP, but as per the liferay documentation it needs a metadata xml file to be uploaded with respect to Service...

David H Nebinger | Apr 3, 2024 1:46 PM

Introduction So I've been working on my Objects Rule! series and have been working on an app I plan on showing off soon, but I realized that there is probably a gap explaining, well, how do you get...

Chris Mount | Mar 28, 2024 4:45 PM

The first thing we always examine when troubleshooting any issue is the log files and the same is true with an Elasticsearch cluster. However, Elasticsearch also provides an excellent robust set of...

Brian C. Lee | Mar 26, 2024 8:38 PM

This quarter we worked hard to deliver several improvements for Publications, especially around usability when conflicts are present and after upgrades: We are constantly working on improving the...

David H Nebinger | Mar 25, 2024 6:59 PM

Introduction I recently advocated for the demise of the specialized Liferay IDEs/IDE Plugins. Advocating for them to be decommissioned is one thing, but sharing how you can live without them can be...

Fabian Bouché | Mar 25, 2024 3:18 PM

Liferay DXP 7.4 introduced objects: https://learn.liferay.com/web/guest/w/dxp/liferay-development/objects Objects make it possible to define custom entities in Liferay: you name the objects, their...

saravanan muniraj | Mar 24, 2024 8:55 PM

If you, as an admin user, wish to modify the screen name or email address of site members, you will need to input the password. It is possible that the admin user may not be aware of the password....

David H Nebinger | Mar 22, 2024 3:47 PM

History of the Liferay IDEs I first started developing for Liferay version 4.2.3. Back then, we used what was called the "extension environment" to handle Liferay customization. This was an...

David H Nebinger | Mar 19, 2024 3:42 PM

I have to start with an apology. I'm publishing this blog early because parts are ready to go now but some parts are not yet ready. I felt it was too important to hold off waiting for the final...

David H Nebinger | Mar 18, 2024 6:55 PM

Hey, so in my blog last week, I indicated that I had the following in my portal-ext.properties file: session.timeout=15 session.timeout.auto.extend=true session.timeout.warning=0...

David H Nebinger | Mar 18, 2024 1:53 PM

Introduction In a recent blog, Intro to Liferay Objects, I created a new application for the Masterclass site for submitting and approving course registrations entirely using OOTB features of...

David H Nebinger | Mar 15, 2024 7:44 PM

Introduction Wow, I've blogged about Liferay Objects a lot lately. Talked about them too. Also am working on developing materials for learn.liferay.com about Objects. But one thing I haven't seen...

David H Nebinger | Mar 15, 2024 3:02 PM

DEVCON 2024 is happening! Dates: 11-14 November 11 Nov: Welcome Evening Reception - 7:00 pm - 10:00pm 12 Nov: 9:00am - 5:30pm 13 Nov: 9:00am - 5:30pm, Party Night starting at 7.30pm 14 Nov:...

David H Nebinger | Mar 14, 2024 7:15 PM

Liferay released Liferay DXP 2024.Q1 this week, and in the corresponding release notes, you'll find the following nugget. Just search for "Java JDK 11 Runtime" to find in the notes, but here's the...

Jamie Sammons | Mar 13, 2024 6:34 PM

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited...

David H Nebinger | Mar 12, 2024 6:44 PM

In case you missed it, Liferay has announced the deprecation of Websphere for Liferay DXP 7.4. The official announcement was made here: https://support.liferay.com/release-notes/2023-q4, scroll...

David H Nebinger | Mar 4, 2024 6:13 PM

If you've recently been looking for the Liferay Certifications, tried to find the materials or register to take a certification exam, you may have found that they are no longer where they used to...

David H Nebinger | Feb 29, 2024 8:37 PM

Introduction I was recently in a meeting reviewing some FreeMarker templates that were extracting web contents using a structure, parsing and processing the data, and rendering an output. Basically...

David H Nebinger | Feb 29, 2024 5:01 PM

So this has come up a couple of times recently, so after some research I thought I'd share the news. In 7.4, built-in support for ClamAV has been removed, and Liferay has no current plans on...

Andre Fabbro | Feb 20, 2024 10:59 PM

Introduction The Liferay platform has been used for the development of corporate applications by many companies for several years. This is because it stands out for its flexibility in extending its...

László Pap | Feb 9, 2024 10:42 AM

In 2024 Q1 we will release a performance boosting feature for larger publications on LPD-10782.  "The original vision for Publications was to allow customers to make as few or as many changes as...

David H Nebinger | Feb 8, 2024 2:44 PM

Introduction Recently my friend and coworker Andrew Jardine and I were together in Rome for a Liferay Partner event where we were part of a round table discussion about all things Liferay. Even...

Daniel Dias | Feb 5, 2024 2:51 PM

Introduction GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git repository manager, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and a range of collaboration and project...

Daniel Dias | Jan 31, 2024 7:05 PM

Introduction Kubernetes, commonly referred to as K8s, is an open-source system designed for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It is a robust and...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | Jan 31, 2024 9:56 AM

Introduction Roles and Permissions is one of Liferay foundation features that allows to develop secure and reliable applications. It's crucial to organize them in a structured, transparent and...

Wes Kempa | Jan 23, 2024 7:20 PM

What an exciting time to be working in the technology field! We have so many great tools available to us that can benefit everyone. Generative AI (GenAI) is a perfect example of an amazing set of...

Jamie Sammons | Jan 11, 2024 8:17 PM

We hope this message finds you well. At Liferay, we are committed to delivering the best possible experience with our products. We're writing to share an important update about our product release...

László Pap | Dec 22, 2023 2:19 PM

We added the following changes to Staging: Until now users could move huge sets of data with export/import mechanism in portal. However it was not possible to publish only a subset of data. We...

László Pap | Dec 22, 2023 9:30 AM

During making Publications support more and more OOTB Liferay entities, the next step is to make Publications support Bookmarks. The feature is avaible without using any feature flags. Any...

Vinoth Kumar | Dec 21, 2023 6:58 AM

We can trigger our custom action while performing operations in Objects by implementing ObjectActionExecutor interface. Step 1: Create a class anywhere or create a module with service template....

Tibor Lipusz | Dec 14, 2023 10:43 AM

Features Multiple Reindex Modes: Full Reindex, Concurrent Reindex (Blue/Green), and Sync Reindex. High Availability: Continuous service during reindexing operations with select modes. System...

Neil Griffin | Dec 12, 2023 5:49 PM

Spring Framework Compatibility Version Release Date Description   5.3.3 Dec 11, 2023 AD For use with Spring Framework 5.3.x (tested with 5.3.30) Release Notes 5.2.4 Dec 11, 2023 AD For use with...

Jiang Simon | Dec 9, 2023 10:48 AM

Hello all, Liferay IntelliJ 2.0.8 plugin has been made available. Head over to this page for downloading. This plugin supports IntelliJ 233 and greater. Release Highlights: INTELLIJ-283 fix...

Jamie Sammons | Dec 8, 2023 7:53 PM

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited...

David H Nebinger | Dec 7, 2023 8:59 PM

Introduction This post originated from a couple of different client questions... First was a seemingly simple question from a client: How do I use Service Builder to connect to an external database...

Shubhankar Soni | Dec 6, 2023 12:17 PM

This is assumed in the article that Liferay DXP Clustering between 2 nodes is working properly and both nodes can communicate with each other.   What is Session Replication? In simple...

Bence Losonczy | Dec 6, 2023 9:43 AM

Background In the digital age, managing user identity information across applications can be challenging. SCIM, or the System for Cross-domain Identity Management specification, is designed to...

Sahil Akhtar | Dec 5, 2023 9:30 AM

Objective: Implement Varnish Cache as a reverse proxy for a Liferay instance running on Nginx to enhance performance. Prerequisites: Ubuntu-based server with Nginx and Liferay installed. 1. Install...

David H Nebinger | Dec 4, 2023 6:32 PM

Introduction So I was recently working with a team that was completing an upgrade assessment for a client wanting to upgrade from 7.2 to 7.4. A big chunk of the work in upgrading the client was...

Jamie Sammons | Dec 1, 2023 10:51 PM

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited...

Jiang Simon | Dec 1, 2023 11:58 AM

Liferay IntelliJ 2.0.7 plugin has been made available. Head over to this page for downloading. This plugin supports IntelliJ 232 and greater. Release Highlights: Set correct customized vm argument...

David H Nebinger | Nov 30, 2023 4:59 PM

Introduction A community member recently posted a question about how to make their component wait. I of course pointed them at my Power of Patience blog which I have been using for years now to...

David H Nebinger | Nov 29, 2023 6:08 PM

So just a quick one today about an issue that I helped a coworker with. A client had reported that after they restarted Liferay, they had to redeploy their custom module that had a replacement...

Rafaela Nascimento | Nov 25, 2023 12:30 AM

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited...

Neil Harwani | Nov 24, 2023 3:24 PM

Following up with Part 1 of the series here: Liferay best practices – Part 1 | LinkedIn – Here is part 2 of Liferay best practices: Look out for settings of ORA-1795 error and it’s required...

Sahil Akhtar | Nov 22, 2023 12:23 PM

Introduction  This code extends the capabilities of Liferay, a powerful platform for web applications, by enhancing its functionality to seamlessly integrate with Excel files. Specifically, it...

Jamie Sammons | Nov 17, 2023 10:38 PM

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited...

Yash Thakare | Nov 16, 2023 5:19 AM

Setting Up Glowroot on LXC-SM, Liferay Cloud Fabian's blog illustrates Glowroot setup in an on-premises environment here. Now, let's outline the steps for integrating Glowroot within Liferay's...

Marcellus Tavares | Nov 15, 2023 11:46 PM

Liferay Analytics Cloud heavily relies on Apache Airflow for orchestrating its backend operations. While most of these tasks are scheduled, one recent requirement involved triggering a Directed...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | Nov 11, 2023 9:46 PM

Introduction During a Liferay project implementation we often have similar pieces of UI and functionality in different widgets - and that's not surprising, as UI/UX should be consistent across the...

David H Nebinger | Nov 10, 2023 5:26 PM

Introduction So I kind of have a "famous" blog post on Liferay Scheduled Tasks: https://liferay.dev/blogs/-/blogs/liferay-7-ce-liferay-dxp-scheduled-tasks. I say "famous" because it has been used...

Jamie Sammons | Nov 10, 2023 3:13 PM

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited...

David H Nebinger | Nov 7, 2023 5:28 PM

Introduction In today's Office Hours session, the first question out of the gate was "If I'm using OpenID Connect for SSO, how can I synchronize UserGroup membership?". And, well, I just didn't...

Jamie Sammons | Nov 3, 2023 8:47 PM

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited...

Jamie Sammons | Oct 27, 2023 9:03 PM

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited...

Lawrence Lee | Oct 24, 2023 9:50 PM

Liferay IntelliJ 2.0.6 plugin has been made available. Head over to this page for downloading. This plugin supports IntelliJ 232 and greater. Release Highlights: Liferay workspace project support...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | Oct 24, 2023 6:08 AM

What is a Search Blueprint? Search Blueprints is the first feature of the Search Experiences tool set. Search Blueprint is used to customize the search experience without deploying code to the...