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Olaf Kock | Apr 22, 2016 5:24 PM

Today I'm welcoming a repeat guest and a new one: Jim Hinkey (of episode 21 fame) and Cody Hoag - both from Liferay's documentation and knowledge management team. This episode has unfortunately...

Henri Korhola | Apr 20, 2016 5:40 AM

As you know, Valamis Learning Experience Platform is available from Liferay Marketplace. This package is updated four times a year when a new version of Valamis EE is released. But between these...

Vikash Kumar | Apr 18, 2016 9:24 AM

login.events.post=xxx.xxx.xxx.LandingPageAction #Experience definition site.priority.order=Site1,Site2,Site3 package xxx.xxx.xxx; import com.liferay.portal.kernel.events.Action; import...

Bijan Vakili | Apr 17, 2016 4:39 AM

Doxygen Output for Liferay 7 CE GA1 Visualize Liferay Classes, Methods; with the help of UML Inheritance, Collaboration diagrams for Classes; and Call, Caller graphs for methods; generated using...

Umeno Emiko | Apr 15, 2016 7:55 AM

こんにちは! 日本ライフレイでマーケティングを担当しています、梅野です。日本におけるLiferayの認知度向上および日本のLiferayファンを一人でも多く増やしたいと思い、日本語のブログを始めています。...

Angela Wu | Apr 14, 2016 6:31 PM

Each year, the Liferay Symposium attracts top Liferay users and experts to share their experiences on business and technology. It's a forum to discuss new and inventive ways on how to maximize...

Zsolt Balogh | Apr 11, 2016 10:22 AM

(This blog entry in only available in Hungarian). Április elsején lett 6 éves a Liferay magyar irodája. Alapítótagként visszaemlékezve ennek nagyon hosszú időnek kellene érződnie, de valahogyan...

Javeed Chida | Apr 10, 2016 1:32 PM

I've been busy building web application content. A simple form with three fields Under the form, a table shows the previously added records The data in the table can grow to several hundred Blah...

Bryan H Cheung | Apr 7, 2016 6:55 PM

Today I’d like to let you know that Liferay Portal 7 Community does not have "out of the box" support for clustering, non-open source app servers (Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere), and non-open...

Rahul Mantri | Apr 7, 2016 6:10 AM

Content is at the heart of every system in this cutting-edge digital world and no doubt, every individual in this fraternity has to deal with it on a day-to-day basis. Classification of this...

Olaf Kock | Apr 5, 2016 8:18 AM

Yay - Liferay 7 CE is out. As the exploration begins, I'm sure everybody first looks for their pet peeves. There's something that's been nagging me in 6.1 and 6.2 - and unfortunately I couldn't get...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 4, 2016 5:04 PM

Today Liferay released the next version of its flagship software: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE! [Download] [Quick Start] After many months of hard work from the Liferay product and engineering teams...

Umeno Emiko | Apr 4, 2016 8:03 AM

こんにちは! 日本ライフレイでマーケティングを担当しています、梅野と申します。日本におけるLiferayの認知度向上および日本のLiferayファンを一人でも多く増やしたいと思い、本日から日本語ブログを開始します。 海外のブログ記事をベースにした記事が多くなると思いますが、少しでも皆様の役に立つ情報などをお届けできればと思っています。...

Neil Griffin | Mar 31, 2016 7:57 PM

The Liferay Faces team has been working hard on a variety of tasks, including: Support for JSF OSGi portlets with Liferay Portal 7.0 CE Maturing the source in our New Git Repositories Finalizing...

Angela Wu | Mar 31, 2016 7:14 PM

Get to the Heart of Customer Experience Customers expect meaningful interaction at every digital touchpoint with your company. How can you align modern technologies with customer interactions in a...

Devang Patel | Mar 29, 2016 2:39 PM

In this post I want to share liferay DB configuration using JNDI instead of portal-ext.properties. For JDBC connection we use portal-ext.properties. If your custom service builder portlet is...

Allen Ziegenfus | Mar 24, 2016 12:29 PM

There is nothing worse than starting your day and being confronted with an error like this: com.liferay.portlet.dynamicdatamapping.StorageException: com.liferay.portal.NoSuchUserException: No User...

Allen Ziegenfus | Mar 23, 2016 10:23 AM

To set up Liferay Developer Studio to use git on OSX you might run into an issue that the git configuration options are not shown in the preferences window. To fix this you can run Developer Studio...

Dave Truong | Mar 22, 2016 2:24 PM

We are pleased to announce that Liferay 7.0 will be moving to Java 8 dropping support for all previous versions of Java which are no longer supported by Oracle. The Liferay community can now enjoy...

Jan Eerdekens | Mar 21, 2016 10:15 PM

A little while ago I ran into a strange problem at a customer. We had written a hook that contained a small REST service that accepts a multipart POST to import a document and some related...

Jan Eerdekens | Mar 20, 2016 7:34 PM

After building a hook that wraps the FakeSMTP application and a portlet that gives you file management capabilities in Liferay we now get to part 3 of the series: the CRaSH portlet. I must admit: I...

Zsolt Balogh | Mar 17, 2016 3:01 PM

(This blog entry in only available in Hungarian). A Liferay életében az egyik fontos érték a “stay nerdy” kifejezés. Ezt elég nehéz magyarra fordítani, a két héttel ezelőtt az irodában zajló...

Zsolt Berki | Mar 17, 2016 10:50 AM

What is AWS Marketplace? AWS Marketplace is an online store where you can sell or buy software that runs on Amazon Web Services. These are pre-configured system images, which can be executed by...

Allen Ziegenfus | Mar 16, 2016 9:39 AM

Through Liferay's JSON-WS interface it is possible to automate tasks that might otherwise take lots of time through Liferay portal's GUI interface. For example for my work I often need to create a...

Olaf Kock | Mar 10, 2016 8:28 PM

Today I'm welcoming a repeat guest, Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering. I've had the great opportunity to ask him a lot of questions that provide deep insight into what's running behind the...

Dennis Ju | Mar 10, 2016 7:03 PM

The Sync team is pleased to announce SSO support in the latest releases of Liferay Sync desktop and mobile clients. Any SSO implementation that works against Liferay Portal will work with Liferay...

Cody Hoag | Mar 7, 2016 1:02 AM

Another Liferay contest is on the way! This one, however, is a bit different than others you may have participated in previously. To celebrate the upcoming release of Liferay 7, we are holding a...

Jan Eerdekens | Feb 29, 2016 9:10 PM

Part 2 of this series is a short, but sweet one. This portlet was born out of a very specific customer requirement: the need to be able to see log files for some user that have Liferay web access,...

Kailash Yadav | Feb 22, 2016 6:42 AM

Caching is important part of any web application. We implement caching for our application on different levels. Generally we cache static resource on web server level and DB level caching on...

Javeed Chida | Feb 19, 2016 8:40 PM

This is not really a technical post. In what follows, I share two little tips for Liferay 6.2 users. This may also be useful to developers, unless you prefer crafting SQL to solve all your data...

Armin Cyrus Dahncke | Feb 19, 2016 1:15 PM

Hochverfügbarkeit erreichen, aber wie? Das Ziel jedes IT-Verantwortlichen ist es die Systeme seines Unternehmens "hoch verfügbar" zu machen und das aus gutem Grund. Für Unternehmen ist es...

James Falkner | Feb 15, 2016 8:39 PM

Over the last 5 years if there's anything I've learned it's that the only thing that doesn't change is change itself. I've been blessed to have been a part of many exciting changes at Liferay and...

Enrique Valdes Lacasa | Feb 15, 2016 7:43 PM

I hate when I have to spend time deploying changes in my Java classes. I wanted to know if there was a way of deploying them very fast. So I found out about Hotswap Agent and DCEVM and decided to...

Olaf Kock | Feb 15, 2016 10:06 AM

In this episode I'm talking probably one last time to James Falkner about upcoming changes... James was the first guest on Radio Liferay (back in episode 1 - as well as others) and now - at least...

Jan Eerdekens | Feb 14, 2016 8:09 PM

This is part 1 of a series of blog posts about a collection of tools I created during the last couple of months as a reaction to some problems I ran into. The first one is how to handle/debug...

Jan Eerdekens | Feb 6, 2016 10:28 PM

In this post I want to share how you can use Maven to do 2 important things in a Liferay project: patching and creating a deploy package. While this way of patching is a very powerful way to...

Zeno Rocha | Feb 5, 2016 3:53 AM

Back in October when we first introduced Launchpad Developer Preview, we put together a very simple documentation page for users. After seeing how people were interacting with the product we...

Eric Cheng | Feb 4, 2016 9:30 AM

Starting from 2014, we have begun our relationship with the Ai Na Volunteer Center and we are so glad to see that many of our colleagues have participated in the activities held by Ai Na and more...

Greg Amerson | Feb 3, 2016 6:57 PM

Hello all, I apologize it has taken so long to release a new version of Liferay IDE that supports Liferay 7 development. But today we are pleased to announce the first milestone release for...

Sachin Jagtap | Feb 2, 2016 12:28 PM

Facebook (SSO) social login configuration with Liferay Portal Facebook as social login to Liferay Portal At some specific requirement portals needs allow users to login with cridentails of...

Sachin Jagtap | Feb 2, 2016 12:07 PM

Social SSO with Google + Follow below metioned steps to configure Google+ sso with liferay portal. Configuration in developers.google.com 1. https://console.developers.google.com Login with google...

Janne Hietala | Feb 2, 2016 6:57 AM

Digital Transformation of Learning is changing the way we learn and develop. Today, technology enables a variety of different approaches to teaching and learning. Phenomenon-based learning is one...

Dominik Marks | Jan 31, 2016 9:19 AM

How can you access custom classes within a JSP hook? Simple answer: you can't. Period. JSPs in a hook are running in the portal classloader, while your custom classes are running in the hook...

Olaf Kock | Jan 26, 2016 10:03 AM

In this episode, recorded at Liferay's Devcon 2015 in Darmstadt/Germany, I'm talking to Scott Nicklous and Neil Griffin. Scott is the specification lead for JSR-362 - otherwise known as the Portlet...

Javeed Chida | Jan 23, 2016 12:06 AM

Content Friendly URL? This is one of those tidbits you get served on a platter if you're lucky enough to attend a Liferay training session. Anyway, content friendly url may not be the legit term,...

Janne Hietala | Jan 21, 2016 11:16 AM

We are glad to announce that the new Valamis 2.6 Enterprise Edition has now been released. In this release new features have been introduced especially to the Lesson Studio. Also, importing...

Janne Hietala | Jan 20, 2016 10:51 AM

We are approaching a point in time where the rapid acceleration of technology related to education, course development, and learning has produced large amount of content and knowledge concepts....

Lauri Hiltunen | Jan 19, 2016 4:05 PM

Liferay allows using site specific Google Analytics tracking codes to analyze the traffic inside your portal. Adding the code is simply a matter of going to the site settings and saving the code...

Jan Eerdekens | Jan 17, 2016 8:26 PM

When working with a cluster you pretty quickly come to a point where you want/need to know what cluster node you're on. Liferay already has a simple way to show you this. You just need to add the...

Krzysztof Gołębiowski | Jan 17, 2016 2:22 PM

I recently started working on integrating Liferay with ElasticSearch + Logstash + Kibana, also known as ELK Stack. Every Liferay developer knows very well where to search for logs and what they...

Yoshiki Hisamoto | Jan 14, 2016 11:26 PM

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a...

Yoshiki Hisamoto | Jan 14, 2016 11:25 PM

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a...

James Falkner | Jan 14, 2016 9:13 PM

Back in 2012 we began a quarterly program to recognize those of you who have over the years contributed more to Liferay than your average open source enthusiast. Each quarter we recognize the top...

James Falkner | Jan 14, 2016 1:11 PM

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA6! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Meera Prince | Jan 8, 2016 2:44 PM

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) is specification that defines modular based software management and its execution. OSGi makes software management and its execution simpler by making...

Javeed Chida | Dec 28, 2015 6:10 PM

Okay, that is a mouthful. To rephrase my compound title, we'll be talking about an approach that uses search to update a content item that follows a structure tailored to a template that renders a...

Marcos Castro | Dec 28, 2015 5:09 PM

I would like to start saying that this entry is focused on designers and front-ends but I think that it would be useful for all people who wants to know what is the real advantage to applying...

Marcos Castro | Dec 27, 2015 9:14 PM

Hey guys, before this year ends I wanted to share with you some impressions and feedback which many of you have given me about the three free themes I have shared this year. First, I would like to...

Jan Eerdekens | Dec 27, 2015 7:11 PM

If, like me, you work on a non-Windows machine, an Apple MacBook Pro in my case with OSX, you are probably used to having TAB completion in your terminal. I've caught myself multiple times lately...

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 24, 2015 5:47 PM

Just in time to throw a big celebration we finally have achieved Beta status for Liferay 7! As mentioned in a previous blog entry, the criteria to meet Beta status is: Data upgrade finalized for...