Blogs

David H Nebinger | Feb 21, 2018 4:32 AM

So Jamie just announced the new Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program here: https://community.liferay.com/news/liferay-7-1-community-beta-program/ I recommend everyone who has working code in Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 20, 2018 12:12 AM

Welcome to the Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program! During the Liferay 7.0 development cycle we launched the Community Expedition program. With over 600 participants this was one of our largest...

David H Nebinger | Feb 16, 2018 2:54 AM

Okay, in case it is not yet clear, Liferay 7 uses an OSGi container. I know what you're thinking: "Well, Duh..." The point is that OSGi is actually a standard and anything that works within OSGi...

Christian Klein | Feb 15, 2018 9:52 PM

I have been working on adding CKEditor plugins to the Alloy Editor in Liferay DXP and figured I would share what I found. Specifically I was trying to add the YouTube Plugin. There are some...

Iacopo Colonnelli | Feb 15, 2018 5:58 PM

Introduction In recent times, containers are becoming more and more important in the software lifecycle management, whether we like it or not. The majority of the leading software companies have...

Jose M. Navarro | Feb 14, 2018 10:33 AM

In the very beginning of every mobile app project, we can have to face a tough decision: should I go for a native approach to make the most of the device capabilities and optimize the user...

Sergio González | Feb 13, 2018 11:32 AM

I am very pleased to announce the first release of Adaptive Media available for Liferay 7 GA5 and Liferay DXP. Below you can find the links to download the app from Liferay Marketplace. Download...

David H Nebinger | Feb 8, 2018 8:59 PM

So I've been working a lot more with Angular 2+ recently (Angular 4 actually, but that is not so important) and wanted to share some of my findings for those of you whom are interested... Accessing...

David H Nebinger | Feb 2, 2018 4:01 PM

So, as a developer, I'm like usually whacking my whole runtime environment and starting over. Why? Well, regardless how much I try to keep it clean, cruft will find its way into the environment....

Minhchau Dang | Feb 1, 2018 3:09 AM

At Liferay Symposium North America 2017, I had a discussion with a few of our customers on the hidden dangers of rolling back Liferay changes. There are multiple ongoing efforts to improve how we...

Koen Olaerts | Jan 30, 2018 5:59 PM

On October 6, 2017 my colleague Sebastiaan and I held a presentation at Liferay DevCon about a cool integration the COIN team made. We were looking for a fun and exciting Internet of Things...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | Jan 12, 2018 8:47 AM

Liferay has different types of pages. The default one is Layout - it’s standard, empty by default page, which is displayed in navigation menu. Portlets may be added to such page, themes and layouts...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | Jan 11, 2018 1:56 PM

To make some custom class available inside a theme velocity template, you need to put it's instance into com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.WebKeys#VM_VARIABLES request attribute. And it will be...

gulnaaz Shaik | Jan 9, 2018 9:44 AM

Themelets are small, extendable, and reusable pieces of code. They help to avoid duplication of code. Code that can be reused in other themes can be written in themelet which can be extended to any...

Vikash Kumar | Jan 5, 2018 12:29 PM

This blog is for creating an interface which will show number of live users and some other details. First of all create a portlet which will provide interface and then create a hook within the...

Minhchau Dang | Jan 5, 2018 2:23 AM

Welcome to the fourth entry in a series about what to keep in mind when building Liferay from source. First, to recap the previous entries in this series from last year: Getting Started with...

Ignacio Roncero Bazarra | Dec 20, 2017 9:43 PM

Short explanation If you want to convert a third party library of your portlets (modules) into a Bundle OSGi to be used by all modules, you could create a new module with your third party library...

Vikash Kumar | Dec 20, 2017 11:25 AM

<%@page import="sun.awt.RepaintArea"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://liferay.com/tld/aui" prefix="aui" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://liferay.com/tld/portlet" prefix="liferay-portlet" %> <%@ taglib...

Sushil Patidar | Dec 20, 2017 5:26 AM

I wrote blog for theme development with IDE . Further I explored the way to configure gradle project. I would like to share those steps that I have experienced hard to find and many developers I...

Zeno Rocha | Dec 18, 2017 6:17 PM

The Liferay ecosystem is richer than ever, and our community members have never been as global. Each one of us has different interests and with all this diversity, it gets hard to understand the...

Richard Sezov | Dec 14, 2017 10:14 PM

This year, the Knowledge Management team at Liferay set out not only to document Liferay 7/DXP, but to document it well. To do this, we identified several improvements we wanted to make: We wanted...

Sandeep Sapra | Dec 8, 2017 12:16 PM

Liferay provide OOTB features for Preview of Documents (PDF, Word, Image), Media (Audio and Video) in Document and Media Portlet. The same is available after installing following components...

Sandeep Sapra | Dec 8, 2017 7:17 AM

Liferay Theme generator tool is an easy way to create themes in Liferay v6.2 and 7. You would not need SDK for this but remember that there are some prequisities in terms of installation and...

Olaf Kock | Dec 7, 2017 10:16 AM

Yay, it took a while to get onto it again, and finally I updated Custom Navigation and it just went through the approval process yesterday. Now it's available for Liferay 7 and DXP as well. What...

Iacopo Colonnelli | Nov 30, 2017 8:33 PM

Introduction OSGi Fragments are a really powerful tool to extend the features of an existing bundle. Indeed, since fragments share classpath with their host bundle, they allow us to implement new...

Petteri Karttunen | Nov 27, 2017 11:48 AM

Previous parts of this series can be found here (part 1), here (part 2), here (part 3) and here (part 4). In the final part of this blog series few more interesting features are added to the...

Sandeep Sapra | Nov 24, 2017 12:08 PM

Liferay Integration with Analytics 1) With Google Analytics Set up an account with Google Analytics: https://analytics.google.com/ This will create a Tracking Id Configure the Tracking ID In...

John Feeney | Nov 24, 2017 10:22 AM

This blog entry is part of a three-part blog series that explores some of the great features provided by Liferay Screens and Liferay Mobile SDK. In this this series, I will cover: Liferay Screens –...

Sandeep Sapra | Nov 17, 2017 10:31 AM

Description: For Servlet configuration in Liferay DXP portlet, we will need to make necessary changes to the configuration files. Start with making a plugin custom portlet and add a servlet to...

Zeno Rocha | Nov 8, 2017 12:49 AM

2017 was a great year for the Liferay Community. Many things were accomplished and we know that there are still many things to be improved. We created a new website where you can discover and stay...

Takeo Yasuyuki | Nov 6, 2017 6:09 AM

While working on Elasticsearch debugging, I just made a docker-compose file to start up an external Elasticsearch with plugins that Liferay DXP / 7 installed with debugging tools. Hope this would...

Tim Telcik | Nov 5, 2017 3:28 PM

Overview As an administrator of a Liferay Portal server, you may be required to trace the behaviour of one or more services for a live instance. This article outlines the steps for enabling or...

Tim Telcik | Nov 5, 2017 3:21 PM

Overview The follow document outlines high level steps for patching Liferay Portal 6.1 source. NOTE: This approach also works with Liferay Portal 6.2 Patching Steps Show installed and available...

Tim Telcik | Nov 5, 2017 3:18 PM

Overview Liferay Portal 6 supports six plugin types for customizing and extending the base product : Portlets Hooks Themes Layouts EXT Web For many extension cases, portlets, hooks, themes and...

Tim Telcik | Nov 5, 2017 3:13 PM

Overview This article outlines the steps for configuring Apache HTTPD and Liferay Portal with SSL. This article should be used in conjunction with the following articles: David H Nebinger Blog -...

Tim Telcik | Nov 5, 2017 3:08 PM

Overview Firefox can be quite obstinate when it comes to clearing favourite (aka. shortcut) web site icons from it's cache. This short article wil outline the steps for clearing favourite icons in...

Tim Telcik | Nov 5, 2017 3:02 PM

Overview Configuring Liferay Portal to use Google Mail is relatively easy. The key is to enable SSL socket connections. The following article provides steps to enable Liferay Portal to send email...

Tim Telcik | Nov 5, 2017 2:57 PM

Overview The article outlines the steps to change the default Liferay Portal web context from "/" to "/portal" ? Steps Step 1 - Over-ride property "portal.ctx" Over-ride the property "portal.ctx"...

Tim Telcik | Nov 5, 2017 2:52 PM

Overview If you are facing Liferay Portal login issues (eg. unexpected user session timeouts, unexpected double login prompts), you can perform high level tracing by enabling logging in the primary...

John Feeney | Nov 3, 2017 3:19 PM

This blog entry is part of a three-part blog series that explores some of the great features provided by Liferay Screens and Liferay Mobile SDK. In this this series, I will cover: Liferay Screens –...

Greg Amerson | Nov 3, 2017 3:04 PM

We just released latest version of blade cli that includes all of the new npm frontend project templates. This also bumps the rest of the project templates to use latest versions of Liferay gradle...

Minhchau Dang | Nov 3, 2017 7:40 AM

About one month ago, Liferay posted an announcement which talked about how to deploy the New Clustering Code for Liferay Portal Community. One of the first steps documented in this announcement was...

Petteri Karttunen | Oct 30, 2017 12:41 PM

(Previous parts of this series can be found here (part 1), here (part 2) and here (part 3) As a random, Liferay custom search developer you might want to get support for Boolean operators and|or...

Petteri Karttunen | Oct 30, 2017 10:03 AM

(Previous parts of this series can be found here (part 1) and here (part 2) This time we add an autocomplete / keyword suggester to the search field and query suggestions with automatic alternative...

Petteri Karttunen | Oct 30, 2017 5:47 AM

Creating a Google Like Search Part II: Filter by Structure and Document Type (Previous part of the series can be found here) In the second part of this blog series I’ll be adding new filtering...

Alex Swain | Oct 27, 2017 1:37 PM

Today's "I wonder if I can do this" experiment ended up being SAML integration with ADFS using Liferay as a service provider. I was surprised how quickly we were able to set it up (if you don't...

Jamie Sammons | Oct 23, 2017 9:02 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA5! [Download Now] What's New Blacklisting OSGI Modules: New in GA5 is the ability to blacklist modules from starting....

Takeo Yasuyuki | Oct 19, 2017 2:34 AM

Based on requests from internal or customers, I just created a document for integrating ADFS (on Windows 2012 R2) and Lifeary DXP with detailed steps. I hope this would be helpful for somebody...

David H Nebinger | Oct 14, 2017 8:42 PM

So I've been home for almost a week now after having attended Devcon 2017 in Amsterdam. I have to give a shout out to Pascal Brusset and his entire team for putting on a great event. The venue was...

Tim Telcik | Oct 10, 2017 3:35 PM

Overview Liferay Portal 6.0 and 6.1 provide a data verification mechanism which can be used to resolve various data integrity issues, including the following data sets: Asset Blogs Bookmarks...

Tim Telcik | Oct 10, 2017 3:26 PM

Overview Liferay Portal 5 and 6 support different permission algorithms. Liferay Portal 5.2.x and 6.0.x supported permission algorithm 5. In addition, Liferay Portal 6.0.x introduced permission...

Tim Telcik | Oct 10, 2017 3:22 PM

Overview A common problem developers and system admins face is tracking down why their Liferay Portal plugins fail to deploy to their Java web server. There are many reasons why Liferay Portal...

Tim Telcik | Oct 10, 2017 2:16 PM

Environment Host Environment: MS Windows 7 Web Browser: MS Internet Explorer 9 Liferay Portal: 6.1 CE GA2 (6.1.1), 6.1 EE GA2 (6.1.20) Issues Popup page menu links for nested pages overlap...

Tim Telcik | Oct 10, 2017 2:10 PM

Overview If you need to reset the password for a Liferay Portal user in the database, refer to the following test steps. Test Environment These steps assume the following: We are connecting to a...

David H Nebinger | Oct 10, 2017 4:44 AM

So last week I'm sitting in an Unconference session at DevCon in a group talking about OSGi. I don't remember how it came up, but we got on a discussion about deployment issues and someone asked...

Anderson Perrelli | Oct 9, 2017 1:57 PM

Well, I decided to write this post after breaking my head a lot (almost brains were flying everywhere), to be able to configure remote staging in a clustered environment. The staging is that...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Oct 6, 2017 5:36 PM

Key Takeaways From JavaOne 2017 Talks Here are some of the key takeaways that I learned from the talks I attended at JavaOne 2017: How to Use Java Cryptography API Securely by Mansi Sheth (video)...

Petteri Karttunen | Oct 5, 2017 3:07 PM

More than once I've been asked to customise Liferay search to be "simpler" and more "Google like". In the first part of this blog series I'm going to create a custom search portlet from scratch...

Jim Hinkey | Oct 5, 2017 3:06 PM

If you've been developing apps, hooks, and themes on Liferay Portal 6, you might be wondering whether you'll be able to develop apps the same way on DXP Digital Enterprise 7 and Liferay Portal CE...

Sushil Patidar | Oct 4, 2017 11:38 AM

OSGI Module Gradle Project We have worked on ANT and MAVEN with Liferay in previous versions. In Liferay DXP Gradle has been introduced. It is quite an interesting feature to learn with Liferay...