Blogs

Andy Wu | Feb 17, 2017 1:56 AM

Hi all, We are happy to say that we have the new milestone for Liferay IDE 3.1 released as described in section Updates and Feedback in Liferay IDE 3.1 Milestone 1 Released. Go to...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Feb 15, 2017 6:26 PM

Improving Test Performance on Liferay Recently, we upgraded the JSF Portlet Bridge Test Compatibility Kit (TCK) from Selenium 1.0 to our new test framework which uses Selenium 2.53. The TCK...

David H Nebinger | Feb 15, 2017 2:18 PM

Introduction So I'm going to start a new type of blog series here covering design patterns in Liferay. As we all know: In software engineering, a software design pattern is a general reusable...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 13, 2017 11:09 PM

I am pleased to announce the Social Office to Liferay 7 upgrade has been released! Update 06/16/2017: For anyone interested in the tasks application, I have converted it to Liferay 7 modules. ...

David H Nebinger | Feb 8, 2017 2:10 PM

Recently I was lamenting how I felt that JSP fragment bundles could not introduce new dependencies and therefore the JSP overrides could really not do much more than reorganize or add/remove...

Mohammed Yasin | Feb 8, 2017 5:18 AM

By Default in Liferay, Resource Importer will import journal articles,structures,templates,sites and document to all portal Instances present in the System If we need to restrict Resource importer...

David H Nebinger | Feb 7, 2017 3:25 PM

One of the things that I never really used in 6.x was the Liferay upgrade APIs. Sure, I knew about the Release table and stuff, but it just seemed kind of cumbersome to not only to build out your...

David H Nebinger | Feb 7, 2017 12:33 AM

In Liferay 6.x, scheduled tasks were kind of easy to implement. I mean, you'd implement a class that implements the Liferay Message Bus's MessageListener interface and then add the details in the...

Neil Jin | Feb 6, 2017 11:38 PM

This article talks about how to create json web service based on Service Builder Service. Knowledge: Service Builder JSON Web Service When we intent to make a service to be a web provider to...

Dave Truong | Feb 2, 2017 8:09 PM

A search for a better SDK A little over a year ago, the Dev Tools Team began a new project hoping to fix the issues we encountered with the Plugins SDK. We had just finished modularizing our...

Allen Ziegenfus | Feb 2, 2017 10:55 AM

If you want to find out more information about how a search is being executed in Liferay, you can modify the logging settings to output search queries to the log. To do this, go into Control...

David H Nebinger | Feb 2, 2017 6:14 AM

When you start reviewing Liferay 7 CE/Liferay DXP code, you run into a lot of annotations in a lot of different ways. They can all seem kind of overwhelming when you first happen upon them, so I...

David H Nebinger | Feb 2, 2017 5:10 AM

Alt Title: Cool things you can do with OSGi Introduction So one thing that many organizations like to stand up in their Liferay environments is a "health check". The goal is to provide a simple...

Vikash Kumar | Jan 31, 2017 12:01 PM

Customize /html/portlet/journal_content/view.jsp <%@ include file="/html/portlet/journal_content/init.jsp" %> <% JournalArticle article =...

Javeed Chida | Jan 30, 2017 4:43 PM

Let me begin by clarifying that this post has nothing to do with the Harry Potter universe. But seriously. You know what I mean by wizards, don’t you? Those helpful series of screens that gather...

Alex Swain | Jan 25, 2017 4:49 PM

I fell over a problem the other day that I had solved ages ago and foolishly hadn't taken the time to write down how I did it. I guess it must be fairly rare as my standard "I might have forgotten...

Neil Jin | Jan 24, 2017 10:35 PM

As a supervisor of my department, some times I want to check how much progress of a work is done, who is working on a certain trading? who is reviewing a loan application? If a new business plan...

Jan Eerdekens | Jan 23, 2017 8:46 PM

I've been working with Liferay for quite some time now, but I must confess that I still haven't really made the switch from Velocity to Freemarker for my templates. Even though I know there are a...

Justin Choi | Jan 23, 2017 4:43 PM

Three weeks ago marked the sixth year anniversary for me. It came and went quietly. I probably would have not posted anything but something said at this past retreat prompted me to reconsider. In...

Javeed Chida | Jan 19, 2017 11:19 PM

This short post brings together the little pieces critical to crafting an ADT in velocity to provide direct download links to documents in your Documents and Media repository. You will find parts...