Blogs

James Falkner | Aug 2, 2013 7:51 PM

We need your help! The next release of Liferay Portal - version 6.2 - has been under development for over a year, and many of you have been instrumental in getting new features in, fixing old bugs...

Neil Griffin | Aug 2, 2013 2:16 PM

I was recently installed a ".vmdk" image into VMware Fusion on a MacBook Pro with multiple processor cores. The operating system in the image was Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3. After...

Adam Brandizzi | Aug 1, 2013 8:51 PM

I'm working in an awesome component to be shipped from Liferay 6.2 onwards. Some of the features needed to implement it are rather reusable so they were implemented in the Liferay Porta itself. One...

Jorge Ferrer | Aug 1, 2013 11:31 AM

Hey guys, The 6.2 release is getting closer and closer, so after quite a few months without writing a blog entry I'd like to get back starting a new series I'm calling "New in 6.2". In this blog...

Manuel de la Peña | Aug 1, 2013 10:24 AM

In this blog post I want to talk about developers mentality, about how they (we) create software that never fails, and brights more than the sun, and is faster than a jet plane... or not? No,...

Máté Thurzó | Jul 25, 2013 11:01 AM

Staging is one of the unique fetaures of the Liferay portal, serving customers to be able to handle their content across the portal. The feature has been around for a while, and was always a...

Olaf Kock | Jul 25, 2013 9:15 AM

This week's guest is Neil Griffin, Liferay's resident JSF Wizard, Lead Engineer for Liferay Faces and representative for Liferay on the Portlet-Spec 3.0 group (JSR 362). Here are our topics:...

Adam Brandizzi | Jul 23, 2013 8:08 PM

Since AlloyUI became a base component for Liferay, various amazing tools became available for the Liferay developer. One of these are the JavaScript components such as Liferay.Store. This component...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 19, 2013 8:28 PM

Recently I found myself searching through the internet for how to best add social share buttons to a website. The documentation that exists is helpful, however I decided it might still be useful to...

Olaf Kock | Jul 18, 2013 5:12 PM

You might have heard about this year's change in the european symposium: We'll replace the single symposium with a Liferay Portal Solutions Forum, a rather business-oriented program as well as a...

Sergio González | Jul 17, 2013 12:33 PM

Lately I have been working on a new feature that many users have asked for a long time and Liferay didn't support it (yet). As most of you know, friendly URLs are very important nowadays for...

priti parmar | Jul 16, 2013 8:16 AM

Liferay provide facet search with great features ,we can add new entries in search using configuration of portlet to achive this follow the below steps, Step 1 : create a hook override init.jsp in...

Olaf Kock | Jul 15, 2013 6:48 PM

It's my return guest show time - here's another one. However, you've unfortunately never heard my first recording with Juan Gonzalez, back when we did it. This was due to a glitch that I'm really...

priti parmar | Jul 11, 2013 4:54 PM

Step 1 : create document library URL in your jsp <% long dlScopeGroupId = themeDisplay.getScopeGroupId(); LiferayPortletURL documentLibURL = PortletURLFactoryUtil.create(request, ...

priti parmar | Jul 10, 2013 12:08 PM

Step1 : Add following reference and column to your service.xml (service in which you would like add workflow),out of these some of fields must be there which will help in mapping between workflow...

Olaf Kock | Jul 10, 2013 9:14 AM

When you're arranging portlets on your pages, have you ever wondered, where you'll be able to drop them? Especially when you use a more complex layout, like the 1-2-1-columns and don't have a lot...

Manuel de la Peña | Jul 9, 2013 3:24 PM

I love that picture! Imagine yourself any Friday, at the end of your day-work. You look at the CI server and, unluckily, it is broken. You have only three options: Resign yourself that you will be...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 5, 2013 10:06 PM

The last script I will share with you for now is one that I call on screen helper. This is also a simple script, but very useful when it comes to animations, transitions, and effects. Essentially...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 5, 2013 8:35 PM

Here is another script that we developed for the redesign of Liferay.com. The goal for this script was to help with loading times on pages with a lot of images as well as provide a way to...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 5, 2013 8:12 PM

As a part of the redesign of Liferay's website we have developed a number of new scripts in order to effeciently acheive new effects and improve the UX. I thought I would share some of the code we...