Blogs

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...

Bryan H Cheung | Oct 4, 2017 10:03 AM

Hello Liferay Community! I'm here at the Liferay Unconference in Amsterdam, listening to Brett Swaim talk about his real world experiences with upgrades and Staging. Earlier, I ran into Darryl...

Olaf Kock | Oct 2, 2017 3:29 PM

Yay, another episode, and maybe in time to sweeten your trip to Devcon in Amsterdam. I spoke to Kristoffer Onias and Victor Ware. Both work on testing Liferay with different areas of interest....

Iván Zaera Avellón | Oct 2, 2017 1:58 PM

Dear Liferay Developers: We would like to share with you a new feature we have been working in very hard during the last months. As we all know, Liferay Portal’s current support for frontend...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 2, 2017 10:55 AM

One more year, Liferay Developer Conference (DEVCON) will bring together developers from all around the world to learn about Liferay, our platform, available tools and the people behind the...

Sandeep Sapra | Sep 29, 2017 7:11 AM

Introduction Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) provides feature to integrate with Corporate Single Sign on Server (SSO). SAML can be used to establish the same. This article laid down the...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Sep 25, 2017 9:21 PM

Hidden Features of Liferay Faces: The nativeWhenMobile Attribute of alloy:inputDate and alloy:inputTime One of my favorite lesser-known features of Liferay Faces Alloy is the the nativeWhenMobile...

Neil Griffin | Sep 14, 2017 8:57 PM

On September 13, 2017 the Liferay Faces project received a maintenance release according to the new Liferay Faces Version Scheme. The maintenance release addresses 226 issues: 124 bugs fixed 7...