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James Falkner | Aug 30, 2013 12:31 AM

Today Liferay announced the winners of the 2013 Liferay Marketplace App Contest, and I'm particularly happy to see so many great entries and apps in the contest! The contest entries covered a wide...

Glenn Saler | Aug 29, 2013 2:23 PM

I am currently attending the local Liferay Chicago User Group meeting which is being held at the Metropolitan Club on the 66th floor of the Willis Tower in downtown Chicago. This is my first user...

Greg Amerson | Aug 29, 2013 4:27 AM

We here on the IDE team are pleased to announce the new release of Liferay IDE: Liferay IDE 2.0 Milestone 1. Since this is an Eclipse release all you need is to use the following update site url...

Manuel de la Peña | Aug 27, 2013 6:39 AM

Hello my friends! Here I'm again after a long time without writting about CI in Liferay. If you remember my last post, it described the importance of reverting those commits that break the build as...

Jonas Yuan | Aug 23, 2013 4:36 PM

Inline editing is a quick way to update content by making changes directly. CKEditor 4 ( http://ckeditor.com) comes in the form of Inline Editing, an HTML5 feature that allows users to edit pages...

James Falkner | Aug 22, 2013 7:29 PM

I’m happy to announce that today, Liferay released the much anticipated Liferay Portal 6.1 CE GA3 release! DOWNLOADS: [Tomcat Bundle | GlassFish Bundle | JBoss Bundle | Maven Artifacts and Info |...

Ruud Kluivers | Aug 21, 2013 10:10 AM

We are drowning in a sea of email messages. Don't get me wrong I like email and can't do without. Email is great, it's quick, cheap, conveniently low threshold. Apparently it's a little bit to...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Aug 20, 2013 8:57 PM

This year I have been able to do the awesome JCrete conference. First of all I would to thanks Liferay and Jorge for letting me get a few days off and financing my trip. The conference is organized...

Jesse Rao | Aug 19, 2013 9:12 PM

We just published a new chapter in the Liferay 6.1 Development Guide on Service Builder! In this chapter, we discuss a number of ways Service Builder can help you save development time on Liferay...

Ryan Schuhler | Aug 16, 2013 10:29 PM

There is a pressing need for websites to respond to the ever-changing technology which is used to visit them. As mobile devices become more powerful and more prevalent, more and more people surf...

Ryan Schuhler | Aug 16, 2013 6:49 PM

The new trend in web design is long-scrolling pages. It allows space for cool animation and flowing content while cutting down the need for changing pages and waiting for things to load each time....

Iliyan Peychev | Aug 15, 2013 1:20 PM

AlloyUI is the engine which drives the UI of all Liferay products. Since it was created in 2009, it has grown really fast and we are very close to the point where we will release ver. 2.0. We will...

Glenn Saler | Aug 14, 2013 6:48 PM

Our certified service partner, Isos Technology, has released a new blog series titled 'Practical Liferay Series'. The series focuses on tips and insights for deploying and running Liferay on a...

Jorge Ferrer | Aug 11, 2013 10:15 PM

In my previous post I convered the reasons why we decided to streamline the administration UIs of Liferay and in the process review the usability and design of the Control Panel. In that post I...

Neil Griffin | Aug 10, 2013 4:38 PM

When working with Maven profiles, sometimes you need to activate a profile when multiple conditions are true. Although the <activation> element in pom.xml lets you specify more than one condition,...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Aug 7, 2013 8:47 PM

I guess all of you already know what JRebel is so I guess it doesn't deserve an exhaustive introduction. In a few words, JRebel is a JVM agent which allows you to reload your class definitions...

Ray Augé | Aug 7, 2013 2:32 PM

Every year a project grows more complex the difficulties of managing backward compatibility become more complex. The strain imposed on APIs as time passes is tremendous. Developers want APIs to...

Olaf Kock | Aug 7, 2013 11:08 AM

This week's guest is Jack Rider, from the mediterrean shore in Benidorm. He is a real Liferay veteran, having started with version 3.6, and has initiated quite a few very nice and well-usable...

Zeno Rocha | Aug 6, 2013 1:09 PM

We're very happy to announce several talks focused on the AlloyUI project at Liferay official events. If you're coming to any of those conferences below, enjoy that time to get in touch with our...

Bruno Farache | Aug 5, 2013 12:22 PM

We just released a new update for Sync Android and iOS! The most important improvements are: Browse files while you are offline Move folders and files Performance boost While you are online,...

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...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 5, 2013 2:30 PM

Hello, My name is Ryan and I work at Liferay. I am currently on the web team at Liferay and have the unique opportunity to both use Liferay's software as customer and collaborate with all the...

Olaf Kock | Jul 4, 2013 2:19 PM

Please welcome yet another return guest, Milen Dyankov, a fellow trainer and senior consultant in Liferay. Milen has been participating in episode 9 and he has been the original contributor of the...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Jul 4, 2013 11:31 AM

Monitoring JMX data has been always a painful process, especially in production systems where the ability to open ports and/or allow certain kind of traffic is kind of "complicated". Thanks to...

Ruud Kluivers | Jul 2, 2013 7:57 AM

This is an adaptation of a blog I wrote for Wolters Kluwer March 2011. Everyone knows that data and information are subtly different things. Data is worthless unless it can be turned into...

Sachin Dhus | Jul 2, 2013 7:57 AM

Few steps for creating your own tomcat bundle from Liferay Source. Extract plain tomcat . Rename apache- tomcat-7.0.23 to tomcat-7.0.23(tomcat-[version]). Download/checkout liferay source from...

Ruud Kluivers | Jul 1, 2013 9:45 AM

Twenty years ago, June 1993, Adobe introduced its Acrobat software for creating and viewing electronic documents. I was one of the ‘lucky’ IT journalists to be invited by Adobe’s PR agency to...

priti parmar | Jun 28, 2013 7:31 AM

create a ServicePreAction, which will create a new custom NavItem object and a change in navigation.vm of the theme, which will show the custom navigation. Here are the steps to create the custom...

priti parmar | Jun 28, 2013 7:19 AM

Liferay 6.1 provides Custom Fileds for Pages , set viewCount as a Custom Field and update it using a servicePreAction Hook. public class CustomServicePreAction extends Action { /** * This...

priti parmar | Jun 28, 2013 7:14 AM

PART 1: SETTING UP SOLR with TOMCAT Step 1: Download Solr. It's just a zip file. Step 2: Copy from your SOLR_HOME_DIR/dist/apache-solr-1.3.0.war to your tomcat webapps directory:...

Glenn Saler | Jun 27, 2013 5:25 PM

Liferay's Hamilton office has now officially been open for about 4 weeks and we have had some great visitors. Starting this summer I will be inviting more of our certified Liferay Service Partners...

Milen Dyankov | Jun 27, 2013 2:32 PM

As you probably know in version 6.1 Liferay introduced the mobile device rules feature. However if you haven't followed the discussions and presentations about it, you may be under the wrong...

Olaf Kock | Jun 24, 2013 10:36 AM

Please welcome a return guest, James Falkner, Liferay's Community manager. I got him on to talk about the changes in the upcoming symposium's structure, but we continued with conversations about a...

Ryan Schuhler | Jun 21, 2013 11:55 PM

Want a quick and easy way to make a sticky nav right out of the box with liferay? Thanks to AUI with 10 lines of code you can turn your navigation bar into a sticky nav. This is especially useful...

Mika Koivisto | Jun 18, 2013 10:25 PM

We've finally released both CE and EE versions of Liferay 6.1 GA3 and along with those releases we've also released the corresponding versions of Liferay Maven Support and Portal artifacts. The...

Olaf Kock | Jun 17, 2013 8:24 AM

I took some time to speak to Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering about all things Engineering and Development in Liferay. This time I'm not starting with butchering names, but positions....

Manuel de la Peña | Jun 14, 2013 10:25 AM

Hi all! This is my third blog post about Continuous Integration best practices, and today I want to explain the benefits of being patient after sending commits for being reviewed. As developers, we...

James Falkner | Jun 11, 2013 4:14 PM

What's the time? It's time to get ill, with another Community Roundup! The Liferay Community has done some amazing things these last few months since the last roundup, and so here we go with...

Glenn Saler | Jun 8, 2013 2:20 PM

Recently I began to blog about some of our partners activites out in the "real" world including several marketplace applications that they are currently developing. Today I would like to point out...

Glenn Saler | Jun 6, 2013 5:50 PM

We have some awesome certified partners and I want to start pointing out some of the great stuff they are doing including marketplace applications that they are starting to upload for community...

Vernon Singleton | Jun 4, 2013 9:09 AM

Yay! For those of you egg heads who have been wondering where the support for Context and Dependency Injection is, well this is your day. Liferay now has support for your favorite annotations...