Blogs

Martin Yan | May 5, 2015 5:22 PM

Over the years, Liferay has been able to provide many individuals and organizations a unique platform to give them a stronger presence on the web. But we aren't able to accomplish this mission...

David Zhang | Apr 30, 2015 5:50 AM

How to catch MySQL SQL with tcpdump in Linux Introduction This idea of post is from my previous one: Liferay and P6spy, with the help of P6spy, we can get the formatted Hibernate SQL without "?"...

Jan Eerdekens | Apr 29, 2015 7:38 PM

The problem While doing some work for a client I ran into issues with the preview generation for some PDFs. While it did generate a preview image for each page of the document, the text on it was...

Olaf Kock | Apr 29, 2015 10:10 AM

Update! Wir treffen uns am Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2015, 18:30 Uhr in den Räumen der Inovex GmbH: Valentin-Linhof-Straße 2, 81829 München - Vielen Dank für die Unterstützung an Peter Dimitri von...

Sampsa Sohlman | Apr 28, 2015 9:34 AM

Introduction I decided to write this blog as I did find out that this is the area of the Liferay that has not been documented at all? So this blog post can act as documentation for this. So let's...

Shannon Chang | Apr 24, 2015 4:00 PM

Takeaways from intra.NET Reloaded Boston Modern organizations are increasingly seeing the value of trading in their notoriously outdated and static intranets for social and collaborative digital...

Lauri Hiltunen | Apr 24, 2015 5:56 AM

Portlets are components which create a portal application. They can function without any knowledge of other portlets, or can be configured to be dependent of one another in many ways. You can...

James Falkner | Apr 23, 2015 4:38 PM

If you've attended any Liferay Symposium, Solutions Forum, or Developer Conference in the last few years you've undoubtedly seen the companion mobile app that attendees can use to see up-to-date...

Martin Yan | Apr 22, 2015 5:29 PM

Communities are essential to shaping our identities. They bring people together through a common activity or belief and provide us a context in which we are able to interpret ourselves and one...

Adam Brandizzi | Apr 20, 2015 1:57 PM

If the line below is executed in a JavaScript console, what will be the value of hour? var hour = new Date(2015, 9, 18, 0).getHours(); The intuitive answer is zero, and it is right in most...

Neil Griffin | Apr 17, 2015 11:38 PM

On April 28, 2015 Liferay released Liferay Faces 4.2.0-beta: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-beta JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 Release Notes Feature Complete This new version of Liferay Faces is just about...

James Falkner | Apr 15, 2015 2:19 PM

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA4! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Vernon Singleton | Apr 14, 2015 8:53 AM

Continuing in the spirit of Juan Gonzalez’s excitement over the new portal components, let me introduce a new Liferay Faces Alloy component which will be included in the the upcoming GA release. ...

Meera Prince | Apr 13, 2015 6:55 AM

Liferay have introduced Expando API to extending existed Liferay tables to add additional columns rather than creating new tables in the database. Logically its look like new tables in Liferay...

Juan Gonzalez | Apr 9, 2015 6:45 AM

Hi everyone! As you may know there are many exciting things that had been done so far in the last year for Liferay Faces. This is the first of a blog series about all of these improvements and new...

Shannon Chang | Apr 7, 2015 5:32 PM

A little over a year ago, iBeacons made their way to the retail market in a mass deployment to 254 Apple stores. Since then, they’ve had technology enthusiasts and event marketers alike...

Kan Zhang | Apr 5, 2015 1:40 AM

Issue Recently I worked on a Liferay 6.1 to 6.2 upgrade project. The Liferay was configured to use sharding with three database schemas. During the upgrade process, an exception is thrown: ...

James Falkner | Apr 2, 2015 4:41 PM

It's been about 1 month since we launched the Liferay 7 Community Expedition! I first want to thank all of you that have spent your valuable time and brain cycles to help with Liferay 7...

James Falkner | Apr 1, 2015 4:25 PM

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.3a! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start] [Detailed...

Martin Yan | Mar 25, 2015 1:12 AM

More than ever before, people are foregoing their desktops and accessing services primarily through their phones and tablets. A strong mobile strategy is now a must-have for businesses. But what...

Jan Eerdekens | Mar 19, 2015 10:00 PM

Last year I spent a lot of time looking into how AngularJS could be used in a portal environment, more specifically Liferay. That research culminated in a pretty technical and quite lengthy blog...

Juan Fernández | Mar 18, 2015 9:06 AM

Dear community: I'd like to make an important announcement today. I've been presenting and demoing Liferay Cloud Services at Symposiums, events and customer visits for quite some time now, and...

Olaf Kock | Mar 17, 2015 9:01 AM

One message that I have to give out in trainings doesn't fail to stun the students: When you deploy multiple hooks that override the same JSP in Liferay, you will first get undefined behavior and...

Martin Yan | Mar 17, 2015 12:58 AM

Has open source software now become the preferred choice for enterprises? According to a Black Duck Software report, over half of all enterprises will utilize or contribute to open source in some...

Olaf Kock | Mar 13, 2015 8:17 AM

Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions...

Marcos Castro | Mar 8, 2015 10:24 PM

Welcome to my first post! As a theme developer in Liferay I start this blog with the goal of sharing all type of useful content. I want to speak about a little frequent problem with dockbar,...

James Falkner | Mar 2, 2015 7:56 PM

My Documents View New Liferay Sync UI Liferay has released a beta of the new version of Liferay Sync, the popular document sharing add-on for Liferay. Download it from the Downloads page, read the...

Andrea Di Giorgi | Feb 27, 2015 5:33 PM

Hi everyone In my first blog post almost one year ago, I talked about our Calendar Mobile Sync project, a free and open-source plugin which enables users to synchronize their Liferay calendars...

Jorge Ferrer | Feb 25, 2015 5:32 PM

Did you like what you saw in previous milestones? You didn’t feel there was enough meat to be worth your time? Get ready for Milestone 4 which comes bundled with many improvements and new features....

Jose M. Navarro | Feb 22, 2015 5:51 PM

Several months ago, I read an article talking about a new concept for me: the Hacker in Residence. Since then, I saw pretty clearly that it would be a wonderful initiative within Liferay, given...

Kamesh Sampath | Feb 22, 2015 11:50 AM

Taking forward from where Ray left off with a Telnet to Liferay OSGi, I am taking this step ahead to enable SSH access to Liferay OSGi console, here is my two little reasons on why I want to do it,...

Olaf Kock | Feb 18, 2015 12:24 PM

This is a repeat post - same topic as in July 2013, when I've solved exactly the same problem on Liferay 6.1. Now it's time to update the solution to Liferay 6.2. But I am ahead of myself: What...

Olaf Kock | Feb 18, 2015 10:50 AM

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...

Ray Augé | Feb 12, 2015 10:46 PM

Over the past couple of years Liferay has invested a considerable amount of effort to re-engineer Liferay Portal version 7.0 with modularity as the key focus. As part of this effort we've adopted...

James Falkner | Feb 11, 2015 5:58 PM

Liferay Explorers Miguel Ángel Pau & Moisés Belda Liferay Spain User Group During the Liferay 6.2 development cycle many of you participated in BugSquad and the Community Beta programs in order to...

Neil Griffin | Feb 3, 2015 10:47 PM

The Liferay Faces team is focussed on developing our new 4.2.5-GA6 and 3.2.5-GA6 releases as well as our new Liferay Faces Showcase demo. But since not all projects will not have an opportunity to...

Subhasis Roy | Feb 2, 2015 9:06 AM

The following document will provide the steps about installing the “Liferay 6.2 EE” on “JBoss 6.2 EAP” server. Softwares Required: - Download and unzip "JBoss6.2 EAP" - Download latest version of...

Bruno Farache | Jan 30, 2015 9:42 PM

Hello, community! We would like to announce Liferay Push, our new framework for sending push notifications from Liferay Portal to your mobile apps. Push notifications is a technology that allows...

Olaf Kock | Jan 27, 2015 3:01 PM

Ich bin mal wieder auf Reisen - und zwar in Wien. Und welche bessere Gelegenheit Land und Leute kennenzulernen gibt es, als ein Liferay Community Meeting (oder Radio Liferay Hörertreffen)? Hofburg,...

Olaf Kock | Jan 20, 2015 9:03 AM

A short Inbetweenisode on the release of 6.2 CE GA3 with repeat guest and Community Manager James Falkner. During Devcon James promised the release for the 15. January - while I stated that this...