Blogs

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 7, 2010 6:00 PM

While the ability to have all of our official docs in HTML form and indexed is great, in some cases we all prefer a PDF version that can easily be printed or checked while offline. We've always had...

Igor Spasić | Oct 7, 2010 7:11 AM

A lot of effort is put into keeping Liferay huge source base formatted consistently, what is very important. There is an advance source formatter (ant format-source) that outputs formatting...

Jamie L Sammons | Oct 4, 2010 6:48 PM

With the release of the Liferay IDE 1.1 I got to thinking it would be really cool to try and build the Social Office Trunk using the Liferay IDE. I thought I could get a way with using Liferay...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 4, 2010 4:33 PM

The Yellow Affair Region: Finland Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The Yellow Affair is an international sales and distribution company in the media industry who specialise in titles with a unique blend...

Ray Augé | Oct 4, 2010 1:52 PM

A while back I wrote a post about adding custom tools to the Liferay Velocity context. In 6.0 a change was made such that the behaviour has changed slightly. Now all such tools are plain old beans...

Jonas Yuan | Sep 30, 2010 6:16 PM

Liferay 6 provides a new feature that you can easily implement a different CAPTCHA than the default CAPTCHA, like reCAPTCHA. A blogs post mentioned: Easily Improve Your CAPTCHA. By the way, for...

Jorge Ferrer | Sep 30, 2010 11:27 AM

One of the most interesting improvements of Liferay 6 for developers is that the plugin infrastructure has improved considerably. For example, the hook plugins are now much more powerful and allow...

Jonas Yuan | Sep 25, 2010 4:55 PM

Social Equity is a cool new feature in Liferay 6 or above version. Refer to Zsolt's blogs post Social Equity in Liferay. Social Equity can be used to measure the contribution and participation of a...

Paul Hinz | Sep 24, 2010 6:14 AM

Over the last year, over 1,000 people have attended Liferay's Symposiums. We have held Symposiums worldwide to simplify attendance and each has been filled with both technical and business leaders...

Igor Spasić | Sep 23, 2010 12:22 PM

By default, Liferay portal deployed on WebSphere7 will not be able to send any email to Gmail, even if the portal is set correctly (pop.gmail.com:995; smtp.gmail.com:465; secure network...

Ray Augé | Sep 22, 2010 2:23 PM

When should you use a debugger during development? At ALL times! At least that's my view. Isn't that a hassle? Well debugging sure can be, but if you setup your environment in a specific way, it...

Jorge Ferrer | Sep 22, 2010 10:40 AM

As you have probably already noticed we've just made public a quite large revamp of our documentation. This is the result of a project that has taken several months and has involved gathering...

Greg Amerson | Sep 21, 2010 10:01 AM

Early this month I was able to visit with many in the Liferay community at the West Coast Symposium. I had a great time discussing some of the issues and hearing some concerns of our users with...

Brian Kim | Sep 20, 2010 2:34 PM

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of attending our very first "Roadshow", which was hosted together with our partner Dunn Solutions Group at the Willis Tower in Chicago. As part of our releasing...

Igor Spasić | Sep 19, 2010 12:00 AM

When Liferay portal is deployed in WebSphere 7, it is possible to use JConsole to connect to the app server and monitor the portal. You need two files: (1) wm-jmx.bat @echo off :: user...

Richard Sezov | Sep 18, 2010 3:44 AM

This has been a long time coming, and could not have been done without the help of a whole team of people, but we have finally done a redesign of the documentation pages on this site. Our previous...

Ray Augé | Sep 16, 2010 2:21 PM

So my last blog post involved a classloader trick for velocity but it also involved a problem of dynamically listing article fragments on a page. Now, there are a few ways to do this, but the two...

Ray Augé | Sep 16, 2010 2:00 PM

Recently I was asked to solve a WCM dynamic Template problem which involved listing articles using the business logic of the template. One of the first problems I encountered was of course doing a...

Greg Amerson | Sep 15, 2010 8:12 PM

The latest version of Liferay IDE version 1.1 has just been released to the update sites. To see a list of the new features and improvements take a look at the Liferay IDE 1.1 New and Noteworthy....

Joshua Asbury | Sep 14, 2010 5:02 PM

Over the next couple of weeks, Liferay and our partners are going to present a series of roadshows around the country. With the recent release of Liferay 6 EE, we want to provide our customers a...

Jonas Yuan | Sep 14, 2010 12:24 AM

The portal provides a framework to add custom attributes or called custom fields to any Service-Builder generated entities at runtime where indexed values, text boxes, and selection lists for input...

Paul Hinz | Sep 11, 2010 1:08 AM

Liferay 6EE is complete and was launched at Liferay's West Coast Symposium. It should be obvious now we were purposely quiet leading up to this launch but now with the hood off, there are several...

Julio Camarero | Sep 7, 2010 3:51 PM

(See English version below) En octubre se celebrará en Málaga (España) el Open Source World Conference, una de las conferencias más importantes en materia de software libre a nivel europeo. Desde...

Igor Spasić | Sep 7, 2010 2:00 PM

These are some quick steps how to use Derby DB with Portal 6. (1) Prepare Portal Database This shall be done only once. + modify derby/bin/ij.bat by adding: set...

satya ranjan | Sep 6, 2010 3:59 PM

If you are a NetBeans user and always wanted to try Portal Pack with latest NetBeans 6.9 and LIferay 6, here is the good news. So there is a new version Portal Pack 3.0.4 available at Portal Pack...

Jonas Yuan | Sep 4, 2010 4:50 PM

In previous blogs post, we had discussed applying workflow on Liferay portal core assets. It is true that Liferay 6 integrates workflow system like jBPM or Kaleo on any assets, either core assets...

Igor Spasić | Sep 3, 2010 10:18 AM

Liferay portal can be deployed to many app servers. Cool thing is that from version 6 there are ant targets for downloading and preparing app server of your choice. (1) Download and prepare app...

Igor Spasić | Sep 1, 2010 8:00 PM

By default, liferay themes uses velocity templates. For example, classic theme (.../tomcat-6.0.x/webapps/ROOT/html/themes/classic/templates) uses several (*.vm) velocity templates. But Liferay...

Igor Spasić | Sep 1, 2010 2:43 PM

I use IntelliJ IDEA for portal and plugins development. Also, I currently experiment with different project configuration and, therefore, have IntelliJ module files (*.iml) everywhere. For now, I...

Mika Koivisto | Sep 1, 2010 3:32 AM

That's a question I've head many times and in this post I will show you just how to do that. These instructions are for Liferay 6 CE GA3 Tomcat 6.0 bundle however you can use any app server...

Paul Hinz | Sep 1, 2010 2:09 AM

Igor Spasić | Aug 31, 2010 9:18 AM

Portal minifies JS and CSS; and optimizes HTML (by stripping unnecessary characters, etc). Such files are optimized for production, but not for humans :) that dig into the code during development...

Igor Spasić | Aug 31, 2010 9:04 AM

public class Liferay { String $ = "YIYEEILLI:L" + "FIYRELYR)IoLERoLtIaAFF" + "lILRpLYIlLaIARoLRLoIlL" + "YAoIRRrYFY." ; String $$= "LIFERAY.portal:)"; String $$$ ="liferay.com"; byte[] o;int...

Mika Koivisto | Aug 24, 2010 6:21 PM

Freemarker is a template language very similar to Velocity. Starting from Liferay 6.0 Liferay supports also Freemarker templates in themes and Web Content templates. In this post I will show how...

Alexander Chow | Aug 24, 2010 10:59 AM

For a while now, Liferay has offered Basic authentication for various servlets (e.g., WebDAV, JSON, etc.). For the most part, this has suited most of our needs. However, recently, there have been...

Barrie Selack | Aug 23, 2010 2:34 AM

This is the second part of a series of blogs and wiki articles on using gadgets in Liferay. In the blog we'll look at a gadget in action and in the associated wiki post we'll breakdown the gadget,...

Jonas Yuan | Aug 21, 2010 7:12 AM

As you know, Liferay 6 integrates workflow system like jBPM or Kaleo on any assets finally. By this feature, users are able to manage the content creation process with a workflow. Out-of-the-box,...

Shepherd Ching | Aug 19, 2010 2:00 AM

Draft version 1 With synergy of JFreechart and Liferay, I create a jfreechart-portlet in Liferay for enterprise usage. It combines features JFreeChart's professional presentation and Liferay...

Wilson Man | Aug 18, 2010 4:23 AM

Liferay 6.0 now comes with an additional Single Sign-On option - Facebook SSO using OAuth 2.0. Setup is quite easy. Let me walk you through the steps below. 1. In order for Facebook SSO to work,...

Brian Chan | Aug 16, 2010 11:20 PM

GA 3 is a bug fix release for GA 2. Changes are available on our Issue Tracker. Downloads are available on SF.net.