Blogs

Lauri Hiltunen | Jan 19, 2016 4:05 PM

Liferay allows using site specific Google Analytics tracking codes to analyze the traffic inside your portal. Adding the code is simply a matter of going to the site settings and saving the code...

Jan Eerdekens | Jan 17, 2016 8:26 PM

When working with a cluster you pretty quickly come to a point where you want/need to know what cluster node you're on. Liferay already has a simple way to show you this. You just need to add the...

Krzysztof Gołębiowski | Jan 17, 2016 2:22 PM

I recently started working on integrating Liferay with ElasticSearch + Logstash + Kibana, also known as ELK Stack. Every Liferay developer knows very well where to search for logs and what they...

Yoshiki Hisamoto | Jan 14, 2016 11:26 PM

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a...

Yoshiki Hisamoto | Jan 14, 2016 11:25 PM

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a...

James Falkner | Jan 14, 2016 9:13 PM

Back in 2012 we began a quarterly program to recognize those of you who have over the years contributed more to Liferay than your average open source enthusiast. Each quarter we recognize the top...

James Falkner | Jan 14, 2016 1:11 PM

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA6! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Meera Prince | Jan 8, 2016 2:44 PM

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) is specification that defines modular based software management and its execution. OSGi makes software management and its execution simpler by making...

Javeed Chida | Dec 28, 2015 6:10 PM

Okay, that is a mouthful. To rephrase my compound title, we'll be talking about an approach that uses search to update a content item that follows a structure tailored to a template that renders a...

Marcos Castro | Dec 28, 2015 5:09 PM

I would like to start saying that this entry is focused on designers and front-ends but I think that it would be useful for all people who wants to know what is the real advantage to applying...

Marcos Castro | Dec 27, 2015 9:14 PM

Hey guys, before this year ends I wanted to share with you some impressions and feedback which many of you have given me about the three free themes I have shared this year. First, I would like to...

Jan Eerdekens | Dec 27, 2015 7:11 PM

If, like me, you work on a non-Windows machine, an Apple MacBook Pro in my case with OSX, you are probably used to having TAB completion in your terminal. I've caught myself multiple times lately...

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 24, 2015 5:47 PM

Just in time to throw a big celebration we finally have achieved Beta status for Liferay 7! As mentioned in a previous blog entry, the criteria to meet Beta status is: Data upgrade finalized for...

Jose M. Navarro | Dec 21, 2015 8:41 AM

Hey everyone! We're celebrating this new year with a new version: Liferay Screens 1.3! Last months we've been busy as crazy helping with our first enterprise projects using Liferay Screens. Some of...

Artur Signell | Dec 20, 2015 2:08 PM

In Vaadin 7.2, server push support was introduced but only for servlet deployments. The initial plan was to add support for portlets "right after that release". That's not exactly what happened but...

Amith . | Dec 18, 2015 8:39 AM

Problem I have faced redirect issue with liferay 6.2 / openam (opensso) setup . SSO Login URL = https://abc.com/openam/UI/Login?goto=https://my.liferay.server.url.com When i am requesting...

Julian AFFAIRE | Dec 17, 2015 1:59 PM

Just few words to explain how to customize the behaviour when the Liferay Session expires (no hook :) ). This javascript will extends the expire function of the Liferay.Session javascript object....

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 7, 2015 2:58 PM

You probably have not had time to digest Alpha 3 yet, but here we are again with a new preliminary release: Liferay 7 Alpha 4 is out! This release fixes 82 bugs resolved since Alpha 3 and adds 31...

Daniel Tyger | Dec 2, 2015 10:05 PM

Isn't this Favicon Thing a Simple Problem to Solve? Not anymore. That's especially true, if you are picky. Do you really want a generic letter as your users' bookmarked icon on their mobile...

Ray Augé | Dec 1, 2015 3:03 PM

I really love how everyone at Liferay is taking to the OSGi development model. It makes me proud to see how much work has been done in this regard. There's one very cool area I think is worth...

Nicole Xavier | Dec 1, 2015 11:34 AM

If you want to learn more regarding the legal aspects using Liferay Community Edition (CE) and/or Liferay Enterprise Edition (EE) you are welcome to join our webinar ‘Legal aspects of the Liferay...

Nicole Xavier | Dec 1, 2015 11:28 AM

Wie meer wil weten over juridische aspecten bij het gebruik van Liferay Community Edition en Liferay Enterprise Edition kan zich nu aanmelden voor het gratis webinar ‘Juridische aspecten bij het...

Matti Tahvonen | Dec 1, 2015 9:47 AM

The Liferay portal has always been a popular basis for Vaadin applications. To serve better this active Vaadin users group we have recently created a lot of new material for both new and existing...

James Falkner | Nov 30, 2015 7:57 PM

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA5! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Olaf Kock | Nov 30, 2015 10:19 AM

I met repeat guest Nate Cavanaugh, Liferay's Director of UI Engineering, at this year's Devcon and he answered all UI-based questions that we could quickly think about - specifically with regards...

abhishek kumar | Nov 28, 2015 11:17 AM

Description:- As per my experience this is one of task that i had did . In this we are creating a project on that some tabs are there , now if we click any one the tag the data should appeared on...

abhishek kumar | Nov 27, 2015 8:54 AM

As per for the beginners when we are creating some project we want our project should be appeared in custom_theme, as for this so much R&D we need but if we try this code it will work In...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 26, 2015 9:24 PM

Here we are again, following our bi-weekly releases plan with our third alpha release. We are still working hard to reach beta status as soon as possible and I would like to use this opportunity to...

Javeed Chida | Nov 26, 2015 2:33 PM

I'd like to point out at the outset that the content of this post may be mundane for the seasoned Liferay developer. What I really want to demonstrate is the ease with which the problem (defined...

Javeed Chida | Nov 25, 2015 8:48 PM

LRNAS2015 was everything I hoped it would be. Every session was packed with demos of upcoming 7.0 features that left anyone using 6.2 very grateful (I was) that they weren't on an even older...

Martin Yan | Nov 25, 2015 12:00 AM

By now, we've heard of the necessity of creating a good experience for our mobile viewers. Yet, we're not always quite sure where to start or what factors should be considered in the process. As a...

James Falkner | Nov 24, 2015 9:33 PM

You may recall back in February 2014 I published a FreeMarker script that would dump variables from WCM and ADT Templates in Liferay 6.2. Well, it's back, this time for Liferay 7! I tweaked it a...

Olaf Kock | Nov 20, 2015 3:15 PM

A continuation of last week's episode, Milen Dyankov stepped in as a co-host and helped me ask the right questions: Ray Augé answers all sorts of questions about the Modularization in Liferay 7 and...

Annika Sinnecker | Nov 17, 2015 4:43 PM

The following information is only relevant for German speaking members: Wer mehr darüber erfahren möchte, welche rechtlichen Aspekte bei Nutzung der Community und der Liferay Enterprise Edition zu...

Jason Victor Chang | Nov 16, 2015 11:57 PM

Alright. It's a wrap, folks. It's been my honor to live blog for all of you who were following along. See you at #LRNAS2016! Looking for day 1's coverage? Here you go. 4:23PM - Closing Keynote:...

Jason Victor Chang | Nov 16, 2015 2:43 PM

Hello, welcome to the Liferay North America Symposium Live Blog. If you've never followed one of these live blogs before, the content runs in reverse chronological order so that people following...

Marcelo Guimarães Melo | Nov 13, 2015 6:33 PM

INSTALAÇÃO DO LIFERAY 6.1 NO WEBSPHERE 7 1 Criação de variáveis de ambientes Este tópico descreve o procedimento de criação de variáveis de ambientes na console do Websphere. 1.1 ...

Janne Hietala | Nov 11, 2015 3:48 PM

About the release Valamis 2.5 Enterprise Edition has now been released. In this release, new features have been introduced and portlet functionalities have been improved. The new features include,...

Martin Yan | Nov 10, 2015 7:00 PM

Why do people go to the Liferay Symposium? This is a common question that has been asked countless times. Of course, if you ask someone at Liferay, our answers might be a little biased... But in...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Nov 10, 2015 4:59 PM

New Liferay Faces Release - FacesRequestContext Update: There is now a runnable example of the FacesRequestContext in the Liferay Faces Showcase. The Liferay Faces GA6 release contains many new...

Matti Tahvonen | Nov 10, 2015 8:06 AM

Service Builder is the way how developers are often encouraged to do DB connectivity with Liferay portlets. It is, though, by no means the one and only way how one can connect to databases from...

Olaf Kock | Nov 9, 2015 11:07 AM

Another Devcon "private" session - I missed his presentations, but got the summary right when he was done: Ray Augé took the time to answer all sorts of questions about the Modularization in...

Neil Jin | Nov 5, 2015 7:30 AM

It's very convient to use <liferay-ui:input-date> tag to create a date field. But this just provide very basic use of aui date picker. And attributes doesn't cover all options of date picker. This...

Martin Yan | Nov 4, 2015 5:50 PM

By now it's obvious that the effects of a poor mobile experience are both immediate and far-reaching for business. A frustrating and not-so-user-friendly mobile interaction with your site could...

Olaf Kock | Nov 3, 2015 3:39 PM

Wow, 50 episodes already. At this year's Devcon I spoke with Jens Bruhn. He's Software Architect at Prodyna AG, a Liferay Partner and the author of Nabucco Script Center, a Liferay App available on...

Ruud Kluivers | Nov 3, 2015 1:36 PM

Recent verscheen een artikel in NRC met de veelzeggende kop “Gegijzeld door de softwareboer”. Hert artikel put uit een onderzoek van Reporter Radio en NRC. U weet het misschien niet maar bijna alle...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 2, 2015 12:38 PM

We continue our path towards releasing Liferay 7 with a new alpha release that focuses on fixing bugs and small improvements. This release fixes 254 bugs since Alpha 1 and adds +100 small...

Olaf Kock | Nov 2, 2015 11:44 AM

Hofburg, Wien CC by-nd 2.0 by R. Halfpaap(English summary below) Servus nach Österreich. Mal wieder bin ich auf dem Weg nach Österreich. Aber dieses Mal komme ich nicht alleine angereist: Anlass...

Matti Tahvonen | Oct 30, 2015 10:53 PM

Vaadin portlets initialise using JS and XHRs, typically a couple of milliseconds later than basic html markup based portlets. This approach may cause “flickering”, which may be a bit disturbing if...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 28, 2015 10:43 PM

What a coincidence (or maybe not...) that Doc and Marty landed in the future on October 21, 2015, the date of the Liferay Spain Symposium. Maybe we didn’t see any overboards or self-tying shoes,...

James Falkner | Oct 23, 2015 3:22 PM

Earlier this month Liferay held it's 3rd annual developer conference in Darmstadt, and I was grateful to be able to attend and see old friends, meet new ones, share some of my experiences, and...

Ignacio Roncero Bazarra | Oct 21, 2015 11:28 AM

Resumen Liferay ofrece un complejo sistema de login que permite su personalización cubriendo prácticamente la totalidad de las necesidades que nos podamos encontrar. Para saber cómo personalizar...

Neil Griffin | Oct 20, 2015 3:36 PM

In a blog post from September 2015 titled New Git Repositories for Liferay Faces I mentioned that there would be a new version scheme corresponding to these new repositories. I'm pleased to...

Martin Yan | Oct 19, 2015 6:32 PM

How much do you know about the people who are visiting your website? The more you know, the greater chance you’ll have of reaching them and helping them find what they are looking for. User data...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 18, 2015 10:09 PM

Liferay Developer Conference and Unconference 2015 were simply great. Lots of sessions, games and chances to meet some of the most active Liferay developers. It was also very exciting and...

Olaf Kock | Oct 17, 2015 1:39 PM

It's been a long time and finally... Radio Liferay is back with several episodes in the queue. Today, Tomáš Polešovský starts of by talking about Liferay's security team and -procedures as well as...

Vernon Singleton | Oct 16, 2015 6:10 PM

Let me introduce two simple and fun components from among our recently released Liferay Faces Alloy tags, alloy:selectStarRating and alloy:selectThumbRating. Following the example set by our...

Zeno Rocha | Oct 15, 2015 4:53 PM

At Liferay, we're always trying to make the life of developers easier. We're constantly improving our products and releasing new open source libraries. Helping people is what drives us. Last week...

Kailash Yadav | Oct 15, 2015 10:26 AM

Liferay marketplace is great tool, you can sell your app, download free apps or purchase EE apps. There are also many great free EE apps. You can download CE apps using your browser. But when you...

David H Nebinger | Oct 15, 2015 6:32 AM

So I'm here late one night and I'm wondering why Liferay is hosting profile pics... I mean, in this day and age we all have accounts all over the place and many of those places also support profile...