Blogs

// The english version of this article can be found here: For a more conspicuous SPA loader. Depuis la version 7.0 de Liferay, vous avez surement remarqué l’apparition d’une fine barre de chargement en haut de l’écran en réponse à la plupart des actions utilisateur. Cette barre de chargement intervient dans le cadre du nouveau fonctionnement SPA (Single Page Application) de...

Helping my colleague Sergio Sanchez with his GDPR talk in the past Spanish Symposium, I came across a hidden gem in Liferay 7.1. It turns out you can integrate custom Service Builder entities with Liferay’s GDPR framework (UAD), to enable anonymization of personal data in your own entities. I didn’t know anything about this feature, but it’s really easy to use and works like a...

In the previous posts, we talked about what we were going to do, how we were going to do it, and which tools we were going to use. We introduced you the Liferay Screens’s screenlets and the reason why we were going to use them. Well, it’s time to explain to you how we developed this application and how a junior developer, with only one year of experience in the mobile world and...

Previously, we talked about how market is really fragmented right now because there isn’t any popular hybrid framework. We kept an eye on some of the most popular frameworks like React Native, Nativescript, Ionic2 and Xamarin. We did a prototype with Nativescript and it worked fine but we think that the use of native libraries with this technology isn’t mature enough. If you...

//The spanish version of this article can be found here: Primer aniversario de la comunidad Liferay en España, otra vez. One year ago, on October 25, 2017, Liferay Community in Spain started again. During this year, we have made important achievements: we have joined a great group in all the events and we have called meetups regularity (usually last Wednesday every...

//The english version of this article can be found here:  First anniversary of the Liferay Spain User Group El  25 de octubre se cumplió un año del comienzo de la nueva etapa de la Comunidad Liferay en España. En este año se han conseguido logros importantes, como juntarnos un grupo fijo en todos los eventos y tener  una regularidad en los...

In Liferay 7.1 we introduced a new approach to the Liferay Navigation. New navigation doesn't depend on the pages tree, there is a possibility to create multiple navigation menus, to compose them using different types of elements and to assign them different functions. Out of the box, we provide 3 types of menu elements - Pages, Submenus and URLs.  But we don't want to limit the...

As many of you probably know, starting with Liferay DXP, Elasticsearch is the default Search Engine. In fact, by default, an Elasticsearch instance is embedded in Liferay DXP (it’s a good moment to remind everyone that this is not supported for Production environments, where a separate Elasticsearch instance must be created). In this article we’re going to outline how to use the...

In the previous blog post we covered the beginning of the project, this includes a description of the app features, advantages of using Liferay Screens and lastly the wireframe. In this one, we will cover how we can “screenletize” the different screens of the application and build them combining different screenlets. We will also organise the 10 days and plan what are the tasks we...

Before we begin with this story, for those of you that don’t know about Liferay Screens. Liferay Screens is a library for iOS, Android and Xamarin that aims to speed up the development of native applications that use Liferay as a backend. It’s basically a collection of components, called Screenlets. These components are very easy to connect to your Liferay instance and provide plenty...

Display pages functionality in Liferay always was tightly coupled to the Web Content articles, we never had plans to support more or less the same technology for other types of assets even though we had many of these types: Documents & Media, Bookmarks, Wiki, etc... Even User is an asset and every user has corresponding AssetEntry in the database. But for Liferay 7.1 we decided to...

In Liferay 7.1 we presented a new vision to the page authoring process. The main idea was to empower business users to create pages and visualize contents in a very visual way, without a need to know technical stuff like Freemarker or Velocity for the Web Content templates. To make it possible we introduced the fragment concept. In our vision fragment is a construction block...

Liferay is a large project, and many developers who are attempting to get their customizations to work with Liferay will often end up asking the question, "What version of module W should I use at compile time when I'm running on Liferay X.Y.Z?" To answer that question, Liferay has some instructions on how to find versions in its document, Configuring Dependencies. This blog entry...

Every year we, the developers doing amazing things with Liferay's products, have this unique opportunity to meet, learn and enjoy those long technical discussions with each other. All that happens at DEVCON - our main developer conference which is taking place in Amsterdam from November 6th to 8th. This year's agenda is filled with sessions delivering in depth...

GitHub repositoty: https://github.com/ironcero/devtools-liferay-portal-properties Summary This gradle plugin let you manage your properties files on your liferay workspace (version 7.0 and 7.1). Blade tool initializes this kind of workpace with one folder named configs. There are some folder into configs folder: common dev local prod uat ...

First of all, for those of you who don't know about Liferay Screens. Liferay Screens is a component library based on components called Screenlets. A screenlet is a visual component that you insert into your native app to leverage Liferay’s content and services, allowing you to create complex native applications for iOS and Android very fast. Awesome, isn’t it? BUT, Do you need to...

What's Context Contributor? While developing a theme I was thinking how can I know all the variables that I can access in my free marker templates? Won't it be great if I can write a utility program which can list out all the variables and objects that can be accessed from our theme or other templates files? Context Contributor concept can be used for this purpose. Actually using...

or, How to blow a Saturday evening writing a blog post just because  the kids don't want to hang out with you   Here are the 5 reasons I am flying down tomorrow evening. I've been to LSNA twice before, in 2015 and 2016. I remember the energy and the ambience. Some of the topics deserve waaaay more than the 30 minutes or hour that is allocated to them, but...

We recently had a requirement to add 2 Factor Authentication support for a demo, so I am pleased to share our implementation with the community.   Login On login the user sees a new 'Authenticator Code' field below Password:     The user populates their credentials, launches Google Authenticator app (or other 2FA app) on...

Introduction If you're reading this post is because you need to know which device currently access on your Liferay through Liferay Mobile Device Detection Lite. Specially, you can not explain why Liferay detects a different version of your modern, cool and super updated device! Don't worry! I try to explain you what to do. WURFL's database Before to explain,  do you...