Blogs

//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...

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...

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...

Java 11 has just been released (on Sep, 25th) and it comes with the consolidation of a series of changes, not only to the language and the platform, but to the release and support model that has lead to some noise on the future of Java. Probably the two most notable concerns are the end of public updates for Java 8 and the uncertainty of the rights to use Oracle JDK without paying...

With the release of JDK11, Oracle's new Java SE Support Policy (and here) brings sweeping changes to the Java Enterprise community. If you would like a good explanation of the changes to come, I highly recommend this video. Here are my thoughts on how some of these changes will affect Liferay Portal/DXP users: Starting with JDK11, you will no longer be able to use Oracle...

Charts are great visual aids. They're crucial to digesting data and information quickly. Prior to Liferay Portal 7.1, we didn't have a way to include charts in our apps. No more! Now you can use charts out-of-the-box, thanks to the Chart taglib. Whether it's bar charts, line charts, pie charts, scatter charts, spline charts, or even donut charts, the Chart taglib has you covered....

We are pleased to announce the second general available release of Liferay Project SDK Installers.   New Installers The installation problems are fixed in the new release, and a few bug fixes.   Download For customers, they can download all of them on the customer studio download page.   Upgrade From previous 3 . x Download...

Liferay Faces Released With Liferay Portal 7.1 Support! Liferay Faces Portal 3.0.3, Bridge Impl 4.1.2, and Bridge Ext 5.0.3 have been released with support for Liferay Portal 7.1! The release also includes several SPA/SennaJS and PrimeFaces fixes! The release is compatible with Liferay Portal 7.0 and 7.1. Go to liferayfaces.org to get the latest dependency configurations...

Introduction So those who know me or have worked with me know that I hate theming. I do. I find it to be one of the hardest things in Liferay to get right. I can build modules all day long, but ask me how to make the default buttons increase the height by a couple of pixels and change the color to orange, and I honestly have to start digging through doco and code to figure out...

Introduction In this article I’ll try to give you a comprehensive picture of the current state of theming in Liferay 7.1. To do this, I’ll describe the evolution of Liferay theming from the early Bootstrap use in 6.x themes to the introduction of Lexicon for 7.0, as well as identifying and addressing challenges that have been changed in 7.1. Also, I’ll add some practical cases...

Hello all!   We want our development tools to be flexible and extensible enough to meet our users requirements, and with this in mind, we have developed 2 new concepts for Blade: Extensions and Profiles. Extensions allow you to develop your own custom commands for Blade, in which Blade will act as a framework and invoke your command when it is specified on the CLI. You,...

Just a quick blog in case it hasn't come up before... Liferay was using a CDN for offloading traffic for the repository artifacts. You've likely seen the URL during builds or within your build scripts/configuration. The old one is of the form: https://cdn.lfrs.sl/repository.liferay.com/nexus/content/groups/public/... Recently though Liferay switched to a new CDN...

Did you already book your ticket for Devcon 2018? Early Bird ends in a few hours (14 Sep 2018) and I hear that the Unconference is solidly booked (not yet sold out, but on a good path to be sold out very soon). If you have or have not been at a past Devcon, but need more reasons to come again: The agenda is now online, together with a lot of information and quotes from past...

With Liferay releasing new products such as Analytics Cloud and Commerce we decided to cover the need for charts by providing an open source library.   The technology Clay, our main implementation of Lexicon, created Clay charts. These charts are built on top of Billboard.js where many contributions have been done by Julien Castelain and other Liferay...

This is the second post explaining the new Web Experience functionalities released in version 7.1 of Liferay Portal.  As presented in the previous post, in order to empower business users, it is necessary to have Page Fragment collections available.   But, what are they and what is their use?   Page Fragments are “reusable page parts” created by web...