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Introduction The official Liferay deployment docs are available here: https://dev.liferay.com/discover/deployment They make it easy for folks new to Liferay to get the system up and running and work through all of the necessary configuration. But it is not the process followed by professionals. I wanted to share the process I use that it might provide an alternative set of instructions...

Introduction A client recently was moving off of Google Search Appliance (GSA) on to Liferay and Elasticsearch. One key aspect of GSA that they relied on though, was KeyMatch. What is KeyMatch? Well, in GSA an administrator can define a list of specific keywords and assign content to them. When a user performs a search that includes one of the specific keywords, the associated...

Introduction So often when discussing how to deal with dependencies, we're often looking for ways to package our third party jars into our custom modules. There's good reason to do this. It ensures that our modules get a version of a third party jar that we've tested with. It also excludes ambiguity over where the dependency will come from, whether it is deployed and available or...

At this years Unconference at DEVCON in Amsterdam, Victor Valle kept a session about changing the look-and-feel of the portal administration. Things like removing the default product menu and creating your own. I missed that discussion because so many other interesting discussions were going on, so I have no idea if someone brought this up. In this blog article, I'm not going to do...

As some of you may have already discovered, 7.1 GA2 was released as a 7zip bundle instead of the typical zip bundle. This probably caused a ton of issues. Even our own Dev Tools are not yet equipped to handle 7z files since all the events took up our time. I will provide you with the reasons why we had to make this move and hopefully, everyone will come to the conclusion that this...

What's New Release Notes Downloads Download the release now at: https://www.liferay.com/downloads-community New Features Summary Web Experience:  Fragments allow a content author to create small reusable content pieces. Fragments can be edited in real time or can be exported and managed with the tooling of your choice. Use content pages from within a...

Mitigating RichFaces 4.5.17.Final EOL Vulnerabilities If you are using RichFaces, you should be aware that Code White has discovered some remote code execution vulnerabilities in the component library. Unfortunately, since RichFaces has reached end-of-life status, these vulnerabilities will not be fixed. Thankfully there two easy options to mitigate these vulnerabilities: ...

// The french version of this article can be found here: Pour un indicateur de chargement SPA plus visible. Since version 7.0 of Liferay, you surely noticed the apparition of a thin loading bar on top of screen, after most of user actions. This loading bar is part of the new SPA (Single Page Application) mode of Liferay, supported by the Senna.js framework. Unfortunately,...

// 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...