How can a portlet on a display page find what asset is being displayed? https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=119785294&threadId=121348426 2026-06-02T19:10:34Z 2026-06-02T19:10:34Z Russell Bohl https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=121353532 2022-02-07T14:21:25Z 2022-02-07T14:21:25Z

<p>Great! Glad you got it solved in an even more robust way.</p>

Russell Bohl 2022-02-07T14:21:25Z Fernando Fernandez https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=121350458 2022-02-04T12:41:59Z 2022-02-04T12:41:58Z

<p>Hi Russell,</p> <p>I always come here to post my questions, before I go to Slack, because answers in Slack are not easily found by others. :-)   In this case, I though this post didn't go ahead, because I was getting an error when posting, so I went to Slack instead.</p> <p>Meanwhile, looking at the source code of RelatedAssetsInfoCollectionProvider.java, I got the answer I really needed. </p> <p>While Vitaly's answer is quite usable, if you're working in Java you can use the API to find the assetId with this code:</p> <p> </p> <pre> <code class="language-java"> private long _getLayoutAssetEntryId() { ServiceContext serviceContext = ServiceContextThreadLocal.getServiceContext(); HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest = serviceContext.getRequest(); AssetEntry layoutAssetEntry = (AssetEntry)httpServletRequest.getAttribute( WebKeys.LAYOUT_ASSET_ENTRY); if (layoutAssetEntry != null) { return layoutAssetEntry.getEntryId(); } return 0; }</code></pre> <p> </p> <p>Fernando</p>

Fernando Fernandez 2022-02-04T12:41:58Z Russell Bohl https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=121348616 2022-02-01T14:13:44Z 2022-02-01T14:13:43Z

<p>Hi Fernando, I can see that you received an answer in <a href="https://liferay-community.slack.com/archives/C5H30KZ1A/p1643715397315599">slack</a>. I'm not sure if we have a policy about posting in both places, but it's probably best to at least link to the other context if you do post in both.</p> <p>By the way, when I saw the answer in slack it struck me as brittle. I'd hope ther was an API or utilities to get or construct the URL. But I don't know so I can't give you a good answer on it.</p>

Russell Bohl 2022-02-01T14:13:43Z Fernando Fernandez https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=121348425 2022-02-01T11:29:52Z 2022-02-01T11:29:51Z

<p>Hi all,</p> <p>I'm sure there's a fast&amp;simple way way to do this, but I'm not seeing it...</p> <p>I'd like to put a portlet on a display page, which is not initially bound to a certain webcontent.</p> <p>At runtime, I'd like my portlet to find out what webcontent is being displayed and work that info.</p> <p>How can a portlet find out what asset/web content is being shown by the display page template?</p> <p>TIA</p> <p>Fernando</p>

Fernando Fernandez 2022-02-01T11:29:51Z