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Javeed Chida | Aug 13, 2016 10:30 PM

The Glorious Simplicity of Structure Inheritance This field (highlighted yellow) on a structure editing screen is what I am talking about. When I first saw the words Parent Structure there, the...

Marcos Castro | Aug 5, 2016 11:23 AM

Hi everyone! For a long time themes have been one of the most required features in Liferay, and as we announced during last year, Liferay 7 will be a game changer. This will be the first out of...

Olaf Kock | Aug 5, 2016 10:17 AM

Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions...

David H Nebinger | Aug 5, 2016 1:22 AM

Introduction In part 1, the filesystem access portlet project for Liferay 7 was introduced. In this part, we're going to use Blade and Gradle to set up our basic project structure. We're not going...

David H Nebinger | Aug 5, 2016 12:27 AM

Introduction So I've been doing some LR7 development recently. It's an exciting and challenging platform to get your head around and I thought I would just work up an example portlet, spread it...

Bryan H Cheung | Jul 18, 2016 11:11 PM

Today I’m writing to announce that we are discontinuing support for Liferay Connected Services and Audience Targeting for Liferay Portal 7 Community. The main factor behind the decision was the...

Jamie Sammons | Jul 14, 2016 7:43 PM

I wanted to share some testing that I have been doing in terms of patching OSGi modules and adding the patched modules to your own Liferay installations. One of the many benefits to modularity is...

David H Nebinger | Jul 14, 2016 3:51 AM

So I'm a long-time supporter of ServiceBuilder. I saw its purpose way back on Liferay 4 and 5 and have championed it in the forums and here in my blog. With the release of Liferay 7,...

Maarten van Heiningen | Jul 13, 2016 8:26 PM

This blog is part of a series of entries on Mobile First with Liferay Screens. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Mobile First with Liferay Screens Mobile has changed the world and will go on doing...

David H Nebinger | Jul 7, 2016 3:55 AM

It's going to happen. At some point in your LR7 development, you're going to build a module which has runtime dependencies. How do you satisfy those dependencies though? In this brief blog entry...

Neil Griffin | Jul 6, 2016 7:45 PM

UPDATE: September 2, 2016 - Visit www.liferayfaces.org for a convenient web page that helps you determine your archetype:generate command and/or required dependencies. The Liferay Faces team is...

Dave Truong | Jul 6, 2016 12:30 AM

There's been some confusion over state of Maven support for Liferay. As the Product Manager for Developer Tools, I feel responsible for the confusion and felt the need to clear up any questions....

Javeed Chida | Jun 29, 2016 6:14 AM

I came across the idea of a generic template recently, and put it to good use. If you don't know what I mean by generic template, let me clear that up right away. A generic template is really...

Daniel Tyger | Jun 15, 2016 11:15 PM

We recently had a request for our users to be able to check if their email address has been a victim of a known data breach per the awesome API and data stores provided at...

deveshree zawar | Jun 9, 2016 10:09 AM

Plugin is the core of Liferay portal development in its various forms. “Plug-in” as the word enunciates is an add-on to perform additional features. It can be blended into an application to enhance...

Zeno Rocha | Jun 3, 2016 7:14 PM

If you have been in touch with the Liferay community in the past years, you've probably heard about Senna.js before. We first introduced this project in late 2014 and since then we've been...

Jose M. Navarro | May 30, 2016 10:21 PM

Lately, we’ve being working on an event tracking system for Liferay Screens. Nothing fancy: just another Flurry or Google Analytics for mobile apps. The best part is the information collected will...

Jamie Sammons | May 27, 2016 4:43 PM

I am pleased to announce the release of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA2! [Download] What's New Inline Image Editor: The new image editor allows for simple image editing directly from within Liferay...

Allen Ziegenfus | May 24, 2016 10:45 AM

Liferay DDLs are quite useful for dealing with small sets of custom data, for which it would be overkill to create a new service. Our event microsites use DDLs extensively for displaying speaker,...

Marcos Castro | May 23, 2016 11:02 PM

Hey guys, today I am going to speak about a concurrent topic, how to replace Bootstrap 2.3.2 CSS in Liferay 6.2 for new Bootstrap 3.x, I have received a lot of questions about it, and I helped all...