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Redis is an in-memory store that can be used to provide a central and external place to save the application session information. It can be very useful in cloud environments or to handle node crashes without losing session information. Redisson appears as an alternative in order to provide integration between Redis and Tomcat: Provides a Tomcat Session manager that Stores session of Apache...

Crete your form: Login to your site and go to Control Panel -> Content and data -> Forms -> Create your form Add code to display form Portlet  n your Theme/Header/Footer  : In your portal_normal.ftl or other corresponding file where you want to add the form place the following code:               ...

TL;DR We’re considering consolidating all our UX for writing Rich Text Content around a single Editor to provide a more cohesive and comprehensive experience. We’re committed to study each content-creation scenario and provide the best experience for that specific use case. To do that, we’re planning to remove the currently supported variability and configurability of WYSIWYG...

We keep noticing that there is some confusion around the status of Resource Importer and other components, the Site Initializers, Accelerators and Fragments ZIP that people tend to consider as replacement for the Resource Importer. The goal of this post is to provide a clarification about the current status and our future plans. The Resource Importer has been deprecated a long time...

The best way to keep your installation of Liferay Portal secure is to always use the latest release - currently Liferay Portal 7.3 GA1. However, we’ve been hearing from you in the community that using the latest release can be challenging, especially if you need to upgrade from one major version to another. So, to make it easier to keep your Liferay Portal instance secure, the...

The new Liferay IntelliJ 1.7.1 plugin support IntelliJ 192 and greater. Head over to this page for downloading. Release Highlights: Compatible and adapt to JetBrains default Java 11 runtime New Liferay Spring Mvc Portlet wizard Add deploy task on Gradle projects Bug fixes for config server in portal-ext.properteis Improve support for maven projects ...

The best way to keep your installation of Liferay Portal secure is to always use the latest release - currently Liferay Portal 7.3 GA1. However, we’ve been hearing from you in the community that using the latest release can be challenging, especially if you need to upgrade from one major version to another. So, to make it easier to keep your Liferay Portal instance secure, the...

My originally announced trip to Switzerland has been postponed until after the pandemic, and with it the originally announced community meetup. I'm looking forward to a rescheduled trip in future, once the beast is contained. Once the meeting is rescheduled, We'll post another announcement here and elsewhere. Until then, I'll leave the registration form open, now to give you the...

I'm recently faced with a challenge of understanding all the packages that are exported by the Liferay portal. Liferay  comes with a lot of inbuilt OSGI modules and it is quite difficult to find all the packages exported by all of the modules.  Here's a little background about my challenge:  I never knew that the package "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" is being...

With the recently released Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA1, we are adopting a rolling release cycle for Liferay Portal CE. This means that we will have very frequent stable CE releases which will include new features, improvements, and bug fixes.  This is what the new process looks like for 2020: After this cycle finishes, we will start again with the CE GA1 for the next...

Hello all, the new release of Liferay Workspace and Studio Installers 3.8.0 ga1 has been made available today.  Download:    Customer downloads: For customers, they can download all of them on the customer studio download page. This new package support for eclipse Photon or greater. Community downloads: ...

Since Liferay Portal 7.2, you can use the Personalization Capabilities to define Segments that allows matching the different types of audiences you have identified for your site and deliver personalized experiences for them. You can define those Segments combining User, Organization and Session criteria. Now with Liferay CE 7.3, the Segments definition has been improved, and you can...

My friend, Olaf Kock, recently shared with me that he had struggled with and resolved an issue after moving to Tomcat 9.0.31 when using AJP. Update: What maybe we didn't know, Tomcat 9.0.31 (and other versions of Tomcat 6, 7, 8 and 8.5) were all being fixed to address a newly identified attack vector against Tomcat nicknamed...

Overview Liferay 7.1 uses the Quartz Scheduler to schedule jobs for running background tasks. Liferay administrators and developers sometimes require a live (runtime) view of the scheduled jobs and/or control of those jobs. The scheduled jobs may be Liferay platform tasks and/or custom tasks. The scheduled jobs can be managed via many different tools and approaches. This...

We’d like to dig deeper into one of the features delivered for the 7.3 GA1 release. Liferay now supports Open Graph meta tags out of the box and provides previews both for Open Graph and search engines in a clean and easy way. View the complete video As you can see in the video, by including support for Open Graph out of the box, page creators are empowered to customize and...

TL;DR Continuing with our efforts to make Liferay Portal technology agnostic - as David Truong explained us in his post The State of Frontend Infrastructure  - all jQuery usages have been removed, and now the library is not being loaded by default in master, and will be disabled in the next 7.3 CE GA2 as well. What have we done? As part of our...

Two things in life are certain. And one of them is what this article is about ;) Now that Liferay CE 7.3.0 is out and still offers Widget Pages, I'm happy to present a long standing optional feature that just requires a few lines of CSS (and - as always - could benefit greatly from someone donating a slightly prettier version) What's it all about? When you drag&drop widgets...

We are happy to announce the availability of Liferay Portal CE 7.3 GA1. This is the first rolling release (announcement about this new release strategy coming soon) for the 7.3 series. What can you expect from this release? The first set of finished features that will be made available during the 7.3 cycle. Many more features are in progress but hidden for this first release. ...

Just a quick one this morning... So I'm working on a project for 7.1. With my new love of the target platform, I decide I'm going to enable the 7.1 target platform for my DXP project. Everything seems to work fine until I deploy the portlet jar. That's when I get the following during deployment: 2020-02-01 08:40:06.324 ERROR...

Introduction So I get finished which the previous blog, Visiting DynamicQuery, and I shared it with my team. I'm always kind of happy when I get a new blog post done, so I share it with everyone I can think of. The first comment I got was from my friend and teammate, Shane Merriss: Hey Dave, thanks for the blog post, I’ll be able to share it with my client since we use it in a...