Blogs

David Bougearel | 24.8.2018 8:16

Hi everybody, With the version 7.X we have all started to play with OSGi and for some projects it's sometimes hard to have a clean start with the correct build tool; despite the blade sample which...

John Feeney | 20.8.2018 14:36

A customer recently asked me how Liferay can help them deliver documents to their users based on user-preferred language. One of the easiest ways to do this is through Liferay’s out-of-the-box web...

David H Nebinger | 19.8.2018 20:24

Introduction So many times I have answered the question, "How do I find out what import packages my bundle needs?" with the tired and unsatisfactory response that uses the following process: Build...

Olaf Kock | 16.8.2018 7:38

As promised less than a month ago, we're working on more content for Liferay University. Meet your new professors Charles Cohick and Dimple Koticha. The new lessons are Gain Insight Into the...

David H Nebinger | 15.8.2018 15:39

A SysAdmin came up to me and said he was having issues starting Liferay DXP 7.0, a bunch of CNFEs were coming up at startup. I found that they were set up to use Wily for monitoring their JVMs, and...

Victor Zorin | 13.8.2018 7:26

This is the second part of the "Extending Liferay DXP - User Registration" blog. In this blog we explore the ways of implementing registration process for a portal with multiple sites. Portal...

Alberto Chaparro | 10.8.2018 7:38

Hi Liferay Community, Before responding this question I would like to explain what's sharding first: to overcome the horizontal scalability concerns of open source databases at the time (circa...

Victor Zorin | 6.8.2018 1:22

I am starting a short series of blogs in which I will show how to customise User Registration / Customer Acquisition process in Liferay. The inspiration for this blog is one of our DXP portal...

Ianire Cobeaga | 3.8.2018 10:54

In Liferay Portal 7.1 a lot of effort has been put in improving the experience of building sites and pages and, as a result, some new functionalities have been introduced to empower marketers and...

Ashley Yuan | 3.8.2018 2:48

We are pleased to announce the first general available release of Liferay Project SDK Installers that support Liferay 7.1. New Installers: For customers, they can download all of them on the...

Pavel Savinov | 2.8.2018 7:32

Recently we got a couple of complains about new Web Content article behaviour, specifically about the JournalArticle.getContent() method’s return value. The main problem developers experience is...

Michael Chen | 1.8.2018 1:06

The Problem The c3p0 connection pool exposes MBeans for JMX tools like jconsole to monitor its run-time states. However, both c3p0 and Liferay intentionally generate random MBean names on each...

Michael Chen | 31.7.2018 20:21

Genesis My colleague Vagif proposed a new way to develop a Liferay dynamic widget (the best name I can think of for now) with these pieces: Use the “Basic Web Content” structure or define a new...

Michael Chen | 31.7.2018 18:08

Introduction This is a simplified OSGi service API and implementation pattern. It follows the traditional Java interface-implementation pattern, in which the programmer is only required to keep the...

Michael Chen | 31.7.2018 17:47

Liferay 7.0 started to produce a pair of log files per day: ls -l /opt/liferay/home7/logs/ total 3104 -rw-r--r-- 1 michael admin 285201 May 26 13:24 liferay.2016-05-26.log -rw-r--r-- 1 michael...

David H Nebinger | 30.7.2018 18:10

TL;DR - Add "-v 7.0" to your Blade command line to create modules for Liferay CE 7.0 and Liferay DXP 7.0. Hey, just a quick blog post here for something that developers may need to know... I...

Susana Vazquez | 26.7.2018 10:34

The world is big and diverse. Right now there are around 7.6 billion people in the world, 4 billion with an internet access. When you’re improving a Design System for a product used worldwide, like...

Sébastien Le Marchand | 22.7.2018 22:31

// The french version of this article can be found here: Libérez la puissance de Gogo Shell. Gogo Shell opens huge opportunities but some obstacles limit the expression of its potential. Let's see...

Sébastien Le Marchand | 22.7.2018 21:06

// The english version of this article can be found here: Unleash the power of Gogo Shell. Gogo Shell ouvre d’énorme possibilités mais certains obstacles limite la plein expression de son...

Bryan H Cheung | 19.7.2018 19:11

Background When we removed clustering from the GA release of LP7, we were trying to solve a specific problem. However, I knew even as I made the decision that this would frustrate smaller systems...

David H Nebinger | 19.7.2018 0:51

Intro In case you're not aware, Liferay uses Apache PDFBox to look at your PDFs. In order to index the content of a PDF, Liferay uses PDFBox to extract the content and uses that during...

Jamie Sammons | 18.7.2018 16:11

As they say: All good things must come to an end. With the official release of Liferay Portal 7.1 CE GA1 we are officially ending the community beta program. We had over 250 sign ups with 48 active...

Ashley Yuan | 17.7.2018 3:07

The latest release of Liferay IntelliJ 1.0.0 plugin has been made available today. Head over to this page for downloading. The most notable features for this latest 1.0.0 release are : Support...

Matija Šuklje | 16.7.2018 11:06

Liferay, Inc was established on the the strong foundation of an Open Source project. The company has since grown to offer many different projects and products, yet we continue to believe in and...

Olaf Kock | 15.7.2018 16:19

Good news. Now that Liferay Portal CE 7.1 and Liferay DXP 7.1 are available, your training is also just a fingertip away. No longer do you have to travel far, or juggle your calendar, because these...

Peter Mesotten | 13.7.2018 6:45

DDM... what's DDM? DDM stands for Dynamic Data Mapping, a set of modules that define various types of fields that can be used to assemble: Web content structures for creating web content articles....

Zeno Rocha | 10.7.2018 0:01

What happened? Today at 12:13pm WeDeploy, our hosting solution, started a maintenance process. As a normal procedure some services were restarted. After the restart, all services from...

Victor Valle | 3.7.2018 11:20

Typography Several reasons and their benefits drove us to a change from Source Sans Pro to System font: System fonts are always more legible as they are designed more consciously and they are...

Jamie Sammons | 2.7.2018 22:30

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 CE GA1! Known Issues List of known issues Downloads Download the release now at: www.liferay.com/downloads or deploy now at...

Jamie Sammons | 29.6.2018 17:03

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 RC 1 Download Now: Sourceforge Fixed in RC 1 List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 RC 1 List of known issues in Liferay 7.1...

Milen Dyankov | 27.6.2018 19:00

The report appeared recently on various security related sites and it is being "promoted" via social media networks such as Twitter. It talks about a perceived vulnerability for the pingback...

David H Nebinger | 26.6.2018 17:58

Just a quick blog, likely one that I would want to add to over time... Cluster Notes When setting up a Liferay cluster for SAML, before enabling you should connect to each node and, in the SAML...

Zeno Rocha | 18.6.2018 23:42

When we sat down to create the community.liferay.com site we had some ambitious goals in mind. We wanted to build a place where the community could feel at home. We wanted them to know that they're...

Olaf Kock | 14.6.2018 12:29

If you are working with Liferay for a while now, you might still remember a feature that went missing with version 6.1 - but there was a way to get it back. Also in 6.2 and 7.0. Now that Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | 12.6.2018 16:52

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Beta 3 Download Now: Sourceforge Fixed in Beta 3 List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 Beta 3 List of known issues in...

Iván Zaera Avellón | 8.6.2018 8:15

A real life example of the use of bundler 2.x This is the last of a three articles series motivating and explaining the enhancements we have done to Liferay's npm bundler. You can read previous...

Iván Zaera Avellón | 7.6.2018 7:12

How we are fixing the problems learned in bundler 2.x This is the second of a three articles series motivating and explaining the enhancements we have done to Liferay's npm bundler. You can read...

Iván Zaera Avellón | 5.6.2018 15:12

What is the problem with bundler 1.x This is the first of a three articles series motivating and explaining the enhancements we have done to Liferay's npm bundler. You can learn more about it in...

Carlos Hernandez | 31.5.2018 23:17

Liferay integrates out of the box with Piwik and Google Analytics. However, doing analytics with ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana, is not much harder: https://youtu.be/os5gqpnC0GA How to do it?...

Jamie Sammons | 29.5.2018 16:58

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Beta 2 Download Now: Sourceforge Fixed in Beta 2 List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 Beta 2 List of known issues in...