Blogs

David H Nebinger | 2023/09/29 2:48

Introduction Recently I was pulled into a client project that was created for Liferay 7.4 and they needed to share content, structures, templates, documents, etc with multiple sites. Then I found...

David H Nebinger | 2023/09/27 14:01

Introduction So recently I was helping a client eliminate some FreeMarker from their site. As many who have read my blogs, I'm a quick one to call out "FreeMarker Abuse!" when I find that folks are...

David H Nebinger | 2023/09/20 15:24

Introduction So recently I wrote the blog, Gradle 7 is here! Yay? where I showed how to update your workspace to Gradle 7.3.3, and I just kind of stopped there. I mean, I kind of assumed that as...

David H Nebinger | 2023/08/31 16:23

Introduction It started with a simple Liferay Community Slack post by Pierre Beule: Hello, I am using pretty standard Liferay stuff to generate a Liferay configuration (let's say a GROUP scoped...

David H Nebinger | 2023/08/30 16:38

Just a quick post today about the new Blade 5.0 release... It's out now, and you can update your local Blade using the blade update command. This new release supports JDK 11.0.20+ (so you don't...

David H Nebinger | 2023/08/15 19:51

Introduction So for some time now, Liferay builds have been stuck on Gradle 6. Which, you know, is 2 releases behind the currently available Gradle 8... But, after a lot of work, Liferay is ready...

Iván Zaera Avellón | 2023/08/11 10:12

This article explains how to leverage the new ECMAScript modules feature (from now on will be referred to as ESM), Custom Element and Import Map Entry client extensions in Liferay DXP to achieve...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | 2023/08/10 9:14

Problem: Using custom fields for custom entities? However, the Liferay control panel does not provide a way to determine how many custom fields there are for custom entities.   Solution: Just add a...

David H Nebinger | 2023/08/08 20:04

Introduction So if you really want to set off a firestorm with geeks like myself, step into the group and say "VI is better than Emacs!" Be sure to turn and walk away quickly or you might find...

Tibor Lipusz | 2023/08/02 9:59

What is a Collection Provider? Collection providers group items into collections for display on your pages. Several are available out-of-the-box, or you can create them using the Information...

David H Nebinger | 2023/07/25 14:16

NOTE: Please read to the end of the blog, there are important updates that affect developers, don't just stop at the conclusion... Introduction So, the various flavors of Java have just released...

David H Nebinger | 2023/07/12 18:04

Introduction Recently I've been helping folks on the community slack and forums who have faced a common issue. At startup, they reach an exception, java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to get...

Tibor Lipusz | 2023/06/20 9:34

Starting with Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA81 and Liferay DXP 7.4 Update 81, on-premise deployments can operate with Elasticsearch 8 as the search engine. This capability is provided by leveraging the...

Tibor Lipusz | 2023/05/23 14:21

As AI has become paramount recently and Liferay DEVCON 2023 is about to get started, it is exciting to highlight this recent release and to promote the feature from development to beta phase. Since...

Olaf Kock | 2023/04/12 13:29

Since Liferay introduced Stylebooks, the Best Practice for your installation has changed, to no longer deploy your own theme, but rather use a stylebook and change it to adhere to your Corporate...

David H Nebinger | 2023/04/06 18:25

Introduction So I'm going to be putting together a series of blogs on new things that are available in Liferay 7.4, but I realized after starting a blog on Objects that I need to take a step back...

Olaf Kock | 2023/03/30 9:19

If you've ever repeatedly gone through a checklist, with programming knowledge: How often did you have to repeat the steps until you automated them? Or, without programming knowledge: How often did...

David H Nebinger | 2023/03/29 16:01

Another short one today, this one is due to something shared with me by my good friend Olaf Kock... It starts with a question - do you like waffles? Or, more specifically, do you like the Liferay...

Chirag Lakhamani | 2023/03/24 16:28

Liferay DXP 7.4 supports integration with Azure Blob Storage for storing and managing files in the cloud. This integration allows users to take advantages of the scalability and durability of Azure...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | 2023/03/24 6:09

Liferay Objects can generate service layers by simply declaring schema in the Liferay control panel. Liferay makes the Object's content accessible via headless APIs as well. On Notifications with...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | 2023/03/14 12:09

Low code and no code development are handy for developing a website without a technical background. Liferay came with the Object concept, which is able to generate the persistence and service...

David H Nebinger | 2023/03/13 17:16

Another quick one today... So when you start your brand spanking new Liferay environment, you will automatically get your test@liferay.com administrator account (or test@<your company email here>...

David H Nebinger | 2023/03/10 17:47

So just a quick blog post today... I was working with Support where they were trying to help a client that had a failed U64 bundle upgrade in Production and we were trying to understand what the...

Neil Harwani | 2023/02/22 9:25

How to debug Liferay? Some pointers. – Part 1. Many a times, we only check at specific places and forget other areas while debugging. This small blog acts as a checklist to check and debug Liferay....

David H Nebinger | 2023/02/06 15:26

Introduction Recently there have been a bunch of questions lately in Slack, in Ask, and even in Liferay Support tickets complaining about the time it takes to log into Liferay and what can be done...

David H Nebinger | 2022/07/27 0:24

Introduction You may have seen my blog Setting Up JNDI in Liferay 7.4 which I posted to explain how to do a JNDI lookup. The code works, I assure you, but there's one group of developers that blog...

David H Nebinger | 2022/07/22 14:59

Introduction I've been working with a client to upgrade their Spring portlet wars to Liferay 7.4. And the update is kind of big as we're upgrading Spring, changing to PortletMVC4Spring (needed for...

Maharajan Paramasivan | 2022/04/27 13:25

Part-1 | What & Why & When Custom Liferay Framework Create your own Liferay Framework, Understand the possibilities to write your own Liferay framework for any complex custom developed solution...

Mohammed Yasin | 2022/04/21 9:19

Liferay provides an option to configure password policy (refer), it provides an option to mention Password Expiry Time. Once the Password is expired then user will not be able to login to the...

Michael Chen | 2022/04/07 17:11

Many UI teams prefer building Liferay DXP Theme using gulp instead of the Liferay Theme Builder. For example, cd themes/my-themenpm installgulp build However, Liferay has not documented ways to...

David H Nebinger | 2022/03/24 15:15

Introduction So my friend Thiago Moreira posted the following (slightly edited) message to our internal Slack: Hey, so I've built a module for 7.4 GA5, but when it is deployed to 7.4 GA16, I get a...

Maharajan Paramasivan | 2022/03/09 5:18

Part-2 | How to Custom Liferay Framework? Implement your own Custom Liferay Framework over a simple use case and understand the possibilities and capabilities that open up. Continuing on top of the...

David H Nebinger | 2022/02/25 15:34

Just a quick one today... In previous versions of Liferay, if you were browsing a site as a guest but wanted to access a private page or a private site, Liferay would automagically show you the...

David H Nebinger | 2022/02/14 20:29

Introduction Recently I was asked how to implement MDC and/or NDC in Liferay 7.4, and since I thought it might be interesting to a wider audience, I'm going to blog about it here. Background In a...

David H Nebinger | 2022/02/11 19:14

Introduction In November of 2018, I authored a blog, Boosting Search. In that blog, I showed how to boost search results for tag matches in an effort to provide some alternative to GSA's KeyMatch...

David H Nebinger | 2022/02/07 15:50

Introduction I've worked with clients that, for one reason or another, needed to change their database platform. This ask has increased with the move to DXPCloud and MySQL database. I'm not sure...

David H Nebinger | 2022/01/26 0:02

Introduction I was recently polling my coworkers looking for new blog ideas, and Filipe Melo asked about Websockets. I haven't seen any other documentation or blogs about building Websocket...

David H Nebinger | 2022/01/21 19:08

Hey, so a quick post today about how to set up JNDI connections in Liferay CE 7.4 or Liferay DXP 7.4. Liferay moved jars around in 7.4. No longer are there key jars in the Tomcat lib/ext directory...

David H Nebinger | 2022/01/13 17:55

Introduction My friend and coworker Eric Chin recently posed a question on our internal slack channels asking if anyone had experience with Liferay's Batch mode and he was not finding enough...

David H Nebinger | 2022/01/11 18:57

Introduction So recently I completed a database upgrade from Liferay EE 6.1 up to Liferay DXP 7.4. It was actually pretty straightforward and I didn't encounter any significant blockers. I did...