Blogs

Koen Olaerts | 21-nov-2016 19:38

At Coin we have developed SimpleEdit, a new and improved way for editing your documents stored in Alfresco or Liferay. Now that Liferay has moved on to DXP, we are in the process of upgrading...

Javeed Chida | 11-nov-2016 16:18

In my last technical post titled Content SEO - Hidden in Plain Sight, I exposed a caveat in the way the title of a content item is auto-crafted by Liferay. Here’s an excerpt from that article,...

Fabian Larroca | 31-okt-2016 13:57

Build Around MDX I cannot make the case to encourage you to write MDX. It's a complex query language, underutilized, supported by major vendors*, but after 20 years of existence still struggle to...

Dave Truong | 19-okt-2016 20:20

I mentioned last time in The State of Maven Development, that we were missing a few items for our Maven users. Well I have good news... You can now build themes in Maven! In pom.xml: <build>...

Marcos Castro | 13-okt-2016 9:08

Hi everyone! In our final entry of the series, we are happy to introduce a theme that you can use to create your own subscription site. Welcome to 1975 London!. "A music site as example" ...

Olaf Kock | 12-okt-2016 15:20

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. It will run with all...

Maarten van Heiningen | 29-sep-2016 13:05

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 – part 3 The future The world of mobile is on the...

Javeed Chida | 27-sep-2016 19:14

After a thirty-minute train ride sitting amidst super-excited teenagers, even the energized atmosphere of a downtown Chicago Tuesday morning seemed like a peace cloud. Anyway, got to the Hilton in...

Javeed Chida | 26-sep-2016 21:14

Here's a running note dump of my day 1 at Liferay Symposium North America 2016, here in Chicago. This is just to pique your curiosity if you couldn't make it out here AND your interests happen to...

Olaf Kock | 20-sep-2016 7:22

Two episodes (or an eternity) ago, I spoke to Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering. We didn't have enough time to finish the conversation, so we continued a while after - and then I buried the...

Antonio Pol | 19-sep-2016 7:56

As many of you know, a while ago we presented AlloyEditor as the result of our quest for a delightful and productive editing experience. Alloy Editor was included by default as the rich editor in...

David H Nebinger | 16-sep-2016 5:16

Introduction So I'm doing more and more development using pure Intellij for Liferay 7 / DXP, even debugging. I thought I'd share how I do it in case someone else is looking for a brief how-to....

Javeed Chida | 15-sep-2016 15:55

It cannot be that it was just forgotten, This fundamental feature, thus I sought Through thick of forum, blog, e'en post ill-gotten Until my quest returned me to the spot Where sat the creature...

Jan Eerdekens | 14-sep-2016 14:51

In the beginning of the year I had some fun creating the CRaSH portlet. Once it is deployed, it allows a portal administrator to work with the portal/JVM in a very flexible way using a command line...

Nate Cavanaugh | 8-sep-2016 18:13

It’s been awhile since I’ve had a chance to clarify both our current status as well as our future direction, so I wanted to do that here. This blog post will be mainly a high level overview of...

Maarten van Heiningen | 5-sep-2016 14:07

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 – part 2 Phlink Part 1 of our blog series was about...

Neil Griffin | 2-sep-2016 21:36

On August 29, 2016 Liferay released a new version of Liferay Faces based on the new Liferay Faces Version Scheme. Because of our efforts towards greater modularity, many of the Liferay Faces...

Marcos Castro | 1-sep-2016 11:29

Hi everyone! Today, in a not-so-unexpected turn of events, we proudly present you Porygon. "Start your own digital magazine" The new Porygon theme has been designed to get you started with...

David H Nebinger | 26-aug-2016 5:18

Introduction In part 5 we started the portlet code. We added the configuration support, started the portlet and added the PanelApp implementation to get the portlet in the control panel. In this...

David H Nebinger | 26-aug-2016 1:36

Introduction In the first four parts we have introduced our project, laid out the Liferay workspace to create our modules, defined our DS service API and have just completed our DS service...

David H Nebinger | 20-aug-2016 6:35

Introduction In part 3 of the blog, the API for the Filesystem Access project was flushed out. In this part of the blog, we'll create the service implementation module. The Data Transfer Object Now...

David H Nebinger | 20-aug-2016 1:32

Introduction In part 2 of the series we created our initial project modules for the Filesystem Access Portlet project. In part 3, we're going to move on to flushing out the DS service that will...

Marcos Castro | 16-aug-2016 11:59

Hi everyone! A week ago we started the new serie of blog entries about our new themes for Liferay 7. Today, we gladly present you our second theme: Westeros Bank: "A bank case" The Westeros...

Jamie Sammons | 15-aug-2016 18:37

I am pleased to announce the release of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA3! [Download Now] What's New Overriding LPKG Files: A while back I wrote a blog entry on patching OSGi modules. The original...

Javeed Chida | 13-aug-2016 22:30

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 | 5-aug-2016 11:23

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 | 5-aug-2016 10:17

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 | 5-aug-2016 1:22

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 | 5-aug-2016 0:27

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 | 18-jul-2016 23:11

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 | 14-jul-2016 19:43

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 | 14-jul-2016 3:51

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 | 13-jul-2016 20:26

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 | 7-jul-2016 3:55

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 | 6-jul-2016 19:45

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 | 6-jul-2016 0:30

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 | 29-jun-2016 6:14

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 | 15-jun-2016 23:15

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 | 9-jun-2016 10:09

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 | 3-jun-2016 19:14

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...