Blogs

Victor Zorin | 13-aug-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-aug-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-aug-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-aug-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-aug-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-aug-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-aug-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jul-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-jun-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-jun-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-jun-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-jun-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-jun-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-jun-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-jun-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-jun-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-jun-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-mei-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-mei-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...

Vikash Kumar | 29-mei-2018 11:24

#if($entries.size() > 0) #set ($journalArticleLocalService = $serviceLocator.findService("com.liferay.portlet.journal.service.JournalArticleLocalService")) #####Added for preview in Asset...

Tim Telcik | 24-mei-2018 16:09

Scenario You are hosting Liferay Developer Studio with Mac OS 10.13 (High Sierra) You want to use Liferay Developer Studio 2.2.x with Java 7 and Liferay Developer Studio 3.x with Java 8 Liferay...

Ashley Yuan | 23-mei-2018 3:45

Hello all, Today we are pleased to announce the official release of Liferay IntelliJ Plugin. Liferay IntelliJ Plugin is a plugin for Jetbrains IntelliJ to support developing Liferay components. For...

Jamie Sammons | 22-mei-2018 19:11

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA7! Download Now! What’s New ElasticSearch 6.0 - Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA7 now adds support for ElasticSearch 6.x. ...

Fady Hakim | 19-mei-2018 14:28

You want to know more about Liferay Mobile strategies? Check my new video series about Liferay Mobile. Let me know if you have any question. Video 1 https://youtu.be/R48gQ6bnQpo Video 2...

Jamie Sammons | 18-mei-2018 21:21

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Beta 1 Download Now: Sourceforge Github New in Beta 1 Modern Site Building - Display Pages: Users can now map Basic Web...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 15-mei-2018 15:01

Liferay Faces Portal 3.0.2, Bridge Impl 4.1.1, Bridge Ext 5.0.2 Released Liferay Faces Portal 3.0.2, Bridge Impl 4.1.1, and Bridge Ext 5.0.2 have been released with support for PrimeFaces 6.2,...

Alexander Valencia | 12-mei-2018 16:58

I recently took an online course to learn more about TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript that provides optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and much more. Whenever I'm in the process of ...

Vikash Kumar | 11-mei-2018 11:16

portal.properties ----------------------- journal.article.form.default.values=content,abstract,categorization,display-page,related-assets,permissions,custom-fields,Publish History...

Jamie Sammons | 8-mei-2018 21:31

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Alpha 2 Download Now! Alpha 2 primarily focuses on being a bug fix release. List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 Alpha 2...

Daniel Tyger | 7-mei-2018 13:12

We have a lot of distributed web content management in our Liferay installation and many articles are undoubtedly edited many times over a period of years. Let's take a look...: select count(*)...

Vikash Kumar | 5-mei-2018 9:17

Refer https://web.liferay.com/web/antonio.junior/blog/-/blogs/12168124 and create web service client for Portlet_DL_DLAppService. package com.lr.ws.soap.fileupload; import...

David H Nebinger | 4-mei-2018 14:23

When you are upgrading to DXP on SQL Server, it is recommended to set the following property in the portal-upgrade-ext.properties file: verify.process.concurrency.threshold=10000 Otherwise you can...

Daniel Tyger | 30-apr-2018 13:47

Do you have a lot of documents in your Liferay instance? It may be worth it to clean out old document versions... Let's take a look: mysql> select count(*) from dlfileentry; Returns 12,300. mysql>...

Daniel Tyger | 24-apr-2018 21:40

Getting ready to upgrade to DXP from Liferay 6.2? You reached the section of the documentation about pre-upgrade preparations that will speed up the process? Me, too. With much appreciation to...

Tim Telcik | 21-apr-2018 15:41

Overview Sometimes you need to manually reindex some, or all, of the content search indices. Liferay Portal 6.2 provides search indexing functions for many content types. e.g. Blog Document Journal...

Tim Telcik | 21-apr-2018 15:24

Overview The Liferay Portal user session timeout is defined by the session timeout value. The article outlines potential solutions for configuring the user session timeout (see Solutions below)....

Tim Telcik | 21-apr-2018 15:20

Overview Liferay Portal uses many internal (Spring) services and equivalent web services (SOAP, Rest/JSON) to implement many functions. Many of these services require passing a company ID or portal...

Tim Telcik | 21-apr-2018 15:16

Overview A problem we someetimes face with our Liferay Portal enterprise (EE) customers is configuring and resolving data sync issues across nodes in a cluster. Thsi article provides some tips and...

Tim Telcik | 21-apr-2018 15:13

Overview This article outlines a process to resolve Liferay Portal patch collisions with custom portal plugins Background The Liferay Patching Tool can be used to patch a Liferay Portal 6.1 or 6.2...

Tim Telcik | 21-apr-2018 15:09

Overview Sometimes ... things do not go to plan when using mail (email) in Liferay Portal. However you can quickly find the cause by logging the outbound mail message. You can enable additional...

Tim Telcik | 21-apr-2018 15:05

Overview Patching info for the Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE) may be identified using the Liferay Portal patching tool natively or via the Patching Tool Info plugin in the Control Panel....

Tim Telcik | 21-apr-2018 14:58

Overview This brief article outlines a high level solution for using the Liferay SAML 2.0 EE Provider plugin as the SAML SP in a clustered node environment. The solution extends from using Liferay...

Tim Telcik | 21-apr-2018 14:53

Overview The article outlines configuration for tracing the Liferay SAML 2.0 Provider EE plugin (SAML plugin). The SAML plugin enables Liferay Portal 6.2 EE to act as a SAML Service Provider (SP)...

Tim Telcik | 21-apr-2018 14:48

Overview According to Wikipedia, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), pronounced "sam-el" is, "... an XML-based, open-standard data format for exchanging authentication and authorization...