Blogs

Tim Telcik | 5-nov-2017 14:57

Overview The article outlines the steps to change the default Liferay Portal web context from "/" to "/portal" ? Steps Step 1 - Over-ride property "portal.ctx" Over-ride the property "portal.ctx"...

Tim Telcik | 5-nov-2017 14:52

Overview If you are facing Liferay Portal login issues (eg. unexpected user session timeouts, unexpected double login prompts), you can perform high level tracing by enabling logging in the primary...

John Feeney | 3-nov-2017 15:19

This blog entry is part of a three-part blog series that explores some of the great features provided by Liferay Screens and Liferay Mobile SDK. In this this series, I will cover: Liferay Screens –...

Greg Amerson | 3-nov-2017 15:04

We just released latest version of blade cli that includes all of the new npm frontend project templates. This also bumps the rest of the project templates to use latest versions of Liferay gradle...

Minhchau Dang | 3-nov-2017 7:40

About one month ago, Liferay posted an announcement which talked about how to deploy the New Clustering Code for Liferay Portal Community. One of the first steps documented in this announcement was...

Petteri Karttunen | 30-okt-2017 12:41

(Previous parts of this series can be found here (part 1), here (part 2) and here (part 3) As a random, Liferay custom search developer you might want to get support for Boolean operators and|or...

Petteri Karttunen | 30-okt-2017 10:03

(Previous parts of this series can be found here (part 1) and here (part 2) This time we add an autocomplete / keyword suggester to the search field and query suggestions with automatic alternative...

Petteri Karttunen | 30-okt-2017 5:47

Creating a Google Like Search Part II: Filter by Structure and Document Type (Previous part of the series can be found here) In the second part of this blog series I’ll be adding new filtering...

Alex Swain | 27-okt-2017 13:37

Today's "I wonder if I can do this" experiment ended up being SAML integration with ADFS using Liferay as a service provider. I was surprised how quickly we were able to set it up (if you don't...

Jamie Sammons | 23-okt-2017 21:02

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA5! [Download Now] What's New Blacklisting OSGI Modules: New in GA5 is the ability to blacklist modules from starting....

Takeo Yasuyuki | 19-okt-2017 2:34

Based on requests from internal or customers, I just created a document for integrating ADFS (on Windows 2012 R2) and Lifeary DXP with detailed steps. I hope this would be helpful for somebody...

David H Nebinger | 14-okt-2017 20:42

So I've been home for almost a week now after having attended Devcon 2017 in Amsterdam. I have to give a shout out to Pascal Brusset and his entire team for putting on a great event. The venue was...

Tim Telcik | 10-okt-2017 15:35

Overview Liferay Portal 6.0 and 6.1 provide a data verification mechanism which can be used to resolve various data integrity issues, including the following data sets: Asset Blogs Bookmarks...

Tim Telcik | 10-okt-2017 15:26

Overview Liferay Portal 5 and 6 support different permission algorithms. Liferay Portal 5.2.x and 6.0.x supported permission algorithm 5. In addition, Liferay Portal 6.0.x introduced permission...

Tim Telcik | 10-okt-2017 15:22

Overview A common problem developers and system admins face is tracking down why their Liferay Portal plugins fail to deploy to their Java web server. There are many reasons why Liferay Portal...

Tim Telcik | 10-okt-2017 14:16

Environment Host Environment: MS Windows 7 Web Browser: MS Internet Explorer 9 Liferay Portal: 6.1 CE GA2 (6.1.1), 6.1 EE GA2 (6.1.20) Issues Popup page menu links for nested pages overlap...

Tim Telcik | 10-okt-2017 14:10

Overview If you need to reset the password for a Liferay Portal user in the database, refer to the following test steps. Test Environment These steps assume the following: We are connecting to a...

David H Nebinger | 10-okt-2017 4:44

So last week I'm sitting in an Unconference session at DevCon in a group talking about OSGi. I don't remember how it came up, but we got on a discussion about deployment issues and someone asked...

Anderson Perrelli | 9-okt-2017 13:57

Well, I decided to write this post after breaking my head a lot (almost brains were flying everywhere), to be able to configure remote staging in a clustered environment. The staging is that...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 6-okt-2017 17:36

Key Takeaways From JavaOne 2017 Talks Here are some of the key takeaways that I learned from the talks I attended at JavaOne 2017: How to Use Java Cryptography API Securely by Mansi Sheth (video)...

Petteri Karttunen | 5-okt-2017 15:07

More than once I've been asked to customise Liferay search to be "simpler" and more "Google like". In the first part of this blog series I'm going to create a custom search portlet from scratch...

Jim Hinkey | 5-okt-2017 15:06

If you've been developing apps, hooks, and themes on Liferay Portal 6, you might be wondering whether you'll be able to develop apps the same way on DXP Digital Enterprise 7 and Liferay Portal CE...

Sushil Patidar | 4-okt-2017 11:38

OSGI Module Gradle Project We have worked on ANT and MAVEN with Liferay in previous versions. In Liferay DXP Gradle has been introduced. It is quite an interesting feature to learn with Liferay...

Bryan H Cheung | 4-okt-2017 10:03

Hello Liferay Community! I'm here at the Liferay Unconference in Amsterdam, listening to Brett Swaim talk about his real world experiences with upgrades and Staging. Earlier, I ran into Darryl...

Olaf Kock | 2-okt-2017 15:29

Yay, another episode, and maybe in time to sweeten your trip to Devcon in Amsterdam. I spoke to Kristoffer Onias and Victor Ware. Both work on testing Liferay with different areas of interest....

Iván Zaera Avellón | 2-okt-2017 13:58

Dear Liferay Developers: We would like to share with you a new feature we have been working in very hard during the last months. As we all know, Liferay Portal’s current support for frontend...

Eduardo P. García | 2-okt-2017 10:55

One more year, Liferay Developer Conference (DEVCON) will bring together developers from all around the world to learn about Liferay, our platform, available tools and the people behind the...

Sandeep Sapra | 29-sep-2017 7:11

Introduction Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) provides feature to integrate with Corporate Single Sign on Server (SSO). SAML can be used to establish the same. This article laid down the...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 25-sep-2017 21:21

Hidden Features of Liferay Faces: The nativeWhenMobile Attribute of alloy:inputDate and alloy:inputTime One of my favorite lesser-known features of Liferay Faces Alloy is the the nativeWhenMobile...

Neil Griffin | 14-sep-2017 20:57

On September 13, 2017 the Liferay Faces project received a maintenance release according to the new Liferay Faces Version Scheme. The maintenance release addresses 226 issues: 124 bugs fixed 7...

Manuel de la Peña | 14-sep-2017 7:02

Hi Liferayers! We'd like to share with you that we have created non-official, public Docker images from our master branch! And we are releasing them every day. The rationale for pushing to a...

David H Nebinger | 8-sep-2017 13:21

A quick note for those using SiteMinder and Liferay... Liferay likes the Tilde (~) character, and uses it quite often for friendly URLs and other reasons. When fronting with SiteMinder, though, you...

Ashley Yuan | 7-sep-2017 3:05

Hello all, We are pleased to announce the third release for Liferay IDE and Studio Installers. This version is mainly for bug fixes. Liferay IDE 3.1.2 GA3 You can update or install the new...

Minhchau Dang | 6-sep-2017 19:32

Many months later, it's time to continue the series on Liferay from Source. For this segment, we'll start with the following question: why would you have wanted to build from source in the first...

Dániel Jávorszky | 4-sep-2017 8:42

Update: The below is not the recommended way of waiting for services in Liferay DXP. To do it the way it should be done, please check the following documentation:...

Pradeep Sharma | 25-aug-2017 18:55

Hello Fellow Liferay Folks, Today I am writing this blog as I found there is no proper complete set of step by step to configure SSL Liferay DXP server and fellow developer has to spend hours and...

Andrew Jardine | 18-aug-2017 15:06

I recently responded to the thread in the forums where the poster was asking about Liferay 7 and it's compatibility with OSGI. I am a huge JRebel fan myself and, based on what I know of JRebel and...

sejal patel | 16-aug-2017 11:08

Liferay 7 bolster for creating and deploying JAX-RS based REST services. JAX-RS is the JEE standards based approach for creating REST web services. As far as building up the real administrations it...

sejal patel | 16-aug-2017 10:36

Liferay provides the screenlets, which are the readymade screen for the faster android app development for Liferay apps. Liferay Screens for Android contains several Screenlets that you can use in...

Jan Verweij | 11-aug-2017 14:27

If you are working at a company where a lot of content is produced you will recognize this problem. How can I make sure that the content is always tagged AND in a consistent way. If you think...

Andrea Tamás | 11-aug-2017 9:14

Ambrózy Gábor (Amby) a Liferay budapesti irodájának support menedzsere. Vízióval érkezett a céghez és azóta, csapatával megosztva ezt a látomást, változatos és izgalmas projektek segítségével...

Ashley Yuan | 7-aug-2017 4:31

3.1.1 GA 2 and Installers Released Hello all, We have pushed a new release of Liferay IDE, Liferay Developer Studio version 3.1.1 GA2 and Liferay Workspace Installer 1.5.0.1. Liferay IDE 3.1.1 GA2...

Andy Wu | 4-aug-2017 5:51

Hey all, I would like to let everyone know that Liferay IDE which bundles Buildship 2.1.1 can be installed into Eclipse Oxygen(4.7) now. We released 3.1.0 ga1 about two weeks ago. But it can’t...

Jia Terry | 1-aug-2017 7:37

Today, I’d like to show new feature in Liferay IDE: Error Reporter. Version: Liferay IDE/Liferay Developer Studio 3.1.1(unrelease). When you are using Liferay IDE, once you meet any exceptions or...

Ahamed Hasan | 31-jul-2017 9:42

Introduction: Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers who just need virtual private servers. Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly...

Ben Turner | 31-jul-2017 1:50

As a companion piece to Eduardo Garcia's excellent Divide and Conquer blog post I thought it would be worthwhile writing up some reasons, from more of business, usability and flexibility...

Jonas Choi | 28-jul-2017 21:17

The other day I posted a blog entry about LDAP settings in 7.0/DXP and how generating the hash values precludes the ability to have the files configured without having to go into the UI. You can...

Vikash Kumar | 27-jul-2017 12:08

#set ($serviceContext = $portal.getClass().forName("com.liferay.portal.service.ServiceContextThreadLocal").getServiceContext()) #set ($httpServletRequest = $serviceContext.getRequest()) ...

Jonas Choi | 26-jul-2017 21:29

There are a great number of changes in Liferay 7.0/DXP, and one of them is how LDAP settings are managed when dealing with configuration files. In 6.2 and earlier, one could simply copy all the...

ANKIT SRIVASTAVA | 24-jul-2017 13:37

During my last LIUG presentation on this topic, many participants showed interest in this tool and they wanted to try this in their enviornment. I am writing this blog for beginners, who want to...

Ahamed Hasan | 20-jul-2017 19:28

AUI Input Field Custom Validation Offlate, i have been working on some serious devolopment using Liferay 7 DXP. Having delivered close to half a dozen corporate training programs on Liferay 7 DXP...

Eduardo P. García | 19-jul-2017 18:44

A FAQ about Application Display Templates (ADTs) is how to render the fields in an structured web content when it is listed on an Asset Publisher portlet. Paulo Fernandes proposed in a blog entry a...

Santiago Pérez de la Cámara | 19-jul-2017 11:32

Versiones en las que se se ha probado el contenido de este post: Liferay CE 7.0 GA4 / 7.0 GA5 Liferay IDE 3.1.1 GA2 / 3.1.2 GA3 Creación de Liferay Workspace En caso de no tener el workspace...

Andrew Jardine | 17-jul-2017 19:16

I think before we get rolling here I need to first admit that blogging about 6.2 features and functions is maybe not the best practice since we should all be planning our move to 7 in preparation...

Ashley Yuan | 14-jul-2017 2:05

3.1 GA 1 and Installers Released Hello all, The latest stable release of Liferay IDE, Liferay Developer Studio: version 3.1 GA1, and Liferay Workspace Installer 1.5.0 have been released. Liferay...

David H Nebinger | 12-jul-2017 14:12

Taking a short break from the Vue.js portlet because I had to implement a repository proxy. Since I was implementing it, I wanted to blog about it and give you the option of implementing one too....

ANKIT SRIVASTAVA | 3-jul-2017 16:45

There might be cases when you want to write your own CAS (Custom authentication Service) for authenticating users in Liferay. There are many cases like : authenticating users based on different...

Carlos Hernandez | 3-jul-2017 10:07

Wouldn't it be nice to take pictures with my mobile phone and let Liferay categorize / organise these pictures for me? Imagine how powerful it would be if I am on a business trip and I take lots...

David H Nebinger | 28-jun-2017 3:12

Introduction In part 1 of the blog series, we started a Vue.js portlet based in the Liferay Workspace, but actually there was no JS framework introduced just yet. We're actually going to continue...

David H Nebinger | 27-jun-2017 16:09

Introduction In Liferay 7 CE / Liferay DXP, there are new facilities in place to help us create JS portlets. In this blog series I'm going to present a new project to demonstrate how to build...