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Jamie Sammons | 2018-nov-05 06:54

What's New Release Notes Downloads Download the release now at: https://www.liferay.com/downloads-community New Features Summary Web Experience: Fragments allow a content author to create small...

Jamie Sammons | 2018-nov-02 16:56

Update: This has been moved to January 11, 2019. Reason for the changes The vulnerabilities in TLS 1.0 (and SSL protocols) include POODLE and DROWN. Due to these security risks, Liferay decided to...

Sébastien Le Marchand | 2018-nov-02 00:02

// The french version of this article can be found here: Pour un indicateur de chargement SPA plus visible. Since version 7.0 of Liferay, you surely noticed the apparition of a thin loading bar on...

Sébastien Le Marchand | 2018-nov-01 23:08

// The english version of this article can be found here: For a more conspicuous SPA loader. Depuis la version 7.0 de Liferay, vous avez surement remarqué l’apparition d’une fine barre de...

Ibai Ruiz | 2018-okt-31 14:57

Helping my colleague Sergio Sanchez with his GDPR talk in the past Spanish Symposium, I came across a hidden gem in Liferay 7.1. It turns out you can integrate custom Service Builder entities with...

Luis Miguel Barcos | 2018-okt-29 17:07

In the previous posts, we talked about what we were going to do, how we were going to do it, and which tools we were going to use. We introduced you the Liferay Screens’s screenlets and the reason...

Sarai Diaz | 2018-okt-29 14:14

Previously, we talked about how market is really fragmented right now because there isn’t any popular hybrid framework. We kept an eye on some of the most popular frameworks like React Native,...

Álvaro Saugar | 2018-okt-27 10:57

//The spanish version of this article can be found here: Primer aniversario de la comunidad Liferay en España, otra vez. One year ago, on October 25, 2017, Liferay Community in Spain started again....

Álvaro Saugar | 2018-okt-27 09:11

//The english version of this article can be found here: First anniversary of the Liferay Spain User Group El 25 de octubre se cumplió un año del comienzo de la nueva etapa de la Comunidad...

Pavel Savinov | 2018-okt-26 12:48

In Liferay 7.1 we introduced a new approach to the Liferay Navigation. New navigation doesn't depend on the pages tree, there is a possibility to create multiple navigation menus, to compose them...

Eduardo Perez | 2018-okt-23 12:50

As many of you probably know, starting with Liferay DXP, Elasticsearch is the default Search Engine. In fact, by default, an Elasticsearch instance is embedded in Liferay DXP (it’s a good moment to...

Victor Galan | 2018-okt-23 10:43

In the previous blog post we covered the beginning of the project, this includes a description of the app features, advantages of using Liferay Screens and lastly the wireframe. In this one, we...

Victor Galan | 2018-okt-23 10:29

Before we begin with this story, for those of you that don’t know about Liferay Screens. Liferay Screens is a library for iOS, Android and Xamarin that aims to speed up the development of native...

Pavel Savinov | 2018-okt-21 19:21

Display pages functionality in Liferay always was tightly coupled to the Web Content articles, we never had plans to support more or less the same technology for other types of assets even though...

Pavel Savinov | 2018-okt-19 05:03

In Liferay 7.1 we presented a new vision to the page authoring process. The main idea was to empower business users to create pages and visualize contents in a very visual way, without a need to...

Minhchau Dang | 2018-okt-17 20:19

Liferay is a large project, and many developers who are attempting to get their customizations to work with Liferay will often end up asking the question, "What version of module W should I use at...

David Gomez | 2018-okt-16 15:17

Every year we, the developers doing amazing things with Liferay's products, have this unique opportunity to meet, learn and enjoy those long technical discussions with each other. All that happens...

Ignacio Roncero Bazarra | 2018-okt-15 18:02

GitHub repositoty: https://github.com/ironcero/devtools-liferay-portal-properties Summary This gradle plugin let you manage your properties files on your liferay workspace (version 7.0 and 7.1)....

Luis Miguel Barcos | 2018-okt-08 16:02

First of all, for those of you who don't know about Liferay Screens. Liferay Screens is a component library based on components called Screenlets. A screenlet is a visual component that you insert...

Hamidul Islam | 2018-okt-08 09:24

What's Context Contributor? While developing a theme I was thinking how can I know all the variables that I can access in my free marker templates? Won't it be great if I can write a utility...

Javeed Chida | 2018-okt-07 01:11

or, How to blow a Saturday evening writing a blog post just because the kids don't want to hang out with you Here are the 5 reasons I am flying down tomorrow evening. I've been to LSNA twice...

Michael Wall | 2018-okt-03 17:13

We recently had a requirement to add 2 Factor Authentication support for a demo, so I am pleased to share our implementation with the community. Login On login the user sees a new 'Authenticator...

Davide Abbatiello | 2018-okt-02 15:10

Introduction If you're reading this post is because you need to know which device currently access on your Liferay through Liferay Mobile Device Detection Lite. Specially, you can not explain why...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | 2018-sep-26 15:13

Introduction In this blog I'll describe how to migrate data and code from Liferay 6.2 to 7.1. Blog overview: I. Prerequisites - description of demo project and data/content to be migrated. II....

David Gomez | 2018-sep-26 10:59

Java 11 has just been released (on Sep, 25th) and it comes with the consolidation of a series of changes, not only to the language and the platform, but to the release and support model that has...

Dave Truong | 2018-sep-25 21:21

With the release of JDK11, Oracle's new Java SE Support Policy (and here) brings sweeping changes to the Java Enterprise community. If you would like a good explanation of the changes to come, I...

Michael Williams | 2018-sep-20 19:01

Charts are great visual aids. They're crucial to digesting data and information quickly. Prior to Liferay Portal 7.1, we didn't have a way to include charts in our apps. No more! Now you can use...

Javeed Chida | 2018-sep-18 16:10

This is a quick post on installing Liferay DXP to a SQL Server database. The Liferay documentation does include the database properties that make up the connection string. But things weren’t as...

Ashley Yuan | 2018-sep-18 07:34

We are pleased to announce the second general available release of Liferay Project SDK Installers. New Installers The installation problems are fixed in the new release, and a few bug fixes. ...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 2018-sep-17 16:36

Liferay Faces Released With Liferay Portal 7.1 Support! Liferay Faces Portal 3.0.3, Bridge Impl 4.1.2, and Bridge Ext 5.0.3 have been released with support for Liferay Portal 7.1! The release also...

Javeed Chida | 2018-sep-16 00:26

I’ve been mulling over an oft-encountered requirement, and I figured it would be alright to jot down my thoughts, even if only to evoke a response. Nothing makes my day like a comment that goes,...

David H Nebinger | 2018-sep-14 19:38

Introduction So those who know me or have worked with me know that I hate theming. I do. I find it to be one of the hardest things in Liferay to get right. I can build modules all day long, but ask...

Louis-Guillaume Durand | 2018-sep-14 15:48

Introduction In this article I’ll try to give you a comprehensive picture of the current state of theming in Liferay 7.1. To do this, I’ll describe the evolution of Liferay theming from the early...

Christopher Boyd | 2018-sep-13 11:54

Hello all! We want our development tools to be flexible and extensible enough to meet our users requirements, and with this in mind, we have developed 2 new concepts for Blade: Extensions and...

David H Nebinger | 2018-sep-12 12:54

Just a quick blog in case it hasn't come up before... Liferay was using a CDN for offloading traffic for the repository artifacts. You've likely seen the URL during builds or within your build...

Olaf Kock | 2018-sep-12 08:25

Did you already book your ticket for Devcon 2018? Early Bird ends in a few hours (14 Sep 2018) and I hear that the Unconference is solidly booked (not yet sold out, but on a good path to be sold...

Emiliano Cicero | 2018-sep-11 08:29

With Liferay releasing new products such as Analytics Cloud and Commerce we decided to cover the need for charts by providing an open source library. The technology Clay, our main implementation...

Ianire Cobeaga | 2018-sep-10 08:55

This is the second post explaining the new Web Experience functionalities released in version 7.1 of Liferay Portal. As presented in the previous post, in order to empower business users, it is...

Minhchau Dang | 2018-sep-08 01:49

A few months ago, in the Community Chat, one of our community members raised the question, "Why does Liferay prefer public pages over private pages?" For example, if you select the "Go to Site"...

David H Nebinger | 2018-sep-07 17:59

By request, a blog to explain compile vs compileOnly vs compileInclude... First it is important to understand that these are actually names for various configurations used during the build process,...