Blogs

Martin Yan | Oct 19, 2015 6:32 PM

How much do you know about the people who are visiting your website? The more you know, the greater chance you’ll have of reaching them and helping them find what they are looking for. User data...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 18, 2015 10:09 PM

Liferay Developer Conference and Unconference 2015 were simply great. Lots of sessions, games and chances to meet some of the most active Liferay developers. It was also very exciting and...

Olaf Kock | Oct 17, 2015 1:39 PM

It's been a long time and finally... Radio Liferay is back with several episodes in the queue. Today, Tomáš Polešovský starts of by talking about Liferay's security team and -procedures as well as...

Vernon Singleton | Oct 16, 2015 6:10 PM

Let me introduce two simple and fun components from among our recently released Liferay Faces Alloy tags, alloy:selectStarRating and alloy:selectThumbRating. Following the example set by our...

Zeno Rocha | Oct 15, 2015 4:53 PM

At Liferay, we're always trying to make the life of developers easier. We're constantly improving our products and releasing new open source libraries. Helping people is what drives us. Last week...

Kailash Yadav | Oct 15, 2015 10:26 AM

Liferay marketplace is great tool, you can sell your app, download free apps or purchase EE apps. There are also many great free EE apps. You can download CE apps using your browser. But when you...

David H Nebinger | Oct 15, 2015 6:32 AM

So I'm here late one night and I'm wondering why Liferay is hosting profile pics... I mean, in this day and age we all have accounts all over the place and many of those places also support profile...

Olaf Kock | Oct 14, 2015 8:01 AM

I'm slowly back to my regular sleep rhythm, after the highly anticipated sleep deprivation week that Devcon always is. Those ~450 participants that were there and made it the biggest and greatest...

Tim Telcik | Oct 14, 2015 5:09 AM

Links Technical blogs Liferay Marketplace plugins source at GitHub Liferay Marketplace - Documents and Media Downloader Liferay Marketplace - Documents and Media Info Viewer Liferay Marketplace -...

James Falkner | Oct 13, 2015 3:21 PM

Next week Liferay España will hold its annual Liferay Symposium in beautiful Madrid. I'm grateful to be able to attend once again, but this year will be especially awesome because of the momentum...

Anna Rimmer | Oct 13, 2015 1:07 PM

Introduction This is short guide how you can integrate Open edX with Valamis & Liferay using Experience API. This article is in two parts. First part describes setting up Open edX. This second part...

Zsolt Berki | Oct 13, 2015 6:52 AM

Introduction Nowadays, cloud computing is getting more and more popular because of the obvious time and resource saves it could provide. One of the most competent contender on the field is the...

Angela Wu | Oct 12, 2015 8:55 PM

Have you heard the news? The Liferay Symposium North America is coming Chicago this fall! Prepare for the Windy City this November by planning out your conference strategy beforehand and setting...

Anna Rimmer | Oct 12, 2015 8:25 AM

Introduction This is short guide how you can integrate Open edX with Valamis & Liferay using Experience API. This article is in two parts. First part describes setting up Open edX. If you have...

Marcus Hellberg | Oct 9, 2015 10:26 PM

In web applications we often need to deal with large data sets. In order to deal with potentially tens of thousands of rows of data on the page, we need to lazy load or paginate both the fetching...

Vikash Kumar | Oct 7, 2015 1:29 PM

Struture <root available-locales="en_US" default-locale="en_US"> <dynamic-element dataType="string" indexType="keyword" localizable="true" name="title" readOnly="false" repeatable="true"...

Jose M. Navarro | Oct 6, 2015 8:50 AM

Hey folks! The new version of Liferay Screens, version 1.2, includes three of the the most demanded and awaited features coming from Liferay community. See? giving feedback pays off! (: The...

Zsolt Oláh | Oct 5, 2015 4:02 PM

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Eduardo P. García | Oct 4, 2015 6:23 PM

Liferay Developer Conference (aka DEVCON) is a great chance for us to meet Liferay developers from all around the world every year. As for the last months we’ve been working on the new version of...

Zsolt Berki | Oct 1, 2015 6:17 AM

Valamis is a powerful open source learning solution which gives you a collection of tools to construct various e-learning sites to serve different kind of needs. As a simplified example: you could...

Jorge Ferrer | Sep 30, 2015 4:02 PM

As announced in my last blog post, the period of our milestones has finished and we are getting into the launch field with the release of Liferay 7 alpha 1. We appreciate all the feedback from the...

Martin Yan | Sep 29, 2015 9:49 PM

As a web-based platform, a portal allows users to connect with one another and find content that is relevant with ease and simplicity. It combines information from different sources into a single...

Vikash Kumar | Sep 29, 2015 9:46 AM

Liferay 6.x portal default portlet configuration does not display minimize and maximize icons on portlet headers. These buttons are only available to admin role users. For one of our projects, we...

Bryan H Cheung | Sep 28, 2015 9:51 PM

The latest Magic Quadrant report from Gartner on the Horizontal Portal market has just been released, and you can find it here on our website. I just read it through and here’s what I noticed. A...

James Falkner | Sep 28, 2015 3:51 PM

The summer is over and it's time to crown the winners of the 2015 Liferay Screens App Contest! We had some awesome entries in the first ever contest of its kind, but two of them really stood out as...

Olaf Kock | Sep 28, 2015 10:48 AM

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...

Olaf Kock | Sep 25, 2015 3:19 PM

Do you remember the article that I wrote in March? It talked about Liferay's limitation to have each overloaded JSP only customizable from one hook. The limitation was not enforced, so deploying...

Neil Griffin | Sep 25, 2015 1:41 PM

Multi-Module Projects Developers that are familiar with the version scheme of the Spring Framework will notice that each module has the same version number. For example:...

Ruud Kluivers | Sep 25, 2015 6:51 AM

In vrijwel alle gesprekken die ik met klanten en prospects voer wordt de vraag gesteld ‘integreert Liferay met Salesforce’. Mijn wedervraag is dan, wat wil je precies integreren? Niet zelden wordt...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Sep 24, 2015 6:44 PM

Under The Hood: The Liferay Faces Generator The Liferay Faces Generator is a code generation tool used to create custom JavaServerTM Faces (JSF) components (such as the new Liferay Faces Alloy...

Martin Yan | Sep 23, 2015 9:41 PM

That's a question we get often when we tell people what we do. Answers can range anywhere from a quick pitch like "a tool that allows people to build their websites" to something more specific like...

Lauri Hiltunen | Sep 23, 2015 4:15 PM

The Expando API is a great tool to add custom data to the default models Liferay offers. We've used it regularly in our projects. Although the concept might overwhelm you at first, there’s no need...

Neil Griffin | Sep 16, 2015 3:55 PM

JavaServer™ Faces (JSF) is one of the standards developed under the Java Community Process (JCP) and was first introduced with Java EE 1.4. The first version of JSF had its share of proponents, but...

Matti Tahvonen | Sep 16, 2015 12:42 PM

The easily customizable, SASS based, Valo theme is one of the largest renewals to Vaadin lately. The vaadin-archetype-liferay-portlet still uses the oldish “liferay” theme, adapted for older...

Abdon Pijpelink | Sep 15, 2015 2:16 PM

Context is king In 1996, when the web was in its infancy, Bill Gates famously predicted that content would be king on the internet. Twenty years later it has become increasingly important to not...

Lauri Hiltunen | Sep 14, 2015 2:04 PM

One of Liferay's more commonly used extension points is the application startup event. You can define custom code to run whenever your plugin is deployed. This is a powerful feature. In this blog...

Neil Griffin | Sep 8, 2015 7:02 PM

On August 3, 2015 the JCP Executive Committee approved the ballot for starting JSR 378: Portlet 3.0 Bridge for JavaServer™ Faces 2.2. This is the first time that Liferay will be leading a JSR and...

Lauri Hiltunen | Sep 8, 2015 5:12 PM

Liferay offers extensive set of features regarding user accounts and signing in to your portal out of the box. Many of the features are made configurable through portal properties, enabling the...

James Falkner | Sep 7, 2015 12:55 PM

My Documents View New Liferay Sync UI Today Liferay released Liferay Sync 3, the latest version of its popular document sharing add-on for Liferay. Download it from the Downloads page, read the...

Jyri Pötry | Sep 7, 2015 9:50 AM

How Liferay and Valamis solve regulatory compliance Companies today are facing an increasing number of regulations and need for transparency in their operations. Consequently, organizations are...