Blogs

Bruno Farache | Oct 6, 2014 8:45 PM

Sync Beta 3.0 is out! We are very close to release Sync 3.0 and need your feedback! We have made a complete UI revamp since the last version, take a look at the screenshots bellow: ...

Jan Eerdekens | Oct 5, 2014 6:49 PM

Intro A lot of developers will probably know this feeling: you've just returned from a conference and seen lots of exciting new technologies and now you can't wait to try them out! For me one such...

David H Nebinger | Oct 2, 2014 7:33 PM

The Vaadin 7 Control Panel is a custom control panel designed to manage the shared Vaadin environment in Liferay. What is the shared Vaadin environment? It is one of two modes1 for creating Vaadin...

Ken Dong | Oct 2, 2014 2:40 PM

Throughout history, knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge to practical use has been of highest value to any organization. As one of the leading trainers on the Liferay Support Team, I...

James Falkner | Oct 2, 2014 7:00 AM

At this year's Spain Symposium and North America Symposium (which begins in about 294,682 seconds from now), I'm going to be holding a session on 21 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Contribute to the...

Pradeep Sharma | Oct 1, 2014 3:20 PM

Hello Liferay Community, Welcome to my first blogs at Liferay Sites. This blog is for the generation of report of Web Content. If you have a web content display portlet and you have enabled the...

Koen van Dillen | Oct 1, 2014 3:04 PM

Yesterday we visited the Rijksmuseum as a guest of KPN and 's Heerenloo. I was presented with their new and very special portal named JiP. JiP is a portal based on Liferay and has a customized...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Sep 30, 2014 7:51 PM

Currently, Liferay has excellent Eclipse support with the Liferay IDE and Liferay Developer Studio. However, as of this writing, Liferay has no official NetBeans plugins or IDE. So what are you to...

Eduardo P. García | Sep 29, 2014 10:15 AM

It’s less than a week left until Liferay North America Symposium (NAS), the first of a series of events where we’ll have the chance to first-hand explain to our users what we’ve been working on...

Neil Griffin | Sep 27, 2014 1:39 AM

On September 26, 2014 Liferay released the 2nd Milestone of Liferay Faces 4.2.0: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-m2 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 Release Notes All New Showcase The Liferay Faces Showcase has is...

Angela Wu | Sep 25, 2014 9:00 PM

The fall season is upon us, which means the Liferay Symposium North America is right around the corner! In order to maximize your experience, we suggest coming with a basic list of goals and...

Ken Dong | Sep 24, 2014 11:47 PM

Connection is one of the most important ways to reach your customer. It creates comfort and ultimately trust. I’ve observed that there are generally three types of people who connect well: the...

Martin Yan | Sep 24, 2014 4:28 PM

Recently, Apple announced the arrival of the Apple Watch, their latest product in the wearable tech market. This is big news because, well, it's Apple, but also because it had been several years...

Muhammed Shafeek V | Sep 24, 2014 4:57 AM

Hi, I am not common for you here. So I think I need to explain who am I and why I am here. : Muhammed Shafeek, a Sun Certified java professional having 2 years real time project experience in...

James Falkner | Sep 22, 2014 4:00 PM

This blog is part of a series of entries documenting how we are using iBeacons and Liferay to better engage our audiences at events throughout the year. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Update: Check out...

Muhammed Shafeek V | Sep 20, 2014 12:59 PM

Introduction Recently We are deployed our application named TOURFILLA(Travel social networking site, http://www.tourfilla.com ) on AWS EC2 instance. For doing that I refer a plenty of blogs and...

Nate Cavanaugh | Sep 17, 2014 2:54 PM

Since my last blog post, I have gotten quite a few emails and questions about what the future of front end engineering looks like now that Yahoo has ended new development on YUI. What I'd like to...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Sep 11, 2014 10:30 PM

Our most recent update to Social Office EE for Liferay Portal 6.2 was uploaded to Liferay Marketplace today. Social Office 3.1 EE provides several improvements over version 3.0 EE, released earlier...

Martin Yan | Sep 10, 2014 5:36 PM

You've got a good idea. In fact, it's brilliant. The market is currently lacking XYZ, and you've got just the right product or service that is going to be the first or best to address it. So,...

Angela Wu | Sep 8, 2014 9:59 PM

Welcome to Boston Liferay is excited to be in Boston this October for the Liferay Symposium North America. This year’s Back Bay venue captures the historic beauty of Bean Town as well as reflecting...

Máté Thurzó | Sep 8, 2014 8:35 PM

Tomorrow 4pm CEST I'm going to participate in the dev.life event series, and I give you 4 fine reasons to attend, or check out the recording later. You can learn how can you develop staging and...

Mohit Soni | Sep 5, 2014 6:20 AM

In this blog we will configure OpenAM as Identity provider and Liferay as Service Provider using SAML 2.0. Follow below steps : Download OpenAM 11.0.0 war file from...

Matti Tahvonen | Sep 2, 2014 1:46 PM

As you might know Liferay comes bundled with Vaadin. Now that Vaadin 7.3 is out as of today, it is perfect time to update your Vaadin portlet. Vaadin 7.3 is the largest release since Vaadin 7 in...

Jorge Ferrer | Aug 29, 2014 9:44 PM

The word is out in Twitter, we have released the first development milestone release of Liferay 7. This is a call for really adventurous developers to try it out and give us your feedback. Here are...

Nate Cavanaugh | Aug 29, 2014 9:34 PM

As many of you may have read, Yahoo is immediately stopping development on the YUI library. This decision, while it will have a significant impact, is not news to us. Given our close relationship...

Matti Tahvonen | Aug 26, 2014 7:51 AM

We were very happy to have received the Liferay Marketplace award for the best Free Opensource portlet for 2014 . This was a huge thing for us not only because Vaadin.com itself uses the Tori forum...

Olaf Kock | Aug 26, 2014 6:15 AM

This article accompanies the dev.life session "Ridiculously simple plugins" hosted today (26. Aug, 16:00 CEST, 14:00 UTC) by me. The session is broadcasted on youtube and recording will be...

Ronald Sarayudej | Aug 26, 2014 1:45 AM

Life consists of all kinds of experiences. Some experiences are common, and we can go through them every day. Having a tasty meal. Sitting in traffic. Chatting with friends. Watching a good movie....

James Falkner | Aug 25, 2014 5:52 PM

Today Liferay announced the winners of the 2014 Liferay Marketplace App Contest! This year, we were super excited to see what our community could dream up, and you did not disappoint. The review...

Paulo Fernandes | Aug 22, 2014 9:43 PM

Hi guys Most of the time I need to embed a Web Content on the theme that I develop. To solve this I usually insert a Web Content Portlet using the following code: #set ($VOID =...

Scott Lee | Aug 21, 2014 5:40 PM

I've heard that you can do some really cool stuff in Web Content (check out James's and Ray's blogs) but haven't gotten around to tinkering with that myself. Here is a fun little experiment with...

Martin Yan | Aug 19, 2014 11:47 PM

The customer is always right. If you've been around the American marketplace long enough, you should be familiar with the phrase. It's the idea upon which the best restaurants and companies look to...

Olaf Kock | Aug 19, 2014 3:51 PM

Radio Liferay is back with a repeat guest, James Falkner, Liferay's Community Manager. Like last year, symposium season is about to start (even though we already had some events earlier this...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Aug 19, 2014 10:25 AM

I am sure most of you already know we are members of the OSGi Alliance, and we are trying to get involved as much as we can. Our next step is to host a face to face during the 9th, 10th and 11th of...

James Falkner | Aug 14, 2014 3:08 PM

Liferay hold many events throughout the year (10+ this year alone), featuring keynotes, workshops, expert speakers, onsite and offsite events, and multiple venues around the world. The data...

Olaf Kock | Aug 14, 2014 8:41 AM

\o/ Radio Liferay is back. A while ago I talked with Juan Fernandez and Ivica Čardić about an exciting project they're collaborating on: Liferay Cloud Services. "What's this?" you ask? Well, good...

Josiah Harrist | Aug 13, 2014 9:00 PM

“If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?” -Charlie Brooker, The Guardian Daniel Kaluuya and Jessica Brown Findlay in Channel 4’s Black...

James Min | Aug 12, 2014 11:50 PM

Here's a sneak peek at Liferay Screens Beta in the Xcode environment. Liferay Screens are basically mobile widgets that simplify development of mobile apps with Liferay as the backend. More info...

Adam Brandizzi | Aug 12, 2014 1:54 PM

One of the most important features of the new calendar portlet is the ability of consistently showing events to users in different time zones. It is invaluable for global organizations. If your...

Yogesh Sharma | Aug 12, 2014 8:10 AM

Liferay provides lot customizations formats using preferences, configuration, properties etc. Developer knows and remembers general ways and possible settings, most commons we go with...

Peter Mesotten | Aug 11, 2014 7:01 AM

This article is the second and last in a series of 2 posts on how personalization can be achieved in a portal project. In this post I'll explain how to combine user-specific and shared portlet...

Jeffrey Handa | Aug 8, 2014 3:29 PM

This weekend you may notice a couple of small changes to your Liferay.com sign-in experience and I wanted to give you a little background on why we’re making those changes. As we have been...

Brandon Pettit | Aug 8, 2014 1:02 PM

The Liferay Training team is pleased to announce the release of the 6.2 Styling Liferay with Themes course! Liferay Portal 6.2 includes some exciting updates for UI developers. Now that Bootstrap...

Olaf Kock | Aug 8, 2014 8:32 AM

It's public - Registration for DevCon 2014 (Wed-Thu, 5.-6. Nov) is open. And we're looking for your participation to make it an even bigger success. This year we're going to Darmstadt, just south...

Martin Yan | Aug 5, 2014 5:07 PM

As a thought-leadership blog, NOTS is striving to disseminate knowledge and spread out to the masses like a wicked disease. Here we sat down with Liferay Community Manager James Falkner to shoot...

Neil Griffin | Aug 5, 2014 1:18 PM

Today's JSF JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a Java EE standard technology that enjoys wide support with Java EE application servers including JBoss AS/WildFly, Oracle WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. In...

Olaf Kock | Aug 5, 2014 8:36 AM

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...

Mohit Soni | Aug 4, 2014 9:09 AM

In this document , basically we will understand about roles and permissions backend process and its table structure for LR 6.x, but before going further , first we need to understand what is role...

Achraf BEN AISSI | Aug 1, 2014 8:25 AM

SessionClicks est un utilitaire qui est utilisé pour sauvegarder l’état d’un élément en fonction de l’utilisateur qui l’utilise (ex : l’état d’un plié déplié…). La sauvegarde peut se faire de deux...

James Falkner | Jul 28, 2014 7:06 PM

Over the weekend you may have have noticed our community blogs page got a makeover! There are several new additions and changes to the page which we hope will make your liferay.com blogging...

Ankit Srivastava | Jul 25, 2014 11:28 AM

Hi All, Using Liferay 6.2 OOTB features, you can achieve analytics using Piwik . Piwik is the leading open source web analytics platform that gives you valuable insight into your website's...

Bradley Wood | Jul 24, 2014 8:52 PM

Ever wanted to explicitly define what page to display on the current pagination content from a url password? This code should aim you in the right direction. Logic: -Get url variable ("page")...

Bradley Wood | Jul 24, 2014 8:45 PM

Special thanks to atul patel's forum post displays how to embed a navigation portlet into a layout using custom settings. With Custom Settings Basic display styles: There are 6 different basic...

Neil Griffin | Jul 21, 2014 8:19 PM

Liferay Faces Showcase The Liferay Faces team has been hard at work on the new Liferay Faces Showcase which demonstrates the new JSF components we are developing. Many of the components utilize...

Olaf Kock | Jul 21, 2014 11:17 AM

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...

Olaf Kock | Jul 21, 2014 11:08 AM

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...

Juan Gonzalez | Jul 19, 2014 9:02 AM

Hi again! This is the second (and last) part of my blog series for using existing Bootstrap themes into Liferay 6.2. In my previous blog post I talked about using LESS files, and how to, by simply...

Martin Yan | Jul 16, 2014 5:09 PM

LeBron James has something to teach us about how to be a championship-caliber business. Let me explain. On July 11, James sent a jolt through the sports world with three simple words: I'm coming...

Olaf Kock | Jul 16, 2014 4:04 PM

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...

James Falkner | Jul 15, 2014 8:22 PM

I'm not sure if I've said it enough -- our community is awesome! Each of us comes from different geographic places, cultural backgrounds, and Liferay experiences and we bring that collective story...