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Recently, some customers met an issue that after installing sp9 or any conponent that contains LPE-10066 ( LPS-40597), web contents won't show to guest or site member. The reproduction steps: 1. Setting "journal.article.view.permission.check.enabled=true" in portal-ext.properties. Start a clean 6210-sp7 bundle and drag a web content portlet to page, add one web content. Visit site...

Communities are essential to shaping our identities. They bring people together through a common activity or belief and provide us a context in which we are able to interpret ourselves and one another.   Take a sporting event, for example. Two strangers sitting next to each other can be wearing the same blue jerseys and rooting for the same team to win. Hugging, shouting,...

If the line below is executed in a JavaScript console, what will be the value of hour? var hour = new Date(2015, 9, 18, 0).getHours(); The intuitive answer is zero, and it is right in most situations. Yet, in regions under the America/Sao_Paulo time zone, daylight saving time will start at October 18, 2015 at 0:00, so all clocks will advance to 1 AM once they pass through...

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA4! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start] [Detailed Install Instructions]. Once again, this release is particularly noteworthy. Why is that? Well, if you attended DevCon in Germany last year, you probably don't remember it, but I...

Continuing in the spirit of Juan Gonzalez’s excitement over the new portal components, let me introduce a new Liferay Faces Alloy component which will be included in the the upcoming GA release.  Following the example set by our friends on the AlloyUI team, we packaged their toggler as a  JSF component.   Q: What advantages does JSF bring to the table? A:...

Liferay have introduced Expando API to extending existed Liferay tables to add additional columns rather than creating new tables in the database.   Logically its look like new tables in Liferay but originally it won’t be created in the Liferay database.   All Expando mechanism is organized by following four tables which...

Hi everyone! As you may know there are many exciting things that had been done so far in the last year for Liferay Faces. This is the first of a blog series about all of these improvements and new features that you will see in the next weeks, when GA release shows up. I will start this series explaining the new features and improvements from the Liferay Faces Portal components. ...

A little over a year ago, iBeacons made their way to the retail market in a mass deployment to 254 Apple stores. Since then, they’ve had technology enthusiasts and event marketers alike anticipating the splash this fresh technology would make in the world of events. If you’re thinking about using iBeacons at your next event or are looking for ways to enhance your attendee's...

This is a story about two sisters, Portal and Platform.  Their father, Brian Chan was a strict and careful man.  He knew his daughters could help the world so he made sure they were always very tidy and followed all the rules and all the standards.  He opened up his home and let anyone visit his daughters for he had nothing to hide.   ...

Issue Recently I worked on a Liferay 6.1 to 6.2 upgrade project. The Liferay was configured to use sharding with three database schemas. During the upgrade process, an exception is thrown:   Analysis The cause of the problem is: the upgrade process tries to upgrade the default shard twice. There is a similar issue in Liferay 6.1 which is marked as fixed:...

It's been about 1 month since we launched the Liferay 7 Community Expedition! I first want to thank all of you that have spent your valuable time and brain cycles to help with Liferay 7 exploration, and for collaborating with the rest of our open source community to respond to feedback they have given. I wanted to share some statistics and also remind you of what will happen in...

The traditional way of learning has started to go through some major reforms. This is happening in both education and in enterprises. Instead traditional course based learning where users are memorizing ready-given information, today more emphasis is put on finding, understanding and applying information in practice in real world scenarios. Phenomenon-based learning ...

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.3a! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start] [Detailed Install Instructions]. This release is particularly noteworthy as it represents a new direction for Liferay. Due to the cost involved in producing CE releases we've decided to make...

Hi All, I will show you the steps to install liferay 6.2-SP10 on JBoss EAP 6.2 1 - Download the below files:      - Jboss EAP 6.2 from here and unzip the folder, This directory is referred to as $JBOSS_HOME throughout this section      - Liferay 6.2-SP10 EE WAR file from here      - Liferay 6.2-SP10 EE...

More than ever before, people are foregoing their desktops and accessing services primarily through their phones and tablets. A strong mobile strategy is now a must-have for businesses. But what approach should your company take? Are websites or apps the better strategy? What about native versus hybrid apps?   In our latest publication, we look to...

The following information is only relevant for German speaking members: Wer mehr darüber erfahren möchte, welche rechtlichen Aspekte bei Nutzung der Community und der Liferay Enterprise Edition zu beachten sind, kann sich noch rasch zum kostenfreien Webinar "Rechtliche Aspekte bei Nutzung von Liferay" morgen anmelden: Donnerstag, den 26. März 2015 Von 10:00 Uhr bis...

Last year I spent a lot of time looking into how AngularJS could be used in a portal environment, more specifically Liferay. That research culminated in a pretty technical and quite lengthy blog post: Angular Adventures in Liferay Land. The problem with a blog post that you invest such an amount of time in is that it always remains in the back of your head, especially if there were...

In this article, we will be discussing about how to become a good liferay developer. This article is mainly for the people who are willing to learn liferay technology and would like to know the route to achieve their aim. Don't think because I am writing this article, I am very good liferay developer, but this statement doesn't confirm that I am a bad liferay Developer too. ...

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 about them because it's easy to abuse them for purposes for which they're not well suited - despite making the impression they might. CC BY-ND 2.0 by S. Benno Today I'm starting with...

Dear community: I'd like to make an important announcement today.   I've been presenting and demoing Liferay Cloud Services at Symposiums, events and customer visits for quite some time now, and most of those presentations had one thing in common: before I presented the product, people thought it was about a hosted or managed platform.  “No, no, no. These are...