Blogs

In the sequel for Implement Predictive Search in Liferay Part 1: Autocomplete I’ll demonstrate how to create a predictive search in another flavor: search as you type. It works like this: the user starts entering keywords in the search bar and gets instant content suggestions. The suggestions are direct links to contents. In the previous demonstration I used a headless...

Introduction Recently I was asked how to implement MDC and/or NDC in Liferay 7.4, and since I thought it might be interesting to a wider audience, I'm going to blog about it here. Background In a multithreaded, multiuser environment such as in a web application like Liferay, different threads in the container will be handling different requests, but likely each request is doing something...

Liferay doesn’t have predictive search, but it doesn’t mean it would be difficult to implement. In the following two blogs I’ll demonstrate implementing it in two flavors: an autocomplete suggesting previous, successful keywords and a search as you type flavor suggesting matching content as keywords are entered.  The goal is to do it as simply as possible leveraging Liferay’s standard...

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below. Docker image To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA11: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.11-ga11 For more information on using the official Liferay docker...

Introduction In November of 2018, I authored a blog, Boosting Search. In that blog, I showed how to boost search results for tag matches in an effort to provide some alternative to GSA's KeyMatch support. A lot has changed in Liferay since that blog was posted, and it turns out there are much easier ways now in DXP 7.4 that won't require any code at all... Results Ranking In discussing the...

Overview In this blog I'll explain how to implement a custom Headless API module, configure an OAuth2 authorization and consume the API.  We’ll implement the Headless API for “App manager” functionality with endpoints to get the list of apps, get app details, create/update/delete the app (“App” here is a model, describing some external application with the following...

Introduction I've worked with clients that, for one reason or another, needed to change their database platform. This ask has increased with the move to DXPCloud and MySQL database. I'm not sure there's a well defined plan for how to migrate a Liferay database, so I thought I'd blog about it. Now, if you know anything about me, you know I'm a planner and I create (sometimes intricate)...

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below. Docker image To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA10: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.10-ga10 For more information on using the official Liferay docker...

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below. Docker image To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA9: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.9-ga9 For more information on using the official Liferay docker...

Introduction I was recently polling my coworkers looking for new blog ideas, and Filipe Melo asked about Websockets. I haven't seen any other documentation or blogs about building Websocket solutions for Liferay, so I figured this would be an interesting challenge. Websockets was introduced to provide a full duplex and realtime client/server communication path between remote clients and your...