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Since Liferay 7.1, pages management has been completely redesigned. Now the navigation tree presented to end-users are controlled by the new Navigation Menus rather than the position of pages in the pages administration screen (now using the Miller columns visualization system). Unfortunately, by the time these lines are written (i.e. with Liferay 7.1 GA2), the position of a page...

While trying to give your users the best experience ever you always try to keep things simple. In the past I have filled in many forms and many times with the same data and many times at the same site. Why? As a simple example I took a free 'zipcode to address' service in the Netherlands and used this to show how easy this can be done. And this is what it looks like. Todo...

I’m happy to announce the release of the first beta for the new set of Liferay REST APIs. But before going into details, for those of you who might not be aware of this project, I’d like to give you some context. Our vision Over the last year and a half, we have been working on a new set of REST APIs for Liferay following industries best practices. The goal of these APIs is to...

Today I experienced a great victory, but the day sure didn't start that way. In the days leading up to OSGI I spent a lot of time reading about it, listening to discussions, etc. I wanted to understand what the big deal was. Among the list of benefits, one stuck out most for me. "OSGI does the dependency management, at runtime, for you. So if you have Module A that is dependent on...

Background Last fall we reintroduced the option to use clustering in Liferay 7.0 by compiling a series of modules manually and including them in your project. We received a lot of feedback that this was a very cumbersome process and didn’t really provide the benefits we intended in bringing back clustering.   Enable Clustering Beginning with Liferay Portal 7.1 CE...

What a trip. From the dynamic format of the Unconference, to the Air Guitar competition, the opportunity to speak, and a lens into what's coming in 7.2, it was by far the best event that I have ever been to. I've been to many conference, but my first developer conference. It was so good that I forced myself to find the time to document the exprerience to share it with all of you. ...

//La versión española del artículo se puede encontrar aquí:  Unconference 2018. Unconference took place on November 6, in Pakhuis de Zwijger, previously at Liferay DevCon in Amsterdam. I've read about this sessions, but I've never taken part in one. Spoiler, I loved it If you have ever been taking part of one, you'll know Unconference agenda doesn't exist...

//The english version of this article can be found here:   Unconference 2018. El 6 de Noviembre, día anterior a comenzar la DevCon 2018, tuvo lugar la Unconference de Liferay en Pakhuis de Zwijger. Había leído sobre este tipo de sesiones pero nunca había participado en ninguna. Spoiler, me encantó. Si ya has participado en alguna, sabrás que en estas sesiones no se...

Have you checked out Liferay University by now? Or even better: Liferay Passport - the all-inclusive version of University? If you did, you might want to come back and check the new content. If you haven't... Why? Since my last update, we've added two more free lessons and one full course Increase completion rates for your Forms with adaptive rules Getting...

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 disable TLS 1.0, as many other companies have done. Moving to TLS 1.1 and higher will allow users to keep communications between Liferay and Liferay.com secure. What TLS...