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What's Context Contributor? While developing a theme I was thinking how can I know all the variables that I can access in my free marker templates? Won't it be great if I can write a utility program which can list out all the variables and objects that can be accessed from our theme or other templates files? Context Contributor concept can be used for this purpose. Actually using...

or, How to blow a Saturday evening writing a blog post just because  the kids don't want to hang out with you   Here are the 5 reasons I am flying down tomorrow evening. I've been to LSNA twice before, in 2015 and 2016. I remember the energy and the ambience. Some of the topics deserve waaaay more than the 30 minutes or hour that is allocated to them, but...

We recently had a requirement to add 2 Factor Authentication support for a demo, so I am pleased to share our implementation with the community.   Login On login the user sees a new 'Authenticator Code' field below Password:     The user populates their credentials, launches Google Authenticator app (or other 2FA app) on...

Introduction If you're reading this post is because you need to know which device currently access on your Liferay through Liferay Mobile Device Detection Lite. Specially, you can not explain why Liferay detects a different version of your modern, cool and super updated device! Don't worry! I try to explain you what to do. WURFL's database Before to explain,  do you...

Introduction   In this blog I'll describe how to migrate data and code from Liferay 6.2 to 7.1. Blog overview: I. Prerequisites - description of demo project and data/content to be migrated. II. Prepare for migration - recommendations for Liferay 6.2 preparation for migration, Liferay 7.1...

Java 11 has just been released (on Sep, 25th) and it comes with the consolidation of a series of changes, not only to the language and the platform, but to the release and support model that has lead to some noise on the future of Java. Probably the two most notable concerns are the end of public updates for Java 8 and the uncertainty of the rights to use Oracle JDK without paying...

With the release of JDK11, Oracle's new Java SE Support Policy (and here) brings sweeping changes to the Java Enterprise community. If you would like a good explanation of the changes to come, I highly recommend this video. Here are my thoughts on how some of these changes will affect Liferay Portal/DXP users: Starting with JDK11, you will no longer be able to use Oracle...

Charts are great visual aids. They're crucial to digesting data and information quickly. Prior to Liferay Portal 7.1, we didn't have a way to include charts in our apps. No more! Now you can use charts out-of-the-box, thanks to the Chart taglib. Whether it's bar charts, line charts, pie charts, scatter charts, spline charts, or even donut charts, the Chart taglib has you covered....

This is a quick post on installing Liferay DXP to a SQL Server database. The Liferay documentation does include the database properties that make up the connection string. But things weren’t as clear when SQL Server is setup for windows integrated authentication, hence this post. The steps below are presented assuming you are setting up a brand new Liferay installation and...

We are pleased to announce the second general available release of Liferay Project SDK Installers.   New Installers The installation problems are fixed in the new release, and a few bug fixes.   Download For customers, they can download all of them on the customer studio download page.   Upgrade From previous 3 . x Download...