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Despite the US Holiday, we have lots of items in this week's roundup! Finalist and Proteon hosted the fist ever Dutch Liferay Community Event on November 23 and it was a huge success. Go check out the Wrap-up and pics! The Community Translation Team deserves continued credit and support. One of a great community is the transcendence across culture, language, and...

 As some of you may know, Liferay decided earlier this year to make a strategic investment in growing the European market. To that end, Joseph Shum, our former Alliance Manager for North America, and myself have been traveling frequently to our offices in Frankfurt over the last six months.  Liferay's first Italy Symposium. The venue was an old church converted into a...

One of the first things I did with Liferay (years back) was the development of a custom theme. Support for this in the Plugins SDK works really smooth and theme development is well documented. One of the cool features of the themes-builder in Liferay's Plugins-SDK is the "theme.parent" option, determining what "parent" theme you want to build upon. The well known feature In...

Desktop Gadgets are very popular and I wanted to write a simple Liferay gadget for windows 7 and at last came up with a desktop gadget that has frequently used links of Liferay.  I call this as Liferay Quick Launch.   You can download the Liferay Quick Launch from this link www.liferay.com/c/document_library/get_file . Hope you all find this useful  

Open source projects and products suffer from a unique problem when it comes to managing bug reports.  The open nature of the community means you'll get many more excellent bugs filed as compared to a proprietary, closed-source product.  But you'll also get: More poor reports (compared to closed source, proprietary products).  Poor bug reports are ones that...

Liferay 5.2 EE and 6 improved the capabilities of LDAP integration in many areas (refer to blogs post LDAP Enhancements by Michael C. Han): synchronize user custom attributes between Liferay and LDAP support LDAP chains and LDAP pagination create a role for each LDAP group override LDAP import and export processes via Spring When importing users from LDAP,...

Remember: For JSP tags with dynamic-attributes, be careful to use proper case of defined attribute names; especially if scriptlets are used as attributes values. Look at following two usages of button tag of liferay-aui tag library: (A) <aui:button onclick="<%=target%>" value="some value" /> (B) <aui:button onClick="<%=target%>"...

Updates from around the Liferay community! Don't forget to take the CMS Market Survey.  It would be awesome if Liferay is well represented here.  Takes about 20 minutes and can be anonymous (but if you give your email address, you'll be emailed an advance copy of the report). Liferay IDE makes top 25 all time Eclipse plugins by download list! ...

Liferay portal provides a lot of cool features, for example, Organization hierarchy, virtual host and SEO (Search engine optimization) friendly URL. Web sites can be built based on organizations and organization hierarchy. Each organization can have public pages and private pages.  Each organization can have friendly URL, like /my-org, where only one slash is allowed, while each...

"It's that time of year again. Digital agency Water & Stone is running its annual survey on the open source content management market. The data proceeds go to benefit the subsequent Open Source CMS Market Share reportThis year the survey has been condensed, in kind consideration of participants, but the list of products surveyed has grown to 31 open source CMS offerings — a mix of...

Hey gang, I wanted to update you on some recent community news and activities going on.. The Liferay Italy Symposium had over 150 attendees, thanks to those that attended. We are looking forward to next year's events! Dutch members, Proteon is hosting their first Dutch-speaking Liferay Community Event November 23!  There's also a new Dutch Liferay Forum. Aaron...

First of all, greetings to everyone in the Liferay Community. I've been lucky enough to meet many of you around the world over the last two years and I look forward to meeting more of you in the years to come.  As they say, time really does fly when you're having fun.  I can't belive it's taken me this long to writing my first post, and I hope it doesn't take another two...

First off, many thanks to the Liferay team for giving me a chance to be a part of it all.  I think these are exciting times for open source and will continue to be for quite some time.  I came from Sun/Oracle where I worked on portal stuff since 2008 (we adopted Liferay as a core technology on which to base Sun's next portal, which is how I got involved with Liferay in the...

Hello everyone!   Not bad for a first post, WSRP.... a rough one, as someone told me recently, but guess what? Liferay makes it soooo easy for you! ;)   Just download and install the WSRP portlet plugin for your Liferay version and start enjoying!   Wanna try? Go here: http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/WSRP   See you soon! ...

(English version at the bottom) No último dia 27 de outubro realizamos nosso primeiro roadshow na América do Sul em conjunto com SEA Tecnologia, parceira da Liferay Brasil. O evento nos surpreendeu bastante, houve aproximadamente 50 participantes, entre clientes, parceiros e interessados na ferramenta. Foi uma ótima oportunidade para trocar ideias sobre Liferay, conhecer...

Liferay User Interface Development Develop a powerful and rich user interface with Liferay Portal 6 Sample chapter, Table of contents, Download code An Overview: Design usable and great-looking user interfaces for Liferay portals Get familiar with major theme development tools to help you create a striking new look for your Liferay portal Learn the techniques...

As much as Brian wants to stick with System.outs to do debugging, I would go with a proper debugger any day.  Each time I use the IntelliJ debugger, I thank the engineers @ IDEA for putting a fantastically useful debugger into the IDE.   A few days ago, there was a very wierd problem where I had quickly find why a particular data element was causing a Liferay LAR file...

Although Liferays jboss-web.xml is set correctly, JBoss 5.1 is still picking up the older hibernate-validator.jar from the commons/lib folder. The exception coming while starting JBoss is: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.hibernate.validator.ClassValidator.<init>(... To solve this...

 Hi all!   Today, while I was reviewing bug and improvement requests tickets from the community members, I saw a ticket created by Sven Werlen from Savoir-faire Linux, a canadian company.   They needed the asset publisher to be able to access and publish assets from all their communities and organizations and they've...

Hi all: In order to share content accross organizations and communities, we have included a new concept in Liferay 6.0: the global scope.     The Global Scope is a place for data that is common to all organization, communities and users of the portal. It does not have associated pages and can only be accessed from the control panel.   We have...