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Recently we got a couple of complains about new Web Content article behaviour, specifically about the JournalArticle.getContent() method’s return value. The main problem developers experience is when they embed an Image into the Web Content article or use ddm-image or ddm-document-library field in their structures they expect to see the URL of the object(Image or D&M asset) in the...

The Problem The c3p0 connection pool exposes MBeans for JMX tools like jconsole to monitor its run-time states. However, both c3p0 and Liferay intentionally generate random MBean names on each startup. The random name of each data source makes it difficult to setup an independent monitoring tool. The second problem is, by default Liferay creates several data sources, one used by...

Genesis My colleague Vagif proposed a new way to develop a Liferay dynamic widget (the best name I can think of for now) with these pieces: Use the “Basic Web Content” structure or define a new structure. For each dynamic widget type, define a new display template. Create an OSGi service that returns a data model to be used by the display template. Create a web...

Introduction This is a simplified OSGi service API and implementation pattern. It follows the traditional Java interface-implementation pattern, in which the programmer is only required to keep the interface class and implementation class in sync. It does not use Liferay 7 service builder. The attached archive is a fully implemented ORM service based on MyBatis. Unzip it...

Liferay 7.0 started to produce a pair of log files per day: ls -l /opt/liferay/home7/logs/ total 3104 -rw-r--r-- 1 michael admin 285201 May 26 13:24 liferay.2016-05-26.log -rw-r--r-- 1 michael admin 898027 May 26 13:24 liferay.2016-05-26.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 michael admin 400811 Aug 19 13:08 liferay.2016-08-19.log -rw-r--r-- 1 michael admin 0 Aug 19 12:26...

TL;DR - Add "-v 7.0" to your Blade command line to create modules for Liferay CE 7.0 and Liferay DXP 7.0. Hey, just a quick blog post here for something that developers may need to know... I updated my Blade command line tool recently (since I use Intellij, I rely on the command line tool quite a bit for new module project creation), but I hadn't started a new module after...

The world is big and diverse. Right now there are around 7.6 billion people in the world, 4 billion with an internet access. When you’re improving a Design System for a product used worldwide, like Lexicon for Liferay, you should take this simple statement into account. Cultural, religious and regional concerns need to be considered. It may sound obvious, but the true fact is that we...

// The french version of this article can be found here: Libérez la puissance de Gogo Shell. Gogo Shell opens huge opportunities but some obstacles limit the expression of its potential. Let's see in this post how to remove these barriers. Few reminders: usual use of Gogo Shell Apache Felix Gogo Shell is an interactive shell that allows you to interact with an OSGi container....

// The english version of this article can be found here: Unleash the power of Gogo Shell. Gogo Shell ouvre d’énorme possibilités mais certains obstacles limite la plein expression de son potentiel. Voyons au fil de ce billet comment lever ces barrières. Quelques rappels : utilisation usuelle de Gogo Shell Apache Felix Gogo Shell est un interpréteur de commandes en mode...

Good news. Now that Liferay Portal CE 7.1 and Liferay DXP 7.1 are available, your training is also just a fingertip away. No longer do you have to travel far, or juggle your calendar, because these trainings are ready and available whenever you are, at your own pace. Liferay University is the place where you can find all of Liferay's trainings in a convenient place. And if you...

Intro In case you're not aware, Liferay uses Apache PDFBox to look at your PDFs. In order to index the content of a PDF, Liferay uses PDFBox to extract the content and uses that during indexing/searching. However, Liferay tends to fall behind a bit on updating 3rd party libraries. When you favor stability, you tend to be rather conservative when considering updates like...

As they say: All good things must come to an end. With the official release of Liferay Portal 7.1 CE GA1 we are officially ending the community beta program. We had over 250 sign ups with 48 active participants and over 500 posts making this one of the most successful community programs to date. Thank you for all who participated in the program! Active participants who posted feedback...

The latest release of Liferay IntelliJ 1.0.0 plugin has been made available today. Head over to this page for downloading.   The most notable features for this latest 1.0.0 release are :   Support watch for module development Support for Liferay 7.1 development Improved Editor Support XML file references OSGi code...

Liferay, Inc was established on the the strong foundation of an Open Source project. The company has since grown to offer many different projects and products, yet we continue to believe in and support Open Source.   To further emphasise our support, today we are publicly committing to offering the much friendlier GPLv3 cure approach to licensees of also our GPLv2, LGPLv2.1...

DDM... what's DDM? DDM stands for Dynamic Data Mapping, a set of modules that define various types of fields that can be used to assemble: Web content structures for creating web content articles. Data definitions for creating dynamic data list records. Metadata sets for creating documents based on document types. Liferay bundles with an ever...

What happened? Today at 12:13pm WeDeploy, our hosting solution, started a maintenance process. As a normal procedure some services were restarted.  After the restart, all services from community.liferay.com were up and running, but we noticed that some blog and forums posts were missing. We checked our list of backups and we noticed that the last backup was on July 4th. ...

If you are working with Liferay for a while now, you might still remember a feature that went missing with version 6.1 - but there was a way to get it back. Also in 6.2 and 7.0. Now that Liferay Portal 7.1 and Liferay DXP 7.1 are out, you might wonder if the feature is finally implemented, or how quickly it can be implemented, or what that feature actually is (or was): Let's...

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 CE GA1! Known Issues List of known issues Downloads Download the release now at: www.liferay.com/downloads or deploy now at wedeploy.com. New Features Summary Web Experience:  Fragments allow a content author to create small reusable content pieces....

Typography Several reasons and their benefits drove us to a change from Source Sans Pro to System font: System fonts are always more legible as they are designed more consciously and they are designed to work in all languages. Using a non-system-font introduces extra size in the CSS that each user has to download. Source Sans Pro does not support for example...

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 RC 1   Download Now: Sourceforge Fixed in RC 1 List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 RC 1 List of known issues in Liferay 7.1 RC 1 New Features Summary Modern Site Building: Liferay 7.1 introduces a new way of adding content. ...