Blogs

I've heard that you can do some really cool stuff in Web Content (check out James's and Ray's blogs) but haven't gotten around to tinkering with that myself.  Here is a fun little experiment with that, it grabs a Chuck Norris joke from a REST API, all from inside of a Web Content template.     And here is the code for the Web Content Template: ...

The customer is always right. If you've been around the American marketplace long enough, you should be familiar with the phrase. It's the idea upon which the best restaurants and companies look to pride themselves to ensure all patrons are treated with utmost care and respect, and when entangled in a complaint, to side reasonably with the customer. This heavy emphasis on serving...

  Radio Liferay is back with a repeat guest, James Falkner, Liferay's Community Manager. Like last year, symposium season is about to start (even though we already had some events earlier this year...). And there's something new, for the nerds and software craftsmen among you. We talked about The upcoming events, how to tell them apart and the target audience. In...

I am sure most of you already know we are members of the OSGi Alliance, and we are trying to get involved as much as we can. Our next step is to host a face to face during the 9th, 10th and 11th of September here at the Liferay Spain office. But not only that, Peter Kriens has kindly accepted my proposal to talk about OSGi and the enRoute initiative in a public talk (seats...

Liferay hold many events throughout the year (10+ this year alone), featuring keynotes, workshops, expert speakers, onsite and offsite events, and multiple venues around the world. The data associated with past, current, and future events includes huge agendas, many speakers, rooms, activities, maps, locations, analytics during the event, and much more. Finding an effective way to...

 \o/ Radio Liferay is back. A while ago I talked with Juan Fernandez and Ivica Čardić about an exciting project they're collaborating on: Liferay Cloud Services. "What's this?" you ask? Well, good that you're asking, because here's the explanation. It's all about helping you monitor the health of your Liferay Installation, keeping an eye on the installed fixpacks (if you're using...

“If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?” -Charlie Brooker, The Guardian Daniel Kaluuya and Jessica Brown Findlay in Channel 4’s Black Mirror.   I recently discovered the marvelously provocative British drama Black Mirror, written and conceived by Charlie Brooker. Every episode features a different...

Here's a sneak peek at Liferay Screens Beta in the Xcode environment. Liferay Screens are basically mobile widgets that simplify development of mobile apps with Liferay as the backend. More info here on GitHub: https://github.com/liferay/liferay-mobile-widgets/blob/master/README.md Youtube Preview: http://youtu.be/DAhlr5VgEi8

One of the most important features of the new calendar portlet is the ability of consistently showing events to users in different time zones. It is invaluable for global organizations. If your team is scattered around the world, you would really want to make sure things happen at the same time! However, the consistent behavior can be quite difficult to grasp. It is...

Liferay provides lot customizations formats using preferences, configuration, properties etc. Developer knows and remembers general ways and possible settings, most commons we go with portal-ext.properties having required settings to apply on portal and place this in classpath. Specifying key-values in portal-ext.properties applies to whole server and available everywhere in...

This article is the second and last in a series of 2 posts on how personalization can be achieved in a portal project. In this post I'll explain how to combine user-specific and shared portlet preferences in one portlet. This will allow portlets to have a common, shared set of preferences and additionally a set of user-defined preferences on top of those shared preferences. ...

This weekend you may notice a couple of small changes to your Liferay.com sign-in experience and I wanted to give you a little background on why we’re making those changes.  As we have been expanding the number of systems available beyond just liferay.com we have strived to provide the best possible user experience.  To that end we will be moving to a Single Sign On...

The Liferay Training team is pleased to announce the release of the 6.2 Styling Liferay with Themes course! Liferay Portal 6.2 includes some exciting updates for UI developers. Now that Bootstrap is incorporated into the AlloyUI Framework, developing themes is simpler and features new additions to give theme developers more power and flexibility for building sleek and responsive...

It's public - Registration for DevCon 2014 (Wed-Thu, 5.-6. Nov) is open. And we're looking for your participation to make it an even bigger success. This year we're going to Darmstadt, just south of Frankfurt. The venue "Darmstadtium" is named after a chemical element that was named in honor of the city where it's first been created - it's one of those very heavy elements (atomic...

As a thought-leadership blog, NOTS is striving to disseminate knowledge and spread out to the masses like a wicked disease. Here we sat down with Liferay Community Manager James Falkner to shoot the breeze about what's going on in the world of tech and business.   James, we're very glad to have you on this afternoon. How is the Liferay...

Today's JSF JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a Java EE standard technology that enjoys wide support with Java EE application servers including JBoss AS/WildFly, Oracle WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. In addition, JSF developers benefit from tooling support built-in to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ. Over the years, JSF has received many features and improvments thanks to dedicated JCP...

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and what was the biggest problem you faced? Can you ever learn enough? And how do you keep up with the current trends and new features? A platform as big as Liferay spans several...

    In this document , basically we will understand about roles and permissions backend process and  its table structure for LR 6.x, but before going further , first we need to understand what is role and permission in Liferay? Here is brief explanation of Roles and Permission.   What are Roles?   Roles are used to collect permissions...

SessionClicks est un utilitaire qui est utilisé pour sauvegarder  l’état d’un élément en fonction de l’utilisateur qui l’utilise (ex : l’état d’un plié déplié…). La sauvegarde peut se faire de deux manières différentes et c’est un outil simple mais efficace et on n’en parle pas assez ;) : La persistance en base : Il peut arriver que l’on souhaite...

Over the weekend you may have have noticed our community blogs page got a makeover! There are several new additions and changes to the page which we hope will make your liferay.com blogging experience better and more informative, and make it easier for you to not only keep up with what's going on but to contribute your ideas in a more structured/categorized way. Highlighted...