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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...

Hi All, Using Liferay 6.2 OOTB features, you can achieve analytics using Piwik . Piwik is the leading open source web analytics platform that gives you valuable insight into your website's visitors, your marketing compaigns and much more, so you can optimize your strategy and online experience of visitors. You can deploy piwik in local environment and cloud also. I am...

Ever wanted to explicitly define what page to display on the current pagination content from a url password? This code should aim you in the right direction. Logic: -Get url variable ("page") value. -set $total to the size of the pagination repeatable structure. -If $pageId is set and is less than or equal to $total then use $pageId; else use the latest item. #set ($friendlyURL =...

Special thanks to atul patel's forum post displays how to embed a navigation portlet into a layout using custom settings. With Custom Settings Basic display styles: There are 6 different basic views (source wiki): looks like breadcrumbs; shows parent page and current page but not siblings current page only? shows parent page and all subpages (siblings). The...

Liferay Faces Showcase The Liferay Faces team has been hard at work on the new Liferay Faces Showcase which demonstrates the new JSF components we are developing. Many of the components utilize Liferay's AlloyUI technology (which is based on YUI3 and Twitter Bootstrap). Component Design Features: The new AlloyUI JSF components will work with Liferay Faces 4.2...

  LeBron James has something to teach us about how to be a championship-caliber business. Let me explain.   On July 11, James sent a jolt through the sports world with three simple words: I'm coming home. The NBA superstar, in a moving letter published on si.com, announced his plan to return to the team which...

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...

Hi again! This is the second (and last) part of my blog series for using existing Bootstrap themes into Liferay 6.2. In my previous blog post I talked about using LESS files, and how to, by simply changing some text strings, make it useful for a Liferay theme. In this post I'll tell you how to use two of the available Bootstrap theme generators. So, as you may have...

I'm not sure if I've said it enough -- our community is awesome! Each of us comes from different geographic places, cultural backgrounds, and Liferay experiences and we bring that collective story together through software by developing contributions, cool apps, and ultimately learning through sharing. And in that spirit I'm happy to announce a new initiative for our developer...

Many of us have experienced it, you go to deploy a new application into your portal instance and see the dreaded deployment error messages. What do you do? Is the error message helpful? How can I find the solution? If you're experiencing deployment problems with deploying a JSF portlet on Liferay, there's a simple process you can follow to solve your deployment issues. Instead of...

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...

Yes, it's true bootstrap give us a lot of improvements for creating themes. And is also true that since Liferay 6.2 we can take advantage of all this useful tools for developing your own themes in Liferay. Looking for developing my own themes for some personal portals (yes, I like developing in Liferay in my free time too ) without being a frontend developer seemed more less...

A new release of Liferay IDE has been made available today, version 2.1.1.  You can update or install the new release here as usual: http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/latest/stable/ Or go over to the download page and grab one of the bundles that includes Eclipse Luna JavaEE package with Liferay IDE 2.1.1 pre-installed:  ...

There is a strong narrative emerging in the marketplace. Increasingly, companies are offering a more "behind-the-scenes" look into their organizations. Corporate social media pages are adopting personas to help bridge the gap between product and consumer. Commercials are featuring more real-life stories and individuals instead of actors. In this era of the honest economy (a term...

Seems like yesterday when I decided to move from this huge company based in Rio to this not-so-well-known company based in LA. That was not an easy decision, but I’m glad I made it. Now, two years after that day, here I am to share some of the things I learned.   Passion is the most important skill Hiring is a very delicate topic in every tech company...

We asked our featured speakers for their take and insight into where mobile is headed in design, user experience and enterprise management. Here's what they had to share.     A Roundtable Discussion on Where Mobile Is Going Mobile technology is reshaping the way we live and work by fueling our need to access information and connect with people...

                   Connecting to different database using Liferay Service Builder   Generally when we create a Custom portlet using Service builder or use Service Builder to generate code for persistence and service/model layers. The logic we use is persisting the data in Liferay DB...

  More and more organizations in China are realizing the importance of having a portal platform with CMS, collaboration and social networking features. In order to give you a taste of how a portal platform can benefit your organization, Liferay is pleased to host a roadshow featuring web engagement, mobile strategy, best practices and more. Whether you’re on the...

In his recent posting Janne Hietala announced the release of Valamis 2.0, putting emphasis on informal learning and great learning experiences. He also introduced the term Learning eXperience Solution (LXS). I will open up the idea a little bit more here. 1. Learning is everywhere – no more school please Think for a while of your personal knowhow. What it really is and...

Trying to cluster Liferay? Think it's as simple as just putting a bunch of Liferay servers behind a load balancer? Think again. Here are some of the top pitfalls when setting up a clustered Liferay environment:   1. Merely copying Liferay and putting it behind a load balancer.  Do not do this and think you are done. You must account for the local caching,...