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Let's spend some time talking about developing with Liferay and have two or three "Bembels" of "Äpplewoi": 27 February, 19:00 in Frankfurt - Sachsenhausen, Fichtekränzi. Olaf Kock is our guest of honor. Please add a comment if you'd like to join us. Und auf Deutsch: Es ist mal wieder Zeit für ein Liferay Community Meeting. Diesmal im Fichtekränzi in Frankfurt...

I've been meaning to blog more, but somehow haven't found (or made) the time. :-( So for the new year I'm dedicating some time each week to put some blogs together. (not necessarily a new blog every week.. but at least time towards one) The first set of posts is a series on using FreeMarker in web content templates, specifically using FreeMarker macros - how to make them...

  The previous versions of Liferay Portal already supported RTL (right-to-left text) in limited way, but since we started the development cycle of Liferay 7.0 we really wanted to improve it. In front of us there were two main goals: - to convert automatically as much as possible of the UI when language direction is changed - to free the developer as much as possible...

With the rapidly evolving behavior of consumers and business customers, all organizations are faced with the challenge to create a unique experience for customers and users. Customer Engagement is about a customer's interaction with an organization and its products or services for the purpose of mutual value creation.  Join us at this free roadshow to learn how Liferay can...

Publish Version Hook  Plugin This article is described about the Custom Publish Version hook which is available in Market Place Utility plugins. Using this hook, we can revert back old version of the journal aticle easily withour deleting or expiring previous versions. Journal Portlet: The Journal portlet provides a user interface to the content...

  Last week I saw a musical that took my trip to Disney World to a whole new level, and I learned a lesson in taking my own employee experience to a whole new level. I saw "Finding Nemo - The Musical" at Disney World's Animal Kingdom theme park. Here's how it played to my heart: I loved the original movie, Finding Nemo I appreciate creative story telling....

Liferay Client Side Inter Portlet Communication Using Ajax   Objective:   Achieve inter portlet communication from client side using Ajax and Liferay Java Script.   Introduction:   Inter portlet communication is way...

We're moving towards writing all our styles using Sass. Since we have a lot of styles already in place in different themes and plugins this means a lot of copy-rewrite-test. Compiling and deploying a theme each time you write a new rule to test it is taking a lot of time which was why we tried to get a quicker roundtrip. This is a write-up of how we got Liferay Portal to work...

With the release of Liferay 6.2, there have been a few questions regarding Bootstrap as well as general theme changes, and I'd like to take a minute to go into more details about what we've added, but also some of the rationale for some of the decisions. Jorge's discussed a lot of the benefits, and the feedback we've gotten from the community has definitely been great. If I...

1. Introduction : This is an example of a basic LDAP integration in Liferay 6.0.5. In the example we import users/groups into Liferay via LDAP and vice versa. 2. Environment Windows Server 2003, Active Directory Liferay 6.0.5 3. LDAP & AD LDAP LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a directory publishing service and specially designed for...

Introduction The first version of the portlet specification, JSR-168/Portlet 1.0, did not include any support for Inter Portlet Communication. The second version, JSR-286/Portlet 2.0, has supported for IPC Mechanism. JSR-286 makes it easy to share the data between two portlets. Using IPC mechanisms, we can share the data from ACTION to VIEW phase and VIEW-VIEW Phase. ...

With the release of Liferay 6.2, there have been a few questions regarding Bootstrap as well as general theme changes, and I'd like to take a minute to go into more details about what we've added, but also some of the rationale for some of the decisions. Jorge's discussed a lot of the benefits, and the feedback we've gotten from the community has definitely been great. If I...

Liferay Savvy By Meera Prince Hi I am Meera Prince i am very passion about explore in liferay portal and java technolgies.The followings is content of my website its all about liferay technology. i am very happy to share my knowldge to all people who are interested in liferay portal.   # Title Author 1 ...

Introduction to Liferay Portal   Liferay is Portlet technology which follows the JSR 168 and JSR 286 complains.   Liferay is very good open source for portlet technology have very good working group and community.   Portlet technology is similar to servlet...

Objective:   Implement  Many to Many Relation in liferay development using service builder tool.   Liferay Service Builder Many to Many Relation Part-I     Liferay Service Builder Many to Many Relation Part-II   Environment: ...

Objective:   Update the content in portlet for particular intervals in Liferay development.   Introduction:   Some time we may get requirement to update content in portlet for every particular intervals from server. To do this job we will use Ajax call to update content on portlet ...

 I talked with Iliyan Peychev, Software Developer from Madrid. We met during Liferay's spanish symposium (so it's about time to publish the episode - sorry for the delay). We're back on Liferay's frontend, so I'm getting my scoop on how to approach Javascript work, new tools, new infrastructure. Also - as you'll discover - I got a glimpse of developer-paradise We talked about...

Objective:   Perform form validation in liferay development.   Approaches to achieve   Liferay form validation we can do in different approaches.   The following are the ways    Liferay AUI Validator Tag  Liferay Form...

You probably heard about the release of Liferay IDE 2.0 a couple weeks ago, but may have questions as to what is new and improved. Of course, it is compatible with the new Liferay Portal 6.2 release, but what are some of the major additions that make this release so great? The 6.1 and 6.2 Liferay Developer's Guide is now updated to describe some of these awesome new features, and also...

I've been working with JMH (Java Microbenchmark Harness) [1] written by the OpenJDK/Oracle compiler guys. JMH is a microbenchmark test harness which takes care of all the concerns that most developers can't really wrap their head around and often neglect to take into consideration. It's discussed here [2] by it's primary developer. And here [3] is a good write-up about it. JMH is...