Blogs

Sten Martinez wrote a very nice article about Using a Legacy DB with Liferay Service Builder: http://www.liferay.com/web/sten.martinez/blog/-/blogs/using-a-legacy-db-with-service-builder It inspires me to start thinking: What if I want to use a Legacy DB WITHOUT Liferay Service Builder? A lot of time when we have a legacy DB, most likely we will also have a legacy...

 As a preview for AlloyUI was just released (together with the new website) I took the opportunity to have another episode about the UI layer. Luckily two members of the core team, Eduardo Lundgren (with Liferay since 2007/8) and Zeno Rocha (Sep 2012) volunteered. (Eduardo was mentioned already in episode 3 with Nate Cavanaugh, Zeno has joined Liferay since then. Both of them are...

All creadit goes to Subhash Pavuskar Here are some links with snapshots, which is same as below given 35 steps:  Reference (a)- http://www.unicon.net/blog/apetro/casify_liferay_6_ee (b)- http://content.liferay.com/4.3/doc/installation/liferay_4_installation_guide/multipage/ch05s04.html Steps to follow: 1- Install CAS Download the CAS server...

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Issue: Liferay 6.1 uses the dynamic CSS filter to parse Sass CSS. The dynamic CSS filter will validate the SASS/CSS and compile the SASS into regular CSS and put them into .sass-cache folder. But in Liferay 6.1, The dynamic CSS filter always give "Sass::SyntaxError: Invalid CSS" exception on many VAILD CSS files.  For example, If you want to use the twitter bootstrap CSS...

Hey Friends, Do you know the use of Beanshell script which is coming up with Liferay control panel ? I didn't know that superb utility available in liferay which can be useful at some specific functions and cases. If you go to Liferay control panel >> Server Administration section, there is one tab available to run the bean shell script directly . See below screen...

Link to the official documentation about Struts Action Hook:  Overriding and adding Struts actions STRUTS ACTION HOOK To extend the CreateAccountAction ,  there are different types of hook to achieve  . Here we are going to discuss about Struts Action Hook.   Steps 1 : Add the struts action path and your custom...

Liferay provides us facility to execute some code before and after of some specific events, namely Login, Logout and Service. Login and Logout are self-explanatory, Service is the event that takes place before or after every Action. For instance, If we have CustomServicePreAction and CustomLoginPreAction, in that case CustomServicePreAction will be called first then...

With Liferay 6.1 if you are using configuration mode and if you want to store form elements values in preferences then this post will definitely help you. You can store form elements value in preferences with less efforts (as compare to version below Liferay 6.1). You just need to follow few syntax to achieve this functionality. Lets go step by step. Define your AUI element...

I was going to take a queue from Jelmer and start with just a test blog post, but don't want to take the wind out of his sails...  Must say, though, that your blog post did make me laugh Jelmer!   Instead, I'm going to lead w/ my blogging plans... First, I've got a handful of blog postings I had put together about HTTPS/Apache Httpd/Tomcat/Liferay that I'm going to...

I am very excited to announce that as of today, all Liferay community members can now create and maintain their own blogs on liferay.com! Wooo!! This was announced near the end of the A Day of Liferay, and has been on the TODO list for a while. The problem has always been how to maintain the quality of content on liferay.com, as blogs are generally considered to be a more...

Earlier this week we wrapped up A Day of Liferay - a 24 hour epic  trip around the globe to meet our amazing community and get to know more about their interests and work they do on and around Liferay and other open source projects. I want to personally thank everyone who took time out of their day to participate - it was great to see the diversity of people we have in our little...

  During our (Team Monator) 30 minutes slot at A Day of Liferay, my colleague Andreas Magnusson will talk about Freemarker and Liferay. More specifically he will discuss and show an awesome Freemarker template loader implementation with Spring Portlet MVC. With this implementation your portlet views can live as content in the Document and Media Library in Liferay...

Not long until the Day of Liferay - I'll have 30 minutes to fill, and this is what I intend to cover: A part of my job is in presales, answering all kinds of questions about what Liferay can or cannot do. Some features are almost there, but require a bit of custom development. Now when I reassure customers that this change is actually not that deep, and easy to maintain, I'm doing...

These days I have been pushing all the OSGi stuff through the review process so we have already got some of the work in the master branch. Ray has written a really good blog post about using the Apache Felix Gogo console inside Liferay and he has already explained some of the benefits of our current work so I am not going to explain it here again. We are still...

In which way we approach the continuous improvement of UX in Liferay?. It is always under the perspective of a continuous evaluation.. This so “formative” methodology is the direct consequence of our strong commitment to improve everyday in generating positive sensations and empowerment the idea that when we design and think about something, we must open our mind to new...

Serveral weeks ago we updated the Remote IDE Connector application to version 1.0.1.  This new update fixed the issues that we found with the 1.0.0 version of the Remote IDE Connector.  Namely, it works correctly now :)  **Update** I forgot to say thanks to the Marketplace team.  They did a ton of work to improve Marketplace infrastructure to be able to...

We've added a new section to the Liferay Development Guide covering the Resources Importer: https://www.liferay.com/documentation/liferay-portal/6.1/development/-/ai/6-1-importing-resources-with-themes. Liferay’s Resources Importer is a tool that allows a theme developer to have files and web content automatically imported into the portal when a theme is deployed. This is a great way...

  Hi all, I want to share with you something that is pretty cool for me and I found it super useful. It is shared type of Liferay SDK plugin we use to generate jar entry that can be referred by your other plugins as its library entry. To show how shared plugin is useful lets just mention that liferay-plugin-package.properties already supports some widely used...

We have been hard at work here at Liferay and are happy to announce the release of a second community edition of Social Office.   Social Office 2.0.4 CE GA2 contains a variety of bug fixes (see release notes) and is now available for download from Liferay's Marketplace here. For those already using SO CE GA1, you will have the option to upgrade through...