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All credit goes to James Falkner Steps given by James: Note 1: The Gist is not viewable in "Preview". Note 2: The CSS on Liferay site ate all the indents in Gist because of the following in Liferay CSS: To fix the indents, simply insert the following CSS in your blog entry in "Source" view:

This issue is addressed in Liferay 6.1.x. It only affacts Liferay 6.0.x. Issue: There is one performance bottleneck in JSON web services in Liferay 6.0.x: JSONServiceAction class is loading service class per request. When doing a load test on the Liferay JSON web services (Example below), the performance is bad. ...

Hello Guys  For That We have To make two structure abnd template  One For Add Video And Another is for Display Video 1) addVideo Strucutre and template open Youtube and copy video url which you want to add and paste in textbox in structure then publish Structure for add video Template Code For add Video   ...

Hi All, If you have checked Liferay Home Page (I'm sure you've seen it many times ), There is a nice Image Carousel placed on very first raw on it. I saw many post in which people were asking on how to create the same Carousel. Answer We can develop the same using AUI Carousel. There is a nice tutorial on AlloyUI Carousel which describes in detail about...

NOTE: The following blog post is about Vaadin 6 and Liferay.  I'll be doing future posts on Vaadin 7, but for now I recommend sticking with Vaadin 6 in Liferay.   Introduction About two years ago, I noticed the Liferay IDE allowed for the creation of a new type of portlet based on Vaadin.  Curious, I did some research and found I could create Liferay...

So I received bunch of emails on Service Builder after my webinar last month...  Thought I'd write up a blog entry that will end up in the search engines and hopefully lead folks here to get to the details... Anyway, the recorded presentation is available on the Liferay LIVE Web Events page.  You can listen to the whole presentation and watch as my demo fails during the...

Introduction This page documents two important administrative functions: backing up Liferay (and restoration) and setting up a copy for development usage. Having a backup of the database is an important issue, in order to restore the database after some sort of catastrophe. The first thing that we're going to cover is backing up the Liferay data. Liferay uses a database...

Introduction So I've got my Liferay site up and running under Tomcat and fronted by Apache HTTPd. The next thing I wanted to do was add an SSL certificate so that I could get it all under HTTPS... SSL certificates, from sites like VeriSign or Thawte or Network Solutions are usually the players that come to mind when you want to get a certificate. ...

Introduction So here's my situation... I've got a Gentoo Linux server sitting around that I wanted to get Liferay 6.0.6 up and running on. Although this blog will cover the setup I did for my Gentoo box, for the most part you should be able to adapt what I've done for your Linux box. Heck, a lot of this will probably work on a Windows system too, but you're...

Hi all, I'll share with you our latest progress made with supporting OAuth authorized requests. I'll make example with android application since I'm familiar with it (enough to display button). OAuth server support comes as OAuth 1.0a spec based portlet plugin with application registration UI, user authorization approval and secure filter that checks validity of oauth credentials...

  Challenges of regulatory environments What is a regulatory environment? One example is an Australian statutory authority that administers state gambling and liquor laws, including management of licensing and compliance. We had already worked with them to produce a Liferay-based intranet for employees and several specialised extranet...

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...