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Overview Sometimes ... things do not go to plan when using mail (email) in Liferay Portal. However you can quickly find the cause by logging the outbound mail message. You can enable additional logging to help trace inbound and outbound mail. NOTE: This article was extracted from article How to configure Google Mail in Liferay Portal Test Environments The...

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) is specification that defines modular based software management and its execution. OSGi makes software management and its execution simpler by making large application into small bunch of pieces and we call it as module. These modules are working independent way so that when we need we can start module and we can stop module. As for OSGi...

I would like to start saying that this entry is focused on designers and front-ends but I think that it would be useful for all people who wants to know what is the real advantage to applying Atomic design. Part of this entry is about Liferay themes, so I have to say that for me there are three approaches to turn visual designs in a Liferay theme: Close to bootstrap...

Okay, that is a mouthful. To rephrase my compound title, we'll be talking about an approach that  uses search to update a content item that follows a structure tailored to a template that renders a megamenu. There! Thats the flow in a nutshell. If that already has the gears turning in your head, then you're welcome. Ta-ta! But if you need more,...

Hey guys, before this year ends I wanted to share with you some impressions and feedback which many of you have given me about the three free themes I have shared this year. First, I would like to give you thanks for all positive appreciations: 5/5 stars, comments, almost 5.000 downloads, keep them all these months between more viewed in Liferay marketplace or even some...

If, like me, you work on a non-Windows machine, an Apple MacBook Pro in my case with OSX, you are probably used to having TAB completion in your terminal. I've caught myself multiple times lately using TAB when working with the Liferay patching tool and then just getting a file listing instead if the list of possible commands. This is of course normal as the patching tool isn't a...

Just in time to throw a big celebration we finally have achieved Beta status for Liferay 7! As mentioned in a previous blog entry, the criteria to meet Beta status is: Data upgrade finalized for all bundled applications: You can now start testing the upgrades from your Liferay installations to Liferay 7. We really need your help here since there are so many different...

In Vaadin 7.2, server push support was introduced but only for servlet deployments. The initial plan was to add support for portlets "right after that release". That's not exactly what happened but for the upcoming Vaadin 7.6, there has been some changes which makes it easier to support push in a portal environment. The portal challenge Portals bring some extra challenges for...

Problem I have faced redirect issue with liferay 6.2 / openam (opensso) setup . SSO Login URL = https://abc.com/openam/UI/Login?goto=https://my.liferay.server.url.com When i am requesting https://my.liferay.server.url.com/group/abc/abc-portlet, since opensso is enabled i am redirected to https://abc.com/openam/UI/Login?goto=https://my.liferay.server.url.com And after successful...

Just few words to explain how to customize the behaviour when the Liferay Session expires (no hook :) ).   This javascript will extends the expire function of the Liferay.Session javascript object. It makes the default behaviour and then disables all the links and the buttons on the page and then adds a refresh link in the pink header of the expired...

You probably have not had time to digest Alpha 3 yet, but here we are again with a new preliminary release: Liferay 7 Alpha 4 is out! This release fixes 82 bugs resolved since Alpha 3 and adds 31 small improvements: More portlets getting Lexicon-based designs (including Site Memberships, this time for real), several functional improvements to Forms, notifications in the product...

Isn't this Favicon Thing a Simple Problem to Solve? Not anymore. That's especially true, if you are picky. Do you really want a generic letter as your users' bookmarked icon on their mobile devices? Are your logs filling up with WARN messages that various devices can't find the optimal icon they are seeking? Well, each one may represent a lost opportunity to expand your brand...

Liferay marketplace is great tool, you can sell your app, download free apps or purchase EE apps. There are also many great free EE apps. You can download CE apps using your browser. But when you search EE apps in browser, you see EE Only button and there is a message that it Available to EE subscribers. Find out how to get a subscription. Many...

I really love how everyone at Liferay is taking to the OSGi development model. It makes me proud to see how much work has been done in this regard. There's one very cool area I think is worth expanding on. Requirements and Capabilities What is it? Some history. The Requirements and Capabilities model is a surprisingly powerful concept born from the 17 years of experience...

If you want to learn more regarding the legal aspects using Liferay Community Edition (CE) and/or Liferay Enterprise Edition (EE) you are welcome to join our webinar ‘Legal aspects of the Liferay offerings’ on:   Wednesday, December 9th 2015 From 14.00 until 15.00 o’clock Register now for free! Organisations not always ask themselves the right questions...

Wie meer wil weten over juridische aspecten bij het gebruik van Liferay Community Edition en Liferay Enterprise Edition kan zich nu aanmelden voor het gratis webinar ‘Juridische aspecten bij het gebruik van Liferay’ op:   Woensdag, 9 december 2015 (let op Engels!) Van 14:00 tot 15:00 uur Meld je nu gratis aan! Organisaties trekken niet altijd de juiste...

The Liferay portal has always been a popular basis for Vaadin applications. To serve better this active Vaadin users group we have recently created a lot of new material for both new and existing Vaadin developers. We created a full-stack example portlet, published a couple of smaller tricks for Liferay developers and created a whole new web page to act as a hub for essential and up...

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA5! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start] [Detailed Install Instructions]. Once again, this release is particularly noteworthy. Why is that? It's most likely the final release of 6.2 CE as we are quickly approaching the next major...

I'd like to point out at the outset that the content of this post may be mundane for the seasoned Liferay developer. What I really want to demonstrate is the ease with which the problem (defined below) can be solved quickly and easily through use of the portal's architectural mechanisms and APIs. The Problem Customize the out-of-the-box Search portlet's presentation of results...

  I met repeat guest Nate Cavanaugh, Liferay's Director of UI Engineering, at this year's Devcon and he answered all UI-based questions that we could quickly think about - specifically with regards to Liferay 7. As we recorded this on site at Devcon, you'll hear more background noise than usual - Auphonic did their best to clean the recording, and they did a great job. ...