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Liferay  Inter Portlet Communication (IPC) is mechanism to communicating one Portlet to other Portlet.   JSR 168/ Portlet 1.0 have very limited capability to provide Liferay Inter Portlet Communication (IPC) and its used Portlet Session to share data among Portlets.   JSR 286/Portlet 2.0 has added...

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New Liferay Faces Release - Alloy Input Components Juan and Vernon have already blogged about many exciting portal components and the amazing alloy:accordion component, so I want shine a spotlight an a few new and useful Alloy input components: alloy:inputDate, alloy:inputTime, and alloy:autoComplete. alloy:inputDate and alloy:inputTime alloy:inputDate and alloy:inputTime...

Over the years, Liferay has been able to provide many individuals and organizations a unique platform to give them a stronger presence on the web. But we aren't able to accomplish this mission alone. A huge contributing factor of our success has been the deep and vibrant contributions from our community members. Essentially, people like yourself who make up the 100,000 strong! Why...

So Vaadin has a complete set of basic widgets (checkboxes, input fields, comboboxes, etc.) and some advanced controls (date picker, menu bar, table, etc.). They also have the Add-On directory which contains a slew of professional and user contributed widgets (some of my favorites are the masked text fields). But Vaadin also has the Pro Tools - snazzy widgets with a lot of...

How to catch MySQL SQL with tcpdump in Linux Introduction This idea of post is from my previous one: Liferay and P6spy, with the help of P6spy, we can get the formatted Hibernate SQL without "?" ,but it is not so convenient, so are there any way to do the same things, as we all know that MySQL uses port 3306 to monitor infos as default. now the...

The problem While doing some work for a client I ran into issues with the preview generation for some PDFs. While it did generate a preview image for each page of the document, the text on it was strange sometimes to say the least. In the table below you can see a screenshot of the first page of the problematic PDF, the preview that is generated by Liferay and the preview we're...

Introduction I decided to write this blog as I did find out that this is the area of the Liferay that has not been documented at all?  So this blog post can act as documentation for this. So let's talk about entity/model permissions and especially ResourceBlock permission. If you are not familiar with Liferay’s permission system I would suggest that you go and first read...

On April 28, 2015 Liferay released Liferay Faces 4.2.0-beta: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-beta JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 Release Notes Feature Complete This new version of Liferay Faces is just about 100% feature complete which is why we decided to advance the version from "milestone" to "beta" status. New...

Takeaways from intra.NET Reloaded Boston   Modern organizations are increasingly seeing the value of trading in their notoriously outdated and static intranets for social and collaborative digital workplaces, but the opportunity to greater facilitate employee engagement still exists. At the recent intra.NET Reloaded Boston event, attendees were asked to consider, “What is...

Portlets are components which create a portal application. They can function without any knowledge of other portlets, or can be configured to be dependent of one another in many ways. You can define events which portlets fire and listen to. You can query the location of another portlet and link to it from your portlet, or even call the service interface the other portlet is offering....

If you've attended any Liferay Symposium, Solutions Forum, or Developer Conference in the last few years you've undoubtedly seen the companion mobile app that attendees can use to see up-to-date agendas, speaker info, session data, and a bunch of other features that enhance the attendee experience. I'm happy to announce that the source code to this app (and its two...

Liferay LDAP Configuration Manual Goto LDAP settings from Control Panel->Portal Settings. Under Configuration, click Authentication->LDAP. To enable LDAP, check "Enable", simple enough. Under Import/Export, check "Import Enabled". When checked, Liferay will periodically synchronize with LDAP. The interval Liferay does this can be changed in your...

Manual to support preview of different file format   Install OpenOffice in local system to work with LifeRay in order to display the preview of different types of file. LifeRay will interact with OpenOffice to convert Current file format into pdf format as LifeRay internally supports PDFBox.   Run the following command to start...

According to JSR-168: Portlets are web components -like Servlets- specifically designed to be aggregated in the context of a composite page. Usually, many Portlets are invoked to in the single request of a Portal page. Each Portlet produces a fragment of markup that it s combined with the markup of other Portlets, all within the Portal page markup. In other words, a portlet is an...

Recently, some customers met an issue that after installing sp9 or any conponent that contains LPE-10066 ( LPS-40597), web contents won't show to guest or site member. The reproduction steps: 1. Setting "journal.article.view.permission.check.enabled=true" in portal-ext.properties. Start a clean 6210-sp7 bundle and drag a web content portlet to page, add one web content. Visit site...

Communities are essential to shaping our identities. They bring people together through a common activity or belief and provide us a context in which we are able to interpret ourselves and one another.   Take a sporting event, for example. Two strangers sitting next to each other can be wearing the same blue jerseys and rooting for the same team to win. Hugging, shouting,...

If the line below is executed in a JavaScript console, what will be the value of hour? var hour = new Date(2015, 9, 18, 0).getHours(); The intuitive answer is zero, and it is right in most situations. Yet, in regions under the America/Sao_Paulo time zone, daylight saving time will start at October 18, 2015 at 0:00, so all clocks will advance to 1 AM once they pass through...

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA4! 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? Well, if you attended DevCon in Germany last year, you probably don't remember it, but I...

Continuing in the spirit of Juan Gonzalez’s excitement over the new portal components, let me introduce a new Liferay Faces Alloy component which will be included in the the upcoming GA release.  Following the example set by our friends on the AlloyUI team, we packaged their toggler as a  JSF component.   Q: What advantages does JSF bring to the table? A:...