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Overview The Liferay Portal user session timeout is defined by the session timeout value. The article outlines potential solutions for configuring the user session timeout (see Solutions below). Background The session timeout is loaded by method "checkWebSettings" in Liferay Portal Java class  com.liferay.portal.servlet.MainServlet. The session timeout property...

This article accompanies the dev.life session "Ridiculously simple plugins" hosted today (26. Aug, 16:00 CEST, 14:00 UTC) by me. The session is broadcasted on youtube and recording will be available (and linked here) after the session. The purpose of this session is to demonstrate that - given the proper architecture - you can extend Portal Applications within...

We were very happy to have received the Liferay Marketplace award for the best Free Opensource portlet for 2014 . This was a huge thing for us not only because Vaadin.com itself uses the Tori forum portlet as its main discussion board, but also because Tori has shown us how awesome a combination Vaadin and Liferay really are together! With the help of Vaadin you're able to...

Life consists of all kinds of experiences. Some experiences are common, and we can go through them every day. Having a tasty meal. Sitting in traffic. Chatting with friends. Watching a good movie. These kinds of moments make up 97% of our lives. We don't think too much about these moments, they just happen. Then there are those other experiences. The first day at a new job. The...

Today Liferay announced the winners of the 2014 Liferay Marketplace App Contest! This year, we were super excited to see what our community could dream up, and you did not disappoint. The review team witnessed an unmistakeable and significant increase in overall app quality this year, so it was even more difficult to pick the winners. A big thank you goes to each of you who took the...

Hi guys Most of the time I need to embed a Web Content on the theme that I develop. To solve this I usually insert a Web Content Portlet using the following code: #set ($VOID = $velocityPortletPreferences.setValue('groupId', $themeDisplay.getCompanyGroupId().toString())) #set ($VOID = $velocityPortletPreferences.setValue('articleId', $webContentID)) #set ($VOID =...

I've heard that you can do some really cool stuff in Web Content (check out James's and Ray's blogs) but haven't gotten around to tinkering with that myself.  Here is a fun little experiment with that, it grabs a Chuck Norris joke from a REST API, all from inside of a Web Content template.     And here is the code for the Web Content Template: ...

The customer is always right. If you've been around the American marketplace long enough, you should be familiar with the phrase. It's the idea upon which the best restaurants and companies look to pride themselves to ensure all patrons are treated with utmost care and respect, and when entangled in a complaint, to side reasonably with the customer. This heavy emphasis on serving...

  Radio Liferay is back with a repeat guest, James Falkner, Liferay's Community Manager. Like last year, symposium season is about to start (even though we already had some events earlier this year...). And there's something new, for the nerds and software craftsmen among you. We talked about The upcoming events, how to tell them apart and the target audience. In...

I am sure most of you already know we are members of the OSGi Alliance, and we are trying to get involved as much as we can. Our next step is to host a face to face during the 9th, 10th and 11th of September here at the Liferay Spain office. But not only that, Peter Kriens has kindly accepted my proposal to talk about OSGi and the enRoute initiative in a public talk (seats...

Liferay hold many events throughout the year (10+ this year alone), featuring keynotes, workshops, expert speakers, onsite and offsite events, and multiple venues around the world. The data associated with past, current, and future events includes huge agendas, many speakers, rooms, activities, maps, locations, analytics during the event, and much more. Finding an effective way to...

 \o/ Radio Liferay is back. A while ago I talked with Juan Fernandez and Ivica Čardić about an exciting project they're collaborating on: Liferay Cloud Services. "What's this?" you ask? Well, good that you're asking, because here's the explanation. It's all about helping you monitor the health of your Liferay Installation, keeping an eye on the installed fixpacks (if you're using...

“If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?” -Charlie Brooker, The Guardian Daniel Kaluuya and Jessica Brown Findlay in Channel 4’s Black Mirror.   I recently discovered the marvelously provocative British drama Black Mirror, written and conceived by Charlie Brooker. Every episode features a different...

Here's a sneak peek at Liferay Screens Beta in the Xcode environment. Liferay Screens are basically mobile widgets that simplify development of mobile apps with Liferay as the backend. More info here on GitHub: https://github.com/liferay/liferay-mobile-widgets/blob/master/README.md Youtube Preview: http://youtu.be/DAhlr5VgEi8

One of the most important features of the new calendar portlet is the ability of consistently showing events to users in different time zones. It is invaluable for global organizations. If your team is scattered around the world, you would really want to make sure things happen at the same time! However, the consistent behavior can be quite difficult to grasp. It is...

Liferay provides lot customizations formats using preferences, configuration, properties etc. Developer knows and remembers general ways and possible settings, most commons we go with portal-ext.properties having required settings to apply on portal and place this in classpath. Specifying key-values in portal-ext.properties applies to whole server and available everywhere in...

This article is the second and last in a series of 2 posts on how personalization can be achieved in a portal project. In this post I'll explain how to combine user-specific and shared portlet preferences in one portlet. This will allow portlets to have a common, shared set of preferences and additionally a set of user-defined preferences on top of those shared preferences. ...

This weekend you may notice a couple of small changes to your Liferay.com sign-in experience and I wanted to give you a little background on why we’re making those changes.  As we have been expanding the number of systems available beyond just liferay.com we have strived to provide the best possible user experience.  To that end we will be moving to a Single Sign On...

The Liferay Training team is pleased to announce the release of the 6.2 Styling Liferay with Themes course! Liferay Portal 6.2 includes some exciting updates for UI developers. Now that Bootstrap is incorporated into the AlloyUI Framework, developing themes is simpler and features new additions to give theme developers more power and flexibility for building sleek and responsive...

It's public - Registration for DevCon 2014 (Wed-Thu, 5.-6. Nov) is open. And we're looking for your participation to make it an even bigger success. This year we're going to Darmstadt, just south of Frankfurt. The venue "Darmstadtium" is named after a chemical element that was named in honor of the city where it's first been created - it's one of those very heavy elements (atomic...