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Ever wanted to explicitly define what page to display on the current pagination content from a url password? This code should aim you in the right direction. Logic: -Get url variable ("page") value. -set $total to the size of the pagination repeatable structure. -If $pageId is set and is less than or equal to $total then use $pageId; else use the latest item. #set ($friendlyURL =...

Liferay Faces Showcase The Liferay Faces team has been hard at work on the new Liferay Faces Showcase which demonstrates the new JSF components we are developing. Many of the components utilize Liferay's AlloyUI technology (which is based on YUI3 and Twitter Bootstrap). Component Design Features: The new AlloyUI JSF components will work with Liferay Faces 4.2...

Hi again! This is the second (and last) part of my blog series for using existing Bootstrap themes into Liferay 6.2. In my previous blog post I talked about using LESS files, and how to, by simply changing some text strings, make it useful for a Liferay theme. In this post I'll tell you how to use two of the available Bootstrap theme generators. So, as you may have...

I'm not sure if I've said it enough -- our community is awesome! Each of us comes from different geographic places, cultural backgrounds, and Liferay experiences and we bring that collective story together through software by developing contributions, cool apps, and ultimately learning through sharing. And in that spirit I'm happy to announce a new initiative for our developer...

Many of us have experienced it, you go to deploy a new application into your portal instance and see the dreaded deployment error messages. What do you do? Is the error message helpful? How can I find the solution? If you're experiencing deployment problems with deploying a JSF portlet on Liferay, there's a simple process you can follow to solve your deployment issues. Instead of...

Yes, it's true bootstrap give us a lot of improvements for creating themes. And is also true that since Liferay 6.2 we can take advantage of all this useful tools for developing your own themes in Liferay. Looking for developing my own themes for some personal portals (yes, I like developing in Liferay in my free time too ) without being a frontend developer seemed more less...

A new release of Liferay IDE has been made available today, version 2.1.1.  You can update or install the new release here as usual: http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/latest/stable/ Or go over to the download page and grab one of the bundles that includes Eclipse Luna JavaEE package with Liferay IDE 2.1.1 pre-installed:  ...

Seems like yesterday when I decided to move from this huge company based in Rio to this not-so-well-known company based in LA. That was not an easy decision, but I’m glad I made it. Now, two years after that day, here I am to share some of the things I learned.   Passion is the most important skill Hiring is a very delicate topic in every tech company...

This blog is part of a series of entries documenting how we are using iBeacons and Liferay to better engage our audiences at events throughout the year. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Update: Check out my new eBook! Finding Your Way Around iBeacons for Event Marketing. Download the eBook In Part 1 I introduced the concept of using iBeacons for Audience Engagement and reviewed...

Introduction:   Liferay have very good content management system we can design and publish content in the web page very easy.   Along with that it’s also have structures and templates feature so that we can design common designs as structures and templates then we can reuse it many places with different data. ...

This blog is part of a series of entries documenting how we are using iBeacons and Liferay to better engage our audiences at events throughout the year. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Update: Check out my new eBook! Finding Your Way Around iBeacons for Event Marketing. Download the eBook Earlier this year my colleague Ruud Kluivers introduced me to a new technology called...

Hello my lovely Liferay developers!   I'm very proud and glad to announce that, from now on, we are going to be able to write integration test in our Liferay plugins!   * Before breaking this down, I want to thank all people that collaborated as a strong team to achieve this: Carlos Sierra,  Cristina...

Introduction:   Liferay Service Builder is a tool to generate service layer to liferay portlets. It will create all necessary CRUD operation related classes and respective methods.   We will use  Util classes’ methods to perform CRUD operations in portlet development. The following is the tutorial...

Liferay MVC Portlet Database Interactions / Liferay MVC CRUD Operations   Introduction:   Liferay MVC is portlet frame work given by Liferay and it is specific to liferay environment. We already well aware of Liferay MVC frame work from  Liferay Savvyprevious...

UPDATE: Liferay Cloud Services has a new name! See this blog post for details on Liferay Connected Services! Today we are announcing an open Beta of Liferay Cloud Services! If you're interested in participating, check out the landing page - you won't be able to miss the big form on the right (there are only 50 slots left - hurry!). What is Liferay Cloud...

This article is the first in a series of 2 posts on how personalization can be achieved in a portal project. Moreover, the concept of sharing personalized settings between users is explained and how this behavior can be changed in Liferay. See also User-specific versus shared portlet preferences - part 2.   Personalization One of the most...

Introduction:   Liferay have come up with their portlet frame work called Liferay MVC. Liferay MVC is portlet development framework and we can develop JSR 168&286 standards portlets and deploy into Liferay Portal.   Liferay MVC is portlet framework specially designed for liferay and we can develop portlet and deploy...

Introduction:   Ajax Push is a mechanism to push data from server. Generally in the web application when the client request for the server then we will get the dynamic data or updated data from server to web client/browser.   But sometimes we need a mechanism it automatically push data from server to client this is called...

Introduction:   Liferay Have given AUI Auto complete list from which we can populate matching values to user in input fields and data will be served from server with help of Ajax call.   AUI Auto Complete list need source property this specify the data which populated in input filtered.   This...

Introduction:   Liferay have every good feature that is Custom Fields from this we can create additional attributes or new fields to existed entities.   Please go through following Tutorial for Introduction   Introductionto Liferay Custom Attributes/Custom Fields   ...