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 At this year's Jax I met Ville Ingmann, "Your Business Buddy" at Vaadin (the business card says "VP of German Operations"). With some inadvertent background noise (sorry) we talk about the history of Vaadin in Liferay, the meaning of the name, which also explains the logo, and the integration of Vaadin in Liferay (Vaadin is technology partner of Liferay, the library comes...

I would like to bring attention to a hot topic around the Liferay offices lately, and one that you should definitely consider for the websites that you are working on: behavioral analytics.  I'd like to explain this with a small example that you might be able to relate to: Let's all start with a lovely place that I call Cup Island: I took this photo in the Liferay LA...

Introduction Recently I've been working in some new features regarding to internacionalization the name and description of DLFileEntryType entity. I create all the logic and everithing was fine. Everthing went smoothly. Due I was changing a DB table I had to create an upgrade process  and the things became a litle bit hard (it's my very fist time creating an...

La situación económica actual potencia la necesidad de las organizaciones de ser capaces de cambiar rápidamente, para dar respuesta inmediata a los cambios del entorno –tanto previstos como imprevistos– y mantener su competitividad. La colaboración es un concepto ya conocido, pero nunca antes había sido tan importante para la supervivencia empresarial. Como en otras muchas...

I have done a huge refactor for most of our OSGi related work, moving the majority of its components to the Liferay plugins SDK. Everything except the graphical admin UI is already in the master branch of the official repo so you can play with it; we would love to hear your feedback. My goal with this post is to show you how create a new OSGi bundle in the plugins SDK using a...

  Overview When working with Liferay projects using Liferay IDE and Plugins SDK it becomes highly difficult to manage dependencies, as Liferay IDE or Plugins SDK by default uses Ant for building and deploying, though Liferay does support Maven based Plugins but as a seasoned Liferay Developer we...

  I was learning on how to implement the  export and import functionality on Liferay, initially I thought it to be rather a tedious job but thanks to Liferay API/Framework which made my job easier with Liferay Portlet Data Handlers thanks to Jorge Ferrer who gave me an insight to the API/Framework and how to use the same. All I was required to do is...

 I was using <liferay-ui:search-toggle> tag, and my requirement was to to show only advanced search and no basic search. but by default <liferay-ui:search-toggle> will show basic search unless and until user clicks the advanced search atleast once. I tried all possible ways and finally found the solution, this what i did to make...

  After setting up Liferay Portal 6.1-CE on  JBoss AS7 based in this post,  i thought it was a piece of cake to deploy Liferay Portal 6.1-CE on JBoss AS7.1(Thunder) but not until i found that we need to do few more updates rather changes to Liferay 6.1-JBoss CE bundle. Here is the list of what we need to do, $JBOSS_70_HOME - refers to the Liferay...

  Liferay provides  a rich set of tag libraries that can help in implementing certain complex functionalities like search container, pagination etc.,  with few lines of code. In this blog let’s see how we can implement the same.   For the demo purposed I used the following technical platform,   Liferay Portal...

Overview A common problem developers and system admins face is tracking down why their Liferay Portal plugins fail to deploy to their Java web server. There are many reasons why Liferay Portal plugins fail to deploy. Please refer to the checklist below for possible causes and solutions. Environment We will assume a simple test environment of Liferay Portal and Apache...

I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of the print edition of Using Liferay Portal 6.1! For those of you on your toes (and you know who you are), it's actually been available since Friday, but who reads a blog entry that is published on Friday afternoon? It's a big book. We're getting close to 700 pages now in print, and that does not include the properties...

// In reply to 5 tips to improve usage of the Liferay script console - by Sébastien Le Marchand Sébastien wrote a very good article about Liferay script console. Here is one more tip in response of the call for sharing at the end of the article. I post it as a sepreate blog entry because I cannot use Gist or format in comment area....   Tip #6: Schedule your script to...

// The english version of this article can be found here: 5 tips to improve usage of the Liferay script console. // Si vous utilisez un lecteur RSS pour lire ce billet, veuillez basculer vers la page HTML pour voir correctement les morceaux de code. Depuis la version 6.0,  Liferay propose une console de script intégrée dans le Control Panel. Très puissant, cet outil...

// La version française de cet article est là : 5 astuces pour améliorer l’usage de la console de script de Liferay. // If you use a RSS reader to read this post, please switch to the HTML page to correctly view the code snippets. Since the release 6.0, Liferay provide a script console integrated into the Control Panel. Very powerful, this tool becomes fast essential for any...

Issue In Liferay hook development, one common question is: How to import/use/access custom java classes in a JSP hook? The question can be described as: 1. Create a hook project (for example: sample-hook) 2. Create a custom class (for example: com.kzhang.CustomJavaClass) in hook project. 3. Override a Liferay portlet jsp (for example,...

We are pleased to announce that Sync Mobile 2.0 has been released!   In addition to having incorporated several bug fixes, this version represents the integration of noteable, new features:   Tablet Support: You can, now, use Sync on your iPads and Android tablets. Revamped UI: Allows you to fully take advantage of...

Lately I've been tinkering a lot with lightweight, asynchronous, event-driven apps on Liferay using a variety of established techniques and frameworks. It's a nice way to build apps! After working it for a while, I wanted to share what I've learned, so put together a talk and was fortunate to be selected to attend and speak at this year's KCDC, and presented my learnings...

Hi Guys, It is possible to put web content of MB-category in every page rather than to display message board in every page in website . On selecting category, we will open a pop-up dialog box for inserting  Post in message board.  Template Code :   #set ($MBLocalService=...

After the first release, version 1.0, with the focus on stability and the most fundamental features we released a version 1.1 with minor updates related to feedback from community. Also some functionality like opening links embedded as content in blog entries. Now we have released version 1.2, which is a facelift. We are very happy with the result trying to use color scheme that...