tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63049747019432747632026-04-25T03:23:10.005-04:00sharing some useful & interesting stuffs about Liferay, other open source product and some other interesting cool new technologies. For any issue/concern/help, you can mail me @ admin@opensourceforlife.comTejas Kananihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08085090265086117808noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304974701943274763.post-84260574304199505242014-02-24T01:05:00.001-05:002016-08-19T23:08:35.860-04:00

Now It's almost around 4 months since Liferay 6.2 is released with complete makeover and including many power packs like Responsive Design using Bootstrap, Mobile friendly support, WCM improvements, ADT(Application Display Template), Recycle Bin & others. For more details visit What's new in Liferay 6.2. Among all of these today I would like to talk about Recycle Bin in Liferay 6.2 &

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Hi All, You might already have heard about Liferay's latest version release, Liferay 6.2 CE GA1 with power packs and lots of enhancements. For EE customer, Liferay 6.2.10 EE GA1 is also released and available to download from Customer Portal. With 6.2 release Liferay has come up with a major look & feel changes by introducing Bootstrap & Alloy UI 2. For more details you can go

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I am pleased to share that Custom Landing Page Hook v1.1 is released in Liferay Marketplace. It has come up with some new options as well as few bug fixes. New Feature !!  There is a new option added by which any specific page within a Site/Organization can be made a landing page for that Site/Organization instead of their home page. Just create a custom attribute of Site/

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Today Liferay has announced two big releases. 1) Liferay 6.1 CE GA3 Most awaited, Liferay 6.1 GA 3 has been released with many bug fixes and working PACL security. They have also improved the Sprint MVC by solving some fixes. It's version name would be 6.1.2 as per the versioning convection Liferay is following. After this release it will be easy for developer to submit their apps in

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Hi folks, I am sure all the Liferay community members are waiting for Liferay 6.2 with some new features and UI enhancements. So today I am going to highlight some of the new things coming in Liferay 6.2. (Grabbed from Liferay 6.2 CE Milestone 6) Upgraded Liferay UI to Alloy 2.0 Liferay is now upgraded to Alloy 2.0 including bootstrap. So almost all the UI is changed to Alloy 2.0 which

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Hi Folks, Here I'm gonna talk about How to embed selected web content in Liferay Theme. In many situation we need to display web content in our theme code. Let's first see how we can embed web content display portlet in Theme. This will simply add web content display portlet where you've written this code in your theme velocity(.vm) file. After this Administrator of site needs to select

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Hi Friends, I am feeling glad to share that My first App "Custom Landing Page Hook" is released on Liferay Marketplace. Thanks & Regards, Tejas Kanani

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Hi LR members, I saw many Liferay Developers are looking for Carousel which we can currently see on Liferay Home page. We can develop the same using AUI Carousel. There is a nice tutorial which you can go through which describes each steps in depth and in simple manner. AUI Carousel Tutorial  Just to make it more simple, I've created a Web Content Structure & Template which

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Some useful Reference links for AlloyUI. Demo Examples Tutorials I would request you to share other useful reference links related to AlloyUI which will be very helpful to the person looking to start developing with AlloyUI. Thanks, Tejas

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"I helped build Liferay. You can too" Glad to see that I've included in Community Members group on Liferay Home page who had provided their best contributions towards Liferay by providing valuable support in Liferay Forums, Wiki, Blogs etc. So guys you can also be part of this. Just keep contributing towards Liferay as much as you can. Thanks to Liferay.

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Hi Friends, Inter Portlet Communication(IPC), we might came across this many times. This is the mechanism by which we can communicate in between different portlets. These are mostly done via either from Server Side or Client Side. Today I am going to talk about one of the Client Side method via Ajax(Javascript). In which we are going to use Liferay Javascript API. There are basically two main

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!!!! DOWNLOAD "OS4L Custom Landing Page Hook" from Liferay Market Place now !!!! - - New options added for site & organization Private Page - - Hi, You might have followed my other blog regarding Custom Landing Page Hook. Today I've make some modification in that and made a hook which will be very easy to use without any modification for general use. I've made it work

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Hi Friends, Today I am going to show you how you can create different portlet urls inside Liferay Theme Velocity VM files. For the same we are going to use below method, which will give us required portlet urls. $portletURLFactory.create({request},{portletName},{plid},{lifecycle})) Where, - {request} :- Could be HttpServletRequest or LiferayPortletURL. Inside theme you can directly use

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Hi Folks, New latest version of Liferay 6.1.1 GA 2 is released with so many new features and lots of bug fixes. For more details check this. Downloads Tomcat Portal Portal Source Maven Package Plugins SDK Welcome Theme It's preloaded with new Welcome theme. Check below snap. Marketplace Finally long waiting ends with Marketplace released news !! Yes. this new version has

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!!!! DOWNLOAD "OS4L Custom Landing Page Hook" from Liferay Market Place now !!!! Update : Also check OS4L Custom Landing Page Hook for complete solution of Landing page. Hi Guys, I've seen so many question going around landing on custom page after user log in in Liferay based on Organization/Site membership. So today I am going to cover the same thing and show you how can

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Hi Folks, Today I am going to cover, how we can create Liferay Hook using Liferay IDE. It's just a basic steps but it might be useful. As we are going to use Liferay IDE first we need to setup Liferay IDE. Liferay IDE install & Setup Go through this blog in order to install Liferay IDE if you don't  have is already installed. Create Liferay Hook - First we need to create Liferay

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Hi Folks, As you might know Liferay IDE is extension for the Eclipse platform that supports development of plug-in projects for the Liferay Portal platform. Its also available as a set of Eclipse plug-ins installable from an update-site if you have already using your configured Eclipse. Install Liferay IDE as Eclipse Plugins - There is nice wiki which includes all the steps in detail

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Dynamic Workflow   Dynamic Data Lists     

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Hi Friends, This blog will show you how you can create Liferay Hook using Maven. As nowadays more people are moving  to Maven instead of Ant. It has many good features like Repeatable builds / Dependency Management, Versioned artifacts, Convention and configuration over scripting, IDE plugins support. Now before moving further there are some prerequisite that you must have. Prerequisite

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Hi Guys, If you want to set Custom static password instead of the dynamic one which is generated OOTB for new Liferay User, you can do by following way. Just add below properties in your portal-ext.properties. # # If you choose to use com.liferay.portal.security.pwd.PasswordPolicyToolkit # as your password toolkit, you can choose either static or dynamic password # generation. Static is set

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Hi Folks, Today I am going to show you how you can change your custom Portlet Title based on the locale you have selected. In your portlet's portlet.xml, add your supported-locale. In below code I am adding Hindi. <supports>     <mime-type>text/html</mime-type>     <portlet-mode>view</portlet-mode> </supports> <supported-locale>

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Hi Guys, Glad to see that I got Recognized by Liferay Organization in their 2012 Community Contributor Awards. Feeling like top of the world !!! For more details, http://www.liferay.com/community/special-projects/contributor-awards-2012 Thanks a lot to Liferay !!! Cheers !!

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Hi, Today I am going to show you how you can create custom velocity variable in new Liferay 6.1. First of all if you know in Liferay theme velocity file we have so many pre defined variables. All those variables are ready to use. But some time we need our custom variable as well. To create custom velocity variable we'll use Liferay hook to create service pre event. 1) Create hook  &

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Hi, If you are configuring LDAP from portal-ext.properties for Liferay 6.1 below properties needs to be there in portal-ext.properites. Otherwise it will give error even if its not being used. For example if you are not using LDAP groups in Liferay and so if you have not given that properties in portal-ext.properties it will give you error when you login from any user. So by checking after each

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Hi, Today I am going to show you how you can setup LDAP in your local machine. As most of the times LDAP regarding features/changes we need to make on server directly. As we don't have LDAP setup on our local machine. So below are the steps by which you can setup LDAP in your local machine. Pr-requisite Apache Directory Studio OR Apache Directory Studio Eclipse Plugin Apache Directory

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