Enhancing customizable pages in Liferay Portal

Liferay v6.1 introduced a new end-user customization capability wherein we can create a customizable page in a site that allows an end-user to add or remove portlets on the page or drag and drop portlets in different places on the page. In order to enable...

An AlloyUI ellipsis function (a.k.a. Three Dots)

So if you are not familiar with AlloyUI, it is a user interface web application framework. It’s purpose is to help make building and designing web applications an enjoyable experience. For more information on AlloyUI you can see Nate Cavanaugh’s blog. Some...

AUI Dialog

During my last project, we used javascript “lightbox”-style modal overlays to display and submit forms without changing the current page. The AUI Dialog object is useful for this purpose. In this example, we’ll display a simple form containing one...