by XTIVIA | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Tasked to think of an easy way for users to create a mega menu, I came up with a 2 portlet display/config portlet combo. At the same time, I also wanted to try JSF after hearing so many good things about it. Here we go! Menu Config Portet Let’s first see how the UI...
by Asier Del Pozo | Mar 23, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
To continue this series of blogs about Elastic Search, I would like to focus on performance. A lot of customers ask the big question: for search, what is the best solution? Liferay as is? Solr? Elastic Search? Anything else? Many people would say that there is no...
by XTIVIA | Mar 23, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Clustering Solr 4.x Summary The recommended method for clustering Solr versions 4 and above is by leveraging the product’s new SolrCloud distributed capabilities to manage horizontal instance scaling. SolrCloud provides the following advanced features: Automatic...
by XTIVIA | Jan 8, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Overview Recently we put together a demo site for a prospective customer, and I was asked to create a couple of portlets using the Drools rules engine for personalization. Implementation The requirements called for one portlet to display the user’s training...
by XTIVIA | Dec 27, 2013 | Blog, Portals
The Dockbar provides one-stop shopping for your Portal administration needs; but sometimes you either don’t like the default look of it (if you’re building from _styled) or you don’t feel like styling it from scratch (if you’re building from...
by Derek Nerenberg | Jul 12, 2013 | Blog, Databases, Enterprise Java, Portals
Set the transaction isolation level to READ_COMMITTED with READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT turned ON. Yay! When I mention the words “transaction isolation level” to SQL Server DBAs, the first words out of their mouths are almost always “READ...
by Jon Ilko | Jun 27, 2013 | Blog, Portals
Google Analytics gives you insights into how visitors use your site, how they arrived on your site, and how you can keep them coming back. Liferay includes built-in support for Google Analytics out of the box, allowing administrators to make use of Google’s tool set...
by XTIVIA | Jun 14, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Recently a client asked about the differences between Liferay and social community products. Great question! Here are some points based on our work with customers. Social community products are narrowly focused and track social interactions well, but do not provide...
by XTIVIA | Jun 6, 2013 | Blog, Portals
This is part 3 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that...
