Custom Action(Events) Hook in Liferay

Today we will discuss about Custom Action Hook  in Liferay. In portal.properties file their are some properties which have multiple values and some have only one value like true/false.

a)For single value like true/false we override the property see 
Portal Properties hook in Liferay.

b)For multiple values properties like application.startup.events   any values you specify in a hook don’t override the list defined in the portal, but rather are appended to that list.Your actions will then fire when Liferay Portal starts in addition to the list of actions that are specified in the default Liferay installation

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Adding Struts Action by Hook in Liferay

Today we will discuss about Adding Struts action in Liferay by using Hook.Before reading this blog you must read my previous blog on  Override Struts Action by Hook in Liferay. Adding Struts action is similar to overriding Struts Action but the difference is :-

For Overriding we extends BaseStrutsPortletAction Class.
For Adding we extends BaseStrutsAction Class.

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Override Struts Action by Hook in Liferay

Today we will discuss about Struts Action hook.By using Struts Action hook we can achieve two things:-
1)Overriding existing struts Action
2)Add new Struts Action

Today we will discuss about Overriding existing struts Action. Every time you login a Struts Action is called.Struts use a file called struts-config.xml you can find this file inside WEB-INF .

For overriding Struts Action your custom class must extend BaseStrutsPortletAction which implements  StrutsPortletAction which  contain processAction().

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Language Properties Hook in Liferay

Today we will discuss about Language Properties hook.Language property hook are used to overriding the existed portal language properties like Language_en.properties file for overriding of english language file.We can also add new properties by using Language Property hook.

Today we change :-
1) Button text Sign In  to Login .
2)Error message This Field is required to Please enter this field.

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Portal Properties Hook in Liferay

Today we will discuss about Portal Properties hook.When we Create Account in liferay we have to provide the value of captcha today we disable the captcha field using Portal Properties hook.

We have portal.properties file inside portal-impl (\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib) which contain some properties.Here some properties have multiple values and some have only one value like true/false.

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Open/Close Dialog Box using AUI in Liferay

Today we will discuss how to Open and Close a Aui Dialog box in liferay.In this we create a button on click of button a form is opened in dialog box which contain two input fields name , password and two buttons one for Submit the form and second for cancel.On Submit form is Submitted and details are shown in the dialog box .On Cancel form is simply closed so lets start this step by step.

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Form Submission Using AJAX(AUI) in Liferay

Form Submission Using AJAX(AUI)

Today we will discuss how to Submit a form using Ajax .For sending Ajax request we are using Alloy UI (aui) tags.Then finally Print the form data to Success page.The important thing is when we use Ajax the response is come back in Json(or Xml) form then how we redirect to Success page?

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Role Checking in Liferay for Show/Hide Content

Show/Hide Content on basis of Role in Liferay

Today we will discuss how to Show/Hide content on the basis of role or we can say that how we perform Role checking in liferay. For achieving this we create two roles teacher and student then we create two users Student and Teacher and assign role accordingly.Then finally Check roles and show/hide content. Lets start step by step:-

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