Use of Custom Field/Attribute or Expando in Jsp (Hook)

Today we will discuss how to use Custom Attribute in Jsp.Before reading this, you must read my previous blog on Custom Field in Liferay and Jsp Hook in Liferay.

Here we create a Jsp hook for create account page , so when user fill the form for create account he also provide maritial status and on click of submit button maritial status is also save with the User .

So Lets start this step by step:- 

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Custom Field/Attribute or Expando in Liferay by Control Panel

Today we will discuss about Custom Field in Liferay.Lets consider a scenario in which you want that User entity must have one extra field like married. How will you add a new attribute to existing Liferay entity User.Custom fields in liferay is the solution for this problem.

Custom fields are designed to allow end users to extends the default data entities like User, Group etc.You can create custom field programmatically  as well as Using Control Panel. Today we create Custom Field  in User entity by Control Panel. 

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Index Post Processor Hook in Liferay

Today we will discuss about Index Post Processor Hook  in Liferay. In Liferay if you want to providing indexing on some column for searching ,sorting etc. than you can use Index Post Processor Hook.

Ex-Sign in-->Admin -->Control panel-->Users and organization--> all users. Than try to search user by First Name, Last Name,Screen Name you can search easily but than try to search user by Job Title than no result is found.So today we apply indexing on Job Title by using Index Post Processor Hook.

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