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How to add an image to a custom entity

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Category: Liferay
Published: Tuesday, 15 October 2019 13:00
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Surely you will have had to define a custom entity in the Service Builder to which to associate an image, such as an icon or a cover image.

Typically in these cases, you start to work with the Document Library by creating folders, sub-folders, permissions, trying to manage the entire flow of creating and updating the image itself.

But once again, Liferay's API help us and simplify our lives!

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AlloyEditor Manager

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Category: Liferay
Published: Wednesday, 01 May 2019 23:31
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Liferay 7 release has brought great news in content management scope: AlloyEditor.

This new WYSIWYG editor has certainly brought a breath of fresh air; however, those of you who have used it, have surely asked what happened to the buttons for text alignment, paragraph indentation or superscript.

These buttons, are supported by AlloyEditor, but they are not enabled by default and you need to write code to enable them!

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How to implement a custom Gogo shell command for Liferay 7

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Category: Liferay
Published: Friday, 24 March 2017 08:00
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Liferay DXP (and its free counterpart Liferay 7) introduced many new features, first of all the OSGi integration. Among the many new tools provided there is a shell to interact with the OSGi container; I'm talking about Gogo shell (a subproject of Apache Felix) accessible with the command telnet localhost 11311.

Once accessed to the shell, we can see the list of all available commands simply by typing help; each command is formed by a scope (a kind of grouping) and a name.

So let's see how to create a custom command to be executed inside the Gogo shell.

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How to use Liferay AutoFields

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Category: Liferay
Published: Friday, 25 November 2016 09:00
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AutoFields is an AlloyUI component which can be used inside a form to dynamically add multiple elements.

Liferay uses it in many points: have you ever tried to enter a phone number or an address into your user profile? Have you noticed the + and - buttons? By pressing these buttons whole portions of HTML are added (or removed) to the form, allowing you to add multiple items; and all is integrated with the history management.

So let's see how to use this component in a custom plugin.

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