“A role, a role, my portal for a role!” Don’t worry, using portal roles in your portlets isn’t too difficult. Roles in Liferay Portal are the primary means for granting or restricting access to...

Public bulletin boards are great. Anyone can inform others of just about anything. On the other hand, anyone can post just about anything on the bulletin board. Some of this content might not be...

Liferay provides a system that allows you to implement permissions for your custom portlets. The first step in implementing permissions is to define all resources and the actions that can be...

Imagine that you bought a really nice electric guitar. Now imagine that you bought an even nicer amplifier to go along with it. You get them home, and much to the chagrin of your neighbors, you get...

When implementing permissions for a custom portlet, your last step is to ensure that the configured permissions are enforced. You can achieve this by adding permission checks to your application....

As a Liferay application developer, using Liferay’s permissions system isn’t your only option for controlling access to the features of your application. You can allow access to your portlet’s...