Question

I’m creating a set of custom structures (and matching templates) for Web Content Displays on a Liferay site.

To make things more convenient for site maintainers, I would like one of these templates to suppress look-and-feel borders by default.

I’ve found documentation and samples online showing how to disable borders for portlets that are embedded in the theme, but I haven’t had any luck applying those techniques inside a WCD template.

Here’s the code I’ve seen embedded in a theme:

#set ($VOID = $velocityPortletPreferences.setValue("portlet-setup-show-borders", "false"))
#set ($VOID = $theme.runtime("customportletname_WAR_pluginname", "", $velocityPortletPreferences.toString()))
$velocityPortletPreferences.reset()

Here is how I’ve applied it to my template:

#set ($VOID = $velocityPortletPreferences.setValue("portlet-setup-show-borders", "false"))
<div class="custom-wcd wcdnormal">
    <h2>$title.getData()</h2>
    $content.getData()
</div>
$velocityPortletPreferences.reset()

I’m not surprised that it didn’t work — there’s nothing analogous to the $theme.runtime call that applies the prefs to a portlet, but I also don’t know whether $theme.runtime is appropriate at this layer, and if it is, what value to supply as the first argument. I suspect this last is the most likely alternative, but I don’t know how to identify the WCD portlet to $theme.runtime, nor do I know how to track that information down (I’m not a Java dev by any stretch).

And just to clarify: it is not acceptable to disable borders on all portlets by default, nor am I in a position to modify the Java controller that consumes journal-article components at render-time.

Any advice is appreciated.

Answer 1

Simple and direct:

$velocityPortletPreferences.setValue("portletSetupShowBorders", "false") 
$velocityPortletPreferences.setValue("languageIds", "pt_BR,en_US")
$velocityPortletPreferences.setValue("displayStyle", "1")
$theme.runtime("82", "", $velocityPortletPreferences.toString())
$velocityPortletPreferences.reset()

This example is for embed the language portlet (Portlet ID = 82), direct in one of .vm theme files, in my case this code is on navigation.vm.