Hello All,

I have done following :
1. I have created open community named with 'bookshelf'. This community having only one page with layout 1 column.
2. I have create a portlet 'Books' and I have deployed that portlet on home page of the 'bookshelf' community. This book portlet having category wise data.

Now, the friendly url generated for the community 'bookshelf' is http://localhost:8080/web/bookshelf/home. So when any user directly copy and paste this URL in the browser, he can see the 'books' portlet.

Now I am achieving following:
Any user can give the category as parameter to the books portlet so that according to the parameter the book portlet will display the listing of the books.
e.g. If I typed http://localhost:8080/web/bookshelf/home?category=technical then book portlet should display the listing of books for category technical and if I typed http://localhost:8080/web/bookshelf/home?category=medical then book portlet should display the listing for medical category.

My question is :
Is this a valid way to pass this category parameter as mentioned above. In liferay, we are not directly appending the parameter as mentioned above.

Any thoughts will be very helpful.

I have resoved this issue using portlet friendly URL.

I did the following :
1. Created a bookshelf.xml for friendly url
it contains following:

2. Added the following in liferay-portlet.xml


3. Now my friendly URL is http://localhost:8080/web/bookshelf/home/-/bookshelf/technical

4. I can access categoryName in my portlet using

You can retrieve the parameter in the jsp like this
String category = PortalUtil.getOriginalServletRequest(request).getParameter("category");