Hi,

Im new Liferay user/developer so please foregive me if I misunderstood something.

What Im trying to do is to develop custom theme and "include" custom portled inside velocity template.

1)I devloped simple helo-world portlet and deployed it to Liferay.
project_name:MyPortlet-portlet
portlet_id:MyPortlet
deploment type: plugin (subfolder in tomcat webapps)

2)I developed simple theme and override one of velocity templates (portal_normal.vm).
In the template I added few lines of velcity code:


3)When I deploy this theme and refresh page nothing is displayed in place of this "inclusion". When I add my portlet with page->add->... Hello world appears.

I debug Liferay for a whole day and probably found a cause.

Its in the RuntimePortletUtil.processPortlet(...) method:



For my template this instanceId = "E3j7_WAR_MyPortlet-portlet"
As I suspect the correct version should be only "E3j7".

Thats why few lines of code below validation fails (id length != 4) and "Portlet is instanceable but does not have a valid instance id" is displayed.

Ive tried with difrrent portledId passed to $taglibLiferay.runtime but nothing work.
Regarding to this wiki page my Id should work:wiki

Do I do something wrong ? What is a difference beetween $taglibLiferay.runtime and $theme.runtime ??

Reagrds Daniel

Hi Daniel,

This is what you are doing wrong:



Your portletId should be:



In other words, the right scheme is:

<portletId>_WAR_<webapplicationcontext>[_INSTANCE_xyz1]

where [...] is only for instanceable portlets.

As for the differences between $taglibLiferay.runtime and $theme.runtime, if you are using Liferay 6.0 or above, you must use $theme.runtime instead of $taglibLiferay.runtime to embed portlet.

For more information, you can visit this Wiki: Embedding a portlet in a Theme

Regards