Create a Community with the API

[Christian Schulze, módosítva 12 év-val korábban]

I want to add a new Community with an UpgradeProcess inside a Hook.

I want to use this:

GroupLocalServiceUtil.addGroup(defaultUserId,
					Group.class.getName(), 1, "myCommunity",
					"myCummunity Desc",
					GroupConstants.TYPE_COMMUNITY_OPEN, "http://localhost:8080", true,
					serviceContext);

First question, what is arg2 classname and what mean classpk?
Second question, what is friendlyURL?

regards
Chris

[Oliver Bayer, módosítva 12 év-val korábban]

Hi Chris,

classname is the name of the model while classpk is the same as the groupId (in case of a group model). The friendlyURL defines the part after /web or /group so if you name it "/my-community" (do not use http://localhost:8080) then you can access your created group with the following url:

public pages via http://localhost:8080/web/my-community
private pages vid http://localhost:8080/group/my-community

Take a look at "GroupLocalServiceImpl.addGroup(.....)" to see the implementation.

Greets Oli

[Christian Schulze, módosítva 12 év-val korábban]

ok, the following code works.

	
ServiceContext serviceContext = new ServiceContext();	
		String friendlyUrl = "/myCommunity";
		long classID = PortalUtil.getClassNameId(Group.class);		
		try {
			GroupLocalServiceUtil.addGroup(defaultUserId,
					Group.class.getName(), classID, "myCommunity",
					"myCommunity durch den Hook",
					GroupConstants.TYPE_COMMUNITY_OPEN, friendlyUrl, true,
					serviceContext);
		} catch (PortalException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (SystemException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

But one question is remaining? How I get a correct classID, is this the right way with PortalUtil.getClassNameId(Group.class)?

regards
Chris

[Sandeep Nair, módosítva 12 év-val korábban]

Yes thats correct or you can use the following

ClassNameLocalServiceUtil.getClassNameId(classObj)

PortalUtil.getClassNameId internally calls the above method

Regards,
Sandeep

[Alagammai Kasi, módosítva 11 év-val korábban]

Hi,

I know its an old thread, but I am looking for an API to create communities using it.

Would like to know on how to go about this?

Where do I run this code? at my database?

Please advice.

Thank You,
Alagu

[Hitoshi Ozawa, módosítva 11 év-val korábban]

Do you know the difference between community and group?

[Alagammai Kasi, módosítva 11 év-val korábban]

As far as I know a community is a group and a user is also a group.

Correct me if I am wrong.

[Hitoshi Ozawa, módosítva 11 év-val korábban]

As far as I know a community is a group

So, your question is answered in the earlier posts.

[Alagammai Kasi, módosítva 11 év-val korábban]

Dear Hitoshi,

Where should I be running that little script?

So far I have only worked with Liferay's drag and drop features.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Oliver Bayer, módosítva 11 év-val korábban]

Hi Alagammai,

you can put this code snippet into a custom portlet if you want to use it several times. If you only want to run it once you can use a workaround/ "hack" and add it to a jsp page, call the page and remove it afterwards. The much more cleaner solution would be to write a custom portlet e.g. by using the liferay sdk with the eclipse ide.

HTH Oli

[Alagammai Kasi, módosítva 11 év-val korábban]

Dear Oliver,

Thank you so much for your reply.

Any links that shows some examples on how to do scripting in Liferay?

Thank You so much!

[Oliver Bayer, módosítva 11 év-val korábban]

Hi Algammai,

sorry for the late reply.
You can use the development wiki (wiki) as a starting point. Another good source is the "Liferay in Action" book.

Oli

[Alagammai Kasi, módosítva 11 év-val korábban]

Hi Oliver,

Thanks for your reply.

I will catch up with that.

Besides that, I just realised that I am not even able to create communities manually using Liferay, now.

I have opened another thread for this issue.

Please help....

Thank You,