Liferay Hook to customize
My Account Portlet:
Login to liferay Go to control Panel
Click on My Account Tab.
This is My Account Portlet, it manages user Information.
User Information is
divided into three sections as shown in Figure.
Details : Personal
details, password , Organization , sites ,User groups ,Roles ,
Categorization
Identifications: Addresses,
Phone Numbers , Additional Email Address , Web sites , Instant Messengers ,
Social Networks, SMS , Open ID
Miscellaneous:
Announcement ,Display Setting ,Comments , Custom Fields.
This entire user
Information can be customized by Hooks.
Steps :.
We are going to use our
same myfirst-hook.
Edit liferay-hook.xml
xml version="1.0"?>
DOCTYPE hook PUBLIC "-//Liferay//DTD
Hook 6.1.0//EN" "http://www.liferay.com/dtd/liferay-hook_6_1_0.dtd">
<hook>
<portal-properties>portal.propertiesportal-properties>
hook>
Create portal.properties
file in myfirst-hook\docroot\WEB-INF\src folder.
Edit portal.properties
file..
#
# Input a list of sections
that will be included as part of the user form
# when updating a user in
the My Account portlet.
#
users.form.my.account.main=details,password
users.form.my.account.identification=addresses,phone-numbers
users.form.my.account.miscellaneous= comments
This way details,
password, addresses,phone-numbers,comments will only be shown in
My account portlet.
Deploy Hook. Go to My
Account Portlet.
Now it will look like as
shown in Fig:
User Information section
customization is done.
My Account Hook Test case
