In Liferay's Control Panel, we can see predefined categories such as Portal, Server, Marketplace etc.

Liferay provides functionality where one can also create his own custom category and add it in a Liferay's Control Panel. For this we need to first create an  ext-plugin  and also need to do some changes in  liferay-portlet.xml  of portlet which you want to add in custom category.

To do so, you need to follow below mentioned steps:

• Create  ext-plugin  and override PortletCategoryKeys class of it. But make sure your path should be like docroot\WEB_INFext-impl\src\com\liferay\portal\util\PortletCategoryKeys.java.

  After that add following code in a class.

  For Liferay 6.x

  public class PortletCategoryKeys {
  
  public static final String[] ALL = {PortletCategoryKeys.MY,
  			PortletCategoryKeys.CONTENT, PortletCategoryKeys.PORTAL,
  			PortletCategoryKeys.SERVER,
  			PortletCategoryKeys.MY_CUSTOM_CATEGORY }; 
  
  public static final String CONTENT = "content";
  public static final String MARKETPLACE = "marketplace";
  public static final String MY = "my";
  public static final String PORTAL = "portal";
  public static final String SERVER = "server";
  public static final String MY_CUSTOM_CATEGORY = "my_custom_category"; 
  }
  

  For Liferay 6.1.x

  public class PortletCategoryKeys {
  
  public static final String[] ALL = { PortletCategoryKeys.MARKETPLACE,
  			PortletCategoryKeys.MY,
  			PortletCategoryKeys.CONTENT, PortletCategoryKeys.PORTAL,
  			PortletCategoryKeys.SERVER,
  			PortletCategoryKeys.MY_CUSTOM_CATEGORY };
  
  public static final String CONTENT = "content";
  public static final String MARKETPLACE = "marketplace";
  public static final String MY = "my";
  public static final String PORTAL = "portal";
  public static final String SERVER = "server";
  public static final String MY_CUSTOM_CATEGORY = "my_custom_category"; 
  }
  

  • Add Language-ext.properties file in a folder named content under “docroot\WEB_INFext-impl\src\’’ folder & add following line in it,

  category.my_custom_category=Surekha Technologies (this would be category name)

  • To add your portlet in that category add following code in liferay-portlet.xml in between  <portlet>  tag.

  <control-panel-entry-category>my_custom_category</control-panel-entry-category>

  <control-panel-entry-weight>1</control-panel-entry-weight>

  • Specify name of the category in  <control-panel-entry-category> .
  • Sequence of portlet in control panel will determined through  <control-panel-entry-weight> .

That's it. Once you restart your server, you will have your custom category display in Control Panel.

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