How to add Custom Catagory in Liferay's Control Panel

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

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