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How to know if a page is private or public in Liferay theme?

As the tittle says... How to know if a page is private or public? I need to implement some logic in a velocity file from my custom theme only for private pages.

I found this page Access Objects from Velocity and it seems very useful but I need some help with the API because I don't know which utility class has a method for what I'm looking.

I thought in a workaround making my condition a theme property, but I don't want to depend from the admin user

Thank you

Solution

  • Artem Khojoyan's answer above is to the point.

    But I would like to add some more info.

    Page in liferay is represented by Layout object. Theme template supports layout as well as many more objects in the theme-template, which you can check in the class VelocityVariablesImpl. You can check statements like velocityContext.put("key","value"); where key is the variable you can use in velocity template as $key.

    So since $layout is nothing but the Layout object, you can use all the public instance methods of this Layout object in velocity.

    For every request, $layout in theme represents the current-page, which needs to be loaded.

    So finally you can do the following in your portal_normal.vm or init_custom.vm or any other *.vm you have in the theme:

    #if($layout.isPublicLayout())
  #*.. do something if it is public ...*#
#else
  #*.. do something if it is private ...*#
#end

    Hope this helps.