Creation Resources Available for Guest Users

Overview

If you implement a public web-site on Liferay, you need it’s content to be publicly available. By default, when you invoke the Liferay API to create some resource (document, web content, etc.) - it’s not created in such a way. But it’s easy to make it work. 

Implementation

When you invoke the Liferay API to create some resource you need - you’ll notice it accepts the ServiceContext object. 

To make the resource available for Guest user - use:  

serviceContext.setAddGuestPermissions(true);

To make the resource available for Site Members - use: 

serviceContext.setAddGroupPermissions(true);

This is a sample code for File Entry:

ServiceContext serviceContext = new ServiceContext();

serviceContext.setUserId(userId);

serviceContext.setScopeGroupId(groupId);

if (setViewPermission) {

  serviceContext.setAddGroupPermissions(true);

  serviceContext.setAddGuestPermissions(true);

}

FileEntry fileEntry = _dlAppLocalService.addFileEntry(

     userId,

     groupId,

     folderId,

     title,

     mimeType,

     preparedTitle,

     "",

     "",

     bytes,

     serviceContext

);

If you check the permissions for the created file - you’ll see, that VIEW permissions is available for Guest and Site Member users:

Enjoy 😏