Deactivating and activating custom modules for a particular site in Liferay 7.4 (Part 1)

 

In Liferay 7.4 we can deactivate or activate a module for Liferay portal. This can be done using the components and app manager section from the control panel. 

But Liferay doesn’t provide any feature to activate or deactivate a module for a particular site. As it can be a necessary thing when we have multiple sites and want to limit modules for that. To achieve this in Liferay we must create a panel module, service builder and theme. In the following part we will create a panel module to list all custom modules and to give user the access to disable a module on a particular site. In second part we will create a service builder and theme. 

Creating a panel module (IntelliJ)

To show and let users perform action we need a module to display portlets and take user action.

To create a panel module this are the following steps: 

1. Go to File -> New -> Module
2. Select Liferay Modules 

3.Give the name to the module and choose the project type panel app.

1. This will create a panel module
2. After this to see all modules in view we need to add a render method that will give the list of all custom modules present on the portal.

The portlet will look like this: 

As we don’t have service builder and theme, we won’t be able to perform the active and deactivating functionality.

Conclusion

We have created a module to list all the custom modules and let the users have access to activate and deactivate modules for a particular site. In part 2 we will create a service builder and theme. 

Originally published by: https://www.inexture.com/deactivating-and-activating-liferay-objects/