Support Liferay extended portlet modes via LiferayGenericFacesPortlet

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.1-ga2, 3.0.1-legacy-ga2, 3.0.1-ga2, 3.1.1-ga2
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.2-ga3, 3.0.2-legacy-ga3, 3.0.2-ga3, 3.1.2-ga3
• Component/s: Liferay Faces Bridge
• Labels: None
• Similar Issues: Show 5 results ; ;

  FACES-20	Support PortletMode.EDIT and PortletMode.HELP and programatic mode switching
  FACES-1437	JSF bridge mechanism for Liferay Configure Mode
  FACES-288	PermissionsURLRenderer needs to set mode=view
  FACES-1410	Unable to view richfaces4-portlet via WSRP
  FACES-1301	Create 2.9.x branch in order to support Liferay 5.2.x

The Portlet API provides three portlet modes:
PortletMode.VIEW
PortletMode.EDIT
PortletMode.HELP

Liferay Portal provides some additional vendor-specific portlet modes:
LiferayPortletMode.ABOUT
LiferayPortletMode.CONFIG
LiferayPortletMode.EDIT_DEFAULTS
LiferayPortletMode.EDIT_GUEST
LiferayPortletMode.PREVIEW
LiferayPortletMode.PRINT

This task involves adding support for these Liferay portlet modes.

Example usage of "Print" mode:

In WEB-INF/portlet.xml, use the following portlet class:

<portlet-class>com.liferay.faces.bridge.GenericLiferayFacesPortlet</portlet-class>

Then specify a default JSF viewId for the mode:

<init-param>
	<name>javax.portlet.faces.defaultViewId.print</name>
	<value>/views/portletViewMode.xhtml</value>
</init-param>

And finally, add the print mode to the list of supported modes for the portlet:

<supports>
	...
	<portlet-mode>print</portlet-mode>
</supports>