How to add section(category) in control panel

1. Override the class PortletCategoryKeys (in ext-impl\src\com\liferay\portal\util\PortletCategoryKeys.java)

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package com.liferay.portal.util; /**  * @author apoorva.prakash  *  */ public class PortletCategoryKeys {  public static final String CONTENT = "content";  public static final String MY = "my";  public static final String PORTAL = "portal";  public static final String SERVER = "server";  public static final String MYCATEGORY = "mycategory";  public static final String[] ALL = {MY, CONTENT, MYCATEGORY , PORTAL, SERVER}; }

Put the category in ALL array in the order you wish to appear your category.

2. Now add portlet in this category using the following entry in liferay-portlet-ext.xml file

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<portlet>     <portlet-name>portlet_id</portlet-name>  <control-panel-entry-category>mycategory</control-panel-entry-category>  <control-panel-entry-weight>1</control-panel-entry-weight> </portlet>

here  portlet_id is the id of the portlet that you wish to add in our custom category. Specify the name of the category in <control-panel-entry-category> entry and sequence of portlet appearance in determined through <control-panel-entry-weight>. The higher the weight, upper will be the portlet(weight can also be in floating number).

 

3. In portlet.xml file,  add role reference

<security-role-ref>
        <role-name>role-name</role-name>
</security-role-ref>

 

4. in liferay-portlet.xml add role mapper

<role-mapper>
    <role-name>role-name</role-name>
    <role-link>actual-role-name</role-link>
</role-mapper>

5. Now an important point, we must enter the category name entry in language-ext.properties file in ext-impl/src/content, so that our category can be recognized, otherwise you'll get category name as "category.mycategory"

1	category.mycategory=My New Category

That's all I did, hope will work for you too.

 

6.  In resources/resource-actions/default.xml write permission

<supports>
 <action-key>ACCESS_IN_CONTROL_PANEL</action-key>
 <action-key>VIEW</action-key>
</supports>

 

7. point to this file in resources/portlet.properties

resource.actions.configs=resource-actions/default.xml