Liferay: How to fetch the first 3 items from an asset publisher?

Question

In Liferay I have used the asset publisher to publish news on my news page. I want to fetch the 3 top news from the page and embed it into another page. How can I do this? The page URL containing the news links looks like the following:

Liferay.Widget({ url: 'http://test.com/testnews/101_INSTANCE_f22'});

Liferay itself has a property where one can share an asset publsiher instance any where else on a site, but that is not exactly what I want. So any help or guidance is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Problem solved. Here is the solution with jQuery:

 $.get('http://test.com/news/', function(data) {
      var top3links = $(data).find('a:lt(3)');
      $('#top3').html(top3links); // });

Answer 2

If you want only links then you can set display style 'title-list' (this will take you to the article on the main news page). if you want to open the link in another page, change asset link behavior to 'View in a specific portlet'. You can change the look of asset publisher to whatever design you want. follow the path look & feel --> advanced styling --> Copy the portlet id. Now by using mozilla firefox pick the class,tags,etc. and write your css code. This will override the basic design. E.g.

#p_p_id_101_INSTANCE_8f5JPIxv8ml0_ .asset-abstract {
    width: 25%;
    float: left;
}

Answer 3

Is there a particular reason why you don't want to configure another AssetPublisher on the second page? You can just use the identical configuration, but limit the number of results shown to 3 - done.