Access Custom Portlet Service in Velocity Template

To know how to access Liferay service in Velocity template look at this post .

Here are the steps to access services of custom portlet in velocity template.

1) Make sure the services which you want to access are available inside tomcat/lib/ext.

2) In order to access services you need to place below property inside portal-ext.

journal.template.velocity.restricted.variables=

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By default this property will be like this
journal.template.velocity.restricted.variables=serviceLocator

Which means you wont be able to access serviceLocator inside velocity template.
So make sure before you access any service inside velocity template change this property to
journal.template.velocity.restricted.variables=

3) Access services using findService Method.

	#set ($customLocalService = $serviceLocator.findService('my-profile-portlet', 'com.sample.portlet.myprofile.service.MyProfileDataLocalService'))<br />
	#set ($number=$customLocalService.getMyProfileDatasCount())<br />
	$number

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Normally we use findService(serviceName) method to access Liferay service.
But to access custom portlet service we have to use findService(contextName,ServiceName).

findService(serviceName) will search at the portal level and findService(servletContextName , serviceName) will search at specified portlet level.