I am trying to have a custom plugin portlet in liferay for which I can customize the view page with velocity or free-marker template like we have for Asset Publisher in Liferay 6.2.
Requirement
I have a screen for admin (CRUD) through which data would be added in my custom tables through this portlet and then there is a VIEW page for all other users.
Now this portlet can be deployed on different sites or different pages with page-scope and the requirement is that it should have a different look & feel for different pages. Currently we are handling this scenario through deploying different themes to configure the look & Feel of the portlet, but we also need some layout changes which is a limitation with themes.
So I was thinking if we can utilize something similar to a velocity template for the View page but I am not sure where to start and whether liferay provides some easy way to do this. So that we create a template and upload it in the configuration and the VIEW page UI is changed.
I would be grateful if there are some pointers to help me in this direction or atleast can say about the feasibility part of it or an alternative.
Thanks
Environment: Liferay 6.2 GA1
