setting look and feel settings on a non-instancable portlet embedded in the theme

freemarker.ftl

<#assign locPortletId = "82" />

<#assign PortletPreferencesFactoryUtil = staticUtil["com.liferay.portlet.PortletPreferencesFactoryUtil"] />
<#assign portletSetup = PortletPreferencesFactoryUtil.getLayoutPortletSetup(layout, locPortletId) />

<#if portletSetup.getValue("portletSetupShowBorders", "") != "false" >
	<#assign temp = portletSetup.setValue("portletSetupShowBorders", "false") />
	<#assign temp = portletSetup.store() />
</#if>

${theme.runtime(locPortletId, "", "")}

velocity.vm

#set ($locPortletId = "82")

#set ($PortletPreferencesFactoryUtil = $portal.getClass().forName("com.liferay.portlet.PortletPreferencesFactoryUtil"))
#set ($portletSetup = $PortletPreferencesFactoryUtil.getLayoutPortletSetup($layout, $locPortletId))

#if ($portletSetup.getValue("portletSetupShowBorders", "") != "false")
	#set ($temp = $portletSetup.setValue("portletSetupShowBorders", "false"))
	#set ($temp = $portletSetup.store())
#end

${theme.runtime($locPortletId, "", "")}

Thank you for the freemarker staticUtil example. It helped me to figure out how to get a reference to com.liferay.portal.service.ServiceContextThreadLocal to extract the http request parameters from the web content template: https://gist.github.com/pavelfomin/282dd597d4e88678866d

Hi Raymond,

How best can i customize a web form portlet embedded inside my theme. Below has my web form code and hooks haven't been of help in customising this portlet.

Kindly, suggest a fix.
Cheers

set ($locPortletId = "1_WAR_webformportlet_INSTANCE_" + $group_id)

set ($portletPreferencesFactoryUtil = $portal.getClass().forName("com.liferay.portlet.PortletPreferencesFactoryUtil"))

set ($portletSetup = $portletPreferencesFactoryUtil.getLayoutPortletSetup($layout, $locPortletId))

$theme.runtime("$locPortletId", "", $velocityPortletPreferences.toString())
$velocityPortletPreferences.reset()