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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. If you are looking for the source code for a plugin that you have downloaded from tLiferay Marketplace, you can...

This article explains the limitations of the patching tool (v22 and earlier) when detecting changes to the portal's JSP files. Resolution When customizations are deployed to the portal, the patching tool sometimes warns the developers to update the hooks that are deployed. This is an...

Websphere is a complex application server that does not behave like Tomcat, making its patching process slightly different Resolution There are two ways to patch Liferay Portal in Websphere, but in both ways it is very important that Websphere, along with any nodes in a cluster, is shut...

This article will walk through the basic steps that can be used to check for code collisions between a new fix pack or hotfix and custom plugins. NOTE: This procedure requires that the patches being installed include the source code. This option is available for Patching Tool v. 19 - v....

The Patching Tool 1.0.23 is a maintenance release which includes fixes and minor updates. This article outlines improvements to the Patching tool, Steps on How to configure the Patching Tool behind a proxy server, Known Issues, Bug Fixes, as well as information on changes to this...

This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. The Patching Tool v22 is a maintenance release which includes fixes and minor updates. This article describes new...

This article describes steps for customers to patch Liferay instances in a cluster with no down time for the cluster environment. Known as a rolling change, there are limitations to this method; DO NOT use this method if the fix pack or hotfix makes changes to the database schema and if...

This article documents a known issue in LPE-15180 where users are able to access web content functions without proper permissions. This vulnerability was fixed by the Portal-143-6210 Fix Pack. However, this fix was limited to only newly created web content. Resolution To patch this issue...

After installation of a new hotfix, the dockbar fails to display and an error message can be found in the logs: ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-1][LiferayMethodExceptionEventHandler:34]com.liferay.portal.kernel.portlet.PortletContainerException:...

The Patching Tool 1.0.24 is a maintenance release which includes fixes and minor updates.  Resolution Release Highlights Minor visual updates in the info command. Resolves a problem that prevented the application of patches on WebSphere Improves the index-info command to show DB...

Wiki Permissions can be "layered" because of the multiple permissions that can go into it. This article aims to explain the different levels that wiki permissions can happen on. Resolution Permission to the wiki can be set in the following levels: Wiki node level User level Portlet Level...

Permission to customize site pages can be granted to users via the "page customization" feature. Resolution To enable "Page Customization" on a desired page: In the control panel, navigate to the Site Pages. Within the Site Pages, select the page which you would like to enable "Page...

Below are the steps on how to create a role that allows users to impersonate other users. Resolution Add a role Define Permissions Portal: General [Go to Control Panel, Impersonate] Portal: Users [Organization: View; User: View, Impersonate] Control Panel (Portal): Users [Access in...

This article describes how to change permissions across multiple Web Content Display Portlets at the same time. Resolution If a template is created that contains multiple Web Content Display portlets, they are not visible by default to the Guest user of the website. If you try to access...

When running Liferay Portal's Patching Tool with IBM J9 as the Java version with multiple hotfixes, the patching-tool info command, and other patching tool commands may fail. Resolution The root cause of this issue is that the fix pack XML descriptor is not properly read when many...

This article details how to set up the Liferay patching tool in a Weblogic based environment. Resolution To begin, unzip the patching-tool parallel to the domain server in use. For example, if using base_domain found in C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains, then put the...

Since the release of the last Patching Tool v20, we have been busy implementing new improvements that will enhance the user experience as well as the Support engineers’ ability to assist users. Starting with version 21, the Patching Tool will log the installed patch levels of your portal...

When attempting to install patches with the Patching-Tool Install command, an error message is generated, which states:  Running install would revert some of the previous fixes. Installation process is stopped. Resolution The patching-tool generates this warning to indicate that there...

Liferay Portal fix packs and hotfixes will often update, not only JSPs, but also classes. In order to ensure that your custom projects continue to use the most up-to-date code, please follow these guidelines Resolution Use the latest Patching Tool found here: Patching Tool download page....

This article documents some of the more complex use cases when granting permissions to a site. Who can be site members? I am having trouble adding user groups to a site; the user groups are not displaying. I don't want site Members to have permissions to add content to a page. How can I...