Capability

Personalization

Liferay provides powerful out-of-the-box features for building and delivering personalized experiences to users. Personalization features empower you to deliver novel site experiences that differ based on defined user segments, design and execute A/B Tests, and more.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Unable to Build a DXP 7.1 Theme in Developer Studio
This article documents a known issue when building a theme in DXP 7.1, using Developer Studio 3.3. Steps to Reproduce Start Liferay Developer Studio 3.3 with a 7.1 workspace project. Go to New --> Liferay Module...
Utilizing the Validation Feature Within the Web Form Portlet
This article contains a brief example for how to effectively manage validation in the web forms portlet. Resolution Note that following the below reproduction steps (or something similar) will produce an error:...
Virtual LDAP Server Plugin Setup
The following article gives a basic use case for Liferay's Virtual LDAP Server Plugin. Liferay's EE Virtual LDAP plugin turns Liferay portal into a virtual LDAP server that can be accessed by external LDAP explorer...
Liferay Portal 6.1 Documentation
Documentation Using Liferay Portal 6.1 Whitepapers Portlet and Feature Overview WCM Quick Start Guide  , content: Documentation Using Liferay Portal 6.1 Whitepapers Portlet and Feature Overview WCM Quick Start Guide  ,...
Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.0
Thank you for choosing an Enterprise Subscription to Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.0. Liferay DXP 7.0 allows you to create and connect personalized digital experiences across web, mobile, and connected devices....
Solr 3.5.0 setup guide
The following article outlines a step-by-step guide of connecting Liferay 6.2 EE to Solr 3.5.0 for the purpose of testing. Please note that for Liferay Portal 6.2 EE, the supported...
Configuring reCAPTCHA v2 in Liferay Portal 6.2 EE
This article outlines how to configure reCAPTCHA version 2 in Liferay Portal 6.2.  Google is sunsetting reCAPTCHA v1 and as of March 2018 all v1 API calls will no longer work. In response to this "End of Life"...
Liferay Maven Troubleshooting Guide
This article is a troubleshooting guide to assist with common errors in using Liferay Maven SDK. The information listed below is applicable to all Liferay Portal versions.  Resolution...
Setting Up Liferay Portal 6.2 on Tomcat 6
Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. Liferay is not responsible for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. Any implementation of these...
Unable to Remove Tags and Categories With Local Staging in Portal 6.2
Since the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 users have been able to publish the deletion of major entities. This includes the removal of Web Content Articles, Documents and Media files, etc. However, for Tags and...
Linking to Unpublished Pages for Staging
This article outlines a practical suggestion for preventing errors by keeping the order of publishing and referencing pages in mind when staging. Following the suggestion will help prevent broken links from appearing...
Knowledge Base Search Operators
This article lists a few simple search operators that may be used to improve search results within the Liferay Support Knowledge Base. Resolution While the current search capabilities...
Exporting Web Content Does Not Include Past Versions
Liferay Portal users can export and import the contents of the Web Content Display portlets as a Liferay Archive (LAR). When exporting a LAR from the Web Content Display Portlet, the...
Permissioning Documents as a Site Member
This article explains an issue that arises even after applying a fix for LPS-34514 (this LPS ensures that the option "Site Members" is only shown in the role selection box if the user really had the permission to...
Liferay Service Packs
This article aims to clarify what a Service Pack is, and the two methods that may be used to achieve the latest Service Pack level. Resolution For most versions of the Liferay platform, a Service Pack (e.g. 6.2 EE...
Preventing Inaccurate or Incomplete PDF Document Previews
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. Generating...
Unable to Move a Search Portlet in a Custom Page Template When Using Default Classic Theme
If you are using the Liferay platform's default classic theme when creating a page template, the search and navigation portlets are added by default. You cannot move or remove those portlets from the page template....
Message Boards Do Not Work On MySQL Unless Character Set is UTF-8
When the MySQL database is using a character set that is not UTF-8 (such as Latin1), new message boards posts with special characters like the one in the below screenshot cannot be published. You will see a, Message...
Exceptions when remote staging in a clustered environment
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. In a...
Setting Operating System Permissions in the Liferay Portal 6.2 EE Tomcat Bundle
In the process of building the Tomcat bundle, some read/write/execute permissions may be lost for your operating system. Resolution To regain access to the various files and folders in...
Enabling or Disabling Permission to Edit Specific Fields in the My Account Portlet
This article demonstrates how portal administrators can enable or disable permissions to edit specific fields in the My Account portlet in Liferay Portal 6.2. By default any user...
Common Errors When Applying CSS in DXP 7.1
This article documents the CSS in Web Content Management and lists steps to resolve the issue or avoid it altogether. Resolution Error: CSS in the template is not applied to web content articles Summary: Users who...
Staging Basics and FAQ
Here at Liferay, we want to help you complete your project in an efficient and timely manner. So we compiled a list of strategies to avoid some issues when using the Staging feature. Feel free to use this resource as...
Including Patching Tool Info With a Help Center Ticket
In the process of reproducing customer issues, it is critical that the patches in a given environment be made available to the Liferay Support Engineer who will be assisting you. This article describes how to capture...
Downloading the Source Code for Plugins in Liferay Marketplace
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...
Virtual hosts error caused by search engine robots
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. During the...
Syncing between Servers with different groupIDs causes Liferay Sync to crash
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. After...
Creating a Folder for a Specific Team
With the advent of teams in Liferay Portal, the portal administrator now has greater flexibility in managing site membership. This article outlines a method for creating a set of...
WstxEOFException End of file exception errors while upgrading with SQL Server
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. When...
Blank page with “No Group exists with the key {companyId=0, groupKey=Guest}” error in log
Issue After restarting portal, the page turns into a blank page. The following error is reported in the log: 2019-04-03 04:27:28.258 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-5][PortalInstances:162]...
Elasticsearch Connector Configuration: Reference
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Using MS ADFS & Liferay SAML Integration
Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. Liferay is not responsible for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. Any implementation of these...
Site Roles Are Incorrectly Assigned or Lost When They Are Selected from Different Pages
This article documents a bug in the search container with any list of selectable items. It was discovered that site administrators could not assign a Site Role if that Site Role is not listed on the first page. Roles...
Back Navigation Breaks Dialogs in iOS Safari
Summary There is a known issue with iOS Safari while using history.pushState(), which is an API that Liferay uses. Issues outside of Liferay can be found at: Stack Overflow: Alert, Confirm, and Prompt Not...
Known Issue: Drag and Drop Pages Under Link to URL Type Pages is Working, But the Configuration is Not Saved
Issue When you drag and drop pages under Link to URL type pages, it appears as if the structure changes, but after refreshing the browser, the page order is not saved. Resolution This is a known issue, and the reason that...
Expired Articles Are Still Showing up in the Live Site After Publishing
Issue If you schedule an article to be expired on a certain date and time, after publishing the article to the live site you may find the article is not expired. There are a few possible reasons for this behavior described...
Remove the Ability to Add JavaScript in the Control Panel's Site Pages
Issue Disable the ability to add JavaScript to pages on DXP 7.0 and thus prevent malicious code injections. Environment  DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 60+ This functionality was introduced in DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 60 Resolution Install...
Known Issue: Modification Dates of All the Versions of a Web Content are Updated After Expiring it
This article documents a known issue related to the modified dates of Web Content versions. Issue Expiring a Web Content when System Setting Expire All Article Versions Enabled is checked, will update the modified...
Does Liferay DXP use WebDAV HTTP methods?
Issue Our security team wants to restrict the HTTP methods that are allowed through our firewall. Does Liferay DXP use WebDAV HTTP methods such as: PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, UNLOCK Environment...
Changing the total number of fields in the index for Elasticsearch through DXP
This article documents how to increase the maximum number of fields in the Elasticsearch index through the Control Panel in DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3.  The default settings are set to 7500 fields and there is normally...