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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Migrating the users from one portal to another

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Prarthana Jadhav

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Issue

  • The requirement to import or migrate users from one Liferay Portal to the another Liferay Portal.

Environment

  • Liferay Portal 6.2

Resolution

  • Importing users between the environments is not currently available as an out of the box feature.
  • However, if you want to achieve this requirement, below are the approaches that can be implemented.
    • Export user to CSV file in the following way,
      Goto Control Panel > Users and Organizations you can select "Export Users".
      And you can opt for customization to import the users into another instance of Liferay.
    • LDAP for importing and exporting.
      Check box the import and export options for enabling importing the users,
      Goto Contro Panel-> Configurations-> Portal Settings-> Authentication-> Ldap-> Give the LDAP configurations-> checkbox the import and export options

Additional Information

  • User Export-Import Plugin: A Marketplace Plugin (Since this is a third-party plugin which is contributed by our community members, Liferay Support will not be able to assist with this plugin)
  • One of the resolutions requires customization and should only be implemented at the discretion of your team. Liferay Support will not be able to assist with designing or implementing customizations.
  • A feature request has been raised in LPS-33383. 
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