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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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. The intended behavior of the Liferay Portal is to automatically reindex when any user is updated or created....

After you have enabled Staging (either Local Live or Remote Live) for a site, you will notice on the dockbar in your staging site that a new "Staging" drop-down menu appears that contains a green publish button. If you click on this button, a pop-up window will appear with several...

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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an XML-based open standard data format for exchanging authentication...

This article explains how to prevent users from accessing the Control Panel. Resolution This functionality can be achieved in the Control Panel: Navigate to Control Panel > Users and Organizations Under the Actions drop down menu, click on "Permissions" In the Permissions page, click on...

Remember that Liferay’s database and file system are generally separate data sources that need to be in sync as Liferay references the file system. When backing up, make sure that these sources are backed up in a way that ensures that the two sources remain in sync.  How can I ensure the...

Information about products not created by Liferay is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute Liferay Support recommendation nor endorsement. Liferay also does not assume any responsibility for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products....

n order for Liferay Sync to function properly, the application will need access to the Liferay Portal. In many environments, this is a straightforward connection. In some, however, the local firewall may result in the inability for Liferay Sync to work with the portal. Resolution If the...

This article highlights a known issue when using Liferay Sync and Liferay Portal 6.1 EE. Resolution While using Liferay Sync, a user may experience the following error when attempting to connect to an instance of the Liferay Portal: The portal version could not be verified. The minimum...

As many customers use the Liferay Document Library to store the bulk of their documents, a natural question arises pertaining to the data; namely, how much is too much? While this depends heavily on the specific environments, this article aims to answer the question for a generic...

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 successfully configuring Liferay with NTLM, a user can authenticate simply by clicking "Sign In" within...

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. Starting In Liferay Portal 6.1 EE,  there is a portal.property for enabling or disabling directory indexing for...

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...

This article outlines a practical suggestion for storing and referencing content in multiple sites. Following this suggestion will help prevent errors and permissions issues for users referencing documents, media, web content, and more from multiple sites. Resolution According to the...

This article outlines a practical suggestion for how to change or delete settings in live, embedded portlets. Resolution Liferay makes it possible to embed portlets in the layout template and in the theme. While changing portlet settings is very simple (just click the wrench!) for...

This article outlines a practical suggestion in the case of publishing updated content permissions from a staging environment to a remote live environment. Following this suggestion will ensure that the updated permissions are indeed published to live. Resolution Due to the nature of how...

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 principles is the responsibility of the subscriber. This is a guide for...

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.  This article describes one Liferay properties that may increase the speed of both search and indexing in your...

This article describes several cases in which a user can receive a password policy. Resolution Here are several use-cases outlining how password policies are applied in Liferay Portal. Case 1 When a user and all organizations that the user is a member of don't have a password policy,...

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...

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 following article contains relevant information for using some of the more common browsers with Liferay....

This article briefly describes a deployment error that can be easily avoided by simply ensuring that the portal's activation key is deployed before any plugins are deployed. If an application is deployed prior to an activation key being registered, there will be a message in the log file...

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 principles is the responsibility of the subscriber. This article is a legacy...

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 attempting to use the core Search Portlet within the Liferay Portal, the results displayed do not include...

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. As many Liferay subscribers use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to manage their users, this article...

The Jasper Reports Plugin is designed to work with the Reports Portlet in order to enhance the report capabilities of reporting programs such as iReport. This article will demonstrate how to install and use the Jasper plugin. Resolution Download Jasper Reports Web via the Help Center....

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...

In compliance to the European Union Cookie Directive, please see the following articles in reference to cookies that Liferay has set upon at login. Resolution How HTTP Cookies are being used in Liferay DXP 7.0 and above How HTTP Cookies are being used in Liferay Portal 6.2 Additional...

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...

Information about products not created by Liferay is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute Liferay Support recommendation nor endorsement. Liferay also does not assume any responsibility for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. 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. This article provides you with three things: A basic description of AlloyUI Outlines some of the benefits of using...

Liferay platform "friendly URLs" allow you to create smaller, user-friendly URLs instead of the large, standard ones that the portlet creates. If you try using special characters in the friendly URL, such as changing /web/guest/home with any combination of special characters, they do not...

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) has been redesigned to include new functionality. The following list is a summary of what is new to Liferay DXP. Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Foundation OSGi Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) is a framework that allows for modular...

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 principles is the responsibility of the subscriber. This article will...

This article documents a known issue that may arise while deploying Liferay Sync Connector 4.0.1 (the latest version at the time of this writing). If users deploy Sync Connector 4.0.1 .lpkg file on Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.0, there may be an error which will cause the...

NTLM (NT Lan Manager) is a suite of Microsoft security protocols that provides authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to users. When Liferay Portal is successfully integrated with NTLM, Active Directory users who are logged in will be able to seamlessly log into Liferay Portal....

The details of this article may also be covered in Configuring Liferay's LDAP Settings to Import Users. This article provides a comprehensive walkthrough for integrating an Active Directory Server with Liferay Portal. By integrating Active Directory with Liferay Portal, you will be able...