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Documents and Media Library Capacity
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...
Implementing NTLM Seamless Login
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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable.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...
Enabling or Disabling Directory Indexing
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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable.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...
Wiki Permission Details
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....
Using the Global Scope when linking assets from multiple sites for Staging
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,...
Changing Settings in Live, Embedded Portlets
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 Content Permissions from Staging Environment to Remote Live
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...
Guide for Document and Media Library in Liferay Portal 6.1 and 6.2
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...
Increasing the Speed of Search/Indexing Times
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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable.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...
How Password Policies are Applied in Liferay
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...
Granting users permission to customize site pages
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,...
Liferay Information for Common Browsers
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...
Activation Key Files Must Be Deployed Before Deploying Plugins
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...
Guide for Document Library 5.2 and 6.0
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...
Portal Search Results Do Not Include Knowledge Base Articles
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...
LDAP Frequently Asked Questions
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...
Utilizing Jasper Reports Plugin in Liferay
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...
Creating a Role That Allows Users to Impersonate Other Users
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]...
List of Cookies That Are Affected at Liferay Login
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...
Changing Permissions of all Web Content Display Portlets
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...
Issues with Using IBM J9 JDK
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...
Setting Up the Patching Tool in Weblogic
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...
Patching Tool v21
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,...
Addressing the 'WARNING: Some of the currently installed fixes are not available' Patching-Tool Error
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....
Liferay Sync Frequently Asked Questions
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...
Introduction to AlloyUI
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...
Vocabulary and Category Management for Staging
This article outlines a practical suggestion for managing the use of categories and vocabularies in a way that prevents publication errors due to dependencies.  Resolution When working within a site, a user may...
Page Reordering for Staging
This article outlines a practical suggestion for performing a page reordering in a staged environment. Following the suggestion below will ensure that pages are reordered without the publish taking an inordinate...
Spring Framework Security Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1270, CVE-2018-1271, CVE-2018-1272
QUESTION: How are Liferay Digital Enterprise 7.0 and Liferay Portal affected by the Spring Framework Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1270, CVE-2018-1271, and CVE-2018-1272? Resolution Impact to Liferay CVE-2018-1270: Liferay...
Disabling the Authentication System and Delegating It to an LDAP Server
By default, the Liferay platform always uses its own authentication system that checks and validates the user password in its own database. Even if you enable LDAP settings and set it...
Creating Numeric Screen Names
This article describes how numeric screennames can be used in Liferay Portal. Resolution Set the following property to true in the portal-ext.properties file that will override the...
Patch Management Best Practices
The principles below are adopted from general industry standard patch management best practices. Following these will help mitigate the risk of change on production servers. Awareness Liferay communicates the...
Configuring Lucene to Reindex Less Aggressively on Liferay Portal
In Liferay Portal, after completing a large LDAP import, performance may suffer because Lucene is set to re-index after every change. For example, if there are 15,000 users, Lucene will perform an index after each user is...
Limitations When Using Pjax to Render Embedded Content
This article describes a fundamental product limitation when pjax is used to render programmatically nested content in Liferay platforms. (Pjax is a jQuery plugin, a standalone JavaScript module that uses AJAX...
Correcting Translations in the Liferay Platform
When installing Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.0 or any Liferay Portal version, portal administrators have the option to leverage any of the translations that come with the default installation. This...
Configuring LDAP to Ignore Attributes During the Import Process
This article describes how specific LDAP attributes can be ignored during LDAP user import. Sometimes, users may change some information on the Liferay Portal. When the next scheduled...
Changing the Default Title or Description of a Portlet System-wide
The title of a portlet is determined by the language properties files and may be changed system-wide by using a language ext properties file similar to portal-ext.properties. Resolution To demonstrate how to change the...
Splitting Blog Information Into Different Pages
Through the Blog Portlet, there is a unique functionality where Blog information can be split into different pages. Resolution To achieve this functionality, start by going to the...
Optimizing Lucene
In most cases, optimizing Lucene is helpful; in larger deployments it is a necessity. This article aims to explain the relevant settings for optimizing Lucene and provide links to...
Configuring the automatic email notification URLs to display the correct port number
When an email notification is sent out, the template for the message may not be referencing the correct port within the URL. For example, the email may show the URL as...