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Liferay will support our API and resolve any issues and answer any questions having to do with the API itself or any other part of Liferay's software. Issues and questions regarding custom development may be handled by our Global Services team or by the developer of those customizations....

This article explains the basic steps to set up Documentum and to add a Documentum repository in the Documents and Media portlet. Note: Integrating with Documentum requires the installation and deployment of the Documentum Connector EE hook. It can be obtained through Liferay...

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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. With "liferay-fix-pack-plugin-deployment-1-6120.zip" installed an error occurs while trying to access...

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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. Liferay is not...

In Liferay Portal 6.1.x, it became possible to create vocabularies (and thus categories) that only allow certain types of assets. For instance, it's possible to have a vocabulary and series of categories that are only available to blog posts. The same can be done for wiki pages and any...

This article documents the activation and setup errors in Remote Staging, and lists steps to resolve the issue or avoid it altogether. If users want to know about activating staging in general, please see Enable Remote Live Staging. Resolution Error: Users are unable to publish content...

There is currently a known issue for some Liferay customers using a clustered JBoss Web 7.0.16 Server (and previous versions) in which a memory leak occurs. According to the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 matrix, JBossWeb-7.0.16.Final is part of EAP 6.0.0. Resolution...

Important: Liferay will support our API and resolve any issues and answer any questions having to do with the API itself or any other part of Liferay's software. Issues and questions regarding custom development may be handled by our Global Services team or by the developer of those...

A user who is assigned to a role that can manage web content may encounter "Web Content is temporarily unavailable" error on the page. If the following error message shows up in the log, it means the user needs update permission on related custom fields. 00:45:31,439 ERROR...

This article describes how to have Liferay Portal undeploy and remove the previous version of the portlet before redeploying new version of the portlet. Resolution Liferay provides a portal.property to address this configuration: # Set this to true to undeploy a plugin before deploying a...

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 write their CSS in the Web Content Template will see that the web content...

When trying to share a Liferay portlet to an external site, users may encounter connection/authentication errors. Steps to Reproduce: Add Blog Portlet (or any portlet) to a page Add a Blog to the Blog Portlet Select Configuration > Sharing and copy the script and select to share to...

The following article describes how to detect Section 508 Compliance issues. Section 508 is an, "Amendment to the United States Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which is a federal law mandating that all electronic and information technology developed, procured, maintained, or used...

This article describes how to configure a basic remote staging setup on Liferay Portal and DXP. The troubleshooting guide at the end of the article pertains to Liferay Portal 6.2. Users who have upgraded to Portal 6.2 will see many changes and functionality from previous versions....

SAML communication occurs via request and response packets between an identity provider and a service provider. This article addresses how to provide user data within the response packets. The configuration will be done through portal-ext.properties. Affected Products Liferay Connector...

This article documents a known issue for users on Apache Tomcat 6.0.44, 7.0.69 or newer (including Tomcat 8) after Apache has issued a bug fix on those versions. When layout.parallel.render.enable=truehas been set, users might see the following errors in the console logs on Liferay...

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 article addresses known errors that are thrown when updating the Notifications Portlet when using an Oracle...

This article is regarding a performance issue that may surface when executing an LDAP import using the UserGroup method for a large amount of users. Specifically, the issue is that the import process could take longer than expected. The cause of this issue is that the SQL query ("SELECT...

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...

Liferay will support our API and resolve any issues and answer any questions having to do with the API itself or any other part of Liferay's software. Issues and questions regarding custom development may be handled by our Global Services team or by the developer of those customizations....

This article documents a known issue in the export process if any asset has a forbidden character in the name. These characters are usually reserved for HTML and XML and thus should not be used. In the case of exporting a page template as a .LAR, there is a console error and the export...

Liferay will support our API and resolve any issues and answer any questions having to do with the API itself or any other part of Liferay's software. Issues and questions regarding custom development may be handled by our Global Services team or by the developer of those customizations....

The Liferay schema encoding should always match the encoding used in the database. One of the easiest ways to do this is to simply use UTF-8 across the board so that no issues arise. Resolution If you decide use international characters or characters with accents on them, any other...

When strip.css.sass.enabled is set to true in the portal-ext.properties, a MalformedURLException will be thrown: ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-1][VirtualHostFilter:323] java.net.MalformedURLException: Path null does not start with a "/" character java.net.MalformedURLException: Path null...

In previous versions of Liferay Portal, there were two distinct ways to group things: Communities and Organizations. With Liferay Portal 6.1, these two options are still available, but they are handled differently. Sites now exist in lieu of communities, and organizations are implemented...

Liferay Portal Tcat Edition is a combination of Liferay Portal—the leading open source portal—and Tcat Server—an enterprise grade administration console for the Apache Tomcat application server. Tcat server provides serveral tools to make Tomcat more administrator friendly, especially in...

Between fix packs "portal-96" and "portal-109", there is a known issue with license handling. When the maximum connection limit is reached, the license page is displayed and the license itself is marked as invalid (see the picture below). You do not have the option to reset the...

When using patching-tool version 20 and below, corruptions of portal files can occur if a patch is installed when the portal is not completely shutdown, or if it is still running. Because of this, it is important to always shut down the portal completely prior to installing a patch....

Importing Large LAR files (100MB+) may fail in Liferay Portal. Below are some version-specific recommendations: For versions before DXP 7.1 Increase the size of the following property: com.liferay.portal.upload.UploadServletRequestImpl.max.size=104857600 Note: The default property within...

If the window size of the browser is not fully maximized, the CKEditor will not display all the buttons as when the browser is maximized. Resolution This behavior is a new feature implemented in Liferay Portal EE 6.2 to support mobile display. Since there are so many mobile devices being...

This article outlines known issues that exist in the Audience Targeting EE plugin for Liferay 6.2 and includes links to their respective tickets for more up-to-date progress on the particular issues. Resolution Please note that the following issues are related to the setup and usage of...

This article describes the methods that can be used during an import of a LAR file to update the data that is already present in the target Site. There are three data strategies that change the behavior for how the import process acts if the same entry is found in the Site. They are:...

The fix on LPS-55208 modifies LDAPUserExporterImpl (PortalLDAPExporterImpl in Portal 6.2 EE) in a way that the user is only exported to LDAP when the user's modifiedDate field changed. When you change the password for a user only, then the call stack is a bit different and the user...

In some environments it may be desirable to import a user's contact information from an LDAP server. This article explains how to import custom mappings as well as contact mappings from a Microsoft Active Directory LDAP server using the following properties: ldap.contact.mappings.0=...

This article outlines a specific known issue that exists within Liferay Portal 6.2 EE SP9 and provides a link to follow its resolution. At the time of release, there is one notable known issue with Liferay Portal 6.2 EE SP9. In this version of Liferay, the thumbnail images of folders may...

This article describes one method for how to restrict which users can add out-of-the-box (OOTB) portlets to pages. Resolution One option for limiting permissions to add OOTB Portlets to pages would be to limit the Add to Page permissions on the Liferay Portlets via the portlet-custom.xml...

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...

In some environments, every user that is created needs to be associated with a specific role. Instead of manually associating the role to every user by editing them after the user is created, there is a set of portal.properties that we can set so that all users created in the portal will...

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 documents a...

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 this article we'll start by creating a new parent project for your plugins and add a portlet project to it. You...