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Removing Default Document Types and Page Templates
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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...
Removing Older Versions of a Portlet When Deploying a Newer Version
legacy How To
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...
Verifying Section 508 Compliance for Liferay Portal
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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...
Remote Staging Setup for Liferay Portal and DXP
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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...
Providing User Data in SAML AuthnResponse Packets
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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...
Patching a Liferay Cluster With No Down Time
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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...
Liferay's Clustering API
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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...
CKEditor Missing Buttons When Page is Not Maximized
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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...
Importing Contact and Custom Field Mappings From LDAP
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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...
Hiding or Restricting Access to Out-of-the-Box Liferay Portlets From Non-Administrator Users
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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...
Granting Specific Roles to be Associated With a User at Creation
legacy How To
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...
Getting Started With Liferay Maven SDK
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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. In this...
Disabling the Change Password Request When Users First Log In to Liferay
legacy How To
When a user first logs in to the Liferay Portal 6.1 EE, they are immediately prompted to change their password. Resolution While this request is the default setting, the setting can be...
Embedding an HTML Page as a Liferay Portal Page
legacy How To
This article describes how to use the HTML embed pages functionality. Liferay Portal pages are not just for displaying portlets. Users can also embed HTML documents as pages. It is up to the user to ensure that the CSS, JS,...
Displaying Web Content Across Multiple Sites
legacy How To
Displaying content across multiple sites in the same portal instance is an out-of-the-box Liferay feature. This article provides a basic example for achieving this. Resolution The...
Creating Liferay Themes With Maven
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This article contains a guide on how to add themes to a project using the Liferay Maven SDK. Resolution 1. Open command prompt or terminal and go to your project directory. 2. Next,...
Creating a Blogger Role
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This article documents how to create a blogger role with the ability to view, edit and publish blog posts. Resolution Follow these basic instructions to achieve the blogger role:...
Configuring Log4j Logging for the Audit Portlet in Liferay Portal EE
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This article demonstrates how to create a separate audit.YYYY-MM-DD.log file within ${liferay.home}/logfor audit INFO messages. It should roll over every day with this configuration.  Environment Liferay Portal EE...
Deploying Liferay Artifacts to Your Own Maven Repository
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As part of the Liferay Portal 6.1 release, anyone can download the created package that has a convenient script to install Liferay platform artifacts to their local repository or to a...
Changing the Storage Type When Using Dynamic Data List Data Definitions
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When working with Dynamic Data Lists, it is possible to create your own data definition. By default, the Liferay platform stores the data definition as an xml, but you may also store...