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Users have the ability to set different default home, default landing pages, and default logout landing pages. There are two places where users can make these changes; in the portal-ext.properties, and in the Control Panel interface. This article describes how to set the default landing...

This article explains the basic steps to setup Nuxeo and to add a Nuxeo repository in the Documents and Media portlet. Resolution The following steps use Nuxeo 5.4.2. Start an existing Nuxeo VM. In the VM, if Nuxeo is not started, go to Start > Programs > Nuxeo DM > Nuxeo DM to start it....

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...

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...

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...

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 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....

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 changed via the control panel. Navigate to Control Panel > Password Policies In the Default Password...

Issue While examining our document library in a file system, we saw that the storage being used for preview files are taking up three times the amount of disk space as the storage for the original files uploaded to documents and media, leading to disk space usage issues. In particular,...

Issue As a developer, I would like to check what exact Bootstrap version is applied on the currently running DXP version (and patch level). Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution Navigate to DXP and open the browser console Insert the following line to console...

Issue You do not want your users to set up the password reminders answers on their first login. Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.x Resolution Add the following line to the portal-ext.properties: users.reminder.queries.enabled=false Restart the application Additional...

Issue Is it possible to change the blog title's font size from H3 to H1? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution To change the Blogs title in the Blogs portlet (Blogs list view): This title font size can be changed by customizing widget template for Blogs portlet as mentioned...