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Setting Up Liferay Portal on Websphere 7
This article is on how to deploy Liferay Portal on WebSphere 7 Resolution Before making any changes to the Websphere application server, stop the server first! Failure to do so can cause errors. The latest versions of...
Setting Up Clustering Liferay Portal on Azure
This article details what is needed to setup Liferay on the Microsoft Azure cloud Virtual Machine Setup Azure manages all instances as Virtual Machines. Create a new instance in the Azure Dashboard and follow the prompts...
Setting Up an Alfresco Repository
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Setting the Default Landing Page in Liferay Portal
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...
Setting Up a Nuxeo Repository
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...
Setting Up a Documentum Repository
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...
Removing Default Document Types and Page Templates
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Adding a Tag, Category, or Related Asset Does Not Increment the Version or Update the Time Stamp
This article documents a known issue with adding categories, tags or related assets to files in the Document and Media library. When you try to do this, a new version of the document...
Adding Portlets to Users' Private Pages By Default
This article describes how to add portlets to a user's private page by default. Resolution One way of achieving this is by creating a page anywhere in the portal with the pre-configured portlets you need, and...
Virtual LDAP Server Plugin Setup
The following article gives a basic use case for Liferay's Virtual LDAP Server Plugin. Liferay's EE Virtual LDAP plugin turns Liferay portal into a virtual LDAP server that can be accessed by external LDAP explorer...
Utilizing the Validation Feature Within the Web Form Portlet
This article contains a brief example for how to effectively manage validation in the web forms portlet. Resolution Note that following the below reproduction steps (or something similar) will produce an error:...
Social Office Upgrade
While Social Office was previously available as a separate application that could be installed on Liferay Portal EE, many of the components that were present in Social Office are now included within Liferay DXP 7.0. This...
Unable to Include 'form' Attribute in Alloy Editor for the Web Content Portlet
This article documents a known issue with the <form> attribute in Alloy Editor. When the <form> attribute is used for building submittable forms in HTML, Alloy Editor will convert <form> into <p> when added from HTML...
Setting up Solr on Linux with JBoss
This is an introductory guide to setting up Solr and then switching Liferay Portal's indexing method to Solr. Keep in mind that this is only one step in creating a cluster for use with...
Setting Up Basic Facebook Authentication With Liferay Portal
This article will provide a step-by-step guide to configuring the Facebook login feature in Liferay Portal.   Resolution Create Facebook Developer Account To begin, you will need two facebook accounts; that is, a...
New UI Features in Liferay Portal 6.2
This article outlines some of the big changes that have been made to the UI in Liferay Portal 6.2, and how to work with them. Liferay Portal 6.2 brings a set of improvements to the usability and user interface....
Setting up locales for use with Staging
This article describes how to successfully perform local-live staging with the use of language locales/translations. Resolution You will need to obtain hotfix-56 and apply it to your bundle. This fix removes an error that...
Setting Up Liferay Portal 6.1.x EE With WebLogic 11g Managed Server Settings
This article contains a basic guide for setting up Liferay 6.1.x in Weblogic 11gR1 with Managed Servers. Please note that this is not designed to be used in every specific environment; this is merely a simple guide...
Setting Up Liferay Portal 6.1 EE on JBoss 5.1 EAP
This guide will assist you in the startup of JBoss EAP 5.1 with Liferay 6.1 EE GA1. Resolution Download JBoss EAP    Download the liferay-dependencies.zip   Navigate...
Staging Options When Using the Publication Form
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...
Quick Start Guide to SAML on Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA2
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...