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This article describes how to get a Social Office instance up and running for the Liferay Portal. Resolution Activation key In order to use Social Office EE, users will require an activation key. Users can check if they have one by going to liferay.com > Account > License > App. If there...

This guide shows you how to integrate Liferay Portal with WSO2's Identity Server. These are the basic settings with the goal of setting the user on the right track. Resolution Install, Start and Setup WSO2 Download the binary package here: WSO2 Identity Server. You will need to register...

This article is on how to deploy Liferay Portal on JBoss EAP 5.2. Resolution First Steps Liferay Home, by default, is one folder above JBoss EAP 5.2’s install location. Download and install JBoss EAP 5.2 into your preferred directory. This directory is referred to...

This article describes how to set up a SharePoint repository to be used with the Documents and Media portlet of Liferay Portal. For versions of the SharePoint Connector Application prior to version 2.0.5, the sections for Example Repository Setup: Sharepoint from our Using External...

This article documents how to set up Liferay Portal using a war on Tomcat 7. Resolution 1. Gather the Necessary Files Download and unzip the most recent supported version of Tomcat 7. Download the most recent Liferay WAR, source code, and dependencies. 2. Dependency Jars Create a folder...

This article documents how to deploy Liferay Portal on WebSphere 8. 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 Liferay Portal—from 6.1 onward—allows hot deploys in WebSphere....

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 Liferay Portal from 6.1 onwards allows hot deploys in Websphere. To...

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 to setup all the components. Some key parts: Setup a virtual...

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 explains...

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...

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, and image paths on their HTML page are correct; the Liferay...

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 following steps comprise a basic example to demonstrate the ability to share web content across sites....

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, create a theme using the Liferay platform theme template and run the following command: mvn...

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: Navigate to Control Panel > Users and Organizations, and create an organization named Test with an...

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 6.1 & 6.2 Resolution Please note: For the following procedures we will use...

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 remote repository. This package doesn’t release EE versions of the artifacts to Maven Central...

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 it as an expando type. Resolution To change the storage type, you can override the default property...

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 is not created and the time stamp is not updated. Resolution With the introduction of LPS-37702...

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 then exporting a LAR of the page. Next, use the following property in...

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 programs or, as in the case of this article, another instance of Liferay...

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: Deploy the Web Form portlet to a page Click on the wrench and select...

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 means that Social Office no longer requires a separate...

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 source code. This is expected in Alloy Editor, as the design of Web...

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 Liferay Portal. For further instruction, see Installing Liferay Portal in a Clustered Environment....

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 regular facebook account and a developer facebook account. To obtain a...