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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
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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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable.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
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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
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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,...
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,...
Displaying Web Content Across Multiple Sites
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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...
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...
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:...
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...
Adding Portlets to Users' Private Pages By Default
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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...
Adding a Tag, Category, or Related Asset Does Not Increment the Version or Update the Time Stamp
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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...
Virtual LDAP Server Plugin Setup
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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
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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
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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...
Setting up Solr on Linux with JBoss
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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...
Unable to Include 'form' Attribute in Alloy Editor for the Web Content Portlet
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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...
New UI Features in Liferay Portal 6.2
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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....