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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. Several components have been reworked; some of them are inherited from...

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 requires en_US to be listed as a supported locale in...

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 to setting up Liferay on Weblogic.  Resolution How to set up Liferay...

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 to [L:/$JBOSS_BUNDLE/../server/default/lib]: Add the Liferay dependencies (hsql.jar, portlet.jar, portal-service.jar) Add...

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 click on this button, a pop-up window will appear with several...

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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable.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 an XML-based open standard data format for exchanging authentication...

This article explains how to prevent users from accessing the Control Panel. Resolution This functionality can be achieved in the Control Panel: Navigate to Control Panel > Users and Organizations Under the Actions drop down menu, click on "Permissions" In the Permissions page, click on...

As many customers use the Liferay Document Library to store the bulk of their documents, a natural question arises pertaining to the data; namely, how much is too much? While this depends heavily on the specific environments, this article aims to answer the question for a generic...

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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. After successfully configuring Liferay with NTLM, a user can authenticate simply by clicking "Sign In" within...

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. Starting In Liferay Portal 6.1 EE,  there is a portal.property for enabling or disabling directory indexing for...

This article outlines a practical suggestion for storing and referencing content in multiple sites. Following this suggestion will help prevent errors and permissions issues for users referencing documents, media, web content, and more from multiple sites. Resolution According to the...

This article outlines a practical suggestion for how to change or delete settings in live, embedded portlets. Resolution Liferay makes it possible to embed portlets in the layout template and in the theme. While changing portlet settings is very simple (just click the wrench!) for...

This article outlines a practical suggestion in the case of publishing updated content permissions from a staging environment to a remote live environment. Following this suggestion will ensure that the updated permissions are indeed published to live. Resolution Due to the nature of how...

Permission to customize site pages can be granted to users via the "page customization" feature. Resolution To enable "Page Customization" on a desired page: In the control panel, navigate to the Site Pages. Within the Site Pages, select the page which you would like to enable "Page...

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. When attempting to use the core Search Portlet within the Liferay Portal, the results displayed do not include...

The Jasper Reports Plugin is designed to work with the Reports Portlet in order to enhance the report capabilities of reporting programs such as iReport. This article will demonstrate how to install and use the Jasper plugin. Resolution Download Jasper Reports Web via the Help Center....

Below are the steps on how to create a role that allows users to impersonate other users. Resolution Add a role Define Permissions Portal: General [Go to Control Panel, Impersonate] Portal: Users [Organization: View; User: View, Impersonate] Control Panel (Portal): Users [Access in...

In compliance to the European Union Cookie Directive, please see the following articles in reference to cookies that Liferay has set upon at login. Resolution How HTTP Cookies are being used in Liferay DXP 7.0 and above How HTTP Cookies are being used in Liferay Portal 6.2 Additional...

This article describes how to change permissions across multiple Web Content Display Portlets at the same time. Resolution If a template is created that contains multiple Web Content Display portlets, they are not visible by default to the Guest user of the website. If you try to access...

This article details how to set up the Liferay patching tool in a Weblogic based environment. Resolution To begin, unzip the patching-tool parallel to the domain server in use. For example, if using base_domain found in C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains, then put the...