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This article details how to optimize the Announcement portlet using the Customize Announcement Displayed feature in Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.1. The Announcements app allows users to broadcast important information to different groups of users. Each announcement can be...

Beginning with DXP 7.1, the Liferay platform makes use of Clay, which is the implementation of Lexicon 2.0 and the Lexicon Experience Language. This version provides improved accessibility with the offering of high contrast color schemes. For a first-hand look, check out the Alerts page...

This article documents how to use the custom validation script feature in the Web Form Portlet on Liferay DXP 7.0. Users might have used the same feature on Liferay Portal 6.2 and wonder which features are the same and what has changed. Please note that these instructions are for the...

This article documents the basic steps users need to execute in order to set up their instance of Liferay DXP as SP, and OKTA as IdP. Resolution OKTA Configuration Log in to OKTA and navigate to Admin > Add Application (Shortcuts in the right menu) > Create New App. Select SAML 2.0....

Creating and Upvoting Feature Requests As an open-source company, Liferay has always valued community feedback and suggestions to help us continually improve our products. To request for a new feature or suggest enhancements to existing ones, post your ideas in the dedicated Product...

There may be instances in which an administrator would like to disable the ability for the creator of blog entries to receive email notifications when an entry is added or updated, or when comments are added.  Resolution The following are the relevant properties that you can set and edit...

This article provides step-by-step instructions on how Liferay Portal, or Liferay Digital Enterprise 7.0, administrators can enable and leverage the user reminder queries. In addition, this article also documents how end users can customize their password reminder questions. Resolution...

By default, the page title in Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.x displays in the format of Page Name - (Site Name) -  Portal Name. This article documents how to change the portal name so that all page titles contain your desired portal name. Resolution Execute the following steps....

This article documents changes to the MVCActionCommand type of commands after Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 11 is deployed. This change most affects developers building portlets in Liferay IDE tools (e.g. Liferay Developer Studio or Liferay Blade). Before Fix Pack 11, developers did not have...

What is OAuth? It is a utility that authorizes third party applications to interact with the Liferay platform. The example from our official documentation is worth repeating here; users can make Twitter or Facebook available on Liferay Portal or DXP. To gain access to Facebook or...

This article describes the two uses of the data migration tool in the system administration section of Liferay Portal. The Data Migration Tool is fully supported for Liferay Portal 6.2 and below. It has been deprecated in DXP 7.0. Note: The tool migrates only Liferay data; that is, data...

Issue The purpose lt of this article is to provide instructions on how to redirect users to a custom page in case of error code 404; instead of displaying the default page.  Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution There are two alternative approaches: With a custom site page: Create a page from...

This article describes how to generate Liferay SAML metadata from a web browser. SAML metadata in an XML file is configuration data required to automatically negotiate agreements between system entities, comprising identifiers, binding support and endpoints, certificates, keys,...

This article describes the process of obtaining a Liferay Portal Activation Key once the order has been placed and invoiced. Resolution Liferay customers can manage their projects and activate products through Liferay's Customer Portal. Please refer to the following video tutorials for...

Very often a Liferay Portal or Liferay DXP instance resides inside a private network and—due to a company's security policy—while it can serve content to the public Internet, it cannot access the Internet by default. In such cases, cloud-based services—like Marketplace App Activation and...

This article documents how to make use of four different position taglibs while using the Liferay platform. The four taglibs are: BodyBottomTag, BodyTopTag, HtmlBottomTag and HtmlTopTag. These taglibs will position the code that is included within them at the top or bottom of the...

This article documents how to set up Liferay DXP 7.0 as SP and WSO2 as IdP. Resolution WSO2 configuration 1. Download wso2is-5.3.0.zip from the WSO2 site and extract the file to a dedicated directory. 2. Go to wso2is-5.3.0/bin and run command $sh wso2server.sh to start wso2 server if you...

This article introduces and documents some of the key concepts that need to be understood for working with Liferay Single-Page Application (SPA). Please see Senna.js documentation for more information.  Single-Page Application Even modest improvements in latency can have measurable...

The RSS Publisher widget has been hidden in DXP 7.1. It was included in the release, but hidden by changing the display category property to category.hidden. If you want to unhide the RSS Publisher widget, execute the following steps: Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution Create a new...

This article documents how to set up Clam Antivirus with the Liferay platform on Windows for testing purposes. The goal is to scan documents for viruses when they are being uploaded. Resolution Download ClamWin for Windows. You can update to a more recent version after installation. For...