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3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

dblessing — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:30:32 GMT

I cannot seem to get the Alfresco portlets to work in Liferay. I am using Alfresco Community version 3.4.b and Liferay 6 (I have also tried Liferay 5.x with exact same results)I have followed all kinds of instructions, but the latest one I was trying was here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Doclib_P

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

twohitsix — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:12:15 GMT

Try to follow the instruction from here:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Portlets

Although not all the settings are correct for me, "My document library" portlet is working in Liferay 6.0.5 with Alfresco 3.4a.

The next thing I am trying to fix is the layout… looks like all item on the page is 'centered' and it is not expected… ops:

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

mikeh — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:27:49 GMT

The first wiki article is correct. Make sure you followed the Tomcat 6 instructions: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6

Thanks,
Mike

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

dblessing — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:51:03 GMT

One thing I've never understood from that Tomcat wiki is it's reference to shared/lib. What files is it expecting in that folder since it mentions it in the shared.loader? That may be the one thing I'm missing. Otherwise, I believe I've made necessary adjustments for that. Any other ideas? Thanks for the help.

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

mikeh — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:14:40 GMT

It's used to extend Share with jar files.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

dblessing — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:18:25 GMT

That's great. As long as I know nothing is supposed to go there initially. Makes sense. Thank you both for your input.

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

dblessing — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:38:32 GMT

I apologize for not being able to figure this out, but I'm hoping someone can provide more guidance. I have literally exhausted all efforts trying to integrate Liferay 5.2.3 and Alfresco. I have tried Alfresco Community 3.4.a, 3.4.b, and Enterprise 3.3.3. All have produced the same problem for me. I can deploy the portlets and can get both Alfresco and Liferay to work separately. When I add the portlets, I always get the same "Cannot retrieve user from the user factory." I am almost positive it has to be a config problem in share-config-custom.xml.
(Here it is, just to make sure I provide the info needed to help)

<alfresco-config>
  <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Remote">
    <remote>
      <endpoint>
        <id>alfresco-noauth</id>
        <name>Alfresco - unauthenticated access</name>
        <description>Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that do not require authentication</description>
        <connector-id>alfresco</connector-id>
        <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
        <identity>none</identity>
      </endpoint>
      <endpoint>
        <id>alfresco-feed</id>
        <name>Alfresco Feed</name>
        <description>Alfresco Feed - supports basic HTTP authentication</description>
        <connector-id>http</connector-id>
        <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
        <basic-auth>true</basic-auth>
        <identity>user</identity>
      </endpoint>
      <connector>
        <id>alfrescoCookie</id>
        <name>Alfresco Connector</name>
        <description>Connects to an Alfresco instance using cookie-based authentication</description>
        <class>org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.connector.AlfrescoConnector</class>
      </connector>
      <endpoint>
        <id>alfresco</id>
        <name>Alfresco - user access</name>
        <description>Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that require user authentication</description>
        <connector-id>alfrescoCookie</connector-id>
        <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/wcs</endpoint-url>
        <identity>user</identity>
        <external-auth>true</external-auth>
      </endpoint>
    </remote>
  </config>
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I have added the connectors to share-config-custom.xml as outlined in the wiki I posted originally. Is there any other place that I need to make changes? Could I have missed anything in the initial setup of Alfresco or Liferay?

I have added a user to both Liferay and Alfresco. I made the screen name in Liferay identical to the username in Alfresco.

I appreciate the help.

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

flefoll — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:42:30 GMT

Hi,

I got the very same issue than above (with added section in alfresco-global.properties for the alfresco instance and share-config-custom.xml for the liferay/share instance).

Using Alfresco 3.4.b and Liferay 6.0.5

Regards,

Francois

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

mikeh — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:51:58 GMT

By default, Liferay's Tomcat instance isn't configured to read Tomcat/shared/classes and Tomcat/shared/lib. Please see the notes here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6

Thanks,
Mike

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

dblessing — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:57:27 GMT

I have made those Adjustments and can confirm that Liferay is readIng the alfresco-global.properties file and share-config-custom.xml because when I once had a malformed xml file it threw errors on startup. It is not allowing users to be retrieved from portlets in Liferay. If it is throwing parsing errors when malformed, that would mean that it is in fact reading the file, correct?

To add, my database settings would not be set correctly if Tomcat wasn't reading my alfresco-global.properties file…

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

flefoll — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:33:52 GMT

I finally successfully configured everything, and it works.
But unfortunately, it doesn't in Multi-Tenancy….
😞
No need to create a JIRA item, comments in source codes show it's already known by the involved developer.

Regards,

Francois

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

dblessing — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:44:34 GMT

Multi-tenancy? I'm not sure that applies to me. I'm merely running a single instance of Alfresco. I could be mistaken about the meaning of multi-tenancy though.

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

thiagointechne — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:01:10 GMT

I am having the same problem of "unable to resolve user from repository", did any one has any clue?
I already made all configuration…

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

alexbo — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:14:54 GMT

i've installed alfresco and integrate this into Liferay.

is there any solution for the "centered" text (navigation …)

thanks for your help

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

mikeh — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:22:09 GMT

i've installed alfresco and integrate this into Liferay.

is there any solution for the "centered" text (navigation …)

thanks for your help

No, that's a side-effect of Share using YUI's CSS grid system. It's pretty easy to reset though by editing a couple of Liferay CSS files - use something like Firebug to find the DIVs.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

tw_joshua — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:56:22 GMT

Hi communities,

I had the same error.
My installation environment is WIndows 2003 server, Alf 3.4c and Liferay 5.2.3 with the bundle installation of Liferay and Alfresco. The same error message after adding the portlet show "Portlet is temporarily unavailable." and the screen shows

ERROR [PortletServlet:96] javax.portlet.PortletException: org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to retrieve user from repository
javax.portlet.PortletException: org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to retrieve user from repository
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Is there anyone have any update to fix this error?

Thanks,
Joshua

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

tw_joshua — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:14:57 GMT

Hi communities,

I had the same error.
My installation environment is WIndows 2003 server, Alf 3.4c and Liferay 5.2.3 with the bundle installation of Liferay and Alfresco. The same error message after adding the portlet show "Portlet is temporarily unavailable." and the screen shows
ERROR [PortletServlet:96] javax.portlet.PortletException: org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to retrieve user from repository
javax.portlet.PortletException: org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to retrieve user from repository
…..
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Is there anyone have any update to fix this error?

Thanks,
Joshua

Hi All,

My issues were closed and solved.
Please replace your the whole content of your share-config-custom.xml with the following code. And make sure your Alf user password is same with Liferay.


<alfresco-config>

   <!– Overriding endpoints to reference a remote Alfresco server –>
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Remote">
      <remote>

         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco-noauth</id>
            <name>Alfresco - unauthenticated access</name>
            <description>Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that do not require authentication</description>
            <connector-id>alfresco</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <identity>none</identity>
         </endpoint>

         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco-feed</id>
            <name>Alfresco Feed</name>
            <description>Alfresco Feed - supports basic HTTP authentication</description>
            <connector-id>http</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <basic-auth>true</basic-auth>
            <identity>user</identity>
         </endpoint>

         <connector>
            <id>alfrescoCookie</id>
            <name>Alfresco Connector</name>
            <description>Connects to an Alfresco instance using cookie-based authentication</description>
            <class>org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.connector.AlfrescoConnector</class>
         </connector>

         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco</id>
            <name>Alfresco - user access</name>
            <description>Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that require user authentication</description>
            <connector-id>alfrescoCookie</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/wcs</endpoint-url>
            <identity>user</identity>
            <external-auth>true</external-auth>
         </endpoint>
                  
      </remote>
   </config>

 </alfresco-config>
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Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

tw_joshua — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:23:24 GMT

i've installed alfresco and integrate this into Liferay.

is there any solution for the "centered" text (navigation …)

thanks for your help
No, that's a side-effect of Share using YUI's CSS grid system. It's pretty easy to reset though by editing a couple of Liferay CSS files - use something like Firebug to find the DIVs.

Thanks,
Mike

Hi Mike,

Thanks…Thanks I fixed it on my system.
On my system this issue is caused by
${ALFRESCO_Home}\tomcat\webapps\share\yui\reset-fonts-grids\reset-fonts-grids.css
find "body{text-align:center;}", and change it to "body{text-align:left;}"

Joshua

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

tw_joshua — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:25:15 GMT

i've installed alfresco and integrate this into Liferay.

is there any solution for the "centered" text (navigation …)

thanks for your help

Please find my reply to Mike…
Joshua

Re: 3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

dblessing — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:42:07 GMT

Will someone please post their working share-config-custom.xml file? From looking and hundreds of forums and spending days trying to get this integration to work I BELIEVE that my problem is a bad share-config-custom.xml file.

I am asking for the WHOLE share-config-custom.xml file because simply adding in the parts from the wiki isn't working apparently. I'm wondering if another part of my file isn't mucking things up.

Thanks for your help.