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3.4.b integrate with Liferay Portlets

dblessing

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_Portlet
I am attempting this all on the same server running in one instance of Tomcat.

I says to add the endpoint configurations to share-config-custom.xml (I did exactly as shown in the wiki) and to add the authentication elements to alfresco-global.properties (the auth elements shown in that wiki page are slightly wrong, but I didn't type them like that). I used:

authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm,external1:external
external.authentication.proxyUserName=

Liferay and Alfresco all start up fine, with no errors in the logs. The portlets deploy successfully and are available to be added to Liferay pages. I also know it's communicating with my Alfresco server, because if you add the portlets to the front page of Liferay and aren't logged in, it displays a splash page that says Please login to your portal, or something like that. The error occurs when I login to Liferay. The portlets all display "Porlet is unavailable at this time" and the logs show:
04:16:49,670 ERROR [jsp:154] org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to retrieve user from repository

I'm guessing that either my endpoints are correct, or I'm missing some little configuration. My endpoints all reference localhost:8080 as that is where my Alfresco is deployed.

Can anyone offer me some help? If you need more information or more from logs, please let me know. It would be amazing to finally figure out what I'm doing wrong.

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twohitsix

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:

mikeh

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

Thanks,
Mike

dblessing

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.

mikeh

It's used to extend Share with jar files.

Thanks,
Mike

dblessing

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

dblessing

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.

flefoll

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

mikeh

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

dblessing

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…

flefoll

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

dblessing

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.

thiagointechne

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

alexbo

i've installed alfresco and integrate this into Liferay.

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

thanks for your help

mikeh

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

tw_joshua

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

tw_joshua

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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tw_joshua

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

tw_joshua

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

dblessing

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.

excitedbynoise

Thanks for the help on this thread. I've been looking at the page source to try and get rid of the little white bars that outline the selected page in the navigation bar(classic theme, LR 6.0.5). I'm not a CSS guru, so I'm not exactly sure what firebug is telling me. I can't determine if it the problem is with the Liferay theme style sheet or the Alfresco CSS file.

excitedbynoise

Just wanted to bump this. I assume the formatting change with this portlet is a side effect of YUI resets. I just don't know enough CSS to fix it. The above change corrected the centering issue, but the fonts in navigation bar are still changing sizes.