Custom portlet title localization fails if you change title in non-default language first

• Type: Bug
• Status: Verified
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.0 CE GA1, 6.1.20 EE GA2, 6.2.0 CE M2
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: WCM, WCM > Localization
• Labels:
  • community-verifier
  • portlet
• Environment: Tomcat 7.0.27 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.x EE GIT ID: 4774c6e719b2c38fb8a86fd9357f255ad4998e85. ; Tomcat 7.0.27 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 40bafe1f0e5df30236f348a368757f8943e9c833.
• Fix Priority: 2
• Similar Issues: Show 5 results ; ;

  LPS-29527	Use RenderRequest locale to get the portlet title
  LPS-3298	Custom portlet titles do not save correctly when changing the language
  LPS-15259	Make portlet title localization optional
  LPS-11712	Portlet title can not be changed to different languages
  LPS-1152	Custom title: Issue with blank title

Reproduce thus:

1. Find or create a portlet that uses <portlet-info> in its portlet.xml (currently only "Hello World"-porlet of the preinstalled ones)

2. Put the portlet on any page.

3. Change language from english to whatever

4. Change title of portlet

5. Navigate back to english language

6. Now the portlet title is lost and all javascript is failing, including removing the portlet...

Took me a while to find this one... The workaround is easy, just don't use <portlet-info> to set title, but use javax.portlet.title in the resource bundle instead.

[Kyrre Myrbostad]

Hm, seems the portlet-info did not help!

It seems this issue comes anyway, as long as you first edit the language that is NOT default. It only works if you FIRST edit the default language.

[Kyrre Myrbostad]

Can someone with access change the title to "Custom portlet title localization fails if you change title in non-default language first" (or something), as the bug is not related to portlet-info at all. And it's therefore a more serious bug since it may hinder people from removing all kinds of portlets.

[Drew Blessing]

Hello Kyrre,
As part of our community verifier program I am going to look at this issue. Thank you for the step by step instructions. I will attempt to reproduce this on 6.0.12 EE. I will also update the title per your request.
Thanks!

[Drew Blessing]

I was able to reproduce part of this on 6.0.12 EE. I followed the steps above verbatim using Hello World. When I select English as the language again the portlet title is indeed lost. However, nothing seems to be broken. I can remove the portlet and can also rename it by select "Look and Feel" and choosing another custom title. This may still be a bug, though.

Is there any other information you can give me to help me reproduce the exact issue you reported?

[Kyrre Myrbostad]

We have disabled look-and-feel for portlets, so the title is lost. I have however tried it again and it seems that I am able to delete the portlet, so it might have been some other cause of the last part of the issue.

[Drew Blessing]

Thanks for the update, Kyrre. I am going to go ahead and push this through as a possible bug. It seems as if the desired result would be that the title revert to the preset title.

[Drew Blessing]

I am able to reproduce this bug on 6.0.12 EE. Steps to reproduce:

1. Add the Hello World portlet to a page.
2. Change language to anything other than English
3. Change the title of the portlet.
4. Change back to the English language.

The portlet title now appears blank and cannot be changed without opening the "Look and Feel" options or removing the portlet from the page and re-adding it.

[Pani Gui]

Hi Kyrre Myrbostad,

Thank you for your report. I was able to reproduce this issue following Drew Blessing's steps in Liferay Portal 6.0.12 and our current trunk head. I will update this ticket to reflect this issue.

[Matthew Lee]

Reproduced on:
Tomcat 7.0.27 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.x EE GIT ID: 4774c6e719b2c38fb8a86fd9357f255ad4998e85.
Tomcat 7.0.27 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 40bafe1f0e5df30236f348a368757f8943e9c833.

Followed steps in the description.

[Edward Gonzales]

Hello everyone! We are in the process of removing component "Portlet" from LPS. Please replace this issue's component, "Portlet", with a new component. There are over 200+ components, in the newly organized component list. Also, make the necessary adjustments to affected filters. Thanks!