Before Opening
- Before Opening a Clustering Ticket
 - Before Opening a Document Library Ticket
 - Before Opening a LAR/Staging Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay API Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay Performance Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay Sync Ticket
 - Before Opening an Accessibility Ticket
 - Before Opening an Activation Key Ticket
 - Before Opening an Authentication Ticket
 - Before Opening an Upgrade Ticket
 - Before Opening a Portal Deployment Ticket
 - Before Opening a Search/Indexing ticket
 - Before Opening a Security Ticket
 - Before Opening a Shutdown/Inoperable System Ticket
 - Before opening a ticket related to VPN on Liferay PaaS
 - Before Opening a User Interface (UI) Ticket
 - Before Opening a Web Content Management Ticket
 
Before Opening a Liferay API Ticket
The following article outlines a short checklist of questions to ask and steps to take before opening a Liferay API ticket. By taking a moment to go through this checklist before opening a request, you are ensuring the fastest possible resolution for the particular issue.
Resolution
For each ticket, please attach your portal-ext.properties file as well as the output of the patching-tool info command specific to the environment.
For Liferay API tickets specifically, please work through the following checklist and include the resulting information when you create a ticket:
- Provide us with the API that you believe is not functioning correctly and include the intended behavior.
 - Provide a test portlet or the source files from a project which will illustrate the issue
 - Provide step-by-step test case.
 - Inserting debug breakpoints is a great way to verify that the API is running through certain APIs
 - If this project involves Maven: 
                
- Please attach the project files including a 
pom.xmlconfigured to allow the CSE to compile and test the project. - Please attach any errors received.
 - What type of repository is being used (local or remote)?
 - Which version of Maven is being utilized?
 - Which phase of the build is failing?
 
 - Please attach the project files including a