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 Web Content Management Ticket
The following article outlines a short checklist of questions to ask and steps to take before opening a web content management ticket in Help Center. By taking a moment to go through this checklist before opening a Help Center request, you're ensuring the fastest possible resolution for the particular issue.
Resolution
For each ticket, please attach your latest portal-ext.properties file as well as the latest output of the patching-tool info command specific to the environment.
For web content management tickets specifically, please work through the following checklist and include the resulting information when you create a ticket:
- Is your database using UTF-8 encoding?
 - Provide Liferay with complete logs including full exceptions.
 - If using any Templates and Structures, please attach them.
 - Is any of the content too long for the database to handle? VARCHAR (75)