Liferay custom portlet permission label missing

Question

I've followed the instructions from this tutorial to introduce a new portlet level permission for my custom portlet.

In the resource-action-mapping XML there is a new action-key called PARTNER_ADMIN_CONTRACTING, and I've added the following line to the Language.properties file:

action.PARTNER_ADMIN_CONTRACTING=Admin contracting

On the Define permissions tab, it still shows the label key, not the value:

What's missing?

Answer 1

You have to add the action.PARTNER_ADMIN_CONTRACTING=Admin contracting language key to the portal resource bundle, because the Control Panel does not look for the translation in your portlet. You can use the language hook feature do to this:

1. Create a liferay-hook.xml in your docroot/WEB-INF directory:

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <!DOCTYPE hook PUBLIC "-//Liferay//DTD Hook 6.2.0//EN" "http://www.liferay.com/dtd/liferay-hook_6_2_0.dtd">
   
   <hook>
      <language-properties>content-portal/Language.properties</language-properties>
   </hook>
   

2. Create docroot/WEB-INF/src/content-portal/Language.properties:

   action.PARTNER_ADMIN_CONTRACTING=Admin contracting   
   

This should work!