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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Unable to render forms in custom portlet anymore

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Sorin Pop

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Issue

  • You have some custom code (e.g. a portlet) which programmatically renders a form
  • But after a patch level upgrade, this does not work anymore, the form is not rendered

Environment

  • DXP 7.2

Resolution

  • It might be that you are having this issue due to the changes introduced by LPS-112849 (released in fix pack dxp-6)
  • In LPS-112849 we included in the fix a check to only render a form if the container exists, and we use the containerId to check it.
  • Therefore the solution is to add a containerId to the FormRenderContext, where you prepare it. For example: 
formRenderContext.setContainerId("ddmForm".concat(StringUtil.randomString()));

(To be able to use StringUtil the following import is needed:
import com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.StringUtil;)

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