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Liferay Upgrade Planner for Quaterly Releases

Issue We want to upgrade our custom developments from DXP 7.4 update 48 to the Liferay Quarterly Release 2023.Q4. We are using Liferay Developer Studio 3.9.8, but its "Upgrade Planner" tool lacks compatibility with our...

PortalUUID: 'cannot find symbol' in Service Builder module

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Issue When trying to build my Service Builder module, the following error is thrown in *PersisenceImpl.java classes: cannot find symbol PortalUUID *PersisenceImpl.java classes contain the following reference:...

Language options show wrong placeholder

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Issue Placeholder shows 'Select an Option' on the Language option Steps to Reproduce: Menu > Control Panel > Objects Create a custom object definition Go to the Fields tab Add a custom field Open the custom field...

Possibility to change Friendly URL automatically generated in Objects

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Issue The official Liferay documentation comments that when creating an object, displayed through a Display Page Template, an automatic URL is generated with the following syntax: "{domain}/l/objectEntryId" I would...

Eclipse / Liferay IDE: "Failed to read schema document" URL when creating JNDI connections for Spring Portlets

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Issue When creating JNDI connections using Spring, Eclipse / Liferay IDE users may encounter the following error: "Failed to read schema document 'http://www.liferay.com/schema/lrjee/liferay-jee.xsd', because 1)...

Object creation fails with the error "400 Bad request Someone may be trying to circumvent the permission checker"

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue When I try to create new objects, I receive the following error...

Service Builder: Cannot find symbol *LocalService for referenced entity

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Issue After targeting a more recent version of the product, you may get a 'cannot find symbol' error for an injected @Reference in your FooLocalServiceBaseImpl class. Something like this: error: cannot find symbol...

Save button has different dimension than delete button

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Enable this feature flag: feature.flag.LPS-148856=true 2. Start Liferay DXP 7.4 3. Create two Custom Objects. 4. Navigate to the Model Builder view. 5. Create a relationship between...

Unable to adjust the Mandatory status of a field after publishing the Object Definition

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue This article documents intended behavior where the Mandatory status...

How to create a filter by status using GraphQL

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Issue If you need to filter by status and execute this query: query{ c { countrieses (filter:"status eq pending"){ items { status id selected } } } } You'll get this error: { "errors": [ { "message": "Exception while...

The Error "instantiatedGenerator.run is not a function" Occurs When Creating a Theme Using Liferay Theme Generator

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Issue I followed the documentation to set up the environment and ran the command yo liferay-theme, but the error "instantiatedGenerator.run is not a function" occurs. Environment Liferay 7.4 Resolution Downgrade Yeoman...

Importing and Exporting Object entries

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue This article discusses how to export a copy of your Object entries,...

Vulnerability issues related to the EJS version in Fragments Toolkit

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Issue Vulnerability issues (ejs template injection vulnerability) were reported related to the EJS version inside the yarn.lock file while building fragments using the fragments toolkit. The EJS version is...

Encountering NullPointerException while creating relationships using Oracle database

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Configure Liferay DXP 7.4 with the Oracle database. 2. Navigate Applications Menu > Control Panel > Objects. 3. Create a custom object. 4. Create a text field and mark the unique...

Users are taking time to load in the relationship tab

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Issue Facing issue while creating an object with a many-to-many relationship with the User object. While adding an entry of a particular object and trying to associate the User with that entry, the list of...

Which version should I use for liferay.workspace.target.platform.version with the 2023.Q4 Quarterly Release?

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Issue Which version should I use for liferay.workspace.target.platform.version with 2023.Q4 Quarterly Release? Environment Quarterly Release 2023.Q4 Resolution At the time of writing (Dec 2023), the noted workaround will be...

Filter out the users based on the departments using objects and picklists

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Issue How to create a filter using an object to filter users with respect to their department Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Follow the below steps to create filter: 1. Navigate to Control Panel > Object...

Freemarker Error in Notification Template

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Issue Creating a new custom object with a text field and an associated email notification that uses a FreeMarker template can result in an error that prevents the notification from being sent. The following error...

Which Liferay version should I use in gradle.properties for the 2023.Q4 Quarterly Release?

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Issue Which version do I need to use for the liferay.workspace.product= property in gradle.properties for Liferay Workspace? Environment Liferay Workspace DXP 7.4 Resolution As of Dec. 15, for the time being,...

How to use validation for a fragment's text field?

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Issue You want to create validation for a fragment's text field When trying to validate a fragment's text field using Freemarker, it is not executed in the published editable field The validation only works on the...

Running gw initBundle fails at the verifyBundle task

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Issue Running gw initBundle fails at the verifyBundle task stating an invalid checksum, even though liferay.workspace.bundle.checksum.md5 is not in use in gradle.properties. Despite setting that value explicitly...

'compileOnly' is not allowed as it is defined as 'canBeResolved=false'

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Issue Some build actions fails upgrading the workspace from gradle 6 to 7 eg: $ blade gw eclipse * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':modules:xxxxxxxxxxxxx:eclipseClasspath'. > Resolving dependency...

Email Notification integrated with Liferay Objects got stuck in the queue

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Issue We are trying to integrate an email notification when an entry is made in a certain object. For this we have followed all the steps provided in the following URL we found in the Liferay Dev Forum : -...

Guest unable to add entries to object longtext field

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Issue Guest is uanble to add entries to a form containers. Steps to reproduce: Create an object with a custom field(say TestField) of type Long Text. Edit the custom field and add a limit of 500 and save this...

Client Extensions Not Visible After Deployment in SaaS

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Issue Client extensions are successfully deployed to SaaS, the service registers as ready, and are listed in the Client Extensions Control Panel app, but they are not visible in the Widget UI when trying to add them...

Default Language not being applied to not translated content

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Issue There is an undesirable behavior present when creating an object and utilizing the language translation. The content is empty instead of showcasing the content translated. Steps to reproduce: Instance Settings...

How to allow unauthenticated (guest user) requests for GraphQL

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Issue I implemented ReactJS Widget that relies on GraphQL requests for custom object values, with a widget exposing object entries to the public. However, unauthenticated GrapQL requests are disabled by default and...

Unable to Create Liferay Module Project Fragments and Start DXP 2025.Q1.0 Quarterly Release (LTS) in Liferay Developer Studio 3.10.2

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Issue In Liferay Developer Studio (version 3.10.2), when navigating to File > New > Liferay Module Project Fragment, nothing happens. The popup window for creating the fragment does not appear....

How to create a Clay Dropdown Menu with Button in Liferay 2024.Q2

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Issue Cannot create a dropdown menu with checkboxes and an Apply button that is used to save the selection in the menu using Clay UI. Environment DXP 7.4 2024.Q2 Resolution You can add button functionality to modul by...

When building Liferay DXP, SAML modules are not included in .BOM files

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Issue When building Liferay DXP, the .BOM dependencies file does not include SAML modules. Environment DXP 2023.Q4.0 Resolution It is not an issue and is confirmed to be intended as it is. DXP...

Updating Parent Object Fields from Child Object Actions

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Issue How to update a field's value in the parent object when a new child instance is created using object actions of the child object. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution Use a Groovy script Action triggered by...

Staging Object Entries

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Issue I would like to enable Staging for my Object Entries Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution This feature is not yet available in Liferay, however, it is already on the roadmap You may view the...

Using Required for system configurations.

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Issue We would like to add required = true configuration to our system configuration. Upon requesting the data through a groovy script the string returns empty when required = true is set. Environment DXP 7.4+...

Defining Permissions for Object Entries

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Issue The creator/owner of an object entry (or any other data type) has full permissions to manage that entry (update, delete, view). I would like to give Object Admins the possibility to define/restrict...

If Form entries are saved into an Object, email notification about Form submission is not sent

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Issue We have created an Object and a Form. We save Form entries into the Object. When a Guest user submits the form, the notification is not sent out. We are getting the following error in the logs: ERROR...

Localizing Object Definitions.

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Issue We do not find where is the feature to get objects localization. Based on following documentation...

Could not install Gradle distribution

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Issue While importing workspace from one system to another through a remote desktop connection, the below error has been encountered: Could not install Gradle distribution from...

View Display Page for Objects is not working for guest users

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Issue When creating a Display Page Template to display entries of an object, even when setting the viewing permission to "guest," attempting to access the page template results in a 404 page. Environment Liferay...

'ConfigurationProviderUtil cannot be resolved' after upgrading

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Issue We've begun updating to the dxp:2023.q4.4 version and encountered the following error while building the code on the 2023.Q4.4 baseline:...

How to filter Objects entry with picklist's name in filter

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Issue I have created 2 picklists, e.g. picklist1 and picklist2. And I created 1 object where I create 2 fields of type picklist and I mapped this to above picklists. Now I have added an object entry. Picklist values are...

ObjectFieldNameException$MustNotBeDuplicate when updating Object Definition

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Issue When trying to update an object definition from one environment (eg. dev) to the other (eg. uat), the process fails with the following error:...

Object Entries do not appear in Search Results

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Issue Object entries are not visible in Search results Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution When you create an Object Definition, you get to choose whether its scope is Company or Site (you cannot change it once...

Service Builder Tool 1.0.478 gives "Unable to parse package path from..." Error in Windows

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Issue After cloning https://github.com/liferay/liferay-blade-samples.git, Windows OS users may run into the following error: Task :apps:service-builder:basic:basic-service:buildService FAILED Building Foo Unable to...

Liferay Artifact missing from Maven Repository

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Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. The information provided about products not created by Liferay is for reference purposes only, and any implementation of these...

Missing Parameters Format in JSONT File when using Data Migration Center

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Issue Facing an issue with the missing parameters in the JSONT format file when using the "Data Migration Center" portlet. Batch Client Extension only supports the "JSONT" file format. After generating the "JSONT"...

Unable to PATCH a DateTime field in an Object back to Null

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Issue The PATCH API request to change a DateTime field value in an Object back to Null does not work as expected. The value of the DateTime field is not changed, it remains the same. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4...

How to Generate SAML Tracer export for Liferay Support

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SAML Tracer can be a useful debugging tool for viewing SAML messages sent through the browser during single sign-on and single logout and helps with analyzing both SP- and IdP-initiated SAML flows, including viewing and...

Gradle PKIX Certification Error for Maven Policy

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Issue We are configuring a new environment and observing what looks to be a gradle license or certification related issue given the below error: openssl config failed system library no such process Failure build failed...

LCP CLI support for AArch64/ARM64

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Issue LCP CLI fails to install on environments using AArch64/ARM64 architecture Environment AArch64/ARM64 environments Liferay Cloud command line tool Resolution LCP CLI as of version 3 is not compatible with...

The required fields are not requiring the user to fill in when switching languages in instance settings

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Issue The required fields are not requiring the user to fill in when switching languages in instance settings Steps to Reproduce: 1. Navigate to Instance settings > Localization 2. Change the language to any other...

Title field appears in wrong format when related

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Issue The title field appears in the wrong format when related Steps to Reproduce: 1. Menu portlet > Control panel > Objects 2. Create Custom Object A 3. Create Custom Object B with a Date field 4. Create a...

Unable to create Liferay Module Project Fragment in LDS

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Issue When trying to create a Liferay Module Project Fragment it will ask to set valid Liferay portal runtime as follows: Please set a valid liferay portal runtime, you can initBundle or modify...

could not resolve all artifacts for configuration 'classpath'

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Issue The error "could not resolve all artifacts for configuration 'classpath'" occurs during the time of Liferay workspace creation using LDS and not able to process further. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2, DXP 7.3 LDS...

Invalid checksum error when initializing Liferay bundle

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Issue After defining the liferay.workspace.bundle.url property in the gradle.properties file, running a Gradle Task to initialize the bundle fails with the following error: Execution failed for task ':verifyBundle'. >...

Developer Studio suddenly crashes

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Issue Developer Studio closes by itself after some time with an OutOfMemory error or without any errors at all. Environment Developer Studio 3.9.3 JDK 11.0.8 Resolution This problem can be experienced when...

Module projects cannot be created outside a Liferay workspace

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Issue Before, I was able to create a module project outside a Liferay workspace. However, now I see a warning that I need a Liferay workspace: Environment Liferay Developer Studio Resolution This is an intentional change...

Unexpected error while installing Xuggler: Unable to install jar

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Issue Trying to install Xuggler as an external service results in an error similar to Error: An unexpected error occurred while installing Xuggler: Unable to install jar xuggle-xuggler-arch-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.jar...

Cannot create war-core-ext due to "could not get unknown property 'portal'" error

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Issue When building a new module project based on the war-core-ext template, the build fails due to the following error: What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating project ':ext:gwext'. > Could not get unknown...

Can I use the Target Platform BOM to include the correct biz.aQute.bndlib version?

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Issue When using the Target Platform functionality in a Liferay Workspace (to use the dependencies from the target version's BOM) to try to include the biz.aQute.bndlib in a 7.2 dxp-5 custom module, it fails to...

nodejs download fails due to invalid link

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Issue Customers may encounter failures using Gradle v.4 + Workspace. Here is the relevant stacktrace exception: > Task :downloadNode FAILED Trying to download...