Site Search - Liferay Learn

Older Version of the JavaMelody Hook Prevents Creating Structured Web Content in Liferay Portal 6.2 SP13 and above

This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. This article documents the solution to...

Common Errors When Applying CSS in DXP 7.1

legacy Troubleshooting

This article documents the CSS in Web Content Management and lists steps to resolve the issue or avoid it altogether. Resolution Error: CSS in the template is not applied to web content articles Summary: Users who...

Using a Custom Theme for Account Verification and Default Landing and Logout Pages

legacy How To

Liferay Portal users often deploy a custom theme and want to use this custom theme as the background instead of the default Liferay classic theme. This article describes how the custom theme can be used multiple places in...

h2 Tags Are Able to Be Edited by Default

legacy Troubleshooting

Liferay will support our API and resolve any issues and answer any questions having to do with the API itself or any other part of Liferay's software. Issues and questions regarding custom development may be...

CKEditor With Mediawiki Format

legacy Troubleshooting

This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Liferay Support does not recommend or...

Common Errors When Applying CSS in DXP 7.0

legacy Troubleshooting

This article documents the CSS in Web Content Management and lists steps to resolve the issue or avoid it altogether. Resolution Error: CSS in the template is not applied to web...

Hiding or Restricting Access to Out-of-the-Box Liferay Portlets From Non-Administrator Users

legacy How To

This article describes one method for how to restrict which users can add out-of-the-box (OOTB) portlets to pages. Resolution One option for limiting permissions to add OOTB Portlets...

Fragment IDs get changed in upgrade to DXP 7.3

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After upgrading to DXP 7.3, the fragment-id values of fragments on Content Pages get changed. This can cause issues as customization that apply to specific fragment-ids will no longer work after the upgrade. ...

Error executing FreeMarker template with #null when rendering web content

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When trying to render a web content we get the following error in Liferay DXP log: 2021-02-12 11:41:48.911 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-9][runtime:59] Error executing FreeMarker template FreeMarker template...

Why Does the Site Selector Menu in the Control Panel Direct Traffic to an Empty Page?

legacy

Issue In DXP 7.1 and below, the links in the site selector menu in the control panel took me directly to the site home page. In DXP 7.2 and above, clicking on the site name in Control Panel > Sites > Sites...

The purpose of the "Skip to Content" button

legacy

Issue If a user presses the Tab key when the URL is highlighted, a "Skip to Content" button appears. Selecting this button with your mouse does not appear to do anything. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1...

Special characters are escaped in instance names

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After changing the instance name to have a special character (e.g. "Liferay's Portal"), I see that the special character is escaped when the instance name is rendered in the Control Panel menu (e.g. "Liferay\'s...

Unable to use the Action button under Sites

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Steps to Reproduce: 1) Manually deploy Liferay on Wildfly 8.2. 2) Start up the portal and navigate to Control Panel > Sites > Add blank site. 3) Click on any Action button with to the Sites. Actual Result: The...

Uploading Images through Web Content disappear after upgrade

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When uploading images using the image field in a web content structure, the images do not appear in the documents and media portlet. After running the upgrade to Liferay DXP 7.3 from a prior version of Liferay,...

Unable to add new web content folder when characters blacklist is empty

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When the Characters Blacklist is empty in either of these locations: Control Panel>Configuration>Instance Settings>Web Content Control Panel>Configuration>System Settings>Web Content>Virtual Instance...

Broken Document Links in Search Results

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Clicking on a link to a document in Search Results leads to a /null page and error: Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution This behavior is reported and fixed in LPS-93120. The fix has been released...

Site Admin can't access Fragments page if Global fragments exist in the portal

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After adding fragments in the Global site, site administrators are encountering a Fragments is temporarily unavailable error when attempting to access the Fragments under Site Administration. Environment DXP 7.2+...

#undefined is added to the URL when there is an Asset Publisher in a page

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After upgrading from DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 96 to Fix Pack 97, the #undefined text is appended to the URL on the portal pages. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 97 Liferay DXP 7.1 Fix Pack 21 Resolution Please...

AlloyEditor Code View no longer respects line breaks

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After upgrading from DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 96 to Fix Pack 97, the AlloyEditor "Code View" option no longer formats the markup. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 97 Resolution Please request a Hotfix with...

Using data providers to populate states based on their country

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Create data providers for the country list and state list by using the below Liferay provided 'Rest Web Services'. localhost:8080/api/jsonws/country/get-countries and...

Can I create unidirectional asset links?

legacy

Issue In Liferay, when I configure Related Resources of a specific asset, I see that the asset links are bidirectional (two-way) by default. For example, if 'Web Content A' is published with 'Web Content B' as a related...

Web Content HTML issue

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue 1. Create basic web content and copy shared Html in Html editor. 2. Try to publish content. 3. Check logs for errors. 4. Remove commented code in shared HTML and copy again in the content's HTML editor. 5. Try to...

CSS minifier skips translating relative urls for already minified files

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Combo servlet bundles/aggregates multiple CSS files into single downloads. Some of those CSS files might already have been minified, so those are not minified again. Apart from bundling multiple files, the...

Toggle Controls button missing in Liferay DXP

legacy

Issue In Liferay DXP, I no longer see the Toggle Controls button that was available in Liferay Portal. The Toggle Controls button in Portal 6.2. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution This...

How Do I Resolve "Page Not Found" Errors Thrown by Custom 404.jsp Pages in 7.3?

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When I navigate away from my custom 404.jsp page in 7.3, I see a "Page Not Found" error instead of the intended page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution A solution is described in LPS-127143, and will...

Unable to preview images when selecting images in Web Content image field

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Unable to preview images when selecting images in Web Content image field. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution There is a possibility the issue is caused by the missing configuration on the Adaptive Media page....

On the Geo-location, all uploaded documents for a single location should be visible by clicking upon the marked pointer

legacy

Issue When we upload more than one document for a single location and try to see all uploaded documents by clicking on the marked pointer in the map only one document will be visible. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2...

Certain portlets have aria-autocomplete attributes

legacy

Issue While inspecting the DOM for certain portlets (Page Comments, Blogs, etc ...) deployed on DXP pages, users may notice the below aria attributes: aria-autocomplete="list" aria-expanded="false"...

Some form pages fail to show the content with error Unable to deserialize object

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When trying to view a form page with an associated custom portlet, the page failed to render the form. The portal log shows the following error: 2021-01-26 00:04:23.021 ERROR...

Changing comments' order of Web Content Display

legacy

Issue I would like to configure the comments section in a Web Content Display to show comments in descending order by modification date (from newest to oldest). By default, they are displayed in...

How can I modify the Admin Theme?

legacy How To

Issue Sometimes we need to modify some aspects of the admin-theme, for example, to change the look and feel of web content editions. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1 Resolution The admin-theme can not be modified...

Is it Possible to View HTML Source Code in Text Fragments?

legacy

Issue As a user, I would like to have access to the HTML source code for text fragments. Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution Alloy Editor does not currently have a source code view feature. Additional Information It...

Increase/decrease uploaded image resolution to make to 300 DPI as standard

legacy

Issue A requirement of increasing/decreasing uploaded image DPI (resolution) to make to 300 DPI as standard. Required API which we can be called programmatically from the code to increase/decrease DPI for uploaded...

Custom Category in Breadcrumb

legacy

Issue Trying to add an entry in Liferay Breadcrumb in the custom portlet. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution The requirement is not available out of the box in Liferay. If you want to achieve this functionality,...

Your browser doesn‘t support pasting with the toolbar button or context menu option

legacy How To

Issue When trying to paste content from the clipboard into the CKEditor through the "Paste as plain text" button on Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, you'll receive the message: Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+...

Double quotes in CKEditor source view are converted to " upon publishing the content

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue In a web content having an HTML field, after inserting this HTML in the source view: <video id="vid1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls width="100%" height="480" data-setup='{ "techOrder":...

Publication of a scheduled web content is delayed by 15 minutes - DXP 7.1+

Issue When I schedule web content to be published a few minutes in the future, the publication does not occur and is delayed for up to 15 minutes. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution The web content scheduled for a...

Liferay.Portlet.ready is no longer functional after 6.2 > 7.0+ DXP migration

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After 6.2 > 7.0+ DXP migration, customer may notice that custom AJAX scripts called through Liferay.Portlet.ready are no longer functional Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Verify if the issue...

Applying Workflow on Content Pages

legacy

Issue As an administrator, I would like to apply the workflow feature on content pages. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution The feature of workflow is not applicable to content pages, as being a...

Is it possible to change the page title displayed on the browser tab?

legacy How To

This article has been machine translated from its original language for your convenience. Please use discretion as this translation may include some inaccuracies. If you encounter issues with the translation, please...

Deleting background tasks (such as LAR exports)

legacy How To

Issue As an administrator, I would like to clean up the environment - therefore retrieve free space - by deleting previous exports which are no longer needed. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution Resolution A) - A...

Custom portlet on DXP 7.2 triggers error 'TypeError: Liferay.Loader.addModule is not a function'

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue As a developer, I would like to use function addModule in my custom portlet on DXP 7.2 the same way I did in case of 7.1 as well. However, after deploy the following errors are shown in browser console:...

Set Web Content to use CKEditor instead of Alloy Editor

legacy How To

Issue By default, the editor for web content is set to use Alloy Editor. Sometimes, the user would like to use CKEditor instead Environment Liferay 7.1 Resolution You can change the default editor for web content by...

Upgrading from Portal 6.2 to DXP 7.1 may fail for the Knowledge Base plugin

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When trying to upgrade the Knowledge Base plugin as part of upgrading from Liferay Portal 6.2 to Liferay DXP 7.1, an error like this may appear with: upgrade:execute...

Control Menu is shown without styles

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Control Menu is shown without styles when navigating from a Control Panel page to a page configured with a custom theme and SPA is enabled. Refreshing the page fixes this issue temporarily until the next...

Users unable to see scheduled content

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Why doesn't my 'Scheduled' content appear for other users? Scenario: 1. 'Approved' and 'Scheduled 'content created by User A (below) 2. User B is logged in and only sees the 'Approved' content (below)...

Unable to create a Web Content with size more than 256KB.

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue If the web content article size is more than 256 KB. It shows "Please enter content with valid content size no longer than 256KB" on UI. Environment Portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0 - 7.4 Resolution For Liferay 6.2-7.3...

AlloyEditor / CKEditor will not allow tags to surround other heading tags

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue AlloyEditor/CKEditor will not allow to use anchor (<a>) tags to surround other HTML elements like headings (<h1>, <h2>, etc...). For example, an HTML markup like this in the source tab: <a class="test"...

How to access a custom navigation menu in theme

legacy How To

Issue DXP 7.0+ provides capability to create navigation menus from the UI (production menus). However, after creating one navigation menu, I am trying to refer the menu items inside theme. I know the default main nav...

Cannot import .LAR due to missing languages

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue User cannot import .LAR files due to missing languages. A warning message is displayed with the list of missing languages: Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP...

Asset Publisher Change Notification

legacy Troubleshooting

Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue I...

Version Limits for Web Content

legacy

Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue...

When upgrading the portal from 6.2 to 7.0, Portlet ID in Advance styling option is not changed according to respective updated version

legacy

Issue Portlet ID used in Custom CSS to customize the look and feel configuration is not taken care when upgrading the portal. i.e. after upgrading to 7.0, the portlet ids are still reflecting as they were...

Guest user is unable to see the different locales after updating to SP17 or above

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After updating the portal from SP17 or above, locales are not working for guest users Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Resolution Set this to 0 if the locale is not automatically prepended to a URL....

Favicons is working in Android devices but not in Apple devices

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Adding the site to the home screen or a bookmark in IOS device, it is not taking a favicon rather it is taking the screenshot of the page from the site being bookmarked. Environment Liferay Portal 6.2...

When is scheduled Web Content added to the index?

legacy

Issue If Web Content articles are scheduled to be published, are they added to the index when they are created, or when they are published in the future? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1 Liferay...

Reordering Web Content's Repeatable Fields

legacy How To

Issue How to change the order of the repeatable fields I started adding on a web content? (e.g.: changing a, b, c to a new order c, b, a) Environment DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 Resolution Repeatable fields...

Delete Duplicate Site Templates resulting from Portal 6.1 to DXP 7.0 upgrade

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After upgrading from Liferay Portal 6.1 to DXP 7.0, you may observe duplicate Community/Intranet Site Templates. I did not use the Liferay's default Community/Intranet templates Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay...

Handling SASS Related Errors

legacy Troubleshooting

In Portal 6.2, the Liferay platform uses SASS and Compass to simplify CSS file creations, and to avoid manual mistakes during code duplication for distinct browser types. SASS is a...

Unable to Publish Content if there are Missing Page or File Links

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue In Liferay DXP attempting to publish content (pages, assets, or files) with broken links results in a "missing page reference" issue during publication. Also, even updating or creating basic web content is not...