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How to Compare Between Versions When Using Workflow

Issue Is it possible for a reviewer to compare both the Old and New versions when a user makes changes and resubmits for workflow approval in Web Content, Document & Media, and Commerce Products? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Quarterly Release Resolution Web Content: Web Content allows...

NoSuchFileEntryException when updating web content with images in a task executor

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Issue When updating web content within a task executor, if the web content structure includes an image field (fileEntry), the update JournalArticle updateArticle(article.getUserId(), article.getGroupId(), article.getFolderId(), article.getArticleId(),article.getVersion(), content,...

Most Viewed Assets Portlet Ignores Category Filters

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Issue We created our categories programmatically (using APIs). These categories are ignored by the Most Viewed Assets portlet. Even with category filters configured, the portlet shows assets based on views only, including assets not belonging to the selected categories. Environment...

Setting a Site-Specific Display Page Template for a Web Content created from a Global Structure

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Issue You are using a Web Content Structure that was created in the Global site so it can be shared across multiple sites. You need to set a default Display Page Template (DPT) for this structure, but you want the default to apply only to content created within one specific site, without...

"Select Master Page is temporarily unavailable" when trying to add a Display Page Template

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Issue I want to add a Display Page Template and I get the following error: In the logs, I see: 2025-02-10 18:18:39.160 ERROR [http-nio-6080-exec-8][PortletRequestDispatcherImpl:295] Unable to dispatch request: com.liferay.info.exception.CapabilityVerificationException: Failed validation...

"Interval is either equal or less than 0" error is produced during the upgrade and checkInterval is reset to zero

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Issue When upgrade from 6.2 to 2024.Q4, following error is produced in the log files: 2025-02-11 20:48:20.910 ERROR [main][ROOT:47] bundle com.liferay.journal.web:5.0.180 (1238)[com.liferay.journal.web.internal.scheduler.CheckArticleSchedulerJobConfiguration(10891)] : The activate method...

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 to a page. Environment Liferay DXP SaaS Liferay Client Extensions...

Unassign Site Template from a Site / Export a site without the template it was based on

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Issue Is there a way to unassign a Site Template from a Site? When importing a site using a .lar file into a company where the associated Site Template doesn't exist, an error occurs: "Site cannot be Imported as Site Template does not exist." Environment DXP 7.4+ Resolution There's no...

Collection Display Fragment is not responsive when using the CSS Medium Screen Size (col-md)

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Issue We've observed that when using the Collection Display fragment to display a collection of data/items and selecting the medium screen size (col-md), the responsiveness becomes unreliable. Environment Quarterly Release 2023.Q4 and below Resolution There is a workaround available,...

Custom Widget Gets Rendered Twice

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Issue After defining a Custom Element widget and placing it on a page, it is observed that the widget is loaded twice. Sometimes this happens so fast that it is unnoticeable, other times a couple of seconds pass between the two renders. In the browser console, the double rendering is...

The site name is appended to every Event/Meeting created in Liferay Calendar

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Issue The site name is appended to every Event/Meeting created in Liferay Calendar. Environment DXP Quarterly Release 2024.Q2.0 Resolution Liferay calendar displays the site name as default when the event or meeting creator is not specified. A new feature request has been created to hide...

Impersonation Clashes with Cached Web Content Templates

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Issue Web Content Templates can be configured for caching to boost performance. When not cached, the generated HTML is rendered for each request. When cached, the generated HTML is stored in the cache and reused for all subsequent requests until the cache entry is cleared or expires....

Web Content Not Displayed in Context in Search Results

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Issue Some web contents are not displayed in context when accessed from search results with the "Display selected search result in context" checkbox selected. For web contents displayed in an asset publisher, the correct context is the page containing the asset publisher displaying the...

How to modify the Cache-Control header to prevent browser caching issues

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Issue After deploying a new version of my theme, users are experiencing issues due to old Javascript files being loaded from the browser cache. Thus, we would like to modify the Cache-Control header of those resources. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution To avoid these problems, the...

Cannot add the Indonesia or Hebrew language to instance after changing locale codes to ISO 639 language codes

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Issue From Java 8 to Java 17, changes were made in locale support, specifically with the language codes for Hebrew(Israel) and Indonesian(Indonesia), according to this article:...

How to create Web Content with large images from text file?

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Issue Copy-pasting large images from text file prevents the Web Content from being published, although it appears correctly in the editor. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution When images are copy-pasted from a text file, the editor will store them in raw data format. Storing images...

How to preserve the structureId and formId during export/import to avoid mismatches between environments?

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Issue When we export/import web content articles and forms, their IDs sometimes change. How to preserve the structureId and formId during export/import to avoid mismatches between environments? Environment DXP Quarterly Release 2024.Q3.0 Resolution Entity IDs are not preserved during...

Modified date not match the author of a web content, document or any other asset.

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Issue The author displayed for content/documents is inconsistent when modifications are made by users other than the original author. When a user edits and publishes the content, the displayed author is correctly updated to the user who published the latest version. However, if the...

I can select a Display Date in the past for a Web Content

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Issue After creating a Web Content, when I go to the Properties tab > Schedule section, I can select a Display Date in the past. No error message appears when I save the Web Content with a past Display Date. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution This is currently the expected...

Is it possible to create Style Books directly from a Client Extension?

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Issue Is it possible to create Style Books directly from a Client Extension? Environment DXP Quarterly Release 2024.Q4.0 Resolution Client Extensions can be created to modify the Liferay backend elements, like the Style Book. The following feature is also being developed: LPD-30204...

Multilingual PDF search indexing fails with web content

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Issue Why does the main document entry contain only the metadata and not the content of PDFs? Is it possible to add the content of PDFs along with the metadata of PDFs in the main document entry? Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a Structure: Navigate to Site Control Panel > Content Data >...

Asset Publisher Subscriptions Only Trigger Email for New Assets

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Issue When using the Asset Publisher with subscriptions enabled, email notifications are only sent when a new asset is added to the selection. Updating an existing asset's content does not trigger a new notification. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3+ Resolution This is the expected behavior....

Updates are not visible without a page refresh

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Issue After editing and publishing a fragment or page, the changes are not immediately visible, but a similar behavior could be reproduced in other ways. A manual page refresh is required to see the updated content. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 Quarterly Releases...

"HTTP Status 400 – Bad Request" error occured when Updating Blogs' Custom Friendly URL

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Issue While updating the "Blogs" custom-friendly URL from "/liferay-blog" to "test-blogs/liferay-blogs," an HTTP Status 400 - Bad Request error appears on the UI. (A video demonstrating the issue has been attached.) Steps to Reproduce Start the Liferay bundle. Navigate to Product Menu >...

How to create Charts in Quarterly Versions

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Issue The Chart Tag Library was removed in 2023.Q4 with no direct replacement. I would like to know how to create charts in a Liferay version higher than 2023.Q4. Environment 2023.Q4+ Resolution On GitHub, you can find an example of how our developers create charts in e.g. Content...

Can I change the Article ID after disabling Autogeneration of IDs for Journal Articles?

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Issue When I change the ID of a previously created Web Content, after Publishing, the ID does not change. I have System settings → Web Content → Administration → Journal Article Force Autogenerate ID disabled Environment DXP 7.4 Quarterly Releases Resolution This is expected behaviour,...

Locating Default Asset Publisher Templates

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Issue Where can I find the default display templates used by the Asset Publisher? Environment Quarterly Releases: 2024.Q3, 2024.Q2, 2024.Q1, 2023.Q4, 2023.Q3 Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution The templates are located in Liferay DXP's source code, available on GitHub. The relevant files can be...

Browser Back Button Issue with Multiple Asset Publishers

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Issue When a page contains multiple Asset Publishers, the browser's back button may not work as expected. Clicking the back button may require multiple clicks to return to the previous page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 2024.Q2.0+ Resolution This is related to the implementation of...

Adaptive Media Images Not Displaying for Users in Product Catalog Search Results

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Issue When using Adaptive Media with images in Product Catalog search results, the images display correctly for some users but fail to render for others. For example, images fail to load for unauthenticated (Guest) users, while rendering correctly for authenticated users. Environment...

Changing the Displayed Time Zone for Audit Logs

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Issue Even after changing the time zone for the instance within the Instance Settings, the time zone for the Create Date for the logs in Audit are still displayed in UTC. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Quarterly Release 2024.Q2 Resolution The Audit table, along with most other tables in...

What URLs can be used to access my workflow tasks

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Issue You may need to access a user's tasks without including their name in the URL or by explicitly including it. Environment Quarterly Release DXP 7.4+ DXP 7.3 Resolution Without User Identifier: It is possible to access my user tasks without including their identifier in the URL. For...

Duplicate files in Liferay theme WAR file

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Issue When building a Liferay theme using Liferay Developer Studio, multiple versions of CSS and JS files are created in the compiled WAR file. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution To prevent duplicate files from accumulating in the theme's WAR file, configure the theme's build.gradle...

Including External JavaScript Libraries in Fragments from Documents and Media

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Issue Page Fragments sometimes lack access to external JavaScript or CSS components that are maintained locally within an instance. To make these resources available within custom Page Fragments, you must reference the external assets directly from Documents and Media. Environment...

Web Content Display scope site selector

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Issue I cannot select content from other site different than Global and the current one. Environment Liferay 7.3, 7.4, Quarterly Releases Resolution The observed behaviour is the expected one: there is no current way of selecting a different site from the current one, Global or those...

Unable to redeploy a module

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Issue After deploying a module and removing it via UI or tomcat bundle, it doesn't redeploy successfully. It gets stuck in a "Processing" stage. Environment Quarterly Release DXP 7.4+ Resolution This is the expected behavior. When the module is uninstalled via the UI, the module gets...

Upgrading the theme: Can't find stylesheet to import errors

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Issue How many ways to build and upgrade the theme? Environment Liferay DXP [all version] Resolution There are three ways of upgrading the theme: 1. Client Extension 2. Gulp 3. Gradle If the user is updating to a version that supports the themeCSS client extension, Liferay recommends...

Automated third-party translations: Translation Usage Metrics / Analytics

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Issue We would like to see more translation usage metrics or analytics about our translations when they are translated using third-party tools. For example, seeing the number of words displayed would be useful. Is this part of the product? Environment Quarterly Release DXP 7.4+...

Sitemap does not show the complete page tree

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Issue Using following URL http://my-domain/sitemap.xml does not show the complete page tree. What should we take into account for all pages are included in sitemap? Environment 2024.Q1.10 Resolution When you navigate to http://my-domain/sitemap.xml, Liferay checks if the domain matches...

Can we filter users and child organisations separately in a parent organisation view?

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Issue Currently, when viewing users and child organisations assigned to a parent organisation, both entities appear in a unified list. This prevents users from viewing only child organisations or only users in a single, dedicated list, leading to confusion, particularly when paging is...

Can we get the Info panel visible in search results when selecting a specific Web Content?

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Issue When you go to Web Content, the Info Panel is visible on the top right corner. It is also visible when you select a specific Web Content and gives you valuable information. However, when you perform a search, the Info Panel icon gets missing. This makes it quite difficult for the...

Third-party translation engine: is it possible to generate translations tailored to a specific brand tone?

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Issue If using a third-party translation engine, does Liferay provide options to generate translations tailored to a specific brand tone? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Liferay Quarterly Release Resolution Currently, this is not available out-of-the-box Liferay. The third-party tools are...

Is auto-generating translations for widget pages, particularly for SEO metadata fields (e.g., keywords, HTML title, description) supported?

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Issue While Liferay provides the option to add translations for Content Pages, does it support auto-generating translations for widget pages, particularly for SEO metadata fields (e.g., keywords, HTML title, description) and the page title itself when using third-party translation...

Third-party translation engine: is it possible to configure banned/blacklisted words?

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Issue If using a third-party translation engine, does Liferay provide options to configure banned/blacklisted words to ensure they are excluded from generated translations across multiple languages? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Liferay Quarterly Release Resolution Currently, this is not...

Is it possible to auto-generate translations for Web Content metadata such as the 'Description' field?

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Issue Beyond translating the web content fields from its DDM structure, does Liferay offer the capability to auto-generate translations for metadata such as the 'Description' field? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Liferay Quarterly Release Resolution The description field is included in...

Is there a setting that prevents Web Content publishing if the review date is set to a past date?

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Issue Providing a past date as the review date should trigger an error and block publishing Web Content Is there any configuration that would enable this? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Currently this feature is not included in any Liferay versions. A feature request is...

Can URLs be localized in Navigation Menu and in "Link to URL" Layout Type ?

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Issue We would like to have the possibility to use different external urls for different languages in the Navigation and menu elements and as Layout Type "Link to URL" in "Site builder -> Pages" For example: HU: www.google.hu EN: www.google.com Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution...

After upgrading to Quarterly we can see a "could not resolve property: DDMStructureKey" error in the log

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Issue After upgrading to Quarterly we can see the following error in the server log: ERROR [BasePersistenceImpl:629] Caught unexpected exception org.hibernate.QueryException: could not resolve property: DDMStructureKey of: com.liferay.journal.model.impl.JournalArticleImpl Environment...

Getting a web content in scheduled status using the headless rest API

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Issue We are using the Liferay Headless API method getContentStructureStructuredContentsPage of headless-delivery /o/headless-delivery/v1.0/content-structures/<structure-id>/structured-contents To get a web content filtering by a custom field of the structure: contentStructureId: <id...

An error should appear immediately after uploading a file of wrong extension within the size limit

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Issue When trying to upload a file in blogs that is less than the specified limit with the wrong extension, it shows the progress bar for a while and then gives the error. Based on user experience, the error should appear immediately. Steps to reproduce: 1. Navigate to System Settings...

Access a site other than the default one without /web

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Issue By default, it is possible to access the pages of the website included with the default installation both with and without /web. This article addresses the need to change the site where this behavior is required, allowing access to the pages of a specific site without /web....

JournalArticleAssetEntryClassTypeIdUpgradeProcess WARN traces during upgrade process

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Issue After upgrading from 7.3 to 2024.Q3 we are getting lots of WARN traces related to com.liferay.journal.internal.upgrade.v5_1_1.JournalArticleAssetEntryClassTypeIdUpgradeProcess upgrade process: 2024-11-20 12:58:59.859 INFO [main][UpgradeProcess:119] Upgrading...

Back Button is Unresponsive After Opening a Notification

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Issue After opening a notification, I'm unable to return to the previous page by using the back button. The back button is unresponsive if I'm viewing a notification. Return button does not work when viewing a workflow task. Environment 2024.q1 2024.q2 2024.q3 Resolution To resolve this...

How to remove or deselect the theme for a specific page?

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Issue The user has deployed a custom theme as a WAR file, and it is configured as the default. As soon as they create a new page, the same theme is applied, but they want to remove or deselect the theme for that page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Quarterly Release Resolution Users may...

Query regarding special character (~) in the URL

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Issue There is a special character (~) observed in the URL when navigating to site settings. Is this special character "~" a part of the URL design pattern of the product or is this is a security concern? Environment Liferay DXP [all versions] Resolution The observed special character...

JavaScript URLs are not updating when Staging is enabled

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Issue With staging enabled, JavaScript URLs, referencing content in Documents and Media, are not updating when a page is published from Staging to Live For example: JS URL on Staging: src:'http://localhost:8080/documents/d/guest-staging/astronaut-png' JS URL on Live:...

Is there an alternative to the 'Liferay.Util.selectEntity' function?

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Issue After upgrading to 2024.Q2+, Liferay.Util.selectEntity does not work anymore. It has been removed, according to the 2024.Q2 Breaking Changes. Is there any replacement for it? Environment Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+ Resolution Although it has been removed as of 2024.Q2, the replacement was...

How to add application/ld+json in specific page

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Issue The user wants to add an application/Id+json script on a specific page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Create a fragment from Design -> Fragments Paste the below script, just for reference: <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context":...

Unable to display icons in Table View

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Issue I'm unable to display any icons next to each title in my Table View. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Since this method was deprecated in Liferay DXP 7.0, please consider the following alternatives: Make the url to the icon explicit. Use <liferay-ui:icon> or...

When moving a web content to another folder, the "Modified by XX" message does not display the user who moved it

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Issue When moving a web content to another folder, the 'Modified by XX' message doesn't display the user who moved it, but it does record the modification time. Environment Liferay DXP 2024.Q3 Resolution The current behavior is expected. A feature request has already been submitted to...

Typing delay when editing fields in articles with too many fields

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Issue I have a web content structure with multiple fields. When I create a web content from the structure, and add several fields (more than 100 entries), I experience delay while typing on the field and JS errors appear in the browser console. Reproduction Steps: 1. Start DXP 7.4 2. Go...