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Redirection happening to Public Pages when URL is appended with numbers

Issue Liferay automatically redirects users to specific public pages when incorrect URLs ending with numbers are entered. This behavior leads to the unintended exposure of these public pages to all users. Steps to reproduce: Open a browser and navigate to the Liferay DXP URL. Append a...

Which database table should store the content of the paragraph fragment

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Issue Where is the content of the paragraph stored in the database table? Steps to follow: 1. Start the server. 2. Navigate to the Site Menu > Pages. 3. Create a new page and publish it. 4. Edit the page and drag and drop the 'Paragraph' fragment over the page. 5. Edit the default...

Language Key Import Issue

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Issue When exporting a language key from one instance and then import it to another instance, the translated sentence appears incomplete. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start the server.(Let's say-Instance 1) 2. Navigate to the Control Panel > Language Override. 3. Click on the 'New' button and...

Disable AI Creator button in CKEditor.

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Issue Starting from version 2023.Q4+, when creating web content that includes a 'Rich Text' field, the CKEditor offers a new 'AI Creator' button. This article provides the necessary configuration to hide this button in the CKEditor for that web content field. Environment 2023.Q4+...

Installing the Liferay Theme Generator for Liferay DXP 7.0

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Issue How can we install the Liferay Theme Generator for creating themes in Liferay DXP 7.0? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution The Liferay Theme Generator allows developers to quickly set up, develop, and deploy themes with ease by leveraging popular libraries like Gulp and Yeoman....

Issue with the custom friendly url of blogs

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Issue The custom-friendly URL of the blog gets changed when it is published to Live from Staging. Steps to reproduce: 1. Connect the Mysql or any database with Liferay DXP 7.1 fix-pack-dxp-15-7110. 2. Once connected, start the DXP instance. 3. From the left side panel, navigate to...

Deprecated liferay-ui:logo-selector taglib replacement for custom favicon integration

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Issue In this article we will discuss the deprecation of liferay-ui:logo-selector which was introduced with Liferay DXP 7.4 as a part of LPS-202768. Several features have been migrated to liferay-frontend:logo-selector, but some have been deprecated. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+...

Can SPA be safely disabled?

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Issue We are developing some components and we are having issues with single-page application (SPA). Therefore, we would like to know if it can be safely disabled Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution From Liferay side, SPA can be safely disabled. However, carefully consider your...

Search results are showing unexpected visual changes when rendering Object items

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Issue When searching for Objects on a search page, there are some unexpected visual changes in the result. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution Please verify that whether there are any HTML in the description of the Object that may be contributing to this behavior. If there is,...

Asset Publisher filtering by structure shows web content and folders

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Issue In Liferay DXP 7.3, when filtering content in an Asset Publisher by structure, only the web content with that structure are shown In Liferay DXP 7.4, doing the same filtering will also show the folders that contain these web content instead. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay...

Page URL break with long text (414 URI Too Long)

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Issue The page URL is breaking and giving 414 URI too long errors. Steps to reproduce: Navigate to Control Panel> Instance Settings> Localization > Language> select required locales Now, click on 'Locale Prepend Friendly URL Style' and select 'Locale is automatically prepended to every...

If the user selects 'I disagree' for the Terms and Conditions, will they be logged out?

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Issue Does it log out the user if they select 'I disagree' on the Terms and Conditions page? Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution No, only a popup should be displayed to the user: Additional Information Terms of Use , knowledgeArticleType: reference, legacy: true, name: If the user selects...

What is the default behavior when users click 'I agree' or 'I disagree' at the Terms and Conditions?

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Issue What is the default behavior when users click 'I agree' or 'I disagree’ button at the Terms and Conditions? Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution I agree: If accepted, the user is redirected to the home page or to change the password I disagree: If declined, the following popup message...

Where is the logic for handling the actions for the Terms and Conditions page?

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Issue We would like to override the behavior of the default Terms and Conditions that can be activated in Liferay. Where is this logic located in the code? How can we override it? Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution An older article: Terms of Use describes how you can set your own TOS. This...

When using 3G, "Related Asset" is not selected immediately

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Issue There has been an observed delay when trying to select a "Related Asset" within "Web Content" when using 3G internet speed. Instead of the "Related Asset" being selected immediately, there's a delay and other processes need to finish first before there is a success message....

globalThis.process?.argv object contains an array set

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Issue The globalThis.process?.argv object contains an array set in DXP 7.3, but in the latest release 2024.Q2.6, this is null or undefined. Environment Liferay DXP [all versions] Resolution In this scenario, Liferay can't do much about this since that globalThis.process?.argv was an...

How to change the . (dot) characters to hyphens (-) in Web Content article friendly URLs?

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Issue We have several Web Content articles where the friendly URL contains some dots and we would like to have hyphens instead. Changing them manually is not only hard but we would also like to implement a workflow to make sure that they are replaced with hyphens in the future....

The PageId changes each time the page is edited causing the category filter value to change each time.

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Issue We are building a page which displays a Collection of “How to” Web Contents using a variety of Categories. As an alternative to using the Collection Filter to display the content of one category, we would like to use an image and text fragment which when clicked on, performs the...

Is it expected for fragments using the getContent() selector to display non-alphanumeric characters from HTML, or XML, for Journal Article content?

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Issue When creating a Fragment with an itemSelector field configured to select a Journal Article, the displayed content includes unexpected characters, such as "]]>" at the end. This issue does not occur when the itemSelector is configured to select a Blogs Entry. Here is some of the...

Accessibility issues with the Underline button in CKEditor

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Issue When using CKEditor, there is an underline button available. If you use it, the text will be inserted within u elements. This fact causes some HTML validators to report an accessibility issue based on WCAG SC 1.3.1. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The u...

Custom Themes are no longer shown as Site Templates in DXP 7.4

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Issue In Liferay DXP 7.3, custom themes were seen under Site Templates Pop Up (Control Panel > Site > Choosing the template). However, in Liferay DXP 7.4, custom themes do not come under Site Templates, and is rather inconvenient to pick a theme. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution It...

Error "Portlet is temporarily unavailable" appears for Category Facet widget

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Issue When an invalid ID is passed as the value of the category field in the URL, all the widget shows the error "Portlet is temporarily unavailable". As a result, all the widgets should show the message "No Results available". Steps to reproduce: Start the clean instance of Liferay DXP...

Not able to paste image directly into the CKEditor (Web content)

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Issue Not able to directly paste the image in CKEditor (Webcontent). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Liferay Quarterly Release 2023.q4.4. 2. Navigate to Product Menu > Web Content > Click 'New Button' and then 'Basic Web Content'. 3. Give it a name, let's say 'Test'. 4. Now, add some...

Facing UI error in the AI creator when adding the API key

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Issue AI creator is not working; it is showing the UI error when adding the API key to the Liferay instance. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start the server. 2. Navigate to the Global Menu → Control Panel tab → Instance Settings (under Configuration). 3. Click AI Creator under Content and Data....

How to choose a default layout template

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Issue We wonder if it is possible to configure a default layout to be chosen when a new widget page is being created. Normally we do not use OOTB Liferay layouts, using our own developments instead (the red ones). Is there any way to choose our own layouts? Environment Liferay Portal...

Accessing Sitemap of a Child Site

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Issue Is the sitemap of a child site separate from the parent site? How to access the sitemap of the child site? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution A child site is similar to a parent site, they help to organize sites hierarchically and let you share content between the sites easily....

DefaultValue in structures with repeatable fields are incorrect

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Issue Default values in structure with repeatable field don't work as expected. After creating an exporting a structure with a repeatable field, the default value is empty, despite being defined in the structure Steps to reproduced Go to Content & Data -> Structures (tab). Create new...

Web Content with Multi-Select List Fails to Save Values

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Issue After creating a structure, the multi-select field does not save more than one option. The list in my web content doesn't save if one of the values has a comma in the option. Environment Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+ Resolution Request a hotfix built on LPD-1558, if you are still within...

Multi-Select Option Missing from Translation Interface

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NOTE: The following resolution requires customization and should only be implemented at the discretion of your team. Liferay Support will not be able to assist with designing or implementing customizations. Issue Web Content Structure is incomplete when using the Web Content Translation...

Getting the value chosen by user in a 'Select From List' field

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Issue How to get the value from the options added in a 'Select From List' field? We are getting the reference (i.e. ["Option37425674"]) instead of the value chosen by the user. Environment Quarterly Release Resolution Following example can be used as reference (it is a Widget Template of...

Hard to Manage Web Contents and Structures

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Issue I want to easily find and manage all my web contents organized by structures I'm working with so that I can review them, edit them, etc. Environment Liferay DXP Quarterly Releases Resolution This has been resolved in LPD-10752, a feature released in 2024.Q1.1 which improves web...

The portal is not reindexing because the following error: "HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large"

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Issue When attempting to reindex the portal, the process fails, and the following messages are displayed in the logs: May 29 12:46:07.767 build-3886 liferay[liferay-5655d97f59-99cjk] [dxp] ERROR [liferay/background_task-2][SearchEngineInitializer:168] Error encountered while reindexing...

After updating a site's friendly URL, what happens to the existing Documents & Media/Web Content that are being used?

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Issue When updating a site's friendly URL, I've found that Documents & Media/Web Content that were previously assigned to the site are not being updated. The links do not update to the newly set friendly URL but instead keep their old friendly URL. Environment Quarterly Release Liferay...

Frontend taglib removed: 'liferay-frontend:html-vertical-card'

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Issue After upgrading to 7.4+, we noticed that some frontend taglibs have been removed, such as liferay-frontend:html-vertical-card. Is there any replacement for it? Environment Upgrades to DXP 7.4+ Resolution As per LPS-158461, obsolete fronted taglibs were removed, including...

"Learn how to tailor categories to your needs." linked documentation appears in bundle

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Issue After upgrading, we're seeing a message that says Learn how to tailor categories to your needs in the bundle. A link to documentation shows up in the Web Content menu and Categories Menu. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution In versions of Liferay DXP 7.4 U40 and below, there was...

All out-of-the-box Liferay Job Schedulers stop working if one job scheduler is incorrectly configured

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Issue Setting the interval to -1 for scheduled jobs is allowed by the UI, but causes an array of issues. Steps to reproduce: Start the server and login as an administrator. Open Application Menu from top right side application menu icon, and go to Control Panel > Configuration > Job...

Is there a way to easily add tables to fragments using the WYSIWYG Editor?

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Issue Currently it is not possible to add a table from the WYSIWYG Editor toolbar in Fragments. Environment Liferay PaaS, Saas Quarterly Releases Liferay 7.0+ Resolution We have an open story ticket for future implementation of this functionality. LPD-33017: Add Table button to...

After an upgrade, some fragments get broken because JS strict mode seems to be enforced now

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Issue We do not declare JS variables when developing fragments. After an upgrade, these fragments stop working properly. Environment Upgrades to the following Patch Releases: 2023.Q3.5+, 2023.Q4.1+ Upgrades to 2024.Q1 or newer Quarterly Release Resolution This is a consequence of using...

NoSuchGroupException: No Group exists with the primary key 0 when updating a Journal Article via service API

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Issue When trying to update a Journal Article (i.e., a web content) using the service API journalArticleLocalService.updateArticle( journalArticle.getUserId(), journalArticle.getGroupId(), journalArticle.getFolderId(), journalArticle.getArticleId(), journalArticle.getVersion(),...

Unable to read the content for custom_robots.txt file

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Issue I am getting the following message in my log file: [RobotsUtil:47] Unable to read the content for custom_robots.txt However, the same does not happen in other environments. What can be the reason? Environment Liferay 7.4 Resolution Why can that error message be thrown? That...

Unable to Edit Document with a Name Not Including a File Extension

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Issue We cannot edit a document's properties if the document name does not contain a file extension and here are the steps we took: Navigate to Control Panel > System Settings > Documents and Media Change the value for File Extensions from "*" to ".txt" Click Save Navigate to any site...

After an upgrade and database migration, old theme is not being replaced by new theme

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Issue After an upgrade, a new theme developed to replace an old theme is not applied to pages that utilized the old theme. There are multiple pages with different theme settings and updating them one-by-one is impractical. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Using the following SQL...

Web Content Not Showing as `Translated`

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Issue After creating a web content in English, then selecting a new language and translating the content, we're able to publish, but the content remains untranslated. We created a sample web content and translated it. The content is translated, but the flag buttons shows `Not Translated`...

Changes in a site's widget page variation also affects the hierarchy in other variations

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Issue Is it possible to configure Liferay so that a change in one site's widget page variation does not also affect another page's hierarchy? Environment Quarterly Release Resolution Unfortunately, there is no workaround for this behavior. This behavior has been identified by our...

What are the conditions to decide if a page inherits its theme?

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Issue The UI allows you to determine whether a page inherits its parent's theme or has a custom theme applied. However, the Layout table does not contain a field specifying theme inheritance. Then, what criteria are used to determine theme inheritance for a page? Environment Liferay DXP...

Click-to-Chat Bubble Disappears When Navigating to Other Pages

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Issue Click-to-Chat bubble disappears if I change to a different page. The page needs to be reloaded for the click-to-chat bubble to appear. During conversation in click-to-chat bubble, the conversation disappears when navigating to another page. Environment 2023.q4 Zendesk Web Widget...

Theme is not persisting in site templates

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Issue When a user creates a new site template and configures a custom theme, it is redirected to the 'classic theme' when a new site is created using that template. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay 2024.Q2.0 2. Navigate to Site Administration -> Click on Site Templates and create a...

Why do I get PortletDataException when trying to delete a Site?

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Issue When I try to delete a Site, I am getting the following error (full stacktrace attached): ERROR [http-nio-7080-exec-4][GroupLocalServiceImpl:4161] Unable to delete data for portlet null in group 2934490 com.liferay.exportimport.kernel.lar.PortletDataException: No...

Strange characters appearing in Control Panel

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Issue We are observing a strange behavior in the system, where many fields display strange values, such as "â€€â€€â€€", in both System Settings and Instance Settings. We are also seeing the following WARN in our logs: WARN [main][MainServlet:229] The default JVM character set...

Cannot use Iframe in Web Content Article

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Issue Cannot use Iframe tag in Web content article source, because it automatically adds sandbox tag and it cannot be modified. Environment 2024.Q1 2024.Q2 Resolution This change was made due to security reasons to prevent code execution. The behavior can be changed by navigating to and...

Unable to play audio of OGG format in Safari Browser

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Issue While playing the audio in Safari Browser, it shows an error, however, the same audio is working fine in other browsers. Here is the below code for adding the audio on the portlet with <audio> tag: <audio width="300" height="32" controls="controls"><source src="filename.ogg"...

Which database table should stores the URL of the embedded page

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Issue User creates an embedded page, so the URL under the Layout section will be present in which database table and column. Steps to follow: 1. Start the server. 2. Navigate to the Site Menu > Pages. 3. Create a new 'Embedded' page and publish it. 4. Now, click on the three-dots of the...

Translating static texts with Fragments

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Issue Translating static text with the help of fragments and language overrides Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 [all updates] Liferay DXP 2023.Q1 Liferay DXP 2024.Q1 Resolution Step 1: a) Navigate to Applications Menu -> Control Panel -> and click Instance Setting (under the Configuration...

Can you add a theme or fragments to action pages?

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Issue How do I add fragments to action pages like /c/portal/update_password and /c/portal/update_reminder_query? Our theme reverts on utility/action pages /c/ When a user is taken to the /c/portal/update_password page, the theme is no longer visible. Environment Liferay DXP Resolution...

Document status is not getting updated in search indexes

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Issue Unable to update the document status in the search indexes. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start the server. 2. Deploy the JAR file. 3. Navigate to the Control Panel > Custom Fields. 4. Add 2 custom fields, "Expiration Date" and "Display Date" of type Date. 5. Configure the scheduler in...

How Will Special Characters Be Scoped Regarding LPS-78008?

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Issue Will special characters be scoped at site level and not only instance level per LPS-78008? Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution After further review, it has been confirmed that LPS-78008 will not be implemented. The request simply does not align with Liferay's focus of...

Longer Team Names Fail to Word Wrap and Overlap the Description

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Issue When creating a long team name, the name overlaps the description of the team. Steps to reproduce: Start a vanilla 2024.q1 bundle Navigate to Menu > People > Teams > + Create a long team name using underscores instead of spaces Include a description with or without spaces...

I cannot add a name for my display template

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Issue When I create a new widget display template there is no option to define the key name as we could do in previous versions, like this: Environment Liferay 7.4, Quarterly Release Resolution You need to enable this capability by uncheking the Autogenerate option in System Settings ->...

Feature flag LPS-202104 is not available for company 0

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Issue When upgrading my Liferay environment the following error occurs in the upgrade logs. How can I resolve this error? ERROR [main][FeatureFlagsBag:90] Feature flag LPS-202104 is not available for company 0 Environment Liferay Quarterly Releases Resolution This is a known issue...

After Upgrading to DXP 7.4+, there's an extra field within our structures

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Issue After upgrading from DXP 7.3, we've observed that our structures have been modified and there is an extra "Fields Group" added to it. Environment DXP 7.4+ Quarterly Release Resolution This is the expected behavior. The underlying technology between DXP 7.3 and DXP 7.4+ has...

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