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Administrators cannot manage Omni Admin apps, like the App Manager

Issue Users having the "Administrator" role cannot access the App Manager through Control Panel → System →App Manager. Environment DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 Quartery Releases Resolution Take into...

Redirecting to a Custom Page post SAML Authentication in Liferay

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Issue I followed the guide Setting the Default Landing Page in Liferay Portal, to set up the default Landing Page, but it doesn't work with a Custom Page. Even though I followed the given steps, users are directed...

The Job Scheduler Portlet is not accessible through the Control Panel

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Issue A new Role has been created and enabled the Job Scheduler portlet to the new Role, but unable to access the Job Scheduler portlet with the new user. Steps to reproduce: 1. Navigate to Control Panel-> Role and...

Upgrade to 7.4: DDMFieldUpgradeProcess takes an awfully long time

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Issue We are upgrading to 7.4 and noticed that the upgrade process is working a lot at DDMFieldUpgradeProcess, this part seems to be taking a very long time Environment upgrade to 7.4 Resolution This is known. It happens...

Hide default login page /c/portal/login

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Issue Is it possible to hide the default /c/portal/login page? We want users to use a specific login page, and prevent them from using /c/portal/login to log into the portal. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution...

Portal.properties link not up to date

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Issue I am looking at the link https://docs.liferay.com/dxp/portal/7.4-latest/propertiesdoc/portal.properties.html to inspect the default portal properties, but it doesn't seem to be up to date. For example, some...

Approver does not have access to preview of Content Page

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Issue Created a custom role to approve Content Pages Added View and Update permissions for Pages When the user with the role opens the Workflow Task and clicks the preview button, the following error appears: ...

Enabling Special Characters for Screen Names and Passwords

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Issue When trying to use special characters for setting screen names and passwords, not all special characters are accepted. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution There is a simple workaround available to enable...

Unable to assign organizations to users if SPA is disabled

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Create portal-ext.properties with this property to disable SPA: javascript.single.page.application.enabled=false 2. Navigate Control Panel → Users & Organizations → Organizations →...

File upload feature for guest users in Liferay Forms

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Issue We have a requirement to create a Liferay form having a document upload feature for guest users. Currently, in Liferay 7.1 uploading documents is not available for guest users. Environment Liferay...

Good practices in using Publications

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Issue I would like to understand from the Product's point of view what would be the best way to create a new website using the Publications tool. What would be the best option among the scenarios below: Create the...

"Unable to import user" messages when performing concurrent authenticated JSONWS calls against an LDAP cluster

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Issue Given an environment with the following components configured: LDAP cluster with more than one node. JSONWS calls through basic authentication. LDAP Import enabled. Login against LDAP. Several concurrent...

How to hide the particular folder from user under document and media

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Issue How to hide a particular folder from a particular user in the document and media section. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Follow the steps to achieve this requirement: Navigate to the Control Panel >...

Data migration by virtual instance

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Issue we'd like to manage a gradual migration from DXP 7.0 to DXP 7.3 Is it possible to define a database per instance on DXP 7.3? Is it possible to migrate data per instance from DXP 7.0 to 7.3 knowing that the data for...

Unable to select organization in segment property

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.4. 2. Add an organization. 3. Add a segment. 4. Add an organization property. 5. Select the organization. Expected result: User should be able to select the...

Screen name must not be duplicate but is already used by user SAML Error

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Issue Some users can't log into Liferay via SAML when Liferay acts as Service Provider. There's an error in the logs about a duplicate screen name: 2023-11-30 18:04:53.521 ERROR...

Cannot redirect user account creation page to prevent guest users to create new accounts

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Issue Would like to be able to control user account creation on the portal. Trying to use the redirection feature of Liferay, however, it seemed not to be working. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Configure the...

Modules with escapeModel=true attribute in search-container not working

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Issue We have detected that the modules that implement the search-container with escapedModel="true" attribute in the search-container-row, are not working. We have also seen the following messages appear in...

Duplicate Entries in Control Panel after installing a Hotfix

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Issue After installing a new hotfix, the Control Panel shows repeated sections and options. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution This problem can be a consequence of not deleting the contents of...

Not able to set virtual host value for virtual instance: "Please enter a valid virtual host"

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Issue I want to set the virtual host on a virtual instance (Control Panel/Virtual Instances), but I cannot save it, I get error "Please enter a valid virtual host". This hostname is not set for any other virtual instance....

Asset Publisher Template for the Web Content Display is unusable after deleting owner of the content

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Issue After deleting a user from the portal, content created by it gets inaccessible if trying to edit with the specific user tag on Asset Publisher. Environment Liferay Portal 6.2+ Resolution Liferay does...

Can the same email address support multiple accounts created within Liferay?

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Issue We allow our customers to use the same email address for multiple accounts. Is there a workaround available so that our customers can still have multiple accounts associated with the same email address? ...

I cannot create Users with emails that start with "root"

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Issue Liferay does not allow me to register a user with the email root@acme.com. The UI displays the following error: Error: Please enter a valid email address. I would like to know if there is a setting that...

After changing password on Tivoli's LDAP server, users can't login for up to 20 minutes

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Issue On Liferay DXP (any version) connected to an IBM Tivoli Directory Server via LDAP, the users cannot login to the portal immediately after changing their password or any attribute on said LDAP. The...

RoleLocalServiceUtil.addRole creates the role in the main instance

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Issue We are trying to use the scripting console to create roles. Either we are not doing this correctly, or something is not working correctly. When creating the roles we use RoleLocalServiceUtil.addRole to which we pass...

Disabling Login Portlet

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Issue How do I disable the default Login Portlet to prevent any guest accounts from being created. Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution In order to prevent any guest accounts from being created please follow these...

Default permissions for a new page to avoid revealing page information

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Issue It would be wonderful if default page permissions could be configured on a site level, and in addition, if guests do not have view permission for the page it would not appear in the sitemap even if the...

How to give permission to a specific user to use Fragments

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Issue How to give permission to the specific authorized person to access and edit the specific fragments. Currently, the admin can edit and access the fragments. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Liferay...

Unable to view users assigned to a particular Site Role

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Issue Unable to view the "Users" tab or section to view the list of users assigned to the particular site role in order to verify & delete unwanted users. Steps: Navigate to Control Panel > Roles > Site...

Remove "Add to Page" permissions for the "Guest"/"User" role

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Issue "Add to page" permissions are populated by default for the roles "Guest" or "User". Although is the intended behavior, it may not be desired in some situations. Environment DXP 7.0, DXP. 7.1, DXP...

How to solve error: the parameter is null: _companyLogRoutingFilePatterns

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Issue Trying to migrate from 7.4 to Q3, you could observe that in catalina.out file there are some errors such as the following: 2023-11-17 09:54:43,839 main ERROR The parameter is null:...

How to check item display permissions

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Issue If the container folder (JournalFolder) of a web content does not have VIEW permissions for Guest, the contents are not seen if we are not logged in. This was different in 7.2. What has changed?...

Regarding the definition of privileges for roles, there are some items that are not reflected.

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Set a wrong WebId causes "Unable to get company ID" after upgrade.

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Issue After upgrade from DXP 7.3 to 7.4 the following error is displayed: 2023-10-24 17:28:16.854 ERROR [SCR Component Actor][ROOT:47] bundle com.liferay.portal.properties.swapper:5.0.24...

Error managing documents and URLs using GCS

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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 using GCS as a storage solution in your On-Premisse or...

How to Change the Control Panel Favicon

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Issue Is there a way to change the default icon for the Control Panel to something custom? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution There are two ways to modify the favicon: The easiest way is creating their own theme...

Is it possible to send notifications to my Portal users?

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Issue Is there a way to send an alert so that a group of users, at a site or organization level, receive a notification in the Portal? Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 - 7.4 Resolution Currently, there is no way to...

Why isn't structure with "Upload" field not working?

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Issue The upload field of a Liferay structure is in broken state when user performs any action. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Structure with the "Upload" field is not working for the user. Open...

How to Disable Groovy Scripts and the Scripting Console in Control Panel - DXP 7.4

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Issue I want to disable Groovy Scripts from being executed in Control Panel's Server Administration panel Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Approach 1: Please follow: How to Disable Groovy Scripts and the...

Warning about unavailable LPS

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Issue I received a long list of missing LPS/LPE after deploying a new hotfix. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution This is only a fix pack documentation error, that can be ignored. The portal-impl.jar...

Does Liferay offer email validation tool implemetation?

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Issue When sending out mass email notifications or alerts from Liferay, we have a high bounce rate. There are many invalid emails in our list, but we cannot clean them up. What email validation tools can be...

Empty page when opening Content & Data > Forms

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Issue After installing a hotfix, we see an empty page when navigating to Content & Data > Forms There is no error in the console or browser console Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution This could be the result...

How do we Toggle Requirement for Strangers to Verify their Email Address

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Issue How do we toggle the requirement for strangers to verify their email address Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution This setting can be toggled by going to: Instance Settings > User Authentication. From here, you can...

Auditing of Site Memberships: Adding/Unassigning UserGroupGroupRoles

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Issue We have found that groups of users are able to assign and unassign site roles to User Group memberships. Is there a way to audit role assignment changes? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution As of now, there is no...

"Unable to get recent groups" error is thrown in the logs for Guest users with specific permission

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Issue Liferay DXP 7.4 U92 starts up with the following error: ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-2][RecentGroupManager:94] Unable to get recent groups java.lang.NullPointerException: null at...

Hotfix created for 2025.Q1.X won't install

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Issue A hotfix created for 2025.Q1.X won't install even though it is being installed on the required version. The following information appears in the patching-tool info file. Product information: * DXP version:...

Organization tab do not shows the user when user is added to organization via Groovy Script

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Issue After the execution of the below syntax in the Groovy Script, the Organization name gets appended to the user and can be seen only under the "User's details Organization Tab" but not under the...

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...

Restricting the Guest Role's Access to the Home Page

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Issue When trying to change the view permission of a page it's not possible to do it for the Guest role in the first page: it shows as non-interactive. Environment QR 2024.Q3, 2024.Q4, 2025.Q1 Resolution This is...

Unable to Provision Users via SCIM

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Issue User provisioning via SCIM is failing. Liferay logs indicate a permission error: ERROR [org.wso2.charon3.core.protocol.endpoints.AbstractResourceManager] Unable to provision a portal user for null...

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+...

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...

Handling an excess number of User Notifications

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Issue As my Liferay system sends out User Notifications over time, the UserNotificationEvent table accumulates many records quickly. I would like to schedule the cleanup of old User Notifications, so that the...

DuplicateFileEntryException on Virtual Instance Startup

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Issue A `DuplicateFileEntryException` error occurs when starting a clustered DXP instance after a virtual instance is created, even if the file already exists in the Document Library. The error, seen in the...

Does upgrade touch the doclib?

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Issue We are preparing the upgrade from a Liferay 7.3 FP2 to a Liferay 7.4 2024.Q1 and we are trying to prepare a rollback system if something goes wrong and we need go reinstall the 7.3. My question is about the document...

The assignments are missing between roles and user groups when transfer from one enviornment to another

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Issue The export/import of UserGroups and Roles does not contain the assignments between roles and user groups. So when 'transporting' the user groups and roles from one stage (or backup) to another stage (new...

Portlet 3.0 Control Panel Apps cause unexpected errors

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Issue Following the deployment of a Portlet 3.0 Control Panel App, other areas of the control panel are experiencing malfunctions. For instance, the My Sites selector is not responding, and in version 7.3, the Global...

Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.portal.workflow.kaleo.service: Unable to convert XML to JSON

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Issue We are currently upgrading our DXP 7.4 u92 DB to 2024.Q1.12 We configured things for DB upgrade based on...

How to resolve duplicate Anonymous Users

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Issue My upgrade failed with the following error: failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.user.associated.data.web com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException:...

Large number of records on the SamlSpSession table

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Issue There are a large number of records on the SamlSpSession table, which is causing issues with my upgrade. Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.2 All DXP versions Resolution Extra records can be removed using the...

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