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Issue Create a new user Impersonate it Click on the top-right user's menu and click on the 'Be yourself again' link Expected behavior: The page is displayed for the Admin. Actual behavior: The page is displayed for...

Get categories via /api/jsonws request, response with 403 status

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Issue When retrieving categories using api/jsonws there's a blank page and the HTTP status is 403. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Go to Control Panel -> System Settings -> API authentication -> Portal...

Page tree and Product menu is not visible after upgrade

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Issue After upgrading Liferay 7.4 to Update 60 or above, some of the Admin UI components (Product menu and the Page tree) are not available and there are JS errors in the console log. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4...

Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.portal.scheduler.quartz

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Issue During our upgrade process we are facing the following error: INFO - Failed upgrade process com.liferay.portal.scheduler.quartz.internal.upgrade.v1_0_1.QuartzUpgradeProcess in 1 ms ERROR - Failed upgrade...

Accessing a site page from a different virtual host

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Issue When there are 2 or more sites for example Site1 and Site2. Site1 is mapped to the friendly URL "site1" and Site2 is mapped to "site2". They both have virtual hosts site1.com and site2.com. The sites can be...

Allowing non-admin users to move between sites with minimal permissions.

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Issue Users who are assigned to multiple sites without admin permissions are not able to switch between sites. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution By defining and assigning a new Regular role with "Access in Control Panel"...

Is it possible to manage resources per instance in Liferay?

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Issue You have a Liferay server and several virtual instances, and want to know if it’s possible to configure resources for each virtual instance. Environment DXP 7.2+ Resolution Unfortunately handling...

Getting Error 'java.io.IOException: Unable to include JSP'

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Issue User has encountered similar error post installation of a liferay hotfix: ERROR [https-jsse-nio-0.0.0.0-8443-exec-29][DynamicIncludeUtil:81] java.io.IOException: Unable to include JSP...

Guest User cannot upload File in Form - An unexpected error occurred

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Issue We have a Form with an Upload field where authenticated users can upload files but Guests cannot. All permissions are provided for Guest user. When the user selects the file to upload, an error message appears...

user_ .modifiedDate table changes upon User Login

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Issue When a user logs in, Liferay is changing the user_ .modifiedDate value in the database table. Environment Liferay 7.4 Resolution The behavior where user_ .modifiedDate field is modified upon User Login has...

Liferay userGroup view permission not working

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Issue Post assigning VIEW permission of 'UserGroup' to a role, assigned users are able to perform all the operations on UserGroup, i.e. there is no restriction. Steps to reproduce: Create a custom regular role,...

Guest users get a 200 OK response when calling URL

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Issue When guest users call http://<server>:<port>/manage, they get a 200 OK response. Steps: Start a vanilla Liferay DXP server Log in Go to the Personal Menu, click the user's avatar Log out Go to...

What is the Default Service Account?

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Issue What is the Default Service Account? What is its purpose? Why is a default-service-account row added automatically to the User_ table? Can this user be removed or adjusted? Environment 2023.Q3+ Resolution Imagine...

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...

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...

Administrators cannot manage Omni Admin apps, like the App Manager

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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...

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...

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...

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 >...

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...

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...

"Unknown product version" error

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Issue I received "Unknown product version" error while I wanted to use my new hotfix. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3,dxp-2-7310,hotfix-2058-7310 Resolution The reason for the Patching Tool to display the...

Unable to control visibility for Account Roles

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Issue Users from an Organization without View permission to see other Organization information are able to do so even after setting everything up properly. The steps for this issue should look like this:...

How to hide My Workflow Tasks from the User Profile Menu

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Issue Is there a way to hide My Workflow Tasks option from the User Profile Menu? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Please go to Global Menu → Control Panel → System Settings → PLATFORM → Module Container →...

Show the Control Panel Menu by role

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Issue In the earlier versions or updates of Liferay, the Control Panel Menu was hidden for specific users, and in order to achieve this, custom themes were being used. Hence a new feature is introduced directly...

How to create a role-based user to only view and update web content?

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Issue How to create a role-based user to only view and update web content? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Navigate to Control Panel >Users and Organizations > Create a user After this, navigate to the...

Error When Installing Liferay Developer Studio on a MacBook Pro M1

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Issue I would like to install Liferay Developer Studio on a MacBook Pro M1 computer When trying to install an error message is received "LiferayWorkspace-[date]-osx-installer" cannot be opened because the developer...

Admin user can't access anything

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Issue We created a cloud environment, cloning our local environment, and while the local admin user works well, the cloud admin doesn't seem to have the same rights and can't access anything an admin...

"Manage Available Accounts via User Channel Rel" permission granting more access than intended?

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Issue We discovered that assigning the "Manage Available Accounts via User Channel Rel" permission to a role will enable the assignees to edit, or manage users of a certain Account. We believe this particular...

Remove prepopulated email domain from login portlet

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Issue When the user tries to login, the email field is prepopulated with the company's domain name. This occurs when the login is unpopulated and user authentication is based on email addresses....

Troubleshooting Performance Issues in Liferay PaaS

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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). Performance issues can manifest in various different symptoms,...

Inconsistency of the user's LoginDate in the exported CSV file

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Issue Getting inconsistent user login date format in CSV file after exporting the users. Steps to reproduce: Add the last login date to the portal-ext.properties file, and reference the article for the same:...

Disabling Guest users from viewing the search page

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Issue How do I block access to my search page content from the "Guest" user in my Portal I would like guest users to be able to access public pages but not have permission to search my web contents history Environment...

Is it possible to create page templates globally to use them throughout the site?

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Issue When trying to create page templates in the global site, not all the options of this tool are displayed, but when performing the same action on any other site, it does display all the options and works...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

When changing the User's "Language" and "Prefix" selection to another set, each selection needs to be done individually

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Issue We've observed an undesirable behavior when editing a User's preferred "Language" and "Prefix" selection. When editing/changing a User's "Language" and "Prefix" existing selection, each selection needs to be...

Group Memberships are being removed after signing in via SAML after upgrading to 2024.Q2 from 2023.Q4

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Issue We have observed that some users's existing group memberships are missing after they login via SAML(Okta). Environment Quarterly Release 2024.Q2 Resolution This is due to the change reported in these articles:...

Calling UserImporter in com.liferay.portal.security.exportimport.api throws unsatisfied references error.

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Issue On 7.3 we are using this class to Import users from a SamlProvider: com.liferay.portal.security.exportimport.UserImporter.importUser(long companyId, String emailAddress, String screenName) We call the service by...

Can default landing pages be based on user group membership?

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Issue I would like to set default landing pages based on user group membership so that I can redirect users to different pages on login based on their user group membership. Environment Quarterly Releases...

jUnit throws exception

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Issue We are encountering issues with jUnit and Liferay Spring MVC portlet. We have SubscriptionUtilTest class and when trying to run it by right click and run as "Junit" then throws error as...

The account email address is set to null

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Issue When updating a custom field at the account entry, the account email address is set to null Steps to reproduce: Create a new Account, “Account”. Attach an e-mail address “abc@liferay.com” to the account entry...

Remove the Site Name and Portal Name from the Browser Title

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Issue While hovering the mouse on a browser tab of any page, it displays the "Page Name - Site Name - Portal Name". How to remove the Portal Name part from it? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Create the...

SCIM API is not working as expected to link existing users to SCIM Client

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Issue I'm unable to use the PUT API to update users as linked to the SCIM Client. I'm not able to add new users and then update them using the PUT API linking them to the SCIM client. Environment 2024.Q1+ Resolution...

Export Analytics DXP Entities is missing and is replaced by export-analytics-dxp-entities

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Issue We've observed that when accessing the Job Scheduler, the property 'Export Analytics DXP Entities', is missing. We see that 'export-analytics-dxp-entities' is available. Is 'export-analytics-dxp-entities'...

Admins can't sign in when LDAP Required is enabled if they only exist in Liferay but not in LDAP

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Issue When LDAP is configured with the option Required, admin users that exist in Liferay but not in LDAP are not able to log in. Environment Quarterly Release 2024.Q2 Resolution As indicated in the documentation,...

Unable to Cancel Shutdown Event

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Issue After scheduling a shutdown event, and trying to cancel it, you see an error: "Error:Text verification failed." When trying to cancel a shutdown event, I'm prompted to input a CAPTCHA, but there is...

Who added user ddm_form_default_user_screen_name in Liferay?

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Issue We found the user ddm_form_default_user_screen_name in our Liferay Portal. Could it be a security attack? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution The user with name ddm_form_default_user_screen_name is an...

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:...

Email are not sent from Liferay when Office365 is used as the server

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Issue Emails are not sent out from Liferay In the log, we see the following error: liferay[liferay-7] [dxp] ERROR [liferay/mail-6][MailEngine:74] Unable to send message: 535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, the...

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...

Restricting impersonation to allow only a single users impersonation at a time

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Issue An Impersonator should be able to impersonate only one user at a time. Currently, Liferay supports multiple users to be impersonated, at the same time in the same browser. We tried to find any properties which...

Need to create a role for accessing Server Administration

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Issue User needs to create a custom role and add permissions to access Server Administration Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution There are no options provided under System to add these permissions. Only an...

User can see more Organisations

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Issue We have a problem the User, who has access and rights to selected organizations, can see all organizations when updating user info. Reproduction steps: Customer main user opens Users and Organizations...

How to remove languages in Instance Settings?

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Issue How can a user remove languages in Instance Settings? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Start up a vanilla bundle without any specific language settings. Go to Control Panel >...

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