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com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.LocaleException occurs during upgrade

Issue I am receiving the following locale exception error when upgrading my database: ERROR - Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.layout.admin.web com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.LocaleException ... Caused by:...

Understanding the 'locales.enabled' property and the Instance Settings language configuration

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Issue There is a portal property to specify the locales that are enabled by default: locales.enabled. However you can change that from Control Panel > Instance Settings > Localization. How that portal property and that instance setting interact with each other? Environment Liferay DXP...

Why do I experience slowness after Liferay 7.4 2023.q4?

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Issue User experiences a slowness in the Liferay 7.4 Q1+ while they check the below query: SELECT COUNT (*) AS col_0_0_ FROM PortletPreferences portletpre0_ WHERE (portletpre0_.ownerType = ?) AND (portletpre0_.plid = ?) AND (portletpre0_.portletId = ?) AND portletpre0_.ctCollectionId = 0...

Can't add a new admin or requester to our project

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Issue We tried to add a new user to our Zendesk project but they still can't access the tickets Environment Zendesk Resolution You should check if you have support seats left available, if they are full, you should contact your sales representative requesting to increase the support seat...

PatchFileStructureException: Could not find hotfix.json or hotfix.sign

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Issue In some circumstances, users are unable to install the hotfix in their environment. The cause is often due to the incompatibility of the patching tool version. Sometimes, users receive the following error line: Problem occurred during the parsing of the hotfix:...

New Users Are Not Being Indexed, But Exist in the Database

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Issue After upgrading to 7.4, users are not being indexed, but we are able to see them in the database. New users are unable to login and are not searchable within the portal. Admin is unable to search new users to add them to groups or roles. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 & Quarterly...

Changing the default Mail Domain in DXP

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Issue In Liferay DXP, is it possible to configure the default email domain used during user creation? We'd like new users to have email addresses ending in "@example.com" instead of "@liferay.com". Resolution Go to your Control Panel. Navigate to Instance Settings. Click on "Instance...

"Prefix" does not save when switching between "Languages" for a User

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Issue When editing the "Language" selection for a User the "Prefix" does not always save the pre-selected response. Example: Set the "Prefix" to "Mr" and "Language" to "English" for a User and click Save. Change the "Language": "English" to another language where "Mr" is not the same...

Theme upgrade issues

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Issue We are moving from Liferay 7.3 to Quarterly releases and we would like to upgrade our theme, but facing errors e.g. "No mixin named media-query." or "Undefined variable: '$nav-underline-font-size'." Environment Liferay Quarterly Releases Liferay Theme Generator Resolution Make sure...

Known Issue [Resolved]: Control Panel access not correctly being provided through role assigned to user group

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Issue A user is not able to see the control panel, even though they are in a user group which correctly has assigned the application permissions and resource permissions relating to control panel access Environment 2024.Q1 Resolution This is resolved in 2024.Q2.0+, via the fix for...

Permissions assignments only save the most recently viewed page's selections

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Issue When assigning permissions to Documents or Web Content assets, after selecting permissions for users on the first page, navigating to the second page, and saving, only the permissions selected on the second page are being saved. I would expect the values selected in the first page...

When adding a User to a child organization, it automatically assigns them to the parent organization

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Issue I've observed a difference in behavior when assigning a User to a child organization. DXP 7.2: the user would only be assigned to the child organization and not the parent organization. Quarterly Release: the user would be assigned to the child organization and automatically be...

Unable to see the list of assignees for Site Roles, Organization Roles, Asset Library Roles and Account Roles

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Issue I would like to access a list of Roles and Assignees for "Site Roles", "Organization Roles", "Asset Library Roles", and "Account Roles" without having to go through each individual account to get information.This function is available for "Regular Roles" but unavailable for other...

How to define user and email notifications for each asset

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Issue I want to disable email notifications for blogs How to configure notifications for each asset to receive them by email or as user notifications. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution It is possible to choose the notification method for each asset of the portal from the user profile menu...

How do you create a role that allows a user to edit details of other users?

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Note, this is just one method and can be tailored to different preferences. Issue How do you create a role that can edit the details of other users? Like email address, etc. How do you create and assign a specific role? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Creating Users and Roles...

Parent organization membership is also displayed

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Issue We found a bug with how organization membership is displayed on the user account page: when a suborganization is assigned to a user, the parent organization of the assigned suborganization is also displayed. We only wish to see the suborganization and not the parent organization....

Creating a User Account Without an Email Address

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Issue How can I create a user without requiring the user to have an email address? Environment Liferay Quarterly Releases Resolution You can create a user without requiring an email address by setting the following properties in the portal-ext.properties file....

Users are not allowed to create organizations at a higher level than where they currently are

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Issue Can we enable users to create organizations that are at a higher level in the hierarchy than their own membership? Example: Parent > Organization > Child Organization > Child Organization 2.0 Can a user belonging to the "Child Organization" create organizations like...

Enable/Disable Multi-Factor Authentication

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Issue If there is any problem related with the way two-factor is working or do you simply want to deactivate it for some reason. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 2023 Q1 - 2023 Q4 2024 Q1 Resolution There are two ways to enable or disable the multi-factor authentication: Through the portal,...

Content does appear correctly for 'Site Member' users even though permissions appear correct

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Issue We have a 'Web Content' set up as visible for 'Site Member' users. This 'Web Content' is under a hierarchy of folders. We added a 'Web Content Display' widget to show the 'Web Content'. The widget is also set up as visible for 'Site Member' users. The issue is when a 'Site Member'...

How to modify the number of returned items in Queries made with the API

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Issue The headless API only returns a maximum of 500 items per query, even when a higher page size is defined. How to define de page size per instance. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution It is possible to configure the number of queries to return using the pagesize parameter. To use...

Folders, contents and other assets display outdated user name/surname

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Issue Within the Site administration, asset creators' names are displayed for folders, web content, and documents. Updating a user's name and/or surname does not reflect these changes in the aforementioned resources; instead, the previous values continue to be displayed. Can these...

'Authentication Search Filter' for Users in LDAP

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Issue At the moment, we are using LDAP server connection to authenticate our users. Our question is: in which moment the query to authenticate users is executed? More exactly, when the field 'Authentication Search Filter' is applied? We are using as 'Authentication Search Filter' this...

Upgrade error: Skipped updating database indexes for com.liferay.document.library.service since it is not upgraded

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Issue While updating to quarterly releases, an error is shown in the log and several modules do not start correctly. IndexUpdaterUtil-BundleTrackerOpener][IndexUpdaterUtil] Skipped updating database indexes for com.liferay.document.library.service since it is not upgraded Executing this...

HTML Parsing issues when reindexing journal articles after upgrading to Quarterly Release (Jericho)

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Issue I upgraded my instance to Quarterly Release. I performed a full reindex and received several errors in the log: ERROR [default-26][jericho:211] StartTag a at (r17,c4,p1100) contains attribute name with invalid character at position (r17,c97,p1193) Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1,...

User Impersonation For Newly Created Users

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Issue Attempting to impersonate a user who has not logged in yet returns errors in the console. How can I verify the accounts of new users who have not activated their account yet? Why can't I impersonate a user I've just created? Environment 2023.Q4.1 Resolution In the past you were...

URL specification of the administration screen

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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 What are the different types of Liferay admin screen URLs? Environment...

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

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 reached through localhost:8080/web/site1 or localhost:8080/web/site2 as...

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" and "View" permissions for sites, you can grant non-admin users...

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 immediately: "An unexpected error occurred while uploading your file."...

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 resources for each instance is not possible, in terms of memory, disk space and JVM...

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 been determined to be Intended Behavior. This includes when a user's...

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, with the permissions attached in the screenshot. Create a new user (say...

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 /html/portal/dynamic_include/view.jsp java.io.IOException: Unable to include JSP...

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 http://localhost:8080/manage Expected Behavior: HTTP 4xx Error Observed Behavior: HTTP...

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 internal user automatically created by Liferay. When there is a page that...

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: com.liferay.portal.configuration.persistence.listener.ConfigurationModelListenerException: The listener...

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 can restrict the impersonation to only one user at a time. Can you...

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 attached groovy script (this script has been verified on Portal 6.2 and DXP...

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 request did not meet the criteria to be authenticated successfully....

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 Administrator role user would be able to access these portlets. There is a...

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 Portlet Selects Organization Selects user and clicks Edit (step3.png) Select...

Can SAML be used to send an attribute that can be used to assign site roles?

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Issue Currently, SAML is not designed to be utilized to send an attribute that can be used to assign site roles. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution This is an ongoing task, LPD-6336, for Liferay. Liferay is planning on implementing a form of this in the future but this will be...

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 > Instance Settings > Localization. Make sure all languages are available. Stop the...

How to get a list of portal Users and what Roles are assigned to them?

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Issue I would like to get a list of Liferay portal users and what roles are assigned to them. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+ Resolution Please run the attached Groovy script: ListUsersAndRoles.groovy Additional Information Running Scripts From the Script Console, content:...

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 that you want to create a user via the API, and you're making the API...

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 website first, then the publication for pages and content? 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 authenticated JSONWS calls are executed from the same user with basic...

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 to the default Home Page after SAML authentication, not to the Custom Page...

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 consideration the following points to resolve the situation: Users must have the...

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 because this process normalizes the json or xml data from the...

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 click on the '+' icon and create a new role, with the name ‘New Role',...

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 following property and set its boolean: company.security.strangers=false With...

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 > Users > Roles and create a role say- 'Management' Navigate to 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 both environments will evolve in the meantime and that the...

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 You can leverage auth.login.url property to achieve this: # Enter a URL...

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 properties, like com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.i18n.I18nFilter, are...

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: Forbidden: You do not have permission to access the requested resource. ...

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 organization. Actual Result: No response when clicking select, unable to select...

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