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Enabling Special Characters for Screen Names and Passwords

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 additional special characters to be accepted. Adding the following property to...

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 [ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8009-exec-2][WebSsoProfileImpl:809] Screen name 12345 must not be duplicate but is already...

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 → Add Organization → Name it & Save it. 3. Navigate Control Panel → Users &...

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 DXP 7.1 Resolution The file upload feature for guest users in Liferay Forms has...

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 the logs: at...

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 Liferay PaaS environment, after adding an image file to your document...

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: _companyLogRoutingFilePatterns 2023-11-17 09:54:43,840 main ERROR The parameter is null: _dirPattern...

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? Environment DXP 7.4 DXP 7.2 (Migrated to 7.4) Resolution In DXP 7.2 there is a setting...

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

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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 In the Summary of Role Permission Definitions, there are items whose...

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...

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 $LIFERAY_HOME/osgi/state/ after installing a hotfix. To solve it: stop the server, delete...

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. Environment 7.2 Resolution One of the reasons this might happen is...

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 not recommend deleting users, especially the ones who have created content that...

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 sitemap includes setting yes for the page. Environment Liferay DXP [all...

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? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Liferay does not support the use of the same...

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 DXP Q3.1 Liferay DXP Q3.2 Resolution Create a fragment, navigate to...

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 Roles and here, no option to view/delete the assigned users to the site roles....

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 users can resume logging in with no errors after 1 to 20 minutes with no further...

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 7.2, DXP 7.3 DXP 7.4, 2023.Q3+ Resolution You can manually adapt the "Guest"/"User"...

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 steps: On the control panel navigate to Configuration, then Instance Settings ...

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 a ServiceContext object on which companyId of the instance has...

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 and there use a custom icon. The other option is adding the following property...

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 cannot be verified Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution This is on the roadmap...

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 should We configured SSO for users' login Environment Liferay Portal 6.1+ Liferay DXP...

"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 "Unknown product version" error is because this file got corrupted in your environment...

"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 permission should not enable them to perform these actions. Could you please...

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: Create Organizations called Org1 and Org2 Create Accounts called Account1 and...

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 → Component Blacklist Specify the following Component Name:...

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 in the UI wherein the control panel menu can be viewed by the users according...

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. Environment DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 Resolution You may need to disable this feature by...

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 control panel > Roles > Click on the add button. Create a new role named maker...

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, from 503 Service Unavailable errors to slow page loads. This article...

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: Include more user attributes when exporting users to a CSV file. Start Liferay...

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 DXP 7.2 DXP 7.3 DXP 7.4 Resolution To achieve this scenario, please...

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 correctly. Is it possible to create page templates globally to use them...

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 configure OOTB alerts to appear in user notifications. The way users are...

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 contains a list of fixed issues in its META-INF/MANIFEST.MF under the...

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 the main menu on the top right -> Control Panel -> Configuration -> System...

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 implemented with Liferay? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution There are...

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 Scripting Console in Control Panel This will prevent non-admin users from running...

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 of faulty patching. Enter the Gogo shell and run the "lb" command, check...

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 toggle the tickbox for "Require Strangers to Verify their Email...

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 way in OOTB Liferay to audit role assignment changes. There is an existing...

"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 com.liferay.portal.security.permission.BasePermissionChecker.init(BasePermissionChecker.java:104)...

"The requested resource could not be found" errors

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Issue The requested resource could not be found errors can be observed with my profile and my dashboard or let's say users cannot access their own personal pages. Steps to reproduce: 1) Set up a clean instance of DXP 7.4 on JBoss EAP 7.4 2) login with admin (test user) 3) Navigate to the...

When editing the code editor in the dispatch details tab, is it possible to register in JSON format?

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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 When editing the code editor in the dispatch details tab, is it possible...

Is there any risk in the time zone change?

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Issue We want to change the time Zone from GMT+2 to GMT+3. Does this change have any impact or risk on the production environment? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Our suggestion is not to change the GMT Time Zone in the JVM. However, changing the time zone in the UI, there is...

Unable to delete an Account entry

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Issue When navigating to Control Panel > Accounts, an existing Account entry cannot be deleted successfully. This issue can occur when the “Account” system object has a relationship with an inactive object. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Install update 90 or higher or open up a support...

How to navigate between sites while using the site virtualhost?

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Issue User wishes to navigate between sites while accessing each site virtualhost. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Create a site and add new page to it. In the site's Configuration > Site Settings > Site Configuration >Site Scope >...

How to search for the User's contact Phone Number?

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Issue Is there a way to configure Liferay's default Search Bar to allow searching by a User's Phone Number defined in the Contact Information tab? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Liferay's default Search Bar is limited and unfortunately it is not possible to search by a User's...

Error concerning LDAPUserImporterImpl when importing data from LDAP onto Liferay

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Issue We encountered the following error when attempting to import user data from LDAP onto Liferay: ERROR [liferay/scheduled_user_ldap_import-1][LDAPUserImporterImpl:817] Unable to import user CN=firstName lastName,OU=STU,OU=UserAccounts,OU=Tier2,OU=COMPANY:...

How to delete old audit events 'audit_auditevent' table in 7.2+.

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Issue I want to clean up the AUDIT_AUDITEVENT table in a 7.2+ instance, because the old data is taking up too much space. However, the API made after 7.2, and the previous methods of clearing the 'audit_auditevent' table no longer work. Environment DXP 7.2, DXP 7.3, DXP 7.4 Resolution...

Permission to add/edit Language Keys

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Issue Can I give permission to a regular role, so it has the right to add/edit Language keys? Under the "Language Override" permissions, there is no option to do this. Environment DXP 7.1+ Resolution Portal: Manage Language Overrides permission can be found under General Permissions...

User Creation and Migration with Limited Attributes and Information

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Issue When migrating existing users from an old system to Liferay, there are user requirements posed by Liferay (screen name, email address, first name, and last name). Old systems may not have all the information required by Liferay to create/migrate existing users. Environment DXP...

Instance settings not being respected when setting an upload limit in Forms

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Issue When setting a value above the default (5) for the allowed upload limit for a guest user in the instance settings, my form is not accepting more than 5 submissions In order for this behavior to be achieved, I need to set this value in System Settings However, if I want this...

How to change message sent by email when making a comment in Asset Publisher

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Issue When making a comment on some Web Content present in an Asset Publisher, with the Enable Email Subscription setting enabled on its page, a commented notification is sent by email to users subscribed to that Asset Publisher However, the message that is sent by default is a message...

NoSuchUserException in the logs after updating to DXP 7.4 U72

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Issue We have deleted the default Test user from our environment in the past Now when we updated to U72 and above, we get an exception in our logs during startup: com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.NoSuchUserException: No User exists with the key {companyId=1042185, screenName=test}...

Unable to get default company ID error encountering after upgrade

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Issue After the upgrade from Liferay DXP 7.4 to update 75 or above, the following error is showing on the console for non-liferay user domains: ERROR [main][BatchEngineUnitProcessorImpl:279] Unable to get default company ID com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.NoSuchCompanyException: No...

Resource permission queries

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Issue When there is a load on the server with 400–500 users, the resource permission queries are getting called in huge amounts. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The observed behavior is a known Liferay DXP bug which has been addressed in Liferay DXP 7.4 Update 70. Additional...

Can we configure an internal email address to receive a copy of all Email Verification messages?

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Issue The Email Verification Notification message is sent to new Users when asked to verify their Email Address. We would like to set up an internal email address, which would be added as a BCC on all Verification emails which are sent out for new user account creation. Environment...

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