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My name is displayed truncated in My Profile on Tablet/Mobile

Issue When I access My Profile from the user menu on main site, on a tablet or mobile device, I see my name truncated. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Service Pack 3 Resolution Please request a Hotfix with LPS-154810 to resolve the issue. Additional Information Liferay DXP Patching Tool...

Change of Password Encryption Algorithm

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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 The default password encryption algorithm is...

Non-US-ASCII characters in the local part of email addresses

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Issue Trying to add a new user with an email address containing the letter 'ñ' in the local part, it seems that is not considered a valid character. Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.x Resolution RFC 5322 (section 3.2.3) defines the allowed characters in the local part of an...

Special characters are converted for automatic screen name generation

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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 screen names are automatically generated from email addresses,...

Upgrade failed with no logs, certain modules are not upgraded

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Issue We do not have anything in our upgrade logs after we tried to upgrade from 6.2 to DXP 7.3. We ran this command in gogo shell (7.3), upgrade:check , and found these modules that have not been updated yet, e.g.: There are upgrade processes available for...

Update Page Content permission does not allow editing web content

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Issue I checked the Update Page Content permission for a role, from the page permissions management, and the user who is assigned to this role, cannot edit web content within that page. Environment DXP 7.3 DXP 7.4 Resolution The Update Page Content permission applies to content pages,...

Prohibit users from moving pages

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Issue In our project, we have a role that can edit pages and web content. Is it possible to prohibit the role assignees from moving pages in the page overview tab? I can't seem to find a permission that disables this. Do you have any solutions? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution We...

Groovy Script Method to Delete Users in Bulk

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Issue I need to delete many users at once from a Liferay instance in a programmatic and efficient way without directly modifying the database (which is not advised). Environment DXP 7.1 Resolution Below is a template groovy script utilizing actionable dynamic queries to delete users in...

Role inherited from a segment based on a user group is not displayed in the user's role view

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Issue There is a segment that includes members that are part of one or more groups. This segment is assigned to a role. When I choose a user from the user group and view the roles, the role is not listed. Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution This is the expected behavior. The user has the role...

Permission Restriction on MyAccountPortlet

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Issue We tried to restrict access to MyAccountPortlet for various users in order to prevent them from amending their own data. We found that despite removing the permissions for User and Owner roles on com_liferay_my_account_web_portlet_MyAccountPortlet, they are still able to view and...

The .heic file format is not supported in profile image

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Issue Issues while uploading a profile photo taken with an iPhone camera since the extension is .heic, which causes errors. Even if tried to upload via control panel options, the issue may persist with the same extension files. 1) Start Clean instance of Liferay 7.2 2) Update...

DocumentException during upgrade process while reading META-INF/portal-hbm.xml

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Issue A DocumentException is thrown at certain point when you run the upgrade process from the Gogo Shell using command upgrade:run or upgrade:runAll You can find a stack trace similar to the following in the upgrade.log: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException:...

How to check portlet additions from log history

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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 Users with a certain level of privileges are free to add portlets, but is...

Character strings that cannot be used in the name of the site

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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 character strings cannot be used in the name of the site?...

Cannot assign roles unless the User role has permission to view the Administrator role

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Issue No new roles can be assigned if the User's View permission on the Administrator role is revoked. Steps to reproduce: 1) Startup Liferay server 2) Log in as your administrator 3) Create a role, call it 'testRole' for example and give it the following permissions: Portal: View...

macro buildChildrenNavItems not found after an upgrade to 7.3

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Issue After an upgrade if a Site Navigation Menu Widget is added to a page with its default configuration you could see the following error: The following has evaluated to null or missing: ==> buildChildrenNavItems [in template "10114#26427#18786775" at line 67, column 67] Environment...

Property 'session.timeout.auto.extend=false' is configured but browser still calls 'extend_session'

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Issue In portal-ext.properties the following property session.timeout.auto.extend=false is configured, however in the Network tab of the Developer Tools of the browser 'extend_session' is still being called. Environment DXP 7.3 DXP 7.2 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.0 Resolution Sessions are important...

Assign User to Account

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Issue Not able to select the created User to be assigned to an Account. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Commerce 4.0 Resolution Users for Accounts can only be created within the Account Users interface. A regular DXP User that is created in the Users and Organizations interface cannot be...

Unable to create role with edit/update/delete permissions on all widget's application display templates

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Issue If you want to manage permissions on all widget's templates / adt's you can use a general Administrator role or a specific custom role. With the current implementation users having the custom role will only be able to add templates and manage those templates that they have been...

Password reset notification emails may be sent to different email addresses

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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. event Instance settings>Email address>Email sender's email address has been...

Memory information displayed on the server management resource 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 Which values do the"Memory Capacity" and "Maximum Memory" displayed on...

SightRoll specifications when a user is removed from the site

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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 If I remove a user from the site, what happens to the configured...

How to switch between modal and full screen display of the login 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. event Can I switch between modal and full screen display of the login screen?...

The birthday is reset to {01/01/1970} on LDAP import

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Issue Every time a user is logged in, the birthday is automatically updated to the default value {01-01-1970}. We configured the LDAP server in Instance Settings. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution The resolution is to add "birthday" to the list of User Ignore...

How to remove users from Liferay that are deactivated / deleted in the LDAP server

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Issue When a user is no longer listed in the LDAP server, the authentication fails and the user cannot log in anymore, but a dead user entry remains in Control Panel -> Users. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution There is a way to synchronize user deactivation with the...

Custom site/organizational role gives too many permissions

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Issue I have created a custom site/organizational role to see Document and Media contents. I only selected VIEW options in Define Permissions > Site Administration > Content > Documents and Media, but the user is able to add documents/folders which is undesirable behaviour. Environment...

Deactivate Liferay users automatically when they are deactivated on LDAP

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Issue We have an LDAP server connected to Liferay and we want to deactivate Liferay users automatically when they are deactivated on LDAP. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution We can use the Status attribute to achieve it: 1. Access Control Panel > Instance Settings >...

What are the folders to clean in a Jboss bundle? - DXP 7.0+

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Issue After applying a new patch, I am not able to find the cache folders that should be removed in the Jboss bundle after e.g. installing a patch Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Jboss Resolution How to clean Jboss? Delete all files inside $LIFERAY_HOME_DIRECTORY/logs Delete all files...

Disable email notifications of web content, when you post a comment

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Issue When you write a comment on a web content, you will automatically start receiving emails on every update that is made on that web content. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2, DXP 7.3 Resolution This is an expected behavior. However, there are two different options to avoid it. Disable the...

LDAP y gestion de usuarios en idiomas con dos apellidos

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Issue En un servidor LDAP que se ha configurado conjuntamente con Liferay se tienen almacenados los apellidos de los usuario en dos campos diferentes. Al visualizar los usuarios en el portal no aparece su nombre completo apareciendo solo uno de los apellidos. Environment DXP 7.2+...

Non-admin owner of a User Group is unable to perform any actions on it

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Issue Steps to reproduce: Create a new role (name doesn't matter) Grant the following permissions to this role: Portal: Add User Group Portal: View Control Panel Menu User Groups: Access in Control Panel User Groups: Configuration User Groups: View User Groups > User Group: View Create a...

Cannot open action menu for users who have similar screen names

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Issue Steps to Reproduce 1. Go to Control Panel - Users and Organizations 2. Add a new user with the screen name "test-test" 3. Add another user with the screen name "test.test" 4. Go back to the list of users 5 Click on the three-dot action menu for either of the new...

Error copying a page: An unexpected error occurred.

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Issue You find an "Unexpected error occurred" message during a Copy page action. Checking the logs there is a trace like this: 2021-12-28 12:09:49.911 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-9][LayoutExceptionRequestHandler:132] User 35215 must have...

Cannot access portal due to NoSuchResourcePermissionException exception

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Issue An error when rendering a page produces a critical issue that blocks the portal access. In the logs you could see a trace similar to this: com.liferay.portal.kernel.events.ActionException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Someone may be trying to circumvent the permission...

Autocomplete issue during login

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Issue During login, the browser autocompletes the user's credentials into the fields based on past logins. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution These login credentials are stored and filled out in the browser, so Liferay may not have full...

Site Administrator cannot add images of global site to current site's web content

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Issue Site Administrator cannot see global site and it's content listed when trying to add an image from global site to current site's web content. Steps to reproduce: Log in as admin. Go to the Global site's Documents and Media and upload a basic document (E.g. Sample.png). Create a new...

Instance level LDAP configuration

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Issue When configuring LDAP authentication from DXP 7.3, the companyId has to be configured on an instance level. This issue can present itself for example during a CI / CD development. Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution To properly configure the companyId, perform the next steps: Add the...

UserTrackerPath entries limitation in clustered environment

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Issue Track user visited paths in a clustered environment. Environment Clustered environment with the following properties enabled to use Live Users and Session Tracker: live.users.enabled=true session.tracker.memory.enabled=true session.tracker.persistence.enabled=true...

Expand the available special characters for passwords

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Issue If you have a password policy enabled where the users must have special characters in their passwords certain characters that are not allowed such as "&" or "%". You will get the following error message when you are trying to use them in a password: That password must contain at...

Can I have different Fix Pack levels in a remote Staging environment?

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Issue We are in the process of upgrading our portal to a higher Fix Pack and I was wondering if there is any issue with having the Staging environment with the new Fix Pack and the Live environment with the current Fix Pack. Environment All Liferay versions Resolution When applying...

Allow only one user to be logged into an account

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Issue When someone is logging into an account I want to invalidate the previous session. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution With the following portal-ext property you can invalidate sessions, allowing only one user to be logged in to an account at a time: # Set the following to...

How to build a SOAP JAX-WS (Java API for XML Web Services) client using the Liferay infrastructure.

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Issue We have a WSDL (Web Services Description Language) descriptor and we need to build a client from it. Finally, we will make this service (client) available to any application installed on our Liferay instance. Environment Liferay DXP 7.x wsimport tool from Oracle JDK 8. Resolution...

Unexpected operator and Bad substitution errors executing the patching-tool

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Issue When you try to execute the patching-tool, the following errors show up: $ sh ./patching-tool.sh patching-tool.sh: 13: [: unexpected operator patching-tool.sh: 13: [: unexpected operator patching-tool.sh: 13: [: unexpected operator patching-tool.sh: 22: Bad substitution Environment...

SessionTracker in clustered environment

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Issue Session Tracker cannot be used to track visited paths among cluster nodes. Environment Clustered environment with two or more nodes. Resolution Session Tracker doesn't support tracking visited paths when two or more nodes are up. Only visited paths in the master node will be saved....

Patching Tool 'support-info' command

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Issue Trying to run the 'support-info' command using the patching tool, but nothing happens. But there is no output, and there is no error. How can users find out about modules? Environment Liferay DXP Patching Tool 3.0.19+ Resolution The 'support-info' command has been removed from...

Allow custom site administrator role to see all users of Liferay

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Issue When creating a site role that is able to add members to a site, they see a limited amount of users or just themselves. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution In order to allow a user to see all members of Liferay, you have to add a regular role to it with the following permission: ...

User unable to Login with CSRF error

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Issue User is unable to login, and gets the below error in logs: User 0 did not provide a valid CSRF token for com.liferay.portlet.SecurityPortletContainerWrapper Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Firstly, check if the issue can be resolved by following the below article: Invalid...

Create a custom logout action

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Issue I want to control what happens after a user logs out. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution There are two ways of achieving the desired outcome. The first is to create a custom module and add it to the list of modules of the following portal-ext property:...

I cannot download the vCard from another user

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Issue The Contacts Center Widget allows users to export the user’s vCard and save it as a VCF file. vCard is a file format standard for electronic business cards. If a regular user clicks on the vCard from another user to download it, nothing happens and the vCard is not downloaded....

Users can't be assigned to sites

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Issue java.lang.IllegalArgumentException is occured when trying to add a user to a site. Steps to reproduce: 1. Add below property in portal-ext.properties file. users.search.with.index=false 2. Start the server. 3. Create a user. 4. Try to add the newly created user to a site (People...

Impersonation Security concerns

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Issue Impersonation is a powerful feature of Liferay. This article serves to answer the following questions regarding its security. Who triggers the impersonation request? How long that kind of access will be used? What audit controls are in place for the use of this feature? How you...

I cannot export Liferay Portal users

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Issue When I try to export the portal users, the process fails and the portal displays the error "This site cannot be accessed". The portal log shows the following errors: ERROR [default task-97][ExportUsersMVCResourceCommand:100] com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException:...

User Export to CSV is limited to 10,000 entries

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Issue I’m unable to export the complete list of user ids from Liferay. When attempting to export users to a CSV file, only up to the first 10,000 users are exported.  Environment DXP 7.3 Service Pack 1 Resolution Liferay has a preconfigured default of 10,000 entries when exporting...

Not able to define document viewing permissions for a child site

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Issue Document viewing permissions for a child site is not getting save properly and the below error is thrown in Liferay logs on saving the permission: 2021-06-02 18:40:15.129 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-3][PortletServlet:119] javax.portlet.PortletException:...

Disable password verification for SSO users

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Issue When changing the screen name or email address of a user, the portal now requires a password verification. This was not a requirement for previous versions of Liferay. Environment DXP 7.3+ Resolution This is a change implemented under LPS-112726 to address security concerns....

Adding More Australian Time Zones

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Introduction By default, Liferay has a list of Australian time zones that don't account for regional rules related to daylight savings time. For example, Brisbane (Queensland) will remain on AEST (UTC+10:00) throughout the year, whereas Sydney (New South Wales) observes daylight savings...

While using Azure B2C a SAML error occurs when getting a parameter with whitespaces

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Issue When SAML module is configured and integrated with an Azure B2C and we need to map a parameter to a Liferay parameter, a problem might occur due to a whitespace: <saml:Attribute FriendlyName="Given Name" Name="Given Name"...

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

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Issue I want to disable Groovy Scripts from being executed in Control Panel's Server Administration panel Environment Prior to DXP 7.4 Resolution 1. Go to Control Panel > Configuration > System Settings 2. In the Platform section, find "Module Container" 3. In the Module Container...

How to Disable Gogo Shell

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Issue I want to disable the Gogo Shell from my Liferay instance Environment Liferay DXP Resolution The Gogo Shell can be disabled by performing the following actions: 1. Go to Control Panel > Configuration > Components 2. Find the entry for Gogo Shell and click it 3. Uncheck the "Active"...

Is it possible to know the timeline for when a hotfix from Liferay Support will be ready?

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Issue Is it possible to have an exact timeline on when a hotfix from Liferay Support will be ready? Environment Portal 6.1/6.2 DXP 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3/7.4 Resolution While there is no exact timeline from Liferay Support on when a hotfix will be ready, we, at Liferay are able to provide an...

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