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

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...

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...

How to mass reset passwords

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Issue We need to reset the passwords of all of our users. Due to the amount of users we have, it would be difficult doing this manually. Is this functionality available out of the box, or is there a best approach to it? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3+ Resolution Unfortunately mass resetting...

Why does Language selector update the User?

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Issue When the user uses the Language Selector Widget to change the language of the UI the portal updates the user The following module is visible in the stack trace: at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.UserServiceImpl.updateUser(UserServiceImpl.java:2791) Environment DXP 7.2, DXP 7.3...

How to add the consent panel to pages?

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Issue I would like to know how can I add the consent panel to pages to comply with the directives mentioned below: "To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, you must: Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them...

Can a user group member assign the same role to users without having admin privileges?

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Issue How can we allow the members of the user group "editors" to add / remove new users to their group without giving them administrator permissions? I would like the editors to be able to give the editor role to other users, while not having the ability to promote anyone to the...

Set expiration on password reset URL for new accounts

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Issue When a new user is created, the password set URL is sent to the new users' email but it doesn't has expiration. Currently, reset password links can be set to expire with the following portal property: passwords.default.policy.reset.ticket.max.age=86400 However, this expiration...

"Forced" re-assignment of a Workflow task

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Issue Is it possible to re-assign a Workflow task? Consider the following scenario: A user assigns a workflow task to themselves This user resigns/disappears/goes on holiday without processing the task at hand The task becomes to be urgent Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Liferay covers...

Cannot end User impersonation session

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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 the impersonated user (and the URL remains the same, including the...

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 Sessions. If it's empty, create a new entry and under "URLs include" set this...

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 Resolution Hard refreshing/clearing cache of the browser This issue is...

Liferay starts up creating tables and populating them with default data after restoring an upgraded database

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Issue You might encounter the behavior where you successfully back up your current data and performed a successful upgrade in your local MySQL server. However, when restoring the upgraded data, Liferay does not start with it but instead begins creating tables and populates them with...

How to manually trigger LDAP imports before the import interval is reached

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Issue I want to manually trigger LDAP imports by triggering the UserImportConfigurationModelListener scheduled job. However, when I trigger this job, I see the following line in the LDAP DEBUG logs: DEBUG [liferay/scheduled_user_ldap_import-2][UserImportConfigurationModelListener:165]...

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