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Issue We've observed an undesirable behavior when trying to access "Information Templates". When navigating to Design > Templates > Information Templates, the page is blank. There is no option to create a new...

Changes Not Reflecting Across Nodes

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Issue In a clustered Liferay environment, changes made on Node 1 are not consistently reflected on Node 2. The changes only appear after restarting the Liferay server. Environment Liferay DXP [All versions]...

Updating Web Content's Custom Integer Field Using Headless API

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Issue When trying to update the web content's custom field value of type Integer with API, an errorClassCastException occurs. Steps to reproduce: Create a custom field of integer in the web content article. Create...

Error Creating Web Content with Nested Fields via Headless API: 'Value Should Not Be Set for Transient Field'

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Issue When attempting to create web content that includes nested fields using the Headless API, the user encounters a 400 Bad Request error. The response message states: "Value should not be set for transient field...

Changing locale using the Language selector in a private page redirects to a 404 error page

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Issue I have an issue with the use of the language selector in a private page. When I try to change the locale using the language selector, I get redirected to a 404 error page. Reproduction Steps: Start 2024.q1.17....

Builds being deployed to the Liferay Cloud console fail with the following error: Unknown arguments: use-external-git, useExternalGit

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Issue Any builds being deployed to the Liferay Cloud console fail with the error: Unknown arguments: use-external-git, useExternalGit Environment PaaS Quarterly Release Resolution There is an incompatibility with CLI...

Company-scoped objects' workflow tasks do not get assigned to users with only site-scoped roles

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Issue Given: A company-scoped custom object A workflow assigned to the above-mentioned object (at Global Menu > Applications tab > Workflow section > Process Builder > Assignments tab) And a workflow task...

Web Content Structures Not Visible in Second Instance After Upgrade

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Issue After upgrading to a Quarterly Release, web content structures are not visible in the second instance when creating web content. Environment Liferay Quarterly Release upgraded from a previous version...

Page Audit is not displaying errors properly

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Issue I have an issue with Page Audit. The feature has stopped working. When initiating an audit on a page, the progress bar reaches 99% and then stops, resulting in a null pointer exception error being thrown in the...

Proxy paths are not honored after upgrading to 2025.Q1.9

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Issue After upgrading to 2025.Q1.9 we've found that our page are largely inoperable. There are a large amount of console errors related to missing functions, missing MIME types, missing AUI, etc. Environment...

Unable to edit or create Collections

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Issue We've discovered a behavior that occurs when trying to edit existing collections or creating new collections. The page fails to load. The main error that popualates references a missing classname:...

I cannot schedule web content using a date in the past

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Issue I have an issue with the web content scheduling. I set the time zone of the user's OS to CET while the user and the server are set to UTC (by default). I create web content and schedule it to be less than 1 hour...

Pages Appear in Search Results But Lead to 404 Errors

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Issue Some search results lead to 404 pages, even after reindexing. Pages exist but cannot be navigated to with the search bar. Search bar is unresponsive when clicking on certain results. Environment...

How to Grant Add User Permission to a New Role?

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Issue We set up a new role and want to enable it to add new users to the portal. When we navigate to Define permissions > Users and Organizations, there is no "Add User" permission. Even is granting all permissions...

Rest Application menu (/o/api) contains duplicate items

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Issue I have noticed that when I use the headless /o/api Rest Application menu has duplicated items. It is duplicated next time after being selected and used. It does not impact the functionality. Reproduction Steps:...

Display date disappears if you update a web content

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Issue I have an issue with the web content article display date. When I update the web content by changing the title, the published date disappears. Reproduction Steps: 1. Start 2025.q1.8-lts 2. Go to Content & Data...

Liferay service restarts frequently

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Issue Since we allowed access to some users to contribute content, we are getting many issues with Liferay service restarts. While we are working with the platform, following error message is shown without any...

NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/compress/archivers/zip/ZipArchiveInputStream

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Issue We are putting up commons-io on osgi/module folder so it will be readily available to all modules, on our previous version of Liferay (DXP 2024 Q1.7), the commons-io worked, however now we are updating to the latest...

Analytics Cloud Stuck On "Redirecting to your identity provider..."

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Issue When attempting to access Analytics Cloud via https://analytics.liferay.com the site hangs indefinitely on the "Redirecting to your identity provider..." message. This can occur despite successfully logging...

User Workflows Not Appearing Under 'Assigned to My Roles'

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Issue We have enabled a workflow for approving new user account creation. While the Admin user gets the notficiation about the workflow task, if they navigate to My Workflow Tasks > Assigned to my Roles, the task is...

Loss of Client Extension Configurations After Publishing with Local Staging

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Issue After configuring settings such as JS or CSS on the pages of a site with Local Staging enabled, the changes are being lost after publishing to Live Environment 2024.Q1.12 (or older versions) Resolution This...

After upgrading to 2025.q1. old display date is not set as publication schedule date

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Issue When upgraded to 2025.q1.2 the display date was still there in the database, but when you checked the UI clicking on Schedule Publication, you could not see the date set for display on the previous Liferay. ...

OHS IP Appended to Image URLs on One Application Server Node

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Issue Inconsistent behavior is observed between two application server nodes with identical configurations. One node appends the OHS (Oracle HTTP Server) IP address to image URLs, causing 404 errors, while...

Permissions error when restoring backup

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Issue We are trying to restore a PRO environment backup into DEV environment. And we see in the log several errors related to Document Library when decompressing: May 05 16:13:15.812 build-3964...

Users are redirected to the Document Library home folder after interacting with a document

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Issue After interacting with a document in a sub-folder withing the Document Library, users are redirected back to the Document Library's home folder. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution This issue has been...

Error uploading file: ClassCastException: class com.liferay.portal.repository.liferayrepository.model.LiferayFileEntry cannot be cast to class com.liferay.portal.kernel.model.BaseModel

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Issue I get an error like this in the logs when uploading a file: Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: class com.liferay.portal.repository.liferayrepository.model.LiferayFileEntry cannot be cast to class...

Changes to Site Templates are not propagated to pages

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Issue Changes made to a site template are not propagated to the pages that use the template. We can see the next error in the server log: [LayoutSetPrototypeMergeBackgroundTaskExecutor:219] Merge fail count...

Backend Functionalities and SVG Icons Fail When Using a CDN

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Issue After setting up a CDN for static resources, some backend functionalities, such as buttons and dynamic functionalities, stop working. Browser console displays CORS errors when trying to access...

Order by Last Login Date not Arranging Users in the Correct Order

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Issue In the Users & Organizations pane, when I sort users by last login date the users are not arranged in the correct order. Environment Liferay Quarterly Release Resolution In System Settings > Feature Flags...

Web Content Display and Edited Fragments Disappear after Publishing

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Issue We've experienced an undesirable behavior when using Web Content Display and Fragments. After publishing the Web Content Display and going back to edit, the changes made from the edit are not saved. Steps to...

The Product Menu Becomes Unresponsive after Upgrading to 2024.Q3 when module.framework.properties.org.osgi.framework.bootdelegation is configured

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Issue After upgrading to version 7.4 2024 Q3.6. the product menu becomes inaccessible and resulting in an exception at the backend. This happened after copying the...

Custom CK Editor toolbar is registered but not displayed

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Issue We followed this blog post to create a custom CKEditor 4 module in workspace. We can see that CKEDITOR.plugins.registered but, we are not able to see it on the CK Editor toolbar UI in Liferay 7.4...

Brave log-correlation issue

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Issue I am using brave (https://github.com/openzipkin/brave) to create a correlation across all logs events from Liferay, portlets and backends. After upgrading from Liferay 7.2 to 2024.Q3.12, which now internally uses...

Slow Performance When Searching for Non-Admin Users

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Issue Searching for non-admin users causes performance issues that did not exist prior to upgrading to 2024.q1. When non-admin users attempt to search, they receive a timeout error. Performance issues in...

"Lambda expressions are allowed only at source level 1.8 or above" warning occurs in the logs

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Issue The following warning occurs in the logs while configuring the WebSphere application server with Liferay. WARN [WebContainer : 4][code_jsp:162] {code="500", msg="JSPG0049E: /html/common/themes/top_head.jsp...

javax.mail.Provider: com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPProvider not a subtype

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Issue I am encountering the following error when attempting to send emails using Jakarta Mail (version 2.0.1) within my Liferay environment. javax.mail.Provider:com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPProvider not a subtype...

Hardcoded Text in Commerce Order Importer Not Translatable

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Issue Allow hiding the non-required options from CSV template message. We have this csv_template.csv file and sometimes we need to edit its content to remove non-used fields, like requestedDeliveryDate that is...

I cannot add a parent page in Menu Display using the Pages Hierarchy

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Issue I have an issue with the Menu Display Widget. When I try to select a parent menu in the configuration tab, the preview doesn’t change and after saving the configuration the Pages hierarchy is reset. Reproduction...

Radio Buttons in Forms cannot be navigated by keyboard

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Issue I have set up a form with non-inlined radio button groups. Using tabulator and arrow keys, I cannot select the appropriate option within groups. This is an accessibility issue, since the form cannot be...

Special characters like apostrophe (') is displayed as its ASCII value in the account address field

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Issue Special characters like apostrophe (') are displayed as their ASCII value in the account address field. Steps to Reproduce: Start Liferay DXP 2024.Q1.12 Go to Control Panel -> Accounts Create an...