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Hide Permissions for user in Message Board

Issue User can see the permissions in the Thread he/she replied to. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution This is the intended behavior as User is only able to see the permission for their own thread reply and not for...

How can I share the same navigation menu(s) with child sites?

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Issue We have multiple sites, each of them has its own navigation for navigating between the other sites. If we want to make any changes, we need to update them manually. Is it possible to share the navigation items by...

Cancel button for a running Staging publication disappeared

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Issue When a Staging publication is processed, the Cancel button for a running publication in the Actions option () does not appear, and the currently in progress publication can't be cancelled. Environment...

Getting "Unresolved requirement osgi.extender=liferay.frontend.js.portlet" when deploying a JavaScript Widget on Liferay DXP 7.1

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Issue Developers create a JavaScript widget as per Creating and Bundling JavaScript Widgets with JavaScript Tooling The below error will be printed upon deployment: INFO...

Storage structure and mechanism to verify the backup storage

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Issue How the Documents are stored and a mechanism to verify the backup storage with SAN storage. Environment Liferay 7.0 Resolution When uploading the documents via document and media portlet from the Liferay...

How to manually know the storage in use in a Liferay PaaS environment

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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). Description The storage is a limited resource with a default quota...

Liferay DXP starts as a clean installation after restoring an on-premises DXP backup 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). Issue Some databases manage the table names in lower case (e.g.,...

How to resolve a "Failed to define class from Service Module Loader" error

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Issue Upon installation of security-hotfix-lsv-45 in Liferay Portal bundled with JBoss, a "Failed to define class" error is generated in the Liferay logs. Failed to define class...

Performance issues with working in the Miller columns with a large page tree

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Issue In environments with a large page structure having many sub-pages, portal administrators may notice slowness and lagging while browsing the tree. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution This is currently a...

Full support for Unicode in a Liferay PaaS database

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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 Emoji symbols can not be stored in database, for example as...

Couldn't retrieve remote JWK set: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 error occurs when using OpenID Connect authentication with Oracle Identity Cloud Service

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Environment Liferay DXP 7.0-7.3 Oracle Identity Cloud Service OpenID Connect authentication enabled Symptom When OpenID Connect authentication is enabled in Liferay DXP and Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) is the...

Cannot login using OpenID Connect: Timeout error

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Issue In some cases, users are having problems with the integration with OpenID Connect, and they are unable to log in. The Liferay log returns the following error: ERROR...

In Account Settings, Chrome autofills the "Job Title" field with the username

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Issue When users update their password in the "Account Settings" section, Chrome will autofill the "Job Details" field: Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution Liferay is unable to reliably fix this issue as it...

HTTP 400 response code shows sensitive data

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Issue Sensitive system information may be seen in HTTP 400 - Bad Response status Environment DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 Resolution The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 400 Bad Request response status code...

How to prevent content pages from scrolling unexpectedly when interacting with a portlet below the fold

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Issue When interacting with a Liferay DXP portlet below the fold of a Content Page, the page unexpectedly scrolls to the top. The result of the interaction is properly displayed, but the user must scroll down to...

Unable to install Liferay Push v. 4.0.1 on DXP 7.2 Fix Pack 4 or lower

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Issue When running a DXP 7.2 portal and trying to install the Liferay Push plugin v. 4.0.1 from the Marketplace, the following error will be thrown upon restarting the server: INFO...

LDAP Performance Issues after upgrading from 6.2 to 7.2

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Issue Seeing some slowness authenticating with LDAP after upgrading from 6.2 to 7.2. Environment DXP 7.2 [Upgraded from 6.2] Resolution Install Fix Pack 9 or a hotfix that includes LPS-122832 and run the upgrade process...

LCS Grace Period in a Containerized Environment

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Issue Once my LCS subscription expired, my containerized environment was disconnected immediately instead of entering the LCS grace period. Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 DXP 7.3 Resolution...

IE11 "unable to get property of 'selectors' of undefined or null reference" Errors

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Issue After patching to dxp-8, the Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) console is throwing "unable to get property of 'selectors' of undefined or null reference" errors Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution This error is...

The "Private Pages" menu can not be removed even after removing all private pages

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Issue After removing all of the private pages, the "Private Pages" menu remains. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 dxp-18 or before Resolution One possible reason is that the "content page" was created before under Private...

Monitoring Disk Usage for Jenkins

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It is helpful to see how close you are to running out of space on Jenkins. We have provided a way to see the current disk usage of the CI service. Login to the Jenkins service and navigate to "Disk...

Is a duplicate Organization Name allowed in DXP?

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Issue Is there any way to turn off the duplicate name check for Organization Name? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution By default, the Organization Name is not allowed to be duplicated., content: Issue Is there any...

What is App Builder?

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Issue What is the App Builder feature in DXP 7.3? Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution DXP 7.3 includes the possibility of building applications visually, backed by the Data Engine. To try this go to: Control Panel > App Builder >...

Understanding Liferay DXP's compatibility with Elasticsearch

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Introduction Last updated: May 28, 2025. The Search Product Team often receives questions about Liferay DXP's compatibility with Elasticsearch. This seemingly simple question belies surprising complexity: it depends...

[CKEditor] Adding alt-text to images

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Issue In order to comply with WCAG accessibility guidelines, we would like to add alt-text to the images that are uploaded in the Documents & Media gallery. How can we do that? Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution If you...

How to search using JournalArticleLocalServiceUtil and sort by title?

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Issue When using the JournalArticleLocalServiceUtil class to search for web contents, we are facing the following issues It is not possible to sort by title, since its localization is being stored in the table...

Duplicated back button on search results

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Issue During search, duplicated back buttons appear on the result item's page. Steps to reproduce: 1) Set up a vanilla Liferay DXP 7.2 2) Create a Web Content to be searched on (for example name it as 'test') 3)...

Can I Customize Blog RSS Feeds?

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Issue I would like to be able to modify the Blog RSS feel to include custom fields from my Blogs portlet. Are there any out of the box methods for this? Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution It is not currently possible...

Copy-pasting an image into a Web Content HTML field is stored as base64 characters

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Issue When an image is copy-pasted into the Web Content editor, it is stored as a base64 collection of characters. What is the limit of this image? Are there any alternatives to this behavior? Environment DXP 7.0...

Special characters are used in friendly URLs

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Issue Special characters, e.g. åäö are shown in friendly URLs, instead of showing the ASCII version. Example: page is titled new page åäö becomes /new-page-åäö instead of /new-page-aao Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution...

How Can I Include Both AND and OR Variables in User Segments?

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Issue I would like to create User Segments which include some roles and exclude others. For example, I would like a segment which includes either roles X or Y, but not roles A, B or C. In order to do this, I need...

Backporting tickets and features

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Issue I would like to backport a certain feature to from a later version to a previous version. Example: LPS-101738 7.3→7.1. Can Liferay support assist me with this request? Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution As Support,...

Web Content articles' Title and Summary fields cannot be empty

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Issue Add a translation to a Web Content by deleting the default translation to the Title and Summary fields. After the publishing is successful and the web content is opened again, the default translation is shown...

Live site is not editable after Staging site was removed.

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Issue How to recover the default functions on the Live site if your remote Staging site was either deleted or not disabled correctly? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution By running a groovy-script the...

I cannot set an external repository as the Documents and Media portlet's root folder

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Issue I have a Documents and Media portlet on the page I go to the configuration menu of the portlet and try to change the Root Folder Result: I cannot set an external repository (for example Alfresco) as a root...

Disable Form's Success Page in DXP 7.3

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Issue After submitting a form I want to disable the Success page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution To disable the form's success page: Inside the site administration menu, go to Content & Data > Forms and...

How to prevent user enumeration attacks through the Forgot Password functionality

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Issue Insecure default configuration may allow remote attackers to enumerate users' email addresses via the forgot password functionality. This can be a risk in the case of public-facing deployments. Environment...

Adding User Groups to Site Membership as a Site Administrator

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Issue Site Administrators are unable to add user groups as members of the site they manage. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution This is currently an intended behavior as the Site Administrator role by default does not have...

Unable to embed videos in Knowledge Base articles with the

Issue After publishing a new Knowledge Base article including a video embedded with the <video> HTML5 tag: <video controls="" height="240" width="320"><source...

Temp files in /tomcat/temp/liferay/s3 are kept for 7 days

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Issue Temp files are created in the /tomcat/temp/liferay/s3 directory when we upload documents These files are kept for 7 days, resulting in a lot of extra disk space being taken up Environment...

SAML changes post upgrade from DXP 7.0 to higher version

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Issue SAML authentication is being used in DXP 7.0. After upgrading the DXP 7.0 to any higher version, how to configure SAML in the upgraded environment? Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2...

Session Timeout value is overridden during fix pack upgrade

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Issue During installation of a fix pack, the value of <session-timeout> is reset to default within web.xml. Is the value of session timeout can be changed 'permanently'? Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution Currently,...

Why Are Announcements Visible to Everyone After Setting the Distribution Scope?

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Issue After setting the distributions scope in the Announcements Portlet, the announcements which it displays are now visible to all users and guests. I would like to restrict the announcements to the users...

Can Users Be Mentioned By Name in Message Boards?

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Issue Currently, all user mentions in the Message Boards portlet have the format @[username]. I would like to mention users using their first and last name instead. Environment DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 DXP 7.3...

Add custom certificate in SAML configuration

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Issue As part of the SAML configuration, it is possible to generate a Certificate and a Private Key. This generates both a self-signed key and a container storekey (in $LIFERAY_HOME/data/keystore.jks by default)....

Liferay DXP 7.0 Theme Generator installation fails with Missing required argument #1 | EMISSINGARG

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Issue While following the Liferay documentation about 7.0 DXP theme building with the Theme Generator, the following error will be thrown on Terminal when running npm install -g yo gulp: npm ERR! Windows_NT...

Set "Enable Email Subscriptions" in the Asset Publisher to "No" by default.

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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...

Push notification API unable to register

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Issue When trying to register a device through the Liferay Push, the following error will be received: error: com.liferay.portal.kernel.jsonwebservice.NoSuchJSONWebServiceExceptio LRPush Error Error...

Deprecation warning in the browser's console: "Value provided is not in a recognized RFC2822 or ISO format"

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Issue After patching a bundle with a fix (Fix Pack or hotfix) that includes the solutions for LPS-121066 and LPS-121499, customers and DXP users may notice the below warning message in the browser's console:...

I cannot set the default template for a web content structure

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Issue When I create web content based on a structure with multiple templates, I would like to change the default template of that structure. Environment Liferay portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0 + Resolution In order to...

ClassCastException on com.liferay.frontend.theme.contributor.extender after installing a newer fix pack

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Issue After patching the environment with a newer fix pack, the below error may be encountered at server startup: ERROR [ServerService Thread Pool -- 68][ThemeContributorTopHeadDynamicInclude:93] bundle...

LAR file export process

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Issue LAR file is exported even when the web content's internal reference is missing. Steps to reproduce 1) Create a blank site "Test" and add a public page "Home". 2) Create a structure "Test-structure"...

ClamAV integration with Liferay on windows

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How to set up the latest Clam Antivirus with the Liferay platform on Windows. The goal is to scan documents for viruses when they are being uploaded. Environment Windows 10 Liferay 6.2 ClamAV version 0.103.0...

ClassCastException when using Elasticsearch 7

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Issue After installing the Elasticsearch 7 plugin and connecting Liferay DXP to an Elasticsearch 7 server, errors like this are thrown on startup: ERROR...

JournalArticle not properly indexed with 'Document contains at least one immense term' error

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Issue When attempting to perform a re-index, JournalArticle contents are not properly indexed due to an error similar to the following: For Solr: 2020-09-23 06:32:13 ERROR org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Exception...

Missing reference errors during site import

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Issue Liferay currently only allows export of either Private or Public pages (and not both). When a site has a web content displayed on their public page with a link to a private page, or vice versa, while an...

Filtering expired web contents shows incorrect results

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Issue We have a web content that we set to Expired, then changed the Expiration Date to a date in the future so not it is shown as Approved. When we look for the web content using the Approved filter, we can still see...

Disable all locales that are not EN

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Issue Asset publishers are being translated to other languages than English which is the default and only one that is desired. For some reason due to the location of the IP/network or browser translation URLs are...

SAML no longer working after upgrading Liferay

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Issue After upgrading Liferay from Liferay DXP 7.0 to Liferay DXP 7.2, SAML is no longer working and users are no longer able to authenticate using SAML. It is possible that the following error will also appear in the...

Adaptive Media not applied on Content Pages

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Issue I noticed that Adaptive Media is not applied in fragments with an image. Add an image to the Documents and Media Library with a width above 600px Go to Control Panel→Configuration→Adaptive Media Add a new...

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