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How to change the HTTP port for Sidecar Elasticsearch 7

Issue Need to run two or more instances of Liferay with Elasticsearch Sidecar locally. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The default HTTP port in Sidecar mode is 9201 If two or more 7.3 or...

How to resolve "User 'x' must have 'y' permission" errors encountered while performing staging publication processes

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Issue Our team would like our staging managers to not be administrators, so we are only providing them with select permissions. However, publication attempts encounter errors such as: ERROR...

Can't find npm jQuery portlet template for DXP 7.2 in Dev Studio

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Issue I want to create a Liferay Module project for DXP 7.2 using the npm jQuery portlet template, but I am unable to find the template in the drop down: Environment Liferay Developer Studio DXP 7.2 Resolution The npm...

Text Area (text fields with multiple line) no working in IE

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Issue Steps to Reproduce: 1) Take Liferay-dxp-tomcat-7.2.10-ga1 and install fix-pack dxp-1. 2) Go to Content > Forms. 3) Add a new Form. 4) Add text field. 5) Set text field as multiple lines. 6) Publish Form. 7) Now...

Internet Explorer 11 appends the "zx=" parameter to the URL

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Issue DXP administrators and users may notice a zx= parameter appended to the URL while navigating through the pages of the portal. For example: http://localhost:8080/web/guest/page2?zx=5ml8zs91pgxm Environment...

Is it possible to leave alt text empty for a required image of a Web Content Structure?

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Issue As a content creator, I would like to leave the alt text empty of an image which is set as required by the corresponding Web Content Structure. This would allow screen readers to skip reading the image...

Cannot create folders in Forms section

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Issue I need to create folders to organize my Forms, as I do in Web Content and Documents and Media, but I can't find this option. Environment Liferay DXP 7.x Resolution This functionality does not exist yet in the...

Can I access the configuration variable in a JS widget created with liferay-js:adapt?

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Issue Following Adapting Existing Apps to Run on Liferay DXP, after re-adapting a pure JS project (React, Angular, Vue) to become a Liferay JS widget with the liferay-js:adapt command, there will be no...

Hide Content Page Fragments from Search Results

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Issue I want to exclude fragments on a Content Page from Search Results. Example Use Case: Having a footer fragment in each Content Page that contains the company's contact information. I do not want to include the...

Options to upload directories and files to the document library maintaining their tree structure

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Issue What options are there to upload directories and files to the document library respecting their tree structure? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution There are two main options: WebDav allows updating...

Nested Web Content Workflow status are not getting updated

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Issue When editing and publishing the web content which is having another web content embedded into it, its status becomes pending but the expected is that the structured/embedded web content's status...

HTTP 500 error when logging in via Liferay App Screen

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Issue Users may occasionally be unable to authenticate in Liferay DXP with Liferay Screens for Android. The following errors might be observed in the web server logs: POST /c/portal/login HTTP/1.1" 500 And the...

Guest User can't upload files in Forms

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Issue Guest users should be able to upload files in the forms. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution As of now, there is no out of the box feature where a Guest user can...

The main.js of Notification portlet can be accessible

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Issue End-user able to access main.js URL at their end Environment Liferay 6.2 Resolution The main.js of the Notification portlet can be accessed via inspect element or browser. It can be accessed in the browser...

Web Content can be published by Staging even if Web Contents are deselected

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1) Create new web content and configure the content on a page. 2) Click on publish to live and switch to the advanced publication, select the page and scroll down and uncheck the web...

How can I change the editor used in the Knowledge Base app?

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Issue How can portal administrators change the default editor of the Knowledge Base app installed in Lifray DXP? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution You can change the Knowledge Base's default editor from the...

Values of hidden form fields are not saved/submitted anymore

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Issue After installing dxp-18 (DXP 7.1) or dxp-2 (DXP 7.2), values we have in form fields hidden through rules show empty after submitting the form, when viewing the form entries. Environment DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 Resolution...

Additional JavaMail properties not being considered in mail server configuration

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Issue JavaMail properties defined in the field Manually specify additional JavaMail properties to override the above configuration are not being considered. Environment Liferay 7.0+ Resolution Each property should...

"Unable to initialize Elasticsearch cluster" error occurs after installing a new Fix Pack

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Issue After installing a new Fix Pack on your current environment you might encounter the following errors in the logs due to Liferay Connector to Elasticsearch version update:...

Unable to define user in a Workflow Definition by identifier other than user-id

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Issue When writing a Workflow Definition, I want to specify a user to receive a Workflow notification by an identifier such as screen-name or email-address. However, when I attempt to define the user by these...

Receiving no 'View Usage' count with embedded web content after deploying a custom theme

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Issue The usage count in 'view usages' does not change when the web content is embedded through the theme Steps to reproduce Create 'Site' Create 'Content Pages' Create 'Web Content' Copy the friendly URL of the...

Elasticsearch 7.10 breaks Workflow Metrics in DXP 7.3 GA1

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Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1 Elasticsearch 7.10+ Symptom When Liferay DXP 7.3 is configured to connect to Elasticsearch 7.10, navigating to Applications Menu > Workflow > Metrics and selecting a workflow entry...

Key Points while creating a 'Theme'

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Issue Key Points that can be noted when creating a new theme in order to avoid issues. Environment Liferay 7.2 Resolution In preferencesMap, values must be Strings, String[], or a Collection<String>. group_id is of...

Unable to display web content preview in Site Administration

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Issue When trying to display a web content preview through the web content admin portlet: Administrators may notice various issues: The preview does not load at all The preview loads, then disappears The preview...

User Segments and Personalization

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Issue Unable to find the 'Segments' and 'Personalization' option. Environment Liferay 7.1 Liferay 7.2 Resolution In Liferay DXP 7.2, the creation of user segments and experience personalization are introduced as...

Got the error "saml-hook.war does not support this version of Liferay" after deploying the Liferay Connector to SAML 2.0 lpkg

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Issue Got the error saml-hook.war does not support this version of Liferay in log after deploying the SAML 2.0 lpkg (version 6.0.0) on DXP 7.1 fix pack dxp-18 Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution The root cause for...

Validation on Forms(Numbers)

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Issue Validation is not working for the text field(Mobile Number). Put validation like if the value is greater than 9999999999 it should say Invalid Mobile Number. Environment Liferay DXP(fix-pack de-32) Resolution...

After Reindexing, unable to view latest 'Web Content'

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Issue After reindexing, "The portal is currently reindexing" message has been seen on the portal and the latest web contents are not displaying on the portal pages. Environment Liferay 7.0 de-92 Resolution Obtain...

Same result counts from 'Portletpreferences Table'

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Issue Reverting the theme is not deleting the portlet settings. Steps to reproduce the issue after deployed custom 'Theme' consists of embedded 'Web Content'. Navigate to the home page Verify web content. Execute...

How to see the number of downloads for Documents and Media?

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Issue In Liferay 6.1 and 6.2, if you opened a Document as and Admin, you had the information about the number of downloads. This is missing in DXP 7.0+ Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution In DXP 7.0+, you can...

Message displayed when "Paste" operation is used in editing web content (CKEditor)

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How to programmatically get the list of calendar event invitees

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Issue I want to get the list of users that accepted an invitation to an event (but programmatically, not by viewing the event on the UI) Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution - in the background, calendar events are called...

Several unnecessary modules appear in the browser's console upon opening the Liferay site

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Issue When opening the page of a Liferay DXP portal (public or private, logged in or not), several modules will appear in the browser's Developer Tools' "Source" tab @ http://localhost:8080/o/js_bundle_config:...

7.3 Applications Menu shortcut "CTRL+ Shift + M" conflicts with Firefox and Chrome native shortcuts

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Issue The new Applications Menu on 7.3 DXP can be toogled with the keyboard shortcut CTRL+Shift+M, however, when not logged into Liferay, the same shortcut natively toggles the Responsive Design Mode in Mozilla...

Liferay Accessibility Conformance Report Whitepaper (508 and WCAG Compliance)

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Liferay DXP Accessibility Conformance report based on VPAT version 2.4. Conformance to the listed accessibility standards has been evaluated by Liferay using a combination of automated...

How to reset mail settings

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Issue How can I reset (delete from the database) mail settings I have previously set and saved from the UI, at Control Panel > Configuration > Server Administration > Mail? (e.g if I want to provide them through portal...

Hide Permissions for user in Message Board

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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 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.,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 >...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...