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Calendar Event invitation mail is sent to the user before the approval of event

Issue If the workflow is applied for the Calendar Event, the user who is invited to that particular event gets an email invitation even before the approver approves the event. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0...

Retrieving custom cache entity fails with error

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Issue The custom cache entity we introduced to Liferay is inaccessible. We configured our custom cache in override-liferay-multi-vm-clustered.xml. When trying to access the custom cache entity from scripting console...

Tomcat trimSpaces feature breaks Liferay styling and functionalities

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Issue When setting trimSpaces in tomcat-9.0.6/conf/web.xml: <init-param> <param-name>trimSpaces</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </init-param> some functionalities on the Liferay User Interface...

External images inside OpenOffice/LibreOffice document are not resolved when converted to PDF

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Issue Upload to Document Library a new OpenOffice document with external link to image. Export the document to PDF. The document is converted to PDF but the image is blank. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1,...

Audience Targeting is deployed but unavailable

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Issue After deploying and restarting, Audience Targeting is not available in site's Configuration > Audience Targeting. Tables corresponding to Audience Targeting are not created. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1...

Control Panel App Manager not showing

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Issue The App Manager section in the control panel is missing. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1, 7.2 Resolution Try this list of steps: Stop the application server. Delete the contents of the...

How can I disable Liferay's xml log file?

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Issue In {Liferay_Home}/log folder, we can see two different files as below: liferay.2019-08-25.log liferay.2019-08-25.xml We only want "liferay.2019-08-25.log" file and need to disable "xml" file. Environment...

How to resolve AnnotationExceptions encountered during startup when updating 7.0 to de-67+ while using WebSphere

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Issue Using WebSphere FP 11 as our application server, we are unable to start up a 7.0 deployment after patching to de-67, and are receiving an AnnotationException in the log, as follows: Annotation processing failed...

No page can be displayed due to "Unsupported template" errors

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Issue DXP may not be able to display any portal pages due to HTTP 500 status as well as showing this error on the interface: An unexpected system error occurred. Unsupported template manager ftl and this one in...

How to resolve deployment issues following the installation of Fix Pack DXP-12 for Liferay DXP 7.1

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Issue Please bear in mind that special considerations should be taken after applying the Fix Pack 12 (DXP-12). After the installation of DXP-12, it has been reported that deployment errors related to several core...

Restarting JBoss node hangs at JGroups.connect() when using multicast

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Issue If I have a multinode cluster using multicast replication, and I set multicast.group.address["cluster-link-udp"] Restarting a node sometimes hangs when initializing JGroups channels. Environment Liferay...

Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.dynamic.data.mapping.service - Nested exception: Content is not allowed in prolog.

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Issue After a seemingly successful upgrade to Liferay DXP 7.1 the following error is showing up in the logs while starting the DXP bundle: Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.dynamic.data.mapping.service ...

Passing List of objects as json parameters gives NoSuchMethodException

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Issue When a service expects lists of objects, and I want to pass them as a JSON string in Liferay's JSON-WS UI, it returns with NoSuchMethodException. An example string is: [{ "+simplefoo":...

Unable to add Calendar Event through Mobile Browser

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Issue While creating a Calendar Event via the computer's browser, the event is created. But, while creating the new event through Mobile Browser, the page goes into the disabling mode. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0...

Implicit connection cache issue

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Issue Looking into the thread dumps, few threads were getting stuck as below with OracleImplicitConnectionCache and running out of implicit connection cache issue tomcat-http--300 - priority:5 -...

Server unable to start after upgrading to latest fixpack

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Issue After upgrading from the previous fixpack to the latest fixpack, the server is not getting started or the below error is thrown while starting the server. SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1]...

Portlet preferences contains orphan records

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Issue When a Site is deleted the PortletPreferences table still contains that site's orphan data. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution The observed behavior is resolved and fixed in liferay-fix-pack-de-58 and above....

APR library not found

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Issue The Apache Tomcat works without the native libraries but degrading the performance. You can see the following message on the log: INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal...

LCS Client removed after Fix Pack 12 installation (Known Issue)

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Issue Liferay Connected Services Client is missing after applying DXP-12 Where is Liferay Connected Services Client.lpkg? Environment DXP 7.1 + DXP-12 (Fix Pack 12) Resolution At the time of writing July 11th 2019,...

Deployment of WAR files with many jar dependencies is very slow in DXP

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Issue If there is a war file which contains many jar dependencies in its WEB-INF/lib, deploying it to the osgi framework in DXP takes too much time - sometimes 20 minutes for a single WAR. Environment Liferay DXP...

DocumentException: Premature end of file

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Issue When deploying Spring MVC custom portlet, an exception is thrown "DocumentException: Error on line -1 of document: Premature end of the file. " Issue reproduced With 7.1 GA1 release as below when deployed the...

"App Manager is temporarily unavailable" error

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Issue I go to Control Panel > Apps > App Manager I do not see any Apps listed, just a red warning on the top of the page "App Manager is temporarily unavailable" In the console I see similar ERRORS: ERROR...

Deleting users using UserLocalServiceUtil.deleteUser(user) gets slow

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Issue UserLocalServiceUtil.deleteUser(user) API's performance decreases, when we try to use it to delete large number of users At first this job started deleting 1100-1200 users in 1 hour per day, but after...

JDBC roll back error when generating LAR to export sites

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Issue Whenever a LAR is tried to be generated the following message shows on the portal: Could not roll back Hibernate transaction; nested exception is org.hibernate.TransactionException: JDBC rollback failed Also on...

Unauthenticated user unable to view the Json web service.

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Issue While accessing http://localhost:8080/api/jsonws as an unauthenticated (Guest) user and selecting the context path, an "Access denied" error is thrown. For example, when creating a simple Service...

How to resolve when basic configuration portal properties are not read during startup

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Issue When starting a pre-built Liferay DXP bundle for the first time, some of the properties set in a portal-ext.properties file (such as the default.admin.* and company.default.* properties) do not take effect and...

Cannot disable simultaneous login

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Issue After setting the following properties in portal-ext.properties, user can still login simultaneously. live.users.enabled=true auth.simultaneous.logins=false Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4...

Spell check button does not appear on CKEditor toolbar

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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...

User 0 is not allowed to access - warning traces

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Issue Whenever the user is trying to log in, they are getting the below warnings: 2019-03-22 07:13:52.951 WARN [http-nio-8080-exec-366][SecurityPortletContainerWrapper:363] User 0 is not allowed to access...

How to know if your UDP Multicast communication is working

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Issue Communication is not working properly in the cluster even after setting all the configurations up in the portal instances. Changes have not been replicated from one node to another. Environment...

Metadata for Journal Articles Not Indexing Appropriately during Upgrade Process

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Issue During the upgrade process, UpgradeImageTypeContent#copyJournalArticleImagesToJournalRepository copies all journal article images into the Document Library repository. In order to achieve...

CSS changes are not reflecting

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Issue The CSS changes are not reflecting in the browser until and unless the caches are cleared. Environment Liferay 6.2 Resolution If the CSS changes are reflecting in the theme until the browser cache is not cleared....

6.2 to 7.1 Oracle 12 Database Upgrade Results in Web Content with Custom Structures and Templates to have Missing Content

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Issue Upgrading from 6.2 to 7.1 with Oracle 12 can result in structureId and templateId reverting to the Basic Web Content structure and template which can be observed in the JournalArticle Table. Another symptom...

Authorization and Javascript recovery from the backend

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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 I...

Setting up the Portal Instance Name (Website Name) in Liferay DXP 7.1

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Issue The website name is set by default as Liferay DXP. This name can be set to a new name by making changes in instance settings( Configuration-> Instance Settings -> Configuration -> Main Configuration ->...

Can I disable the System Check that is running on startup in my Development environment?

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Issue During Liferay's startup, the following message in the logs indicates that a system check is being run: INFO [main][SystemCheckOSGiCommands:111] Running "Declarative Service Soft Circular...

Slow Performance or OutOfMemory errors due to StripFilter

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Issue The StripFilter in Liferay DXP removes blank lines from Javascript, CSS, and other files. While this can result in slightly faster load times for dial-up users, it can also result in a big...

Restart required after every Jar Deployment

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Issue When the jar is deployed, it is not reflected until and unless the server is restarted Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution Sometimes, the jar is deployed and is not reflecting on the portal until and unless...

Users Not Appearing in Control Panel After Upgrading Liferay Version

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Issue Users are not appearing in the Control Panel > Users > Users and Organizations section after upgrading to a newer Liferay version. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1 Resolution 1. Remove...

When an image with a link to page field is published to live on remote staging, publication fails

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Issue When an image is uploaded on staging and is going to be published to live an error is displayed. Happens when using a Document type with a Link to page field. The Link to page field is not required. The Link to...

Several JGroups messages related to "Accept view MergeView" are appearing in a clustered node

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Issue Liferay's Cluster Link cache replication makes use of JGroups. There are instances when several JGroups messages related to "Accept view MergeView" are appearing while the cluster is running. Environment Liferay DXP...

Why are entries in my Liferay DXP bundle (such as Organization Types) duplicating every restart

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Issue In some situations there have been reports of OSGi entries within a Liferay DXP 7.1 bundle replicating every restart. At first there is one entry for a given configuration, then following a restart there...

Unable to Edit any options in Site settings of a Site.

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Issue Unable to Edit any options in Site settings. That is from: The home page, not able to edit and select the layout/theme. Also, from Control Panel-> Sites-> Select site-> Edit was not able to change the...

NullPointerException and blank page after redeploying JSP fragment module

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Issue We start with a state where we have a jsp fragment deployed and is working fine. We then make a change to that module and do a hot deployment. After that, the page on which the fragment is being used shows only the...

ORMException / StaleObjectStateException is reported

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Issue The following ORMException and StaleObjectStateException are reported in the log 2019-03-25 01:59:12.172 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-9][MainServlet:525] com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException:...

Resolving a "The expression syntax is invalid" Error During the UpgradeDDMStructure Phase of the Liferay DXP Upgrade Process.

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This article describes a known issue in the Forms portlet when upgrading from DXP 7.0 to DXP 7.1+. During the upgrade, a validation error is thrown as follows: Unable to upgrade the visibility expression "equals(Options,...

Limitation: Audience Targeting User Segment Cannot Use Physical Screen Size MDR

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This article documents a limitation when viewing content based on a User Segment in the Audience Targeting app that uses the Physical Screen Size attributes as a Mobile Device Rule. It was discovered that users could...

Upgrade Tool Uses Wrong Version of Tomcat

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Issue When upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.0 or DXP 7.1 and using the SP1 + Tomcat bundle, the wrong version of Tomcat is suggested by the Upgrade Tool For 7.1 the bundle includes Tomcat 9.0.6, but the...

If a Staging publication is on progress and the server is shut down, publication stays on queue and no further publications are possible

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Issue If a publication on staging is made and the server is shut down, the publication will stay on queue on start-up and, even if cancelled, no more staging publications can be made. The following java class stays...

SQL Scripts Causing Duplicate Keys

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While using a new instance of the Liferay Portal, some environments may encounter the following error: ORA-01452: cannot CREATE UNIQUE INDEX; duplicate keys found Resolution This...

Application Server Times Out While Downloading/Uploading Documents

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When uploading documents larger than 3Mb via web call, an error may be thrown: 13:45:27,141 INFO [PortalImpl:4366] Current URL /documents/10162/179749/Certification+Tracking+Database+CSC+v2.0+Production.zip...

LDAP settings and upgrading from 5.2.x to 6.x

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This article pertains to portals in which LDAP is configured in Liferay Portal 5.2.x and an upgrade is performed. When a user attempts to login, an error is thrown, and the user is not...

Performance Issue for Thread Counts While Processing JSP files

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This article is designed to help administrators tune performance in Liferay DXP 7.0 when the active thread count approaches the maximum allowed thread count. The reason for this performance issue is because the values...

Transactional Cache or Blocking Portal Cache Causes the Portal to Hang

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This article serves as a troubleshooting guide. During a thread dump, your server may hang indefinitely due to the blocking portal cache. Blocking portal cache is one of the caches...

Carousel Portlet Prevents Ehcache Plugin From Loading With a 'ClassNotFoundException'

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. This...

Resolving 'BadPaddingExceptions' in the Console Logs

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This article addresses a situation where customers might encounter a BadPaddingException in the logs. This occurs if customers have two instances on the same domain; when a user tries to access another instance on the...

Common Upgrade Errors for Liferay DXP

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This article documents the common configuration errors you may encounter while upgrading to Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP), versions 7.0 or 7.1. Read below to discover the steps you can take to resolve these...

Cluster Nodes Are Not Connected When Using Jdbc_Ping on an Oracle Database

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This article documents a solution if subscribers are using an Oracle database and using JDBC_ping as the discovery protocol in a clustered environment. The issue is that the JGroup's default initialize_sql value is...

Cannot Obtain Lock During Startup on DXP 7.0

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In some cases, JGroups may not get a response when trying to bind to an address. In this case, an exception like the following can be thrown: 05:50:53,559 ERROR [Framework Event Dispatcher: Equinox Container:...

User's group membership not updating with LDAP after upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.0 EE SP2

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Beginning in Liferay 6.0 EE SP2, the...

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