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DXP 7.2 Service Pack 3 (SP3)/Fix Pack 8 (FP8) requires Liferay Connector to Elasticsearch 7 v3.1.0 or higher

Symptom When DXP 7.2 is configured with Elasticsearch 7 and your patch level is Service Pack 3 (SP3) or Fix Pack 8 (FP8) or higher, the following error is thrown in the console when starting DXP and the Elasticsearch 7 connector cannot be activated: 2020-09-14 14:39:47.023 ERROR...

DXP 7.2 Service Pack 3 (SP3)/Fix Pack 8 (FP8) requires Liferay Connector to Solr 7 v2.1.0 or higher

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Symptom When DXP 7.2 is configured with Solr 7 and your patch level is Service Pack 3 (SP3) or Fix Pack 8 (FP8) or higher, the following error is thrown in the console when starting DXP and the Solr 7 connector cannot be activated: 2020-09-14 14:50:05.923 ERROR [Framework Event...

In DXP, it is not possible to differentiate configuration per site on embedded portlets

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Issue In DXP, a portlet could be embedded like below: <#assign preferencesMap = {"portletSetupPortletDecoratorId" : "barebone"} /> <@liferay_portlet["runtime"] instanceId="1234" defaultPreferences=freeMarkerPortletPreferences.getPreferences(preferencesMap)...

Navigation Menu portlet won't list child of child pages

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Issue While using any Navigation Menu portlet template different from the "List Menu" one (for example: Bar Minimally Styled), in a long page tree with multiple children pages, like: Only Welcome and Level1page will be shown: Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution The current issue has...

Guests can no longer see web content articles

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Issue After updating a Liferay DXP 7.2 server to dxp-5+ and publishing content Guests no longer see web content articles. A fix, LPS-106146, was introduced in dxp-5 that addressed a permissions error when publishing from Staging to Live. As part of that fix permissions for web content...

Export of site fails with NoSuchTemplateException

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Issue We want to export our site into a LAR file, but it fails with the below error on the UI: An unexpected error occurred with the publication process. Please check your portal and publishing configuration. The Web Content Article: Article1 has missing reference(s) that could not be...

Cannot Request Users With long userid After Patching to DE-93

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Issue We use this code to secure our API calls in our customization: (request variable is an HttpServletRequest object from @Context annotation) long userId = GetterUtil.getLong(request.getRemoteUser()); user = UserLocalServiceUtil.getUser(userId); However, after patching to DE-93 from...

Changing layout's type removes portlet preferences

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Issue Changing our page's type from "Layout" to "Link to URL" then back to "Layout", the page won't retain its portlets configuration Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 with Fix Pack 93 or below Resolution The use case is caused by LPS-67368 missing a cleanup step (layout typesettings are not...

Contributed Fragment Collection's content is not correct after deployment

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Issue We have created a Contributed Fragment Collection, carefully following the documentation The collection contains two fragments After successful deployment, we see only one fragment is present twice in the portal Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+ Resolution The fragment.json files are...

Handling Freemarker Template Errors in the UI

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Issue Liferay renders Freemarker Template errors in the UI, particularly when a Web Content template references a non-existent value from a Web Content structure. This can potentially cause confusion or negative user experience for a non-admin user visiting the site. ...

Locale exceptions

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Issue After upgrade, from Liferay 7.0 to Liferay 7.2, facing the issue when trying to disable any option in public page configuration. The below exception is observed javax.portlet.PortletException:com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.LocaleException Environment Liferay 7.2 Resolution...

How to Resolve Commas Automatically Inserted Into Web Content When Using the Integer Structure

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Issue When editing previously published web content which was made using the integer structure, commas are automatically inserted into the integers. This prevents the content from publishing. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution This is a known issue with is fixed by...

Can I use the Target Platform BOM to include the correct biz.aQute.bndlib version?

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Issue When using the Target Platform functionality in a Liferay Workspace (to use the dependencies from the target version's BOM) to try to include the biz.aQute.bndlib in a 7.2 dxp-5 custom module, it fails to compile. This used to build without issue in earlier versions of Liferay. The...

Can not change virtual host from an existing virtual instance

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Issue After editing the virtual host field from an existing virtual instance, the new value suddenly disappears after clicking on Save button. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2, fix pack dxp-5 or higher Resolution This is an outdated index issue that affects the new virtual host value...

Cannot deploy themes using the `themes` folder

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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 Your themes (.war files) on the themes folder are not being deployed. Environment Liferay SaaS CI (Jenkins) image version 3.2.[0 to...

Invalid CSRF Token warnings

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Issue Invalid CSRF Token warnings appear in the logs, if portlet.url.anchor.enable=true is set in portal-ext.properties. User 20127 is not allowed to access URL http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home and portlet com_liferay_message_boards_web_portlet_MBPortlet: User 20127 did not provide a...

How to resolve "Unable to validate referenced file entry" UI errors preventing Web Content from being updated

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Issue When trying to update a previously published web content article, clicking the Publish button results in an error message in the UI like the following: Error: Unable to validate referenced file entry because it cannot be found with the following parameters: {groupId=[33499],...

RSS Publisher portlet on Widget Pages can be refreshed by guest users

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Issue RSS Publisher portlet on Widget Pages can be refreshed by guest users. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Add an RSS publisher portlet to Wiget Page Go to Configuration, set a title and URL, and save it. Logout with your admin...

Deploying Liferay SAML Connector in Liferay SaaS

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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 After deploying the SAML connector plugin from Marketplace (the .lpkg file) by putting it into the Deploy folder, the Liferay log...

Liferay is unable to find a PostgreSQL database after restoring it from a dump or backup

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Issue Liferay is unable to find a PostgreSQL database after restoring it from a dump or backup Liferay appears to be creating new data when connected to the restored PostgreSQL database A blank (i.e., default Liferay) site is being displayed after starting up the server. Environment...

How to configure validation directives in AntiSamy

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Issue When trying to import content between sites, i.e. knowledge base, a validation error arises: An unexpected error occurred with the publication process. Please check your portal and publishing configuration. com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException:...

DevTools failed to load SourceMap: Could not load content for popper.min.js.map on Chrome browser

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Issue While using a production instance of Liferay, the below warning will appear in the Chrome console: DevTools failed to load SourceMap: Could not load content for http://localhost:8080/popper.min.js.map: HTTP error: status code 404, net::ERR_HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE_FAILURE Environment...

Can not add images in a Paragraph fragment of a Content Page

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Issue It is not possible to link an image in the rich-text editor of a Paragraph fragment in a content page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 fix-pack dxp-6 or older. Resolution This is a known and fixed bug. Please install fix-pack dxp-7+ or request a hotfix with the LPS-111873. Additional...

Reindexing on Elasticsearch is slower than it was on an earlier patch-level

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Issue We recently installed fix pack 16 on DXP 7.1, and we noticed that now re-index is really slow compared to fix pack 11, our previous patch-level. We found that both liferay indexes (liferay-0 and liferay-companyId) contain all data for all models. Environment DXP 7.1 Fix Pack 13 -...

Jenkins builds are failing due to "Cannot run program ./gradlew" error

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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 Builds on Jenkins are failing due to the following error: Cannot run program "./gradlew" (in directory...

Why am I not receiving Liferay security bulletin emails?

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Liferay Support sends security bulletin emails to all customers with an active Enterprise Subscription. These notifications include critical information on potential security vulnerabilities along with the corresponding patch and mitigation steps. To learn more, please read our Security...

Errors occur after Liferay Faces upgrade

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Issue After the upgrade of Liferay Faces (by updating the given versions in dependencies shown in the provided screenshots), the following error occurs logs: javax.el.ELException: Function 'p:component' not found Original dependency versions: Upgraded dependency versions: Environment...

Unable to import User Groups from LDAP containing a comma "," or an asterisk "*"

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Issue Receiving the following error when trying to import User Groups from LDAP containing a comma "," or an asterisk "*": 2020-06-04 08:23:50.268 WARN [main][LDAPUserImporterImpl:1165] Unable to create user group test,users 2020-06-04 08:23:50.280 ERROR [main][LDAPUserImporterImpl:780]...

Web Content validation is not working on mandatory field

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Issue Web Content validation is not working on the mandatory field. Steps are as follows: 1. Create a new Web Content structure with an Image field. 2. For Image field: change "Required" & "Repeatable" to Yes. 3. Create a new Web Content with this structure, then adding two Image fields....

Why does it take so long to save a Web Content article?

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Issue When we try to Publish (save) a Web Content article it takes several minutes. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution By default when a Web Content article is saved within Liferay DXP 7.2 all versions of the article are indexed alongside the latest version. If an article has been...

Cannot import an individual page template

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Issue We have exported a page template through the template's context menu -> Export When we try to import it to another page templates, it fails and throws the below error: Please import a LAR file of the correct type (layout-prototype) How can we import one page template alone?...

External Elasticsearch server is not available and control panel is inaccessible

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Issue The external Elasticsearch server configured for Liferay DXP is no longer available Liferay cannot be set to use the embedded Elasticsearch server because the Control Panel is showing a blank page with “No Group exists with the key {companyId=0, groupKey=Guest}” Environment Liferay...

Content is not visible after an upgrade

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Issue After our migration (upgrading to a newer version of Liferay) we cannot see our pages / web contents / templates When we create a new one, we see it gets created in the database but we don't see it on the UI Environment Liferay Portal 6.2+ Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution As a rule of...

Pagination not working in 7.2 Fix Pack 5

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Issue When navigating to another page of a portlet (such as Asset Publisher) using the dropdown, user is redirected to another page with a "The requested resource could not be found" error. Environment DXP 7.2 Fix Pack 5 Resolution This behavior is caused by a regression bug introduced...

Site export (or staging enabling) fails with "missing reference(s) that could not be found during the process."

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Issue I am exporting a site and it fails with an error like "The Dynamic Data Mapping Template (Automatic Copy): Service Menu has missing reference(s) that could not be found during the process." and a stack trace like in the attached file (site_export_error.txt) Environment DXP 7.1, DXP...

Search portlet temporarily unavailable due to ClassCastException

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Issue In DXP 7.0 with Elasticsearch 6, when using the search portlet, it becomes temporarily unavailable and the following stacktrace is seen in the logs. Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.liferay.portal.search.elasticsearch6.internal.filter.ElasticsearchFilterTranslator...

Can't enable staging because the propagation of changes is enabled

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Issue When trying to enable Staging for a site the page is blank with the following message on the top: Warning: Staging cannot be used for this site because the propagation of changes from the site template is enabled. Change the configuration in the details section. Environment Liferay...

I cannot sync my Contacts to Analytics Cloud

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Issue I connected Liferay DXP and Analytics Cloud successfully In Analytics Cloud I navigate to "Configure Data Source" I selected the Sites and Users to sync The process gets stuck at "Syncing - 50.00% Completed" Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Liferay Analytics Cloud Resolution The root...

Changing password forces users to log in again

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Issue Changing password invalidates current sessions and the users have to log in again. 2020-02-07 13:08:37.558 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-2][PortletServlet:112] javax.portlet.PortletException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: getAttribute: Session already invalidated Environment Liferay...

Document is not found for users searching in another language

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Issue When searching for a text document (e.g., PDF) by keywords inside the text using the default portal language, the document is shown in the search results. When the language is different, the document cannot found. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 Resolution The text of...

Web Content Title not displayed in notification email resulting from Workflow

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Issue When implementing a workflow that sends users an email notification when a new Web Content Article is created, the email does not contain the title of the Web Content Article. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Between Liferay 6.2 and Liferay DXP 7.2, the attribute name for the...

The "Add Notification" button does not appear in the notification portlet

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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 The "Add Notification" button does not appear in the notification portlet...

Using Active directory, after changing the user password, still user is able to login using the old password

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Issue Using Active directory, after changing the user password, still, a user is able to login using the old password Environment Liferay portal 6.2 Resolution Under Control Panel -> Portal Settings -> Authentication -> LDAP, if the "required" checkbox is not selected then the expected...

How to resolve hudson.model NoSuchFileExceptions when switching the CI to use a StatefulSet for 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). Issue After attempting to update our Jenkins CI image to use a StatefulSet rather than Deployment type, we started seeing builds failing in...

Patching Tool 'WARNING: Some of the currently installed fixes are not available' while installing certain fix packs and hotfixes

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Issue After installing a fix pack and a hotfix, Patching Tool shows the message - "WARNING: some of the currently installed fixes are not available: <a very long ticket list>": Environment Liferay DXP 7.0: fix packs de-90, de-91, de-92 Liferay DXP 7.1: fix packs dxp-16,dxp-17 Liferay DXP...

How to set an absolute path in an OSGi .config file for a directory on a shared network drive

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Issue We are attempting to use a Document Library directory "External_Library" on a shared network drive, but cannot determine how to use an absolute path instead of a relative path; during startup, a relative path is being used and the full directory structure is getting created within...

404 error when downloading module "com.liferay.saml.opensaml.integration" from Release Notes page

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Issue Getting a 404 error when downloading module "com.liferay.saml.opensaml.integration" from Release Notes page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution The module for "com.liferay.saml.opensaml.integration" can be found on Marketplace. Please download SAML 2.0 from Liferay Marketplace...

The /dtd/ folder of the war with sensitive information is exposed when deploying a portal on Weblogic 12c R2

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Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. The information provided about products not created by Liferay is for reference purposes only, and any implementation of these principles will be at your team's discretion. Issue After the creation...

If a user is created under an organization, a user who does not have permission to change roles can control roles.

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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 Added users under the organization The user who performs "Add User" does...

nodejs download fails due to invalid link

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Issue Customers may encounter failures using Gradle v.4 + Workspace. Here is the relevant stacktrace exception: > Task :downloadNode FAILED Trying to download http://mirrors.lax.liferay.com/nodejs.org/dist/v10.15.1/node-v10.15.1-linux-x64.tar.gz to...

On slow networks, the browser's console throws "A require() call has failed but no failure handler was provided" at frontend-js-spa-web@/liferay/init.es

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Issue Administrators may run their Liferay DEV instances on slow networks due to different reasons. In those cases, several issues will be observed: - Buttons unresponsive - Forms not showing data from the database - No pop-ups appearing etc .... The browser's console will print some...

"Version specific upgrade task must return function" error when running gulp upgrade command

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Issue While upgrading a theme created with Theme Generator and running the step of upgrading the theme itself (gulp upgrade), the below error message will be returned: [18:20:11] Starting 'upgrade'... [18:20:11] 'upgrade' errored after 680 μs [18:20:11] Error in plugin...

Can a guest submit an entry via the form?

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This article has been machine translated from its original language for your convenience. Please use discretion as this translation may include some inaccuracies. If you encounter issues with the translation, please use the feedback button to let us know. Issue Guests cannot submit...

Commerce guest checkout: country and region drop-downs show "undefined"

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Issue When I checkout an order as a guest, on the checkout page the Country and Region drop-downs are wrongly populated, showing "undefined" for every country/region name Environment Commerce 2.1.1 DXP 7.1 Resolution The problem is that the methods used to fetch this information are not...

Can not connect to an external service using port 25

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Issue It is not possible to establish a connection to an external service from Liferay Cloud using the port 25, commonly used for email sending/receiving purposes. Environment Liferay Cloud Resolution Port 25 is always blocked by several Cloud providers (including our solution) due to...

Can not install a hotfix due to folder permission errors

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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 Can not install a hotfix due to folder permission errors as following: liferay[liferay-xx] ## Hot fix liferay[liferay-xx] ##...

Can not associate an User Segment to a Content set

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Issue In Site management > Content & Data > Collections > Add a new manual selection > Add a new personalized variation, it is not possible to select a User segment from the list after changing the number of entries per page at the bottom left of the popup window. Environment Liferay DXP...

Can not generate a build from Bitbucket due to status 401 (unauthorised) error on Jenkins service

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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 After trying to integrate your Bitbucket repository, builds are not being generated and the following error is observed on the CI...

JSP fragments modules do not get Resolved after being deployed

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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 JSP fragment modules don't get Resolved after being deployed via environment folders on /lcp/liferay/deploy/ Environment Liferay...

Stuck reindex: How to check the progress of a reindex process and remove blocked BackgroundTask and Lock records

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Symptom Sometimes a reindex will take a long time and seem like nothing is happening. You simply see the reindex icon in the Control Panel bar and/or the percentage does not change. Environment DXP 7.4 DXP 7.3 DXP 7.2 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.0 Resolution Since this resolution requires...

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