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Object APIs You can use headless APIs to interface with objects and picklists. Here are resources to help you understand and integrate these APIs to enhance your ability to manage objects.

Using Object Inheritance

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Using Object Inheritance [Release Feature (LPD-34594)](../../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#release-feature-flags) Liferay DXP...

Using a CAPTCHA Client Extension

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Using a CAPTCHA Client Extension Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPD-36464). CAPTCHA challenges are used on websites to verify a human user is...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Application Servers

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Application Servers As new Liferay versions are released, their dependencies and installation steps change. Liferay made a big change for DXP with the 2025.Q3...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on JBoss EAP

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on JBoss EAP Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below Installing on JBoss EAP requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring JBoss,...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Tomcat

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Tomcat Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below Using a Liferay-Tomcat bundle or Docker image is the fastest way to get started using Liferay DXP. This...

CAPTCHA YAML Configuration Reference

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CAPTCHA YAML Configuration Reference You can define a CAPTCHA client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extnesion.yaml file defines a CAPTCHA client extension: ...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebLogic

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebLogic Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below If you are using WebLogic as your application server, it is highly recommended to install DXP to a...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Wildfly

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Wildfly Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.1 or below Installing on WildFly requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring WildFly, and...

Liferay DXP 2025.Q3 Breaking Changes

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Liferay DXP 2025.Q3 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay DXP 2025.Q3. As the...

2025.Q3 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes

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2025.Q3 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes Most new versions of Liferay DXP include changes to the default settings. If you rely on the defaults from your old version, review the changes and...

Configuring service.properties

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Configuring service.properties Service Builder generates a service.properties file in your *-service module's src/main/resources folder. Liferay uses this file's properties to alter your service's...

Connecting Service Builder to an External Database

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Connecting Service Builder to an External Database Service builder creates the necessary tables for the service in the lportal database with all other data used by Liferay. If you want to store the...

Liferay Workspace Configuration Reference

Liferay Workspace Configuration Reference Liferay Workspace has many options you can set. Here's a handy command and properties reference. Running Liferay DXP locally my-project $ blade gw...

Client Secret JWT

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Client Secret JWT Liferay supports client secret JWT as an authentication method for OAuth 2 clients. In this flow, the client itself creates the assertion and signs it using the client secret....

Configuring Liferay in AWS

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Configuring Liferay in AWS Since Liferay installations hosted in AWS use Helm, you must configure and customize Liferay using the Helm CLI. You can write as many .yaml files as you need. To update...

Viewing Metrics from Kubernetes

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Viewing Metrics from Kubernetes It is important to track resource usage in the Kubernetes cluster. To view your resource usage, you must use a collector and an exporter. Before you can view...

Running Liferay DXP in Amazon Web Services

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Running Liferay DXP in Amazon Web Services There are two ways to host Liferay DXP in AWS: Installing Liferay DXP from AWS Marketplace. Installing Liferay DXP using the plain Helm chart. For...

AWS Managed Resources Reference

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AWS Managed Resources Reference By default, Liferay uses several managed services to run background operations when hosting in AWS. These resources facilitate the provisioning and continued use of...

Viewing Metrics with Prometheus

Viewing Metrics with Prometheus The Liferay Helm chart is prepared to set up the Prometheus JMX Exporter project agent out-of-the-box. Set the JMX_AGENT_YAML environment variable to the following...

Viewing Metrics with Glowroot

Viewing Metrics with Glowroot This article describes how to use Glowroot in Liferay installations hosted in AWS. For information on how to set up Glowroot in other circumstances, see Using...

Standard Permissions

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Standard Permissions Liferay defines several standard permissions across various applications and resources, such as view, edit, update, and more. Managing permissions Permissions are best managed...

Configuring Externally Managed Services

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Configuring Externally Managed Services Externally managed services are created, configured, and managed outside the Liferay Helm chart. Database Configuring an external database for Liferay in...

Configuring Internally Managed Services

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Configuring Internally Managed Services Internally managed services are configured and managed within the chart. These services are defined using the dependencies property: dependencies: : ...

Single-Page Application (SPA)

Single-Page Application (SPA) Rendering a page from scratch takes a lot of effort from the browser. It must load the HTML markup, the CSS, and any JavaScript, render and style the markup, and...

Integrate Okta with Liferay DXP using OpenID Connect

How To

Introduction This recipe guides you through the steps to integrate Okta, your Identity Provider (IdP), with your Liferay environment using OpenID Connect. Prerequisites Okta Dev account Liferay DXP environment Administrative...

Designing and Displaying Reusable Navigation Menus

How To

Introduction This recipe guides you through the basic steps to build a multi-step form. Prerequisites Liferay DXP environment An object definition with fields A user who has access and control to create and manage objects,...

Data Sets are not working after upgrading to 2025.q1.4-lts where the feature is released

Troubleshooting

Issue I upgraded from 2024.q4.7 to 2025.q1.4-lts. After the upgrade, we encountered issues with Data Sets. In 2024.q4.7 I was using datasets as beta but as in 2025.q1.4 its released. I have enabled Root Objects and...

Delete commerce orders from the database

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue There is an inconsistency in commerce orders between the Portal and Database. That means there are more number of orders than the number of orders in the Portal. Is there any script that can delete all...

Liferay IDE: Resolving 'Unable to make field private' errors with JDK 21

Troubleshooting

Issue I'm encountering java.lang.reflect.InaccessibleObjectException: Unable to make field private ... accessible errors when starting Liferay from the Liferay IDE plugin within the Eclipse IDE with JDK 21....

Block access of com_liferay_login_web_portlet_LoginPortlet

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue There is a security vulnerability found wherein someone can create a page after being able to login through com_liferay_login_web_portlet_LoginPortlet. Therefore, how to block access of...

Unauthorized modification in Open Order Status

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue The user who doesn't have the permission of 'Manage Order' is still able to update the order from an "Open" status to a "Quote Requested" status. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a 'Minium' site. 2. Navigate to...

The package.json and config.js files are accessible via URLs

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Issue Observed potential security vulnerabilities where the package.json and config.js files expose sensitive information like file paths, testing configurations, dependencies with versions, build scripts,...

CKEditor Customizations Not Applying to Translations or Forms

Troubleshooting

Issue Customizations made to CKEditor using an `EditorConfigContributor` are only applying to the editor when editing Web Content, but not in the editor for translations (accessed through Control Panel...

How to decouple User and Email notifications?

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Issue The user wishes to decouple User and Email notifications. Environment Liferay Quarterly Release Resolution The email and user notifications are tied together in the system. There is no option to...

"Tablet Landscape" display device is not available in Page Edit Mode

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Issue While page editing, only four viewports are visible: Desktop () Tablet () (Portrait) Landscape phone () Portrait Phone () But, the "Tablet Landscape" viewport is missing/not available. Environment Liferay DXP...

Freemarker templates escape HTML content in Text fields after migrating from Liferay DXP 7.3 to 2025.Q1

Troubleshooting

Issue After migrating from Liferay DXP 7.3 to 2025.Q1, HTML content within web content "Text" fields is no longer interpreted by Freemarker templates using ${field.getData()}. It is displayed as...

How to Configure PaaS to Push Metrics to Dynatrace Account

How To

Issue What is the correct way to configure our new PaaS environment to push metrics to a Dynatrace account? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Set the following environment variables in LCP.json ...

Finding your Liferay Cloud location via egress IP address

How To

Issue The ingress IP address of our Liferay Cloud instance shows a different location than expected. Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution The ingress IP address does not reflect the actual location of the specific...

Full Day Event Overlaps Two Days in Calendar Month View

legacy How To

Issue When creating an all-day event that spans from 12:00 AM on one day to 12:00 AM on the next day, the event appears on both days in the calendar month view. Expected behavior is for the event to only be visible on...

The "Menu Display" text appears in the Navigation Menu widget

Troubleshooting

Issue After a failed login attempt, the navigation menu's display text appears above the menu itself. Steps to reproduce: Create a site. Create a login page and deploy the sign-in widget. Create a navigation...

Content lost when changing language during creation

Troubleshooting

Issue When creating content, such as a calendar event or filling a form, changing the language during the process can cause the loss of all entered information. This can happen if another browser window or tab is open...

Translatable fields display empty after deleting field translation instead default translation

Troubleshooting

Issue When adding content to a translatable field in a structure and subsequently deleting the content in a secondary language, the field displays as empty in that specific language instead of falling...

How to deploy a custom JAR to the shielded-container-lib directory in my PaaS Environment

How To

Issue I would like to know how to deploy a custom JAR to the shielded-container-lib directory of Tomcat in my PaaS environment. Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution Follow these steps: In your Liferay Workspace,...

Liferay and CVE-2025-24813

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Issue Does Liferay DXP have the vulnerability CVE-2025-24813? Environment Liferay DXP Quarterly Releases 2025.Q1 Resolution Liferay bundles and docker images are not affected due to the attribute...

Can Layouts Be Dynamically Assigned to Object Entries Based on Experience (e.g., User Role)?

Issue I’ve created an Object named TestObject and added two layouts: Test Layout 1 and Test Layout 2 in the Site Builder → Pages section. Behavior observed: If no layout is marked as default, the system uses the...

Discrepancy in Batch Behavior: headless-commerce-admin-account vs. headless-admin-user

legacy How To

Issue We’ve encountered a discrepancy in how batch operations work for Accounts between the headless-commerce-admin-account API (now deprecated) and the newer headless-admin-user API. Previous Behavior...

Changes to Content Page Template Not Propagated to Pages

Issue After creating a Content Page Template and then creating pages based on that template, any subsequent changes and publishing of the template do not reflect on the pages using the template. Environment...

User did not provide a valid CSRF token Error

Troubleshooting

Issue Portlet Action requests intermittently returning a 403 error code. In the logs the following error message regarding invalid CSRF token gets printed whenever the 403 error is thrown. "User [user_id] did not provide...

Automatic Fragment Propagation and Liferay startup time

legacy Troubleshooting

Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue Customers with a large number of Content Pages extensively...

How to run the Liferay PaaS webserver service locally to test configuration changes

legacy How To

Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). NOTE: Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific...

Uncaught TypeError: Liferay.Notification is not a constructor

Troubleshooting

Issue Adding the below script to any page through any Web content display can reproduce the issue in vanilla. <a href="#" onClick="showWltNotification('Your Request failed to process', 'danger');"> Link here </a>...

"Could not resolve value from secret references" error deploying build in PaaS

Troubleshooting

Issue When deploying a build in my Liferay Cloud PaaS environment, the build process fails and returns the following error message: Some error has happened during the build. Try again. [{"message":"Could not...

Client Extension Build Fails Due to Unresolved Dependency

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When building a Client Extension of type jsImportMapsEntry, the build fails if the Client Extension depends on another Client Extension, because the build cannot resolve the dependency. Environment Liferay DXP...

How can I disable the Commerce Wish List creation

How To

Issue I have an issue with the commerce wish list table in the database. The table has lots of entries and it is growing more, even though we do not use the wish list feature. I would like to remove these entries and...

Monotype Font Licensing

Issue Usage of Monotype fonts require a license If a user does not have the Monotype font license, is it necessary to remove references to Monotype font throughout the portal? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution...

Limit the languages displayed in the translation selector for object fields

Issue We want to limit the languages displayed in the translation selector for object fields to only those defined in the site, similar to how it works for Journal Articles. Currently, the selector shows all...

Filtering Products by Category via API

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue I need to display related products on a product details page, filtered by a specific category. Attempts to filter products by category using an Information Template and API calls with...

Implementing strict rules for virtual hosts and friendly URLs

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Having the different URLs for the same content could potentially impact SEO by affecting how pages are indexed. Even when a virtual host is defined for a site, it is possible to access that site...

Email Address Validation for Forgot Password

Issue The Forgot Password option does not validate if the user enters a correct email address. You can enter anything and the field will accept it. Two types of validation are expected: Email format validation (to...

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