Capability

Development and Tooling

Liferay offers a comprehensive toolkit to extend or customize your digital experience. Build applications quickly with low-code/no-code features like Objects, or leverage developer tools like Liferay Workspace and Blade CLI for further customizations.

For users on PaaS or running Self-Hosted, Liferay also offers tools deploying customizations.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Deploying a Portlet to Liferay 6.2 on Tomcat 8, causes listerner tags in Web.xml of portlet to change to Context-param tags
Issue Deploying a portlet developed for Liferay 6.2 on Tomcat 7, on a Liferay 6.2 instance running on Tomcat 8 causes the portlet's web.xml file to reflect the following changes:  The web.xml before it is deployed had...
Unable to find products with ID via Headless API
Issue Noticed that products have two ID fields, when you fetch them via headless API id productId id is visible on the UI and productId is not. When you try to get products via headless API using id, it does...
I want to disable Basic Auth for JSONWS
Issue I want to disable Basic Auth for JSONWS (JSON web services) in Liferay so that only OAuth is used for a specific jsonws method (i.e. expandovalue) Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Basic Auth can be entirely disabled,...
Firewall blocks URI for reserved characters
Issue URI contains reserved characters such as "$" and certain firewall rules block these URI's. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Many URL schemes reserve certain characters for a special meaning. However, this is not...
Cache is not replicating properly across the nodes in the cluster environment
Issue From one of the nodes, when uploading a document or creating web content, it's available under the content section in the other node. But when creating a page, adding the uploaded docs and existing web content...
After soy modification, the components under Control Panel are not visible
Issue Post portal upgrades from DXP 7.0 to Liferay 7.2, under the control panel, pages like the site, user organization, etc are not visible and getting UI error as "XXXX is temporarily unavailable" Environment...
How can I disable the Document Library File Rank Service in DXP 7.1 and 7.2?
Issue I would like to disable the Document Library File Rank Service In Liferay Portal 6.2 and DXP 7.0, there used to be a property which is now removed: dl.file.rank.enabled=false Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay...
Not able to download the logs of more than 10000 lines
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue How to download more logs as the default "Download...
Unable to configure the portal-{WebID}.properties for each instances
Issue In Liferay, we have a feature of configuring different portal-{WebID}.properties (portal-ext.properties) for each instances. This configuration is not working in DXP 7.2 with fixpack dxp-2 and above....
Upgrade the CKeditor version
Issue Is there any option to update the Liferay's default CKeditor version? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0    Resolution For example, the default CKeditor version for the fix pack 90 is "4.11.3", and the version for the...
I cannot reinstall Marketplace applications in the App Manager
Issue I have issues with a Marketplace app, so I try to reinstall it I uninstall the App through the UI (from Control Panel > Apps > App Manager) I purchase the App again from the Marketplace (Apps > Store) Once it...
On 6.2 fix packs before portal-167-6210, Liferay shows a blank home page on MS IE11 and MS Edge
Issue When working in a Portal 6.2 EE environment with JBoss EAP 7.0, a web server and a patching level lower than portal-167-6210, the Liferay home page, when displayed on MS IE11 and MS Edge, will be blank ...
Fragment is not resolved after a clean server restart
Issue If I deploy a fragment, it works fine for the first time. But when I stop the server, delete osgi/state folder, and restart it, the fragment fails to resolve. It needs to be restarted in gogo shell to go to...
How can I change the email template of the Password Changed Notification?
Issue When the password is changed, users get a notification email. I would like to change the template of that email. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Navigate to Control Panel > Configuration > Instance...
Deploying Liferay 6.2 SP 15 on Jboss EAP 6.2
Issue This article will outline a basic walkthrough on how-to deploy Liferay 6.2 SP 15 on Jboss EAP 6.2 specific to EAP version.          Environment Liferay 6.2 JBoss EAP 6.2  Resolution Prerequisite Download...
Mails are not getting triggered when configured with smtp.office365.com
Issue The email notifications are not sent successfully when configured with smtp.office365.com. The below errors are observed while mail is being sent. 1) 530 5.7.57 SMTP; Client was not authenticated to...
Groovy script to clear the stale data in the lock_ and backgroundtask tables
Issue Groovy script to clear the stale data in the lock_ and backgroundtask tables Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+ Resolution In the log, similar to the below info may be thrown which shows that there may be some stale...
I cannot configure the "Look and Feel" of widgets on the Content Page
Issue A new Content Page is created and a widget is added to it. There is no kebab menu on it (3 dots) and there is no Look and Feel Configuration button either. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution The menu is no...
The document preview is not generated due to "[SocketOpenOfficeConnection:114] trying to (re)connect" warn message.
Issue The preview is not generated for the documents in the Document and Media portlet. The following warn messages are thrown in the logs, INFO...
Missing translations are shown in English (US) rather than in the default language
Issue A Liferay instance is configured to work with a default language A and other languages B, C, etc. None of the configured languages (A, B, C, ...) are English (US). A non-default language (B, C, ...) lacks...