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
Configuring Default Permissions for New Folders: Addressing Inherited Permissions for Guests
Issue The default selection of "Site Member" is preventing the inheritance of guest permissions. This default behavior occurs because a private page exists in the site, influencing the default...
Guest user is not redirected to the login page when accessing the portal with site URL
Issue When I access https://www.myapp.com/mysite without logging in, it shows 404. When I add  the page name to the URL e.g. https://www.myapp.com/mysite/sitepage, then it redirects to login screen. The login prompt...
.innerHTML is getting removed in web content (SaaS environment)
Issue When we try to add some extra lines of code (output.innerHTML="";) in the web content, it is not working as expected and the innerHTML is getting removed. We are taken to the first line of the code...
Backup doesn't have permissions to open the Document Library
Issue Backups fail with these log messages: rsync: [generator] opendir "/mnt/prepare-restore/document_library" failed: Permission denied (13) cannot delete non-empty directory: document_library rsync error: some...
Service Provider (SP) initiated SLO when using OIDC (SaaS environment)
Issue We are utilizing OpenID Connect (AWS Cognito) for logging into Liferay; however, the users remain logged into the SSO system even after logging out of Liferay. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution...
Cannot add more than one notification for a task in workflow
Issue When creating a workflow, adding more than one notification freezes the source view. Unable to edit the source view when adding notifications based on Role or Role Type. Steps to reproduce: Navigate...
Data is lost when Web Contents are published with the Corsican language.
Issue When publishing content in the Corsican language, data that had been published in other languages was lost. Environment All environments Resolution Please request a hotfix with LPD-27959 to resolve the...
After Upgrading to DXP 7.4+, there's an extra field within our structures
Issue After upgrading from DXP 7.3, we've observed that our structures have been modified and there is an extra "Fields Group" added to it.    Environment DXP 7.4+ Quarterly Release Resolution This is the expected...
Default Language code is not appending in URL
Issue The default language code is not appended in every URL of the portal. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 [all updates] Resolution To enable the default language in every URL, the following property needs to be...
Feature flag LPS-202104 is not available for company 0
Issue When upgrading my Liferay environment the following error occurs in the upgrade logs. How can I resolve this error?  ERROR [main][FeatureFlagsBag:90] Feature flag LPS-202104 is not available for company 0...
Mutiple search containers is not working properly
Issue If users have multiple search containers in the same widget, first search container is showing results in the second container and vice versa. Expected results would be in the below 'view.jsp' is 'test1'...
Update object entries from workflow task screen
Issue Allow users to access the object in edit mode from the workflow task screen Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution As of now (at the time of creating this article), there is no OOB (out-of-the-box) way...
Deprecation of Liferay Sync
Issue I'd like to inquire about the support for Liferay 7.4 in the Liferay Sync. Currently, the Compatibility Matrix only lists support for Liferay DXP 7.3. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution Liferay Sync got...
How much time does it take for a new SSL Certificate to be updated in Liferay PaaS?
Issue User has updated their system with a new SSL certificate properly and the update is not performed immediately. Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution It takes around 30 minutes for a new SSL certificate...
Failed Loading the Jackson 2 API Plugin on Jenkins Build
Issue After upgrading Liferay Cloud Services from v4 to v5, we encountered the following error relating to loading the necessary plugins with the Jenkins build. SEVERE: Failed Loading plugin Jackson 2 API Plugin...
Unable to Configure a Portlet on Content Pages Without Entering Edit Mode
Issue In previous versions of Liferay DXP, users could configure portlets such as the Asset Publisher on a content page (blank page) without needing to enter the "edit" view. Environment Liferay DXP...
Creating a User Account Without an Email Address
Issue How can I create a user without requiring the user to have an email address?  Environment Liferay Quarterly Releases Resolution You can create a user without requiring an email address by setting the following...
The "assign to me" tab under My Workflow Tasks is not displaying the order by latest documents at the top of the grid
Issue The assign to me tab is not displaying the order by latest documents at the top of the grid. In 7.4 the latest document is displaying in the bottom of the grid. Environment 2023.Q4 Resolution You can use the...
Upgrade error: Skipped updating database indexes for com.liferay.document.library.service since it is not upgraded
Issue While updating to quarterly releases, an error is shown in the log and several modules do not start correctly. IndexUpdaterUtil-BundleTrackerOpener][IndexUpdaterUtil] Skipped updating database...
'Email Account Activity: New Sign-In detected for your account' received which is an unwanted email
Issue Receiving unwanted email notifications like "Your email account abc@xyz.org.in was signed into from a new location, device, browser, or application" from GoDaddy. Below are the details received:   From:...
User Impersonation For Newly Created Users
Issue Attempting to impersonate a user who has not logged in yet returns errors in the console. How can I verify the accounts of new users who have not activated their account yet? Why can't I impersonate a...
Plugin Descriptor Error When Building Maven Fragment in AWS Codebuild
Issue We are observing errors in the console log for various plugins when trying to build a custom fragment via maven in AWS Codebuild: [ERROR] Failed to parse plugin descriptor... Invalid CEN header Environment DXP...
Analytics:for Entrance and Exit items in page analysis
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...
Image title overlap on small screens
Issue When viewing an image after it has been uploaded to Documents and Media and trying to scroll on small screens, the image title overlaps. Environment Liferay 2024.Q1.1 Resolution The observed behavior is a...
'search.results.limit' key in Low Level Search Options widget is not working
Issue The 'search.results.limit' key in the Low-Level Search Options widget is used to achieve the functionality of getting limited search results on a single page, however, the user gets all the search results...
Issue with the latest Dynatrace view
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue Unable to get the latest Dynatrace view with the new...
Can I schedule the garbage collector to run periodically?
Issue The 'Run the garbage collector to free up memory' task can be manually executed from Control Panel > Server Administration. Does the product offer any functionality for scheduling or automating the periodic...
Image added via rich text editor on Wiki tool losing reference
Issue When adding an image in a rich text editor within a Wiki Page using Ctrl C + Ctrl V and then publishing that page, the image loses its reference and is no longer displayed in my content manager. Is there any way...
Frontend taglib removed: 'liferay-frontend:html-vertical-card'
Issue After upgrading to 7.4+, we noticed that some frontend taglibs have been removed, such as liferay-frontend:html-vertical-card. Is there any replacement for it? Environment Upgrades to DXP 7.4+ Resolution As per...
"Learn how to tailor categories to your needs." linked documentation appears in bundle
Issue After upgrading, we're seeing a message that says Learn how to tailor categories to your needs in the bundle. A link to documentation shows up in the Web Content menu and Categories Menu. Environment...
'Backup "undefined" not found' when trying to restore a db dump in another environment
Issue I have performed a backup in one env (for example, DEV), and I want to restore it in another env (for example, PRD). When I try to do that, the result is not successful. In the logs, this error is shown: [ERROR]...
Why does my Liferay Docker container slowly accumulate memory over time and run into OutOfMemoryErrors?
Issue In some implementations of containerized Liferay Docker environments, there are reports of memory usage slowly increasing over time until an OutOfMemoryError is reached or the pod alerts trigger a kill of the pod. ...
When logging into Dynatrace I cannot see my hosts
Issue I log in to my Dynatrace Dashboard I see the message "You have no monitored hosts"   Environment Liferay PaaS   Resolution Make sure that the tenant is correctly configured. The tenant or environmentid...
Is there a way to easily add tables to fragments using the WYSIWYG Editor?
Issue Currently it is not possible to add a table from the WYSIWYG Editor toolbar in Fragments.   Environment Liferay PaaS, Saas Quarterly Releases Liferay 7.0+   Resolution We have an open story ticket for future...
com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.LocaleException occurs during upgrade
Issue I am receiving the following locale exception error when upgrading my database:  ERROR - Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.layout.admin.web com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException:...
Detecting Unsuccessfully Deployed Components on Startup
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 detect unsuccessfully deployed components on...
Locating Configurations in OSGi in Backup
Issue Where could I locate files such as modules, Marketplace packages and WAR files from the backup? What are the files we take from Document Library in the backup? Environment Paas and SaaS Resolution What are...
User's chosen Prefix does not save when switching between Languages
Issue When editing a user's preferences, I've found that the pre-selected options for "Prefix" do not remain saved when changing the "Language" option Environment Quarterly Release Resolution Liferay doesn't have...
Changes in a site's widget page variation also affects the hierarchy in other variations
Issue Is it possible to configure Liferay so that a change in one site's widget page variation does not also affect another page's hierarchy?  Environment Quarterly Release Resolution Unfortunately, there is no...
Can we hide the External Video Shortcut option?
Issue We want to hide the above-mentioned option from the Documents and media because we don't want our users to be able to add videos, can we do it somehow? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution It is...