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Feature
Deployment Approach
Scheduled publications are always scheduled using the server time zone on 7.1
Issue Staging publishes scheduled for the future automatically defaults to server time zone, which does not allow for much flexibility unless one manually re-schedules them. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution...
User wants to setup a scheduler job, but only with one specific node within the cluster.
Issue User wants a scheduler job to run on only one specific node of the cluster. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution A cron job can be disabled in a certain node...
Log level of jsonwebservice
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No page can be displayed due to "Unsupported template" errors
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 Liferay portal upgrades the content?
Issue The portlet id('s) which has included in the content of the web content portlet is not getting updated after upgrading the portal. Environment Liferay portal 6.2EE Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution How Liferay works?...
How to resolve deployment issues following the installation of Fix Pack DXP-12 for Liferay DXP 7.1
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...
Change root context to custom context
Issue How to change the portal context from ROOT to something else? Can I append "xxx" to all the portal URL? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay Portal 6.2 JBoss EAP 7.1 /...
'Link to URL' page type doesn't work for relative urls
Issue While creating a page of type 'Link to URL', If Absolute URL is given, the page is created successfully and is redirected to the respective link. If Relative URL like "/web/guest/e-learning1" is given,...
How to know which of the nodes is being displayed
Issue On a cluster environment, sometimes its helpful to know in which of the nodes you are. This could be useful to check the load balanced or cluster replication issues. Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP...
Work folder under Liferay Home
Issue After upgrading to Liferay DXP we noticed that a work folder is created in {Liferay_Home}, in addition to {Tomcat_Home}/work directory. Is this the normal behaviour? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay...
Restarting JBoss node hangs at JGroups.connect() when using multicast
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...
Nested Applications portlet causes com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.NonSerializableObjectHandler on Weblogic
Issue When adding the Nested Applications to a page, the logs show the error com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.NonSerializableObjectHandler You can't add portlets to the Nested Applications Environment...
How to add security, authentication to my REST service?
Issue We developed a REST service and it works. But we need endpoint security. At the moment it is available without any credentials. We do not want to give access to a REST Web service without credentials.  How can...
Implicit connection cache issue
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 -...
PortletMVC4Spring, Spring Framework, and Liferay DXP
Question Spring Framework 5 does not include support for Spring Portlet MVC.  Support for Spring Framework 4, including Portlet MVC support, will remain until 2020.  What is the future of Spring Portlet MVC and...
Calendar portlet displays time in different formats depending on display language
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Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.dynamic.data.mapping.service - Nested exception: Content is not allowed in prolog.
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
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":...
WildFly Bundles for DXP 7.1 and Above
Issue Why am I not able to find a WildFly bundle download for DXP 7.1? Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Starting with Liferay DXP 7.1 SP2, Liferay will no longer be releasing Wildfly...
Changes to the Site Template
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Unable to add Calendar Event through Mobile Browser
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...
Deployment of WAR files with many jar dependencies is very slow in DXP
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
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...
LCS Client removed after Fix Pack 12 installation (Known Issue)
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,...
Server unable to start after upgrading to latest fixpack
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]...
I want to hide the password expiration warning message.
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APR library not found
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...
Where to find the default system.properties file
Issue Where to find the available properties and its default values from the original system.properties used by the portal Environment DXP 7.1 DXP 7.0 Portal 6.2 Portal 6.1 Resolution You can find the portal-impl.jar...
Where to find the default portal.properties file
Issue Where to find the available properties and its default values from the original portal.properties used by the portal Environment DXP 7.1 DXP 7.0 Portal 6.2 Portal 6.1 Resolution You can find the portal-impl.jar...
Portlet preferences contains orphan records
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....
Post installation of fix pack de-63, server failed to start with the error message "URI is not hierarchical"
Issue After installing the fix pack de-63, server failed to start and showing the following error in the server console. ERROR [Framework Event Dispatcher: Equinox Container:...
How to resolve when basic configuration portal properties are not read during startup
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...
What to check when Site Template changes are not propagating to sites
Issue Changes made to a site template (such as adding pages and updating permissions for existing pages) are not propagating to sites, even though the changes are seen in the site template. There are no errors in the...
Adding Portlet Configurations at Instance and System Level
Issue How to rename the category and section. It should be excluding the substring "category."? How the configuration will be accessible under settings? Environment  Vanilla bundle DXP 7.1 SP2 pre-bundled with dxp-10...
JDBC roll back error when generating LAR to export sites
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...
"App Manager is temporarily unavailable" error
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...
Unauthenticated user unable to view the Json web service.
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...
Connecting to Multiple IdPs with SAML Plug-ins
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Deleting users using UserLocalServiceUtil.deleteUser(user) gets slow
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...
User 0 is not allowed to access - warning traces
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
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
Issue During the upgrade process, UpgradeImageTypeContent#copyJournalArticleImagesToJournalRepository copies all journal article images into the Document Library repository. In order to achieve...
How does the content sharing functionality from parent sites to child sites work? What type of content is supported?
Issue What does sites.content.sharing.with.children.enabled do,  how does the content sharing functionality from parent sites to child sites work, and what type of content is shared from parent sites? Environment Liferay...
CSS changes are not reflecting
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....
Spell check button does not appear on CKEditor toolbar
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ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException while upgrading portal DB from Liferay DXP 7.0 to Liferay DXP 7.1
Issue The below error is the known issue when upgrading the portal DB using upgrade client tool from Liferay DXP 7.0 to Liferay DXP 7.1 and the reference LPS for the same is "LPS-86026"....
Cluster Node name is missing from sessionID in Audit_AuditEvent table
Issue In a cluster environment, after setting the cluster node name (jvmRoute or instance-id) on Application Server, the node name is not appended to the sessionID stored in Audit_AuditEvent table.  When checking the...
Cannot disable simultaneous login
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...
6.2 to 7.1 Oracle 12 Database Upgrade Results in Web Content with Custom Structures and Templates to have Missing Content
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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Setting up the Portal Instance Name (Website Name) in Liferay DXP 7.1
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 ->...
How to check if an LPS or LPE fix is included in a Fix Pack
Issue How do I check if a certain fix (exp. LPS-XXXXX) is included within a Fix Pack? How do I check if a certain fix (exp. LPE-XXXXX) is included within a Fix Pack? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2  Resolution Step1:...
Slow Performance or OutOfMemory errors due to StripFilter
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...
Knowledge base AssetCategory API
Issue I want to automatically categorize knowledge base articles. I have built the functionality to download articles, assign categories, and save them back. What I am missing is the ability to get the existing...
Can I disable the System Check that is running on startup in my Development environment?
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...
How to modify Terms and Conditions
Issue How to modify "Terms and Conditions" which are displayed when a user logs in for the first time in the portal? Environment Liferay 7.0 Resolution Adding the custom Terms and Conditions involves the...
Setting Site Member Role Permissions
Issue How can I change/edit permissions for a Site Member Role? Environment Liferay 7.0 Liferay 7.1 Resolution Permissions for the Site Member Role can be found at: Control Panel > Users > Roles > Site Roles Tab >...
How to blacklist the Sign in Portlet
Issue If SAML is configured/enabled in Liferay and Login portlet is removed from the page, a user can still see the Sign in Portlet and he/she can log into the portal without using SAML login mechanism by...
Logs Rotation
Issue If you want to rotate logs for every 12 hours in a day(2 log files to be created each day) Environment Liferay 6.2 Resolution The logs can be rotated for every 12 hours and it can be achieved through a very...
Restricting/Disabling the Default Liferay DXP (Guest) Site access.
Issue The '/web/guest' associated with the domain name will redirect to the default DXP site. Suppose there are two sites, site1 and site2 mapped to domains www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com                ...