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
'${processor.processMax()' error while creating Application Display Templates
Issue In the application display templates, whenever try to create an asset publisher template, the below error appears on the UI: The error appears in the Liferay logs as well: ERROR [WebContainer :...
Deployment failure due to invalid Environment Variable name
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue The deployment process failed with the following error...
PortalUUID: 'cannot find symbol' in Service Builder module
Issue When trying to build my Service Builder module, the following error is thrown in *PersisenceImpl.java classes: cannot find symbol PortalUUID *PersisenceImpl.java classes contain the following reference:...
Portal.properties link not up to date
Issue I am looking at the link https://docs.liferay.com/dxp/portal/7.4-latest/propertiesdoc/portal.properties.html  to inspect the default portal properties, but it doesn't seem to be up to date. For example, some...
Error "The SSL certificate does not match the SSL private key"
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue The deployment process failed with the following error...
The link received (via email) after form submission is prompting Guest User to Login
Issue Is it possible for a guest user to directly access the link received in the email notification (after form submission) without doing the login? Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP...
Set a wrong WebId causes "Unable to get company ID" after upgrade.
Issue After upgrade from DXP 7.3 to 7.4 the following error is displayed: 2023-10-24 17:28:16.854 ERROR [SCR Component Actor][ROOT:47] bundle com.liferay.portal.properties.swapper:5.0.24...
How to check item display permissions
Issue If the container folder (JournalFolder) of a web content does not have VIEW permissions for Guest, the contents are not seen if we are not logged in. This was different in 7.2. What has changed?...
Regarding the definition of privileges for roles, there are some items that are not reflected.
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After enabling LDAP authentication, administrator users who do not exist in LDAP can log in
Issue We have enabled LDAP authentication, checking it as required and we have unchecked Ignore User Search Filter for Authentication. With this configuration applied the administrator users can login even if...
Uploading Synonym Sets in Bulk
Issue Is there any way to upload Synonym sets in bulk (via any sheet or other way) at once rather than manually entering them one by one? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Currently, there is no ootb...
Changes to SEO page options resets custom theme
Issue Making any changes to the SEO robot options resets the custom theme, any imported font, and the favicon.  Steps to Reproduce: Add a custom theme, favicon, and google font to the page configurations,...
Performance problem when uploading a new file having a high number of pages
Issue Users may experience significantly slow upload times when uploading a new file to a site that contains a high number of pages. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The issue is addressed by LPS-202905....
Exception executing batch [java.sql.BatchUpdateException: data exception: string data, right truncation ; size limit: 75 table: COMMERCEVIRTUALORDERITEM column: URL]
Issue Virtual Product URLs can contain only 75 characters Steps To Reproduce 1. Create a Minium 2. Money Order is enabled 3. Create a Virtual Product with a price 4. Into the URL, put something that contains more...
Web content's category is added in the page source
Issue When we add a category to a web content and view it, the page source contains the category's name as a meta element Is it intended? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution The behavior is intended,...
Asset Publisher Template for the Web Content Display is unusable after deleting owner of the content
Issue After deleting a user from the portal, content created by it gets inaccessible if trying to edit with the specific user tag on Asset Publisher. Environment Liferay Portal 6.2+ Resolution Liferay does...
Allow more flexibility in setting up URLs
Issue Is there any availability of a friendly setup of URL when a display page template is used, by default the platform sets the "/w/" in the URL for all contents using display page templates, and personalization...
Default permissions for a new page to avoid revealing page information
Issue It would be wonderful if default page permissions could be configured on a site level, and in addition, if guests do not have view permission for the page it would not appear in the sitemap even if the...
Remote tax calculation option is displayed
Issue The remote tax calculation option is displayed Steps to reproduce: Create a new Channel using Minium Open the Global Menu and Navigate to Commerce > Channel View the Tax Calculations section Expected...
Paragraph fragment doesn't display mapped text field's line breaks
Issue We created a structure with a text field and put multiple lines in the web content After that, we added a Paragraph fragment to a page and mapped the web content's text field to it, it displays the...
Need to check access logs from webserver in Liferay PaaS environment
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue User needs access to webserver's access logs to check which...
Switch to Docker
Issue We just switched to a Docker setup and we would like to know if we need a new license or not.  Environment Liferay on Docker Resolution One license is for one instance only.  Additional Information...
LDAP Related Queries
Issue If the password is changed in the Active Directory, the user will still be able to log in to DXP? If we delete the user from Active Directory, the user will still be able to log in to DXP? How to import/ export...
Chrome lighthouse results for mobile device is poor
Issue Chrome's built-in lighthouse testing results for LCP and FCP rates, appear to be fine for desktop but not mobile devices. Steps to reproduce: Start a vanilla instance of DXP Stay on the current home page and...
OpenGraph image preview looks pixelated in page settings
Issue We are facing an issue with OpenGraph and images. OpenGraph uses preview images instead of the full size images. Therefore, the image is too small for Twitter/X and Facebook to use it. Upon further clarification and...
Elasticsearch setup without a proxy
Issue I have a web proxy in place and Liferay uses it when trying to connect to a remote Elasticsearch server, which causes the connection to fail. I do not want Liferay to use the proxy when trying to connect...
How to Change the Control Panel Favicon
Issue Is there a way to change the default icon for the Control Panel to something custom? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution There are two ways to modify the favicon: The easiest way is creating their own theme...
Is it possible to hide specific friendly URLs from the sitemap?
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue The issue revolves around the configuration of friendly URLs in...
Why does %E2%80%8B appear at the end of my friendly URL?
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue A friendly URL has been configured, but when accessing the link,...
Is it possible for web content to not have a friendly URL associated with it?
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue It is desired to know if there is the possibility for web content...
"Unable to get recent groups" error is thrown in the logs for Guest users with specific permission
Issue Liferay DXP 7.4 U92 starts up with the following error: ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-2][RecentGroupManager:94] Unable to get recent groups java.lang.NullPointerException: null at...
Clear Analytics Cloud configurations
Issue I would like to clone my environment, but an Analytics Cloud token can only be used by one DXP instance at a time. How do I remove the token from my cloned environment to keep it from disconnecting my...
ADA Accessibility - Screen Reader is announcing "Go To" at the end of Heading Level announcement
Issue Expected Result: I expect the Screen Reader to only announce relevant information to avoid confusion   Actual Result: The SR is announcing the Heading Level 1 link on the Home page as as: "[Heading Name]...
Comments on Documents & Media taking a long time to be made
Issue Sites with a very large number of pages and - consequently - a large volume of documents are taking a long time to confirm a comment in my Portal files Making a comment on my documents is taking a very long time...
Relay state exceeds 80 bytes
Issue After configuring SAML, I see Relay state exceeds 80 bytes WARN messages in the logs. How can I prevent the transmission of relay states larger than 80 bytes? Environment DXP 7.X Resolution This issue was...
Auditing of Site Memberships: Adding/Unassigning UserGroupGroupRoles
Issue We have found that groups of users are able to assign and unassign site roles to User Group memberships. Is there a way to audit role assignment changes? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution As of now, there is no...
Email Notification integrated with Liferay Objects got stuck in the queue
Issue We are trying to integrate an email notification when an entry is made in a certain object. For this we have followed all the steps provided in the following URL we found in the Liferay Dev Forum : -...
Activate Remove Text Formatting
Issue By default in CKEditor "Remove Text Formatting" functionality is hidden. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution RemoveFormat is already added to our shipped CKEditor, only it's needed to add the...
Unable to add SKU to the product via headless API
Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.4. 2. Create a site by using a minium site template. 3. Create an option with the name "City". 4. Create a specification with the name "segment". 5. Navigate to...
Link tab missing from fragment link configuration
Issue The link panel is being hidden for some editables Steps to reproduce: 1) Navigate to Design > Fragments and create a fragment with this markup: <div class="fragment_1"> <a href="#"...
Large Amounts of Semrush Bot requests
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue Several requests coming from the SemrushBot/7~bl web crawler...
Clean up corrupted Search service volume
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue My Search service's volume is corrupted and the ES nodes...
Display Template "List Menu" is always showing the full pages tree in Menu Display widget
Issue Although 'Auto' mode is configured for the List Menu display template in Menu Display widget, the full pages hierarchy is displayed.  Environment Liferay DXP 7.3+ Resolution In previous versions of...
Multiple LDAP connections shared with one LDAP server prevent some users from logging in
Issue When multiple LDAP connections are shared on one LDAP server, only users from one LDAP connection can log in while users from the other LDAP connections cannot. The following error is seen in the logs: 2023-02-17...
Form takes a shot delay of approximately 1 second to load
Issue There is a short delay (approximately 1 second) for the form to become available after page load Environment DXP 7.1 or higher Resolution It is true that there is a short delay (about 1 second) for the form to...
Can we add sorting functionality in Asset Publisher portlet?
Issue Can we add sorting functionality to the Liferay Asset publisher, similar to the sorting function in Search results?   Environment Liferay DXP 7.3   Resolution Unfortunately, this is a current feature...
Updating users data through LDAP
Issue We have enabled importing users and groups through LDAP. Import works perfectly, although we have seen user data is not updated when it changes in Active Directory: email or user name, for example....
Page canonical URLs of each existing language always point to the default language URL
Issue We have detected that the page canonical URLs of each existing language always point to the default language URL. Our default language is English, and we have a page in two languages: English:...
Unable to set the custom configurations in the price range facet
Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.4. 2. Create a site by using the 'speedwell' site template. 3. Navigate to the catalog. 4. Select the configurations of the price range facet. 5. Set the...
Unable to add dynamic filter rules in Product Publisher Widget
Issue When the dropdown option is changed from Tags to Category, the input box disappears. Steps to reproduce: 1) Create some categories from the Global Site. 2) Create sample commerce products and attach the...
Unable to create the product with the provided default image
Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.4 2. Navigate to Document and Media. 3. Upload an image. 4. Get the fileEntryId of the image. 5. Navigate to system settings > Catalog (in the first block...
Jenkins unable to update commit status to GitLab
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 using gitlab-api fail during the last steps of the...
Unable to search with special characters inside quotations
Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.4. 2. Create one basic web content named "test**". 3. Navigate to Liferay DXP(default web site). 4. Enter test** in the search bar, and the search result will...
I cannot use special characters in Fragments
Issue I included certain special characters in the fragment such as ¡áéíóú and published it. When I reopen the fragment, the special character is displayed as � and doesn't allow me to publish anymore. The logs...
How to add the price in the default SKU via Headless API?
Issue The user needs to add the price(default SKU) in the request body of the product while posting the product via headless API. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Commerce 4.0 Resolution The 'default SKU' field in the...
ElasticsearchException java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused during the upgrade process and it fails, but Elasticsearch is not necessary during it
Issue The following ElasticsearchException is thrown during the upgrade process, causing the upgrade to fail, but the Elasticsearch server is not necessary during it How can avoid this error? 2023-02-07 11:21:22.931...
How to show only certain file types to a group of users?
Issue I want to show only certain file types to some users. For example: they should see .doc and .pdf only but not .xls Is it possible to hide/show documents based on extensions? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4...
How to hide 'Content Performance' icon for every user
Issue The 'Content Performance' icon should be hidden for all default users with 'Administrator' or 'Content' roles. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Navigate to Control Panel> System Settings> System Scope>...
The image version has been changed, but the image remains the same
Issue The image does not change, but only the versions do. Steps to reproduce: 1) Navigate to Content and Data > Documents and Media 2) Upload an image  3) Do check out and download it 4) Click three dots (Action...
How to modify existing Email template for announcements
Issue Is there any OOTB option to modify the announcements email template? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The template for the subject and body of announcement emails contained in the...