Capability

Content Management System

Liferay’s Content Management System (CMS) offers user-friendly applications for creating, editing, publishing, and managing your site’s content.

Liferay empowers you to create and manage web content effectively. Easily create web content, upload documents, and leverage a suite of tools to administer and optimize your content. These tools include a user-friendly Content Dashboard UI, built-in Translation capabilities, and Content Performance insights.

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Deployment Approach
Troubleshooting Service Builder Blob Compile Issues
Issue Service builder with Blob and compound primary key throws compilation error. The console errors might look like this: [javac]...
Liferay Developer Studio 3.5.0 Release Highlights
Liferay Developer Studio provides an all-in-one, integrated development environment based on Eclipse for developers to build plugins for the Liferay Digital Experience Platform....
Liferay Maven Troubleshooting Guide
This article is a troubleshooting guide to assist with common errors in using Liferay Maven SDK. The information listed below is applicable to all Liferay Portal versions.  Resolution...
Blob Types Are Not Supported in Service Builder for Liferay Portal 6.1
This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Blob types are not supported in plugins...
Error Message 'Invalid Code Length Set' When Creating a Theme Using Maven in LDS
This article documents a known issue where creating a theme using Maven in LDS may result in an error message: Invalid code length set. The root cause is that some dependencies are not downloaded completely. This article...
Blade Deploy Does Not Support WAR Files
Liferay's Blade CLI is an easy way for Liferay developers to create new Liferay modules. One of its features is to deploy modules, as described in the Deploying Modules with Blade CLI documentation....
Unable to Build a DXP 7.1 Theme in Developer Studio
This article documents a known issue when building a theme in DXP 7.1, using Developer Studio 3.3. Steps to Reproduce Start Liferay Developer Studio 3.3 with a 7.1 workspace project. Go to New --> Liferay Module...
DXP Features Summary
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) has been redesigned to include new functionality. The following list is a summary of what is new to Liferay DXP. Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Foundation OSGi Open...
Extension Environment Migration Tips
This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable....
Using the 'getOriginalServlet' Function to Retrieve the Default Query String in DXP 7.0
This article serves as a reference guide on how to use the getOriginalServletRequest function to get the default queryString when using the OSGi framework. Developers familiar with Liferay Portal 6.2 EE and now using...
WeDeploy Auth Admin Portlet in Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Packs
When deploying Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 24, 25, 26 or 27, the WeDeploy Auth Admin portlet will appear in the Control Panel. WeDeploy is currently a beta product. The addition of this portlet will have no impact or...
LiferayPortletURLs Generated For a .War File Do Not Have Authentication Token
This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Subscribers often develop custom portlets...
JSONWS Guest Access
The Liferay platform's JSONWS page is available to unauthenticated users at your Liferay_URL/api/jsonws. However, this does not mean that guest users have access to execute JSON web services. Even if the web...
Getting Started With Developer Studio
With the purchase of a subscription to Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP), customers have access to Liferay Developer Studio, which  is a set of Eclipse plugins designed to ease...
Changes in MVCActionCommands and portletIds
This article documents changes to the MVCActionCommand type of commands after Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 11 is deployed. This change most affects developers building portlets in Liferay IDE tools (e.g. Liferay Developer...
Overriding Core Classes with Ext Plugins
A supported use case for using Ext plugins in Liferay DXP is overriding Liferay Digital Enterprise's core classes (e.g., portal-impl, portal-kernel, etc.). You can reference the...
Extending Core Classes Using Spring with Ext Plugins
This article documents a supported use case for using Ext plugins in Liferay DXP, which enables you to extend Liferay Digital Enterprise's core classes...
Adding to the web.xml With Ext Plugins
A supported use case for using Ext Plugins in Liferay DXP is adding additional functionality to Liferay Digital Enterprise's web.xml file. Before beginning, make sure you've reviewed...
Building a DXP 7.0 Dashboard Example Using ELK
Liferay DXP 7.0 has close ties to Elasticsearch for search-related features.  As it happens, Elasticsearch is one part of the ELK stack.  So it is natural to ask, "What is possible if I use the whole ELK stack?"...
Using Liferay Developer Studio Without an Internet Connection
This article documents a temporary workaround for developers using Liferay Developer Studio 3.9.7 in a closed environment. At this time Liferay Developer Studio requires users to download dependencies from the Internet....
Liferay Developer Studioのセットアップ方法
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Translated Object Field Values Not Displaying in Page SEO Meta Tags
Issue When using an Object with translatable fields for a page's SEO settings (e.g., HTML Title and Description), the translated values do not appear in the page's meta tags. For example, when viewing the page in...
How to Attach a File from a Form Submission to the Notification Email
Issue When a user uploads a file through a Liferay Legacy Form, the notification email is sent, but the uploaded file is not included as an attachment. Is there a way to include a file uploaded through a...
Email Notification fails to deliver when recipient type is set to the Owner role
Issue A trigger on a custom object is configured to send an email, but it fails to deliver it when the recipient type is set to Owner. Environment Liferay DXP 2025.Q1 Resolution This is an known issue on this...
Liferay AI capabilities
Issue We would like to gain more information about Liferay's AI capabilities. Environment Liferay DXP Quarterly releases Resolution Liferay DXP integrates with external AI systems to enhance and accelerate your...
Datasets Are Not Displayed After Upgrading to DXP 2025.Q2
Issue After upgrading to DXP 2025.Q2, existing Datasets are not displayed on pages. The Dataset fragment may appear collapsed when editing the page but is not rendered for users. Newly created Datasets are displayed...
"fields" and "nestedFields" Parameter Not Applied to Account System Objects
Issue Using the GET Rest API for account-restricted objects does not seem to follow the `fields` and `nestedFields` parameters for the linked account. For example, when querying a custom object and attempting to...
Headless Batch Import: Attachment Field with URL Creates Duplicate Empty File
Issue When using the Headless Batch Engine to import Object Entries with an attachment field using a file URL, following the documentation here, we see that it creates duplicate empty files. Environment Liferay DXP...
How to Add a Custom Element as a Control Panel or Site Administration Widget
Issue Is it possible to add a Custom Element, created via a Client Extension, as a widget in the Control Panel or Site Administration menu? Environment Liferay DXP 2025.Q1 Resolution Yes, it is possible to add custom...
Unable to Trigger Object Action Notifications for Site Role Users
Issue When an Object action is configured to send a notification to a site role, the notification fails to send to the users with that role. The following NoSuchRoleException is thrown in the logs: 2025-05-30...
Company-scoped objects' workflow tasks do not get assigned to users with only site-scoped roles
Issue Given: A company-scoped custom object A workflow assigned to the above-mentioned object (at Global Menu > Applications tab > Workflow section > Process Builder > Assignments tab) And a workflow task...
How to expose large object entries to guest users without manually assigning the permissions
Issue How to expose object entries to guest users without manually assigning permissions to each entry. Assigning permission will work here but if the number of entries in the object is large, it will not be...
Object entry reviewer to have access only to currently reviewed object, not to all entries
Issue Issue description: I have enabled a review workflow for an object and noticed that if I want the reviewer to be able to edit the submitted object entry during the review task, I need to add the "Access in Control...
Unable to Create Module for Liferay DXP 2025.Q1.0+ using Liferay Developer Studio 3.10.2
Issue Unable to create module for Liferay Product version 2025.Q1.0 or later using Liferay Developer Studio 3.10.2. Building the JAR file after copying the modules from a lower environment and pasting into...
Objects API PUT Calls Partially Update Resources Instead of Replacing Them
Issue When using the Objects headless API, PUT commands for Objects are only overwriting fields included in the API call, rather than replacing the elements entirely. PUT calls should update every object...
Object moves folders when creating second object
Issue When creating two objects through Model Builder, creating a second object causes the first object to be moved to a different folder. Environment Quarterly Release Resolution This issue was fixed in 2025.Q1.12 with...
Libraries/tools used to minify DXP code in build time
Issue What are the libraries/tools used to minify DXP code in build time (we are studying the possibility of using the same toolbox for our own developments). Environment Liferay DXP Resolution Liferay DXP uses...
Unable to migrate content from Dynamic Data Lists to Objects using the Data Migration Center
Issue Unable to migrate content and data from Dynamic Data Lists through the Data Migration Center due to issues found during the process. Environment DXP 2023.Q4+ Portal GA102+ Resolution The...
"Missing 'Date Modified' and 'Date Created' Fields in Object Display Page Template Mapping
Issue We have a Display Page Template defined for an Object (Documents - Simple Document). In the edit mode, in the list of available variables of the mapping fields, the Date Modified and Date Created fields are...
Multiple unsatisfied references when installing a hotfix in 2024.Q4.5 or 2024.Q4.6
Issue After installing a hotfix in 2024.Q4.5/6, multiple unsatisfied references appear. It may appear in the start up logs or when running ds:unsatfisfied from the Gogo Shel: 2025-04-21 14:50:53.948 WARN...
Cannot start local server from Liferay Developer Studio versions 3.10.1 and 3.10.2
Issue With Liferay Developer Studio Version: 3.10.1 and 3.10.2, I imported a 7.4 workspace downloaded from git, and initialized the bundle. I then imported the project and the server, but when I try to start the...
Issue with Missing Aggregation Fields in Account Headless API Response
Issue When I use the OOTB Account object by adding a relation to a custom object that includes aggregation fields and a custom picklist field, the aggregation fields are returning as an empty string ““ from the API...
Tomcat download error encountered when leveraging Liferay Developer Studio / IDE
Issue When leveraging Liferay Developer Studio / IDE to build Liferay 2025.Q1.3, my build fails with indications that Tomcat is not able to download Example error: Execution failed for task...
Site-initializer using PATCH instead of PUT for object definition with API
Issue I am having issues updating our object definitions via site initializer synchronization. The issue was first observed with new fields not getting added to objects. When I do a manual object definition export/add...
Upgrade to 2024.Q4.5/6 fails with "Unable to upgrade com.liferay.object.service to 10.2.0 from 10.0.0"
Issue I am trying to upgrade to 2024.Q4.5 or 2024.Q4.6. The upgrade fails with the following error: 2025-02-03 15:56:10.160 ERROR [main][UpgradeExecutor:333] Failed upgrade process for module...
Filtering objects by their NestedFields.
Issue Having a relationship between two objects A and B. It is possible to make queries to the /o/c/as api filtering by a field of object B as nestedField. curl -X 'GET' \...
Identifying the license information for components used in Liferay DXP
Issue I need to know the license information for components used in Liferay DXP. My security scan tool is flagging Liferay components with license not found errors. Environment Liferay DXP Resolution Liferay can provide...
SOAP service list API is exposed to non-authorized guest users
Issue SOAP service list API found at http://[host]:[port]/api/axis is exposed to external guest users even with it configured to display locally only. The following property is set in portal-ext.properties:...
Headless API returns 20 entries on certain GET methods
Issue Headless API only displays 20 entries on certain GET methods Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The resulting 20 records is because of the default pageSize value. If you would like to adjust the number of records...
Unable to define the searchable option with new objects fields
Issue Unable to configure the searchable options of new fields added to an object after it has been published. Steps to reproduce: Create an object: 'Pets' Add a new field: 'petName' (Text, indexed as text) Publish...
Unable to Publish Object Definition Relationships after Importing
Issue The user is not able to publish Object Definition relationships after importing them Steps to reproduce: 1) Navigate to the Applications Menu -> Control Panel -> Objects 2) Import one Object Definition with a...
Not possible to add Custom Entry on page
Issue Mapping with Custom Objects is not working on Pages Steps to Reproduce: 1) Menu > Control Panel > Objects 2) Create a Custom Object 3) Navigate to Custom Object and click on the Fields tab 4) Add a Custom...
Gradle build without internet connection
Issue How to build the Gradle workspace without an internet connection? Steps to run the gradlew command using offline mode Environment Liferay DXP Resolution We have improved the offline support in the most recent...
How to generate multiple Java Thread Dumps in Linux and Windows
Issue In case of a throughput issue, the Liferay support service usually asks to take some java thread dumps from the Liferay server, in an interval of 1-2 seconds. Taking several thread dumps, allows you to detect if a...
How can I include my JSP in a Liferay Blade Servlet?
Issue I'd like to include a JSP in the doGet method of my Servlet plugin. The following gives NullPointerException:  this.getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("index.jsp").include(httpServletRequest,...
Localizing Object Definitions and Entries
Localizing Object Definitions and Entries Liferay DXP 2023.Q3+/Portal GA92+ Liferay objects are integrated with the localization framework, so you can add translations for definition labels, and...
Extending Liferay
Extending Liferay Liferay DXP/Portal is highly customizable. Its modular architecture contains components you can extend and override dynamically using APIs.