Capability

Personalization

Liferay provides powerful out-of-the-box features for building and delivering personalized experiences to users. Personalization features empower you to deliver novel site experiences that differ based on defined user segments, design and execute A/B Tests, and more.

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Deployment Approach
How to acquire Liferay PaaS logs in a file on a local machine without requiring browser interaction
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue Our team would like to transfer Liferay PaaS logging into a...
SYSERR(root) rewrite excessive recursion (max 50) ruleset canonify exception when mail triggers
Issue When mailing triggers, exception [SYSERR(root): rewrite: excessive recursion (max 50), ruleset canonify] throws in the server, and mail is not received by recipients. Environment DXP 7.0 Resolution This kind of...
Will a Custom Portlet Require a Restart After Deployment in Liferay DXP?
Issue When creating a custom portlet, sometimes a restart will be required to complete installation, but other times it will not Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Any customization that modifies...
Liferay application is not reconnecting with database server
Issue Why Liferay application is not reconnecting with the database server? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution In case the database services have been restarted, Liferay would need a restart to re-establish the...
Client-side HTTP parameter pollution vulnerabilities
Issue  How to address the Client-side HTTP parameter pollution vulnerabilities Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Encode the URLs or user input to avoid the HTTP parameter pollution vulnerabilities. Additional...
Setting up Microsoft Server AD with Liferay
Issue This article provides you detailed steps to set up and configure Microsoft Server AD to Liferay. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution Changing Computer Name: Control Panel → System and Security → System...
'flatten' parameter does not work for Knowledge Base Articles headless delivery API
Issue When calling the KB Article headless-delivery API with the flatten parameter, the results are not flattened as expected. For example, if you have KB Articles and folders in this structure: root │ └─►Folder A │...
Certified vs Supported Environments
Issue Difference between "Certified" and "Supported" Environments Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Resolution The difference between certified and supported is related to amount of testing the technology by our...
'Unable to determine GroupId' warning when upgrading to DXP
Issue I'm encountering a warning like the following when upgrading from 6.2 to DXP 7.0 or higher: [main][UpgradeSubscription:108] Unable to determine the group ID for the class name...
How to enable web content and user logs in server console?
Issue In this article, we'll know how to display logs of web content and user creation in the server console. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution For Web Content logs: Navigate to Control Panel→ Server...
Integrating Outlook certificate for User Authentication
Issue How to integrate authentication certificate introduced by the outlook for user authentication?    Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution While configuring mail-in...
Does the /osgi/state folder need to be cleared before upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.3+?
Issue When we upgraded to Liferay DXP 7.3 there were errors. However after clearing the /osgi/state folder within the DXP 7.3 bundle a follow up upgrade completed without issue. Environment Environment's...
HTTP 400 Bad Request errors with some portal URLs
Issue Sometimes there are several HTTP 400 Bad Request errors with URLs from the portal. For example, when editing a user, a bad request is shown. In the Tomcat access log we could see the 400 request: - |...
Is it possible to add additional columns to the CSV Log Message Formatter system setting?
Issue While looking into configuring CSV Log Auditing for an environment, our team noticed that the CSV Log Message Formatter system setting (within System Settings > Audit) has +/- buttons to add/remove columns. Is...
Resolve the below error
Issue Observed the below error in the logs: Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: javax.resource.ResourceException: IJ000453: Unable to get managed connection for java:/jdbc/LiferayPool at...
'Invocation of 'addApplication' failed' after upgrading
Issue The migration was seemingly successful, but upon startup the following error is appearing in the logs: 2021-05-10 08:09:13.142 ERROR [Portal Dependency Manager Component...
Double serialization might cause performance issues with Weblogic
Issue You might encounter performance issues in case serialization is enabled on both Liferay's and Weblogic's side, for example the following logs might suggest this problem: <Error> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000337>...
Approaching database support
Issue Approaching database support issues in the Liferay. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution There are two ways to set up database connections in the portal-ext.properties file. If both JDBC properties and JNDI...
Fragments are not getting deployed
Issue Steps: 1) Setup a clean instance of 7.3 fixpack1 2) Log in to gogo shell and run "lb com.liferay.layout.taglib" 3) Observe the output, it says :  START LEVEL 20 ID|State |Level|Name 253|Active | 15|Liferay Layout...
How to hide node name from being displayed on every page
Issue The node name is being displayed at the bottom of the page in Control Panel, but I want to hide it. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution This behaviour is controlled by the web.server.display.node= property....
Is there any configuration that can be done in Liferay to encode all the URLs ?
Issue If there is a mechanism available in the Liferay portal to encode all the URLs? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Liferay DXP 7.2 out of the box includes the Antisamy Module that protects against...
Fragment bundle not getting deployed
Issue  The issue is occurring whenever fragments getting deployed and in case if the custom dependency API module is not deployed, all the 14 host-dependent bundles go in the loop of start-stop, the only resolution...
How to resolve a "failed to 'KillContainer' ... context deadline exceeded" error observed in a Liferay PaaS service's status logging during deployment
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue Whenever we deploy a build (even if the image versions are...
How to check Java's TZData (Timezone Data) version
Issue In countries where Daylight Savings Time (Summer Time) is defined each year the timezone data (TZData) can be outdated. This procedure can help you fetch the version of the TZData currently in use...
UpgradeDDMFormDocumentLibraryFields upgrade step fails due to high number of DDM entries
Issue You might encounter a behavior where a race condition occurs due to the high number of DDM entries in your environment: 2021-03-18 09:54:44,010 INFO [Portal Dependency Manager Component...
Stopping scheduled tasks in Liferay
Issue I would like to stop the out-of-the-box scheduled tasks in Liferay. Environment Liferay Portal Liferay DXP Resolution Most of the scheduled tasks included in Liferay can be found by searching for .check in the list...
How can I upgrade to jQuery version 3.5.0 on Liferay DXP?
Issue After a vulnerability test on my portal, it has been recommended that we upgrade to jQuery version 3.5.0, since the current version is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). We currently have jQuery...
Upgrade fails due to 'No Group exists with the primary key X' error
Issue While running the DB Upgrade Tool, I see a failed upgrade process for UpgradeDiscussionSubscriptionClassName with an error something like: INFO[main][UpgradeProcess:115] Failed upgrade process...
Is it possible to apply ping command in Liferay SaaS shell?
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue On Liferay SaaS v3 stack, ping command was actually available...
Error when deserializing a session
Issue You might get an error when trying to deserialize a session, which looks similar to this: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error deserializing Session [2522563CC05A5789E25189BD49FFB38C]...
How to set up a clean bundle in your local environment
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Known Issue: Fragment section background colors are no longer full width after upgrading to 7.3 GA1
Issue After upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3, we noticed that some of our page fragments (contained within layout sections on content pages) that had been configured to use a full-width background color had the width...
Known Issue [Resolved]: Using the Liferay PaaS CLI lcp deploy command removes the git origin configuration
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue After using the lcp deploy command in the CLI to deploy a...
Getting a JSON object through Liferay REST API no longer works on 7.2
Issue After migrating to Liferay DXP 7.2 from previous versions, customers may notice that REST API implemented on the portal according to the JAX-RS tutorial and targeted to get a JSON object will return: No...
The Widgets disappeared after applying Fix Pack 8
Issue After applying the Fix Pack 8, the portal no longer displays the Widgets. The portal log shows the following error: 2021-01-25 20:01:12.321 INFO [Portal Dependency Manager Component...
Documents and Media: Disable permission for users to add new folder
Issue A user assigned a 'Site Role' is able to create a new folder in Documents and Media How can I prevent a user creating new folders? Environment DXP 7.1    DXP 7.2    DXP 7.3    Resolution By default, Site...
Email Notification for Document & Media Subscribed Folder
Issue Liferay DXP where multiple users have subscribed to a folder in Document & Media, all the users subscribed to the folder are receiving mail except the user who is uploading the document. However, in Liferay 6.2...
A lot of services have unsatisfied references when running gogo shell ds:unsatisfied
Issue A lot of services have unsatisfied references in the output after running the gogo shell command ds:unsatisfied Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1 Resolution This issue is caused by the settings...
When attempting to use a Read/Write database split configuration, the Liferay startup logging warns that Hypersonic is in use
Issue When setting up an environment that uses a read/write database split, it appears that Liferay tries to use Hypersonic (HSQL) instead of the configured database, as the startup logs note: WARN ...
How to resolve Jenkins builds no longer completing after GitHub user contact adjustments
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue After a user left our company (who had previously created a...