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.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Can not associate an User Segment to a Content set
Issue In Site management > Content & Data > Collections > Add a new manual selection > Add a new personalized variation, it is not possible to select a User segment from the list after changing the number of...
Can not install a hotfix due to folder permission errors
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue Can not install a hotfix due to folder permission...
How to enable simultaneous login from multiple sessions
Issue How to enable users to simultaneously login to Liferay DXP using multiple different sessions Environment Liferay DXP Resolution Add the following lines to your portal-ext.properties file (you must...
JSP fragments modules do not get Resolved after being deployed
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue JSP fragment modules don't get Resolved after being...
Can not connect to an external service using port 25
Issue It is not possible to establish a connection to an external service from Liferay Cloud using the port 25, commonly used for email sending/receiving purposes. Environment Liferay Cloud Resolution Port 25...
Connect to LDAP via VPN for Liferay Cloud
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Liferay DXP supports LDAP connectivity, and Liferay Cloud provides VPN...
Liferay DXP cannot be started correctly due to "Unable to initialize Elasticsearch cluster" errors
Issue The server can not be started correctly with ES errors like the following: 2020-06-05 06:45:41.596 ERROR [Framework Event Dispatcher: Equinox Container: 2a6f419e-c609-4e73-a180-4e901fcc9b18][Framework:93]...
How to resolve Document Library PDF previews taking up more disk space than the original files
Issue While examining our document library in a file system, we saw that the storage being used for preview files are taking up three times the amount of disk space as the storage for the original files uploaded to...
How to identify the version of Clay under DXP?
Issue As a developer, I would like to identify the exact version of Clay on the specific DXP version (and patch level) which is currently running. Environment DXP 7.1 Resolution Please go to Control Panel -> System...
Deploy a DXP customization with CI on Liferay PaaS
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). This article has been replaced by Deploying Changes via the CLI Tool...
Troubleshooting Tools for Liferay PaaS
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). This article has been replaced by Troubleshooting Tools and...
Backing Up Data on Liferay PaaS
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). This article has been replaced by Backup Service Overview...
Form embedded in web content template is disabled, not working
Issue 1. Create a new Form: Add 3 text fields: Firstname, Lastname, Email. 1 'Select From List' field for Nationality (e.g Indian, Saudi Citizen), and an Upload field named Upload CV. 2. Create a Web Content Structure...
"Invalid attempt to spread non-iterable instance" error when saving Instance Settings
Issue When working on a Liferay instance fronted by a web server, customers may experience the inability to save any changes in the Control Panel > Instance Settings sections. The attempt to save will fail with...
Folder option is not working for the link in selected text style toolbar on the page fragments
Issue In the content page, while trying to add the link for the text in the paragraph component by editing it, the folder option is not working in the toolbar. Steps to reproduce the behavior: In [vanilla bundle DXP...
Admin is unable to Impersonate User with NoSuchGroupException
Issue The Admin is unable to impersonate certain user with the following error: NoSuchGroupException: No Group exists with the key {companyId=20155, classNameId=20005, classPK=20555} Environment Liferay Portal 6.2...
Where to find the add friend option in the summary portlet?
Issue All portlets of social networking are displayed under the social tab. But with a summary portlet, the add as a friend button option is not displayed or not available. Steps to replicate the reported behavior:...
Pagination drop down count in Asset Publisher Portlet
Issue The number of pages that are shown in the pagination drop down menu for the Asset Publisher portlet is not the total number of pages that exist on that site. For example, if there are 30 pages total, it only...
Cannot save identical content in localization of a field
Issue Users cannot save identical content in the localization of a field. Steps are as follows: Create an article using the basic web content structure Write "Test" in the content field and publish  Add a translation...
Cannot generate any build from a Github commit after upgrading Jenkins image to 3.2.0 or higher
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 not possible to generate any build from a...
Unable to add multiple questions in one Poll
Issue Is it possible to add multiple questions in one Poll? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution To add multiple questions in one Poll is not currently supported in Liferay DXP 7.2. It can be achieved by adding two...
Important pointers and configurations for the scheduled web content
Issue The web content is not published based on the scheduled date and time.  Concern about the behavior to check how it works Steps to reproduce: Started the DXP 7.0 vanilla bundle Create new web content by...
License files containing '-ext' will result in error
Issue When deploying a license XML file which contains the string '-ext', an error will appear showing the following: 12:28:30,346 INFO [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][BaseDeployer:863] Deploying...
Can I use JDK 11 for compiling Liferay DXP Projects?
Issue The Compatibility Matrix for versions 7.0 until 7.3 under the heading JDK mentions Java 11 but says: "JDK Certification is for runtime only. JDK 8 is required to build or compile Liferay DXP Projects" For 7.4...
How do I change the default permissions assigned automatically to guests and site members when creating a new document folder?
Issue By default, when from the control panel someone creates a folder inside the document library the default permission is that everyone can see the folder (Guest User) and also that site member has other permissions to...
Why my custom theme is longer applied to web contents when editing or previewing them on Liferay DXP?
Issue On Portal 6.2, my custom theme was applied to web contents, even when editing or previewing them: why is this no longer working on Liferay DXP 7.0+? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution On Liferay DXP,...
Resolve the error "Load timeout for modules..."
Issue I wanted to publish the comment to reply to a thread inside the category of the message board but it failed when my internet connection was slow. I also observed an error "Load timeout for modules..." in the...
Form data is not captured when using Liferay Form embedded in the external Website
Issue After embedding Liferay form in the external website (for example, a plain HTML website), the form data is not captured after submitted successfully. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution One possible reason for...
When saving configurations, only the information in the current page/tab will be saved
Issue When editing configurations on a different page/tab, only the information in that current page/tab will be saved. For example: Access to edit a User and add some middle name. Move to another tab, such as...
Startup failure due to com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.NoSuchRoleException: No Role exists with the key {companyId=0, name=Owner}
Issue A scenario has been reported where the startup process will fail, and an error message indicating "No Role exists with the key {companyId=0, name=Owner}" or similar as in the following stack trace will be thrown:...
Reset the admin user password
Issue How to reset the admin password? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Using " Forgot Password" in the "Sign in" portlet Note: Please make sure...
I cannot import a LAR file through the widget's Export/Import menu
Issue I have a LAR file that was exported from the portal instance (for example: Wiki_Admin-202004081110.portlet.lar) I navigate to the page where the Wiki widget is located and select the Export/Import option in the...
Could not resolve module - Unresolved requirement error
Issue Getting below error while deploying the ext module in the Liferay instance  org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Could not resolve module: com.liferay.journal.service [1099]_ Unresolved requirement:...
Custom Facet does not work with custom field (expando) created as 'searchable as keyword'
Issue Create a custom field for Web Content Articles name: mycustomfield type: text area set it 'searchable as keyword' Create a web content article and populate mycustomfield with any string (abc) call...
Moving an asset category lead to bigint out of range error
Issue We have tens of thousands of categories, and we perform frequent changes in the structure, moving categories in the category tree. I experience bigint out of range error when trying to move a category....
After Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 83, double click on table's edges no longer opens a dialog with the table's properties in AlloyEditor
Issue On Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 83+, double click on table's edges no longer opens a dialog with the table's properties in AlloyEditor Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 83+ Resolution In order to...
CSS calc() incorrect minification when css.fast.load=true
Issue When using the calc() function in a css file, e.g.:  calc(var(--elem-height) + 1px) the minifier inserts incorrect spaces after deployment, so the file cannot be interpreted: height: calc(var( - - elem -...
Commerce 2.1.x Breaking Changes
Commerce 2.1.3 & 2.2.0: When upgrading from 2.0.7, users must first upgrade to 2.1.0 and then to the latest version of Commerce. Commerce 2.1.2 COMMERCE-2309 & COMMERCE-4212: Discount Retrieval for Pricing Algorithm ...
Errors when submitting DXP to Google Search Console
Issue After doing a URL Inspection - "Live Test" in the Google Search Console for the homepage of a Liferay DXP site, visual errors will appear in the "Screenshot" preview tab and "Page Resources" as well as...
Password Policies is inaccessible after upgrading from 6.2 to DXP 7.2
Issue After upgrading from 6.2 to 7.2, navigating to Control Panel > Users > Password Policies shows a UI error "Password Policies is temporarily unavailable", and an error is thrown in the logs: ERROR...