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Liferay DXP is a robust platform with its own navigation menus, configuration methods, and core features. These core features are foundational to effective system administration, maintenance, notifications, and other core platform functions.

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New Virtual Instance cannot be created if "passwords.default.policy.check.syntax=" is set to true
Issue If I set passwords.default.policy.check.syntax=true in my portal-ext.properties file, I cannot create a New Virtual Instance I get an error in the logs: ERROR...
Only deleting pages from Staging to Remote Live
Issue I want to be able to delete pages on my Remote Live site without publishing any other changes or content from Staging to Remote Live. Environment Liferay DXP Resolution After deleting the respective pages from the...
Disabling embedded Elasticsearch in DXP 7.3
Issue How to disable the Embedded Elastic Search? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Please refer to the steps below: Create a configuration file...
Unable to preview images when selecting images in Web Content image field
Issue Unable to preview images when selecting images in Web Content image field. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution There is a possibility the issue is caused by the missing configuration on the Adaptive Media page....
Unable to initialize Elasticsearch cluster, health status is in RED
Issue When the search cluster is in RED, this results in the Liferay service (DXP) not starting or starting without search capability. A RED status usually means that the search cluster has an inconsistent status...
Users without Admin role cannot initiate SSO on the SP when using expando fields
Issue When using expando field as "Name Identifier Attribute Name=expando:concurid", user without Administrator role can not initiate SSO. Steps to reproduce: On IdP end Add a custom field 'field1' for user.  Go to SAML...
Unable to download files bigger than 1GB: "upstream prematurely closed connection while reading upstream"
Issue You can not download big files from the Liferay DXP, in general you can have problems with files bigger than 1 GB, as commonly are some LAR files. There is an error in the webserver service's log file similar...
Values of hidden form fields are not saved/submitted anymore
Issue After installing dxp-18 (DXP 7.1) or dxp-2 (DXP 7.2), values we have in form fields hidden through rules show empty after submitting the form, when viewing the form entries. Environment DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 Resolution...
Number of unknown visitors is lower for past months than it was before in Analytics Cloud
Issue When accessing data from past months, we noticed that the number of unknown visitors is smaller that what it previously was, and keeps getting smaller when I consult the same past month over and...
Your browser doesn‘t support pasting with the toolbar button or context menu option
Issue When trying to paste content from the clipboard into the CKEditor through the "Paste as plain text" button on Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, you'll receive the message: Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+...
How to identify the fixes included in a hotfix
Issue I want to be able to know what fixes are included in my hotfix. Environment Liferay Portal Liferay DXP Resolution The hotfix ZIP archive contains a file called fixpack_documentation.xml. All the fixes included in...
Control Panel Menu is displaying for all users
Issue All authenticated users are seeing the Control Panel displayed on the left-hand side of the screen Environment Liferay DXP Resolution Display of the control panel is controlled by the permission...
Cannot read property 'help' of undefined error when trying to upgrade a theme to Liferay DXP 7.2
Issue While following this tutorial: https://help.liferay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029005512-Upgrading-Your-Theme-from-Liferay-Portal-7-0-to-7-2, users may encounter the below error: $ gulp upgrade...
Workflow is not getting triggered on a custom entity
Issue The below errors are observed on the Liferay console whenever trying to apply a 'Single Approval Workflow' on a 'Custom Entity' ERROR...
Custom widget template for breadcrumbs doesn't get applied in control panel and breadcrumbs aren't shown
Issue When a widget template is configured via system settings in system scope it doesn't show any breadcrumb. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2. Resolution Those configurations are made inside System Settings ->...
Solr Error when searching for Users or Organizations
Issue When I perform a search for Users or Organizations, I see a blank screen and an error like the following in the logs: 2021-01-29 00:15:48.429 WARN  [http-nio-8080-exec-5][ProxyMessageListener:86]...
Service keeps on restarting
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 service running on Liferay SaaS keeps on...
How to change the HTTP port for Sidecar Elasticsearch 7
Issue Need to run two or more instances of Liferay with Elasticsearch Sidecar locally. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The default HTTP port in Sidecar mode is 9201   If two or more 7.3 or...
Additional JavaMail properties not being considered in mail server configuration
Issue JavaMail properties defined in the field Manually specify additional JavaMail properties to override the above configuration are not being considered. Environment Liferay 7.0+ Resolution Each property should...
Why does my instance have a default@liferay.com user?
Issue I see a default@liferay.com user in my database. What is the purpose of this default user? If you have a virtual instance is configured, you may see another default user with the configured mail domain (i.e....