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Managing Expired and Future Scheduled Web Content

This article documents how the Web Content Display portlet is designed to display different versions of the same Web Content article. In particular, this article discusses the intended...

LSV-391: Security Advisory for Vulnerability With Pingback in Blogs

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This advisory comes in response to the recent public announcement of a potential Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.0.4. The report talks about a perceived vulnerability for the...

Group mapping required for LDAP export

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This article addresses one issue for Active Directory users attempting to log in to the Liferay platform. Liferay is configured for use with an LDAP server (without mapping the "Group"...

Making Liferay CAPTCHA Easier to Read in Liferay Portal 6.1

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This article is intended for legacy versions of Liferay Portal CAPTCHA is an industry standard security measure that requires users to enter what they see a small window as part of the validation process when creating an...

ThreadLocal Leaking Caused by Usages of Netty in Elasticsearch

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This article documents a possible known issue where there is ThreadLocal leak shown in the console logs when shutting down the application server:...

Hiding Portlets From Guests Who Do Not Have Permission to View It

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When view permissions for guests are unchecked for a portlet, a guest will see the following message in the portlet: You do not have the roles required to access this portlet. While...

Known Issue: Error With URLs Leading With Period (.) in Tomcat 8.5

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Customers using Tomcat 8.5 and configuring the Liferay platform with URLs that have a leading period (.) may encounter the following error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: An invalid domain [.example.com] was specified...

Using Application Display Templates on DXP 7.1

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Application Display Templates Table of Contents Introduction to Application Display Templates (ADT) Working with an ADT: Media Gallery Using the API: Creating an ADT for Wiki Exporting / Importing ADTs Known Issues and...

DXP Features Summary

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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...

Quick Start Guide to SAML on Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA2

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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. SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is...

Setting Up NTLM With Liferay

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NTLM (NT Lan Manager) is a suite of Microsoft security protocols that provides authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to users. When Liferay Portal is successfully integrated with NTLM, Active Directory users...

Setting Up Liferay Portal with Active Directory Server

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The details of this article may also be covered in Configuring Liferay's LDAP Settings to Import Users. This article provides a comprehensive walkthrough for integrating an Active Directory Server with Liferay...

Using Liferay Connector to OAuth 2.0 in Liferay DXP 7.1

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What is OAuth? It is a utility that authorizes third party applications to interact with the Liferay platform. The OAuth example from our official documentation is worth repeating here; users can make Twitter or...

Publishing Individual Pages in a Staging Environment May Publish All Pages

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When publishing individual pages from a Staging environment to a Live environment, it is possible that upon publication, all pages in the Live environment may reflect changes. If this...

Notifications for Updated Versions of Plugins

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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. When there...

Overriding Liferay's Default CSS for Individual Portlets

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In custom environments, it may be necessary to apply custom styles to specific portlets. The example below gives guidance on how to override the Liferay Theme CSS in order to customize...

Patching Liferay Portal When There Are Custom Apps Installed

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Liferay Portal fix packs and hotfixes will often update, not only JSPs, but also classes. In order to ensure that your custom projects continue to use the most up-to-date code, please...

Using Liferay Connector to OAuth EE

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What is OAuth? It is a utility that authorizes third party applications to interact with the Liferay platform. The example from our official documentation is worth repeating here; users can make Twitter or Facebook...

Using the Data Migration Tool in Liferay Portal

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This article describes the two uses of the data migration tool in the system administration section of Liferay Portal. The Data Migration Tool is fully supported for Liferay Portal 6.2...

Updating Plugins After Applying a Patch

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This article documents several possible solutions for updating plugins after a new fix pack has been installed. Specifically, customers have found that a plugin's libraries are not patched at the same time as the...

Changes in MVCActionCommands and portletIds

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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...

Document Library Permissions Are Not Inherited Between Parent and Child Folders/Files

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This article describes the behavior in which permissions do not propagate from the parent folders to the files or children folders uploaded in the Document Library. Also, this article...

LDAP Import Rejects Users From Certain Domains

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This article explains why users from specific domains are not imported through LDAP due to the email address validator in the Liferay platform, and provides a solution to resolve this if a specific domain is required...

Can I Create a Remote Live Database from a Copy of the Staging Database?

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This article documents Liferay's position on duplicating a database to create a staging environment. The Use Case In order to enable Remote Live Staging, system administrators must have two databases: a staged...

Hiding Sensitive Server Details on the License Page

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This article documents how to hide sensitive server details, such as the IP Addresses or MAC Addresses, when an administrator deploys an invalid activation key. This poses a security risk because the information is in...

ORA-00600 error when accessing to Roles Administration

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Issue When accessing to Roles Administration, the following error message appears: ERROR [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-41][PortletServlet:109] Unable to process portlet...

Configuring CXF Endpoints and Soap Extenders programmatically from 2024.q1

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Issue It is created a customization SOAP extension module following the next documentation to create new endpoint. The component has inside in folder resources → configuration next files:...

How to run Liferay Tomcat as a Windows Service?

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Issue We are currently running the tomcat from the command line, but I would like to know how to run it as a Windows service. Environment DXP 7.3+ Resolution Create a clean Tomcat Apache service to make sure it...

How to configure asynchronous logging in Liferay

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Issue How can I configure Log4j to use asynchronous logging in Liferay? Environment DXP 7.2 DXP 7.3 DXP 7.4 Quarterly Releases Resolution DXP 7.2 and DXP 7.3 NOTE: The following resolution requires customization...

How to resolve the "Require strangers to verify their email address?" Instance Setting not saving

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Issue After initially setting up a clean Liferay bundle (using my own administrator email domain), I am unable to save the "Require strangers to verify their email address?" Instance Setting, as it fails to save with...

Can Liferay run using a JRE instead of a JDK?

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Issue I am using a Java JRE and encountering errors such as: A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment Environment Liferay DXP Liferay Portal Resolution Liferay DXP/Portal requires a TCK-certified...

CPU activity is high with large number of open sessions

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Issue High CPU activity can have multiple causes. Reviewing heap dumps may show a large number of objects org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession. Environment Quarterly Release 2023.Q3, 2023.Q4, 2024.Q1...

"Column count doesn't match value count at row 2" error occurs while upgrading to 2024.q1.1 using MariaDB as database

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Issue Upgrading Liferay DXP 7.3 to Quarterly 2024.q1.1 shows the error "Column count doesn't match value count at row 2" in the log. Environment 2024.q1 MariaDB 10.4 Resolution A possible cause is that the...

Compatibility of Liferay with Spring 6.1

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Issue When is Liferay going to be compatible with Spring 6.1? Environment Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0 Resolution Spring 6.1.x also requires Jakarta EE 9+ API, which is not currently supported by DXP. The initial...

"No primary key column found for AssetEntry" errors when upgrading from 7.2 to 7.4

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Issue After running the upgrade process from 7.2 to 7.4, the following error message is observed in the upgrade logs: 2023-03-31 21:42:50.514 ERROR [main][DBUpgrader:79] null...

Calling OSGI Service in fragments

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Issue Is there an option/API available to call OSGI Services directly in fragments like it's possible using serviceUtil and staticUtil? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Yes, you can obtain this by...

License Key CPU count on containers

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Issue The container views the total cores of the Host and gives an error that the CPU count has been surpassed when deploying Liferay on a containerized solution, having licensing for a specific amount of...

Template to be part of VCS

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Issue We are using Github as VCS for our modules and themes code. Structure and Template changes are done manually on the server and they are moved to next server either by export-import or we have to again make the...

Disabling jQuery breaks Control Panel and Login Portlet

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Issue After disabling jQuery in DXP 7.2, it is no longer possible to close the control panel, expand the "Users" and other sections, and the login portlet breaks as well, resulting in reduced portal...

Application Servers supported for DXP 7.4

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Issue The documentation page https://learn.liferay.com/en/w/dxp/installation-and-upgrades/maintaining-a-liferay-installation/updating-liferay uses Tomcat as the exemplified Application Server....

Cannot access source code on configuration mails with ckEditor

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Issue When try to put a source code on the configuration email, after save, the CKeditor shown an empty code. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 U72 until the U75. Resolution Upgrade to Liferay DXP 7.4 Update 76 or...

Styles Panel styles does not apply to OOTB widgets when Publishing the page

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Issue When making changes to the Styles Panel (such as changing the background color of a Widget on a content page), the changes are not applied after publishing the page (In the view-source, CSS classes and styles are...

Unable to use /expandovalue/get-data method

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Issue When using the JSON Web Service API, to get the values for multiple column names, we find that filling the columnNames field on get-data Method does not yield any of the expected data. Any values input into the...

SchedulerEngineHelper changes

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Issue The register() and unregister() methods have been removed from SchedulerEngineHelper therefore you might encounter some issues in your code after you upgrade to a recent version Environment Liferay DXP 7.4...

FrameworkEvent ERROR when deploying Liferay to WebSphere

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Issue After an upgrade from 7.4 U69 to U73, the following errors are seen when deploying Liferay to WebSphere: ERROR [Framework Event Dispatcher: Equinox Container:...

Can't enable Xuggler in DXP

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Issue The "enabled" checkbox for Xuggler does not appear after properly following the official documentation containing the steps to enable it. Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution Please note that every time...

Unable to install any patch or hotfix on DXP

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Issue Even after trying with a vanilla instance and restarting the server, the user was unable to install a patch or hotfix. Environment Liferay DXP [all versions ] Resolution The above issue also might happen when...

Model Listener cannot record an occurrence for user assignment in a password policy

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Issue Unable to record audit records using the add association method in either the user listener or the password policy model listener when a user gets assigned to a password policy. Environment DXP 7.4...

PostgreSQL timezone

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Issue The time zone of PostgreSQL is set as UTC. ・Is there any recommended setting for Liferay? ・Is there any issue for Liferay if TimeZone is set to UTC? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP...

Overriding Gradle default settings and downloading files from a local repository using IntelliJ

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Issue Downloading files from the default Liferay repository is not possible due to firewall settings while using IntelliJ. How to change the default Gradle settings for the repositories and use a local one...

API versioning in Liferay Headless

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Issue Does Liferay Headless framework support API versioning? Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution Liferay Headless framework does support API versioning. With the combination of this GitHub...

React widgets take more than 10 seconds to load on page

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Issue React widgets that have files caching in the browser take 10+ seconds to load. Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution Using Webpack instead of NPM Bundler may help with this performance issue. Having only...

com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.NoSuchCompanyException: No Company exists with the key {webId=liferay.com}

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Issue When starting a new cluster installation of Liferay 7.3, this error appears, and then I cannot access to Liferay's Control Panel and other functionalities. ERROR [main][PortalInstances:261]...

Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.journal.service

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Issue During your upgrade process, you might encounter an error during the com.liferay.journal.internal.upgrade.v1_1_0.DocumentLibraryTypeContentUpgradeProcess step: Caused by:...

Does Liferay support session affinity with Azure?

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Issue Is Azure Zone Redundant app service compatible with Liferay DXP? It appears that when you select an App Service to be Zone Redundant, Azure manages the cluster for you. That is, you don’t get access...

How to add Sample Data to Liferay DXP?

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Issue While this might be a simple thing to do, the way to do this may be unknown to most Liferay users. Environment Liferay DXP Resolution Whenever you're first setting up your Liferay DXP server, you'll...

Web Content Display portlet loses the selected Web Content when upgrading to Fix Pack 20

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Issue After upgrading Liferay DXP 7.2 from Fix Pack 8 to Fix Pack 20, the Web Content Display portlets lost references to selected Web Content. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution The issue is happening because...

Is Liferay Portal 6.2 compatible with CentOS 8.6?

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Issue Is Liferay Portal 6.2 compatible with CentOS 8.6? Environment Portal 6.2 Resolution CentOS 8.6 version is not tested and certified with Liferay 6.2. The supported configurations are only those...

Liferay.Util.fetch does not handle impersonate

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Issue After pasting the HTML component to a page and then editing it and placing a HTML code to fetch the list of Accounts that were created, it is noticeable that Liferay.util.fetch method does not work...

How to generate a sustainable Maven project?

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Issue When creating a workspace using Maven, it is given a limited number of versions, so how to solve this in order to create a sustainable Maven project? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution The properties in...

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