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Bidirectional Synchronization with Google Calendar

Issue How to configure the Calendar widget to get Bidirectional Synchronization with Google Calendar? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Bidirectional Synchronization with Google Calendar is not supported in...

Unicast with JGroups (RMI)

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Difficulty Adding Assets That Use Alloy Editor on Windows Os in DXP 7.0

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This articles serves as a troubleshooting guide for users working in Liferay DXP 7.0. When it comes to adding assets using the alloy editor on Windows OS, you may encounter some difficulties. The browser may display a...

DXP Fails to Generate Captchas and Charts on RHEL 7.4

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When using RHEL 7.4, and viewing a captcha, or when navigating to Control Panel > Configuration > Server Administration, the following stack trace will appear in the application server logs. That is...

Tomcat JDBC Connection Exhaustion

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This article helps troubleshooting MySQL when executing the VerifyProcess. Small Max JDBC Connection Pool causes JDBC Connection Exhaustion if the VerifyProcess is executed...

Resolving 'UnsupportedOperationException' Caused by an Invalid Audit Max Queue Size Setting

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This article documents steps on how to increase the audit message max queue size that leads to an UnsupportedOperationException. By default, System Settings > Foundation > Audit > "Audit message max queue size" is set...

Known Issues with Core-5

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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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. This article outlines a small set of...

X-FRAME-Options Reference Guide

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This article is to help those who wish to change the X-Frame-Options in Liferay Digital Experience Platforms. Usually, this is required if you are trying embedding widgets in a portlet or an iFrame so that HTTP headers...

Starting Up a Liferay Bundle From an External Drive on a Mac

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Whether it's for demo-ing Liferay or for other purposes, you may at some point wish to run a Liferay bundle from an external hard drive. Most of the time, this is straightforward. When...

Staging Options When Using the Publication Form

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After you have enabled Staging (either Local Live or Remote Live) for a site, you will notice on the dockbar in your staging site that a new "Staging" drop-down menu appears that contains a green publish button. If you...

LDAP Frequently Asked Questions

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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. As many Liferay subscribers use...

Setting Up Liferay Portal 6.1.x EE With WebLogic 11g Managed Server Settings

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This article contains a basic guide for setting up Liferay 6.1.x in Weblogic 11gR1 with Managed Servers. Please note that this is not designed to be used in every specific environment; this is merely a simple guide...

Setting up Solr on Linux with JBoss

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This is an introductory guide to setting up Solr and then switching Liferay Portal's indexing method to Solr. Keep in mind that this is only one step in creating a cluster for use with...

Portal Search Results Do Not Include Knowledge Base Articles

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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...

Changing Permissions of all Web Content Display Portlets

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This article describes how to change permissions across multiple Web Content Display Portlets at the same time. Resolution If a template is created that contains multiple Web Content Display portlets, they are not...

List of Cookies That Are Affected at Liferay Login

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In compliance to the European Union Cookie Directive, please see the following articles in reference to cookies that Liferay has set upon at login. Resolution How HTTP Cookies are...

Utilizing Jasper Reports Plugin in Liferay

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The Jasper Reports Plugin is designed to work with the Reports Portlet in order to enhance the report capabilities of reporting programs such as iReport. This article will demonstrate...

Issues with Using IBM J9 JDK

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When running Liferay Portal's Patching Tool with IBM J9 as the Java version with multiple hotfixes, the patching-tool info command, and other patching tool commands may fail. Resolution The root cause of this issue is that...

Creating a Role That Allows Users to Impersonate Other Users

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Below are the steps on how to create a role that allows users to impersonate other users. Resolution Add a role Define Permissions Portal: General [Go to Control Panel, Impersonate]...

New UI Features in Liferay Portal 6.2

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This article outlines some of the big changes that have been made to the UI in Liferay Portal 6.2, and how to work with them. Liferay Portal 6.2 brings a set of improvements to the usability and user interface....

Setting Up Basic Facebook Authentication With Liferay Portal

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This article will provide a step-by-step guide to configuring the Facebook login feature in Liferay Portal. Resolution Create Facebook Developer Account To begin, you will need two facebook accounts; that is, a...

Inconsistent Check Interval Times Expires Web Content Articles Prematurely

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This article documents a known issue when configuring the Web Content check interval settings, and provides a workaround for the user. This known issue only affects Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.0. To configure...

Changing Settings in Live, Embedded Portlets

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This article outlines a practical suggestion for how to change or delete settings in live, embedded portlets. Resolution Liferay makes it possible to embed portlets in the layout template and in the theme. While...

How Password Policies are Applied in Liferay

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This article describes several cases in which a user can receive a password policy. Resolution Here are several use-cases outlining how password policies are applied in Liferay Portal. Case 1 When a user and all...

Liferay Information for Common Browsers

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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. The following article contains relevant...

Changing Content Permissions from Staging Environment to Remote Live

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This article outlines a practical suggestion in the case of publishing updated content permissions from a staging environment to a remote live environment. Following this suggestion will ensure that the updated...

Activation Key Files Must Be Deployed Before Deploying Plugins

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This article briefly describes a deployment error that can be easily avoided by simply ensuring that the portal's activation key is deployed before any plugins are deployed. If an...

Increasing the Speed of Search/Indexing Times

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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. This...

Granting users permission to customize site pages

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Permission to customize site pages can be granted to users via the "page customization" feature. Resolution To enable "Page Customization" on a desired page: In the control panel,...

Elasticsearch and Liferay Enterprise Search Security Advisory: CVE-2018-3831

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CVE-2018-3831 reports that, "Elasticsearch Alerting and Monitoring in versions before 6.4.1 or 5.6.12 have an information disclosure issue when secrets are configured via the API. The Elasticsearch _cluster/settings...

Excluding User Groups Not Part of the BaseDN In LDAP Import

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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. In older versions of Liferay Portal...

How to Enable Audio for CAPTCHA

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Issue How can users enable audio for CAPTCHA verification? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 and above Resolution Liferay does not provide out-of-the-box (OOTB) support for audio CAPTCHA functionality. However, users...

How to Grant Add User Permission to a New Role?

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Issue We set up a new role and want to enable it to add new users to the portal. When we navigate to Define permissions > Users and Organizations, there is no "Add User" permission. Even is granting all permissions...

I cannot schedule web content using a date in the past

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Issue I have an issue with the web content scheduling. I set the time zone of the user's OS to CET while the user and the server are set to UTC (by default). I create web content and schedule it to be less than 1 hour...

Unable to use /-/ for redirection rules.

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Issue When I use 2024.q3.13 I'm unable to use /-/ for redirection. I receive an error. Steps to reproduce: Start a clean bundle of Liferay DXP 7.4 QR 2024.Q3.13 Go to Configuration -> Redirection and add a new...

Page Audit is not displaying errors properly

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Issue I have an issue with Page Audit. The feature has stopped working. When initiating an audit on a page, the progress bar reaches 99% and then stops, resulting in a null pointer exception error being thrown in the...

Pages Appear in Search Results But Lead to 404 Errors

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Issue Some search results lead to 404 pages, even after reindexing. Pages exist but cannot be navigated to with the search bar. Search bar is unresponsive when clicking on certain results. Environment...

Is it possible to use Liferay-provided and custom certificates at the same time?

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Issue Can I use both a custom certificate and a Liferay-provided certificate? Environment Liferay SaaS Resolution Yes, it's possible to use both a custom certificate (e.g., for domain.es) and a Liferay-provided Let's...

Unable to edit or create Collections

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Issue We've discovered a behavior that occurs when trying to edit existing collections or creating new collections. The page fails to load. The main error that popualates references a missing classname:...

Proxy paths are not honored after upgrading to 2025.Q1.9

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Issue After upgrading to 2025.Q1.9 we've found that our page are largely inoperable. There are a large amount of console errors related to missing functions, missing MIME types, missing AUI, etc. Environment...

Define Configurable Variable to manage values across Liferay sites in Liferay pages

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Issue How variables to be used across the site, primarily for Fragments, to assign dynamic values that can be changed and propagated from a single place. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 U4+ Liferay DXP Quarterly...

Receiving ClassNotFoundException:JspTagHandlerPool in traces

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Issue When starting the server, receiving the ClassNotFoundException:JspTagHandlerPool in the gowroot traces: Steps to reproduce: 1. Start the server by giving this command: ./catalina.sh glowroot run. 2. Now...

How to change class name of copied Fragment from the default name + "copy"

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Issue When duplicating a fragment and adding it a new name, is it possible to change the create css class as well? The created class has the original's fragent's name + "copy" Example: myFragment, gets copied and...

Objects API PUT Calls Partially Update Resources Instead of Replacing Them

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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...

Getting out of memory error and receiving DelayedCachedOutputStreamCleaner

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Issue Receiving of out-of-memory error and the below thread in the thread dumps: DelayedCachedOutputStreamCleaner" #3359 java.lang.Thread.State: TIMED_WAITING at java.lang.Object.wait0(Native Method) - waiting on...

Advanced Tab in the Monitoring section on the Cloud Console is not showing up

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Issue The Advanced Tab does not appear in the Monitoring section on the Cloud Console Environment Liferay Cloud - PaaS Resolution...

Object moves folders when creating second object

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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...

Unable to cast String to Long error during upgrade

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Issue When upgrading from Liferay DXP 7.2 to 2025.Q1, setting the fileMaxSize property in the com.liferay.document.library.configuration.DLConfiguration.config file causes an "Unable to cast String to Long"...

Erratic behavior when using pagination in Documents and Media

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Issue When listing documents in Documents and Media section, some files are missing or duplicated when using pagination. The same can happen in other sections as well, such as Web Content. Environment DXP 7.3 DXP 7.4...

Module/Theme data persists after undeploying it and clearing cache

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Issue After removing a deployable module, some of its data can persist despite clearing the cache which includes the osgi/state folder, and all temp and work directories. For example, after removing a custom theme, its...

PATCH Object Request Fails With Mandatory Vocabulary

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Issue When trying to perform a PATCH request on an object instance to update a field, if the object has a required vocabulary, the request fails with the following error: { "detail": "Select at least one taxonomy...

Resources Not Displaying Correctly in Page Fragments

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Issue Page fragments that use resources with Freemarker variables in their URLs do not display correctly when the fragment is viewed on a page. <#assign varResource = "resourceName"/> <img...

"Missing 'Date Modified' and 'Date Created' Fields in Object Display Page Template Mapping

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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...

Changing the site logo

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Issue How do I change my site's logo in 7.4? Environment 7.4 Resolution Open the Site Menu () and navigate to Site Builder → Pages. Click Options () in the Application Bar and select Configuration. Under Logo,...

Intermittent Digit Loss in Liferay Form Confirmation Field

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Issue I'm experiencing an issue where digits are unexpectedly removed when quickly typing numbers into a confirmation field within a Liferay Form. Steps to Reproduce: Create a new Liferay Form. Add a numeric field...

Cannot Deploy a Portlet to a Widget Page

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Issue After deploying a portlet, I'm not able to move it to a widget page. Adding portlets from WAR fails due to the permission checking logic in UpdateLayoutStrutsAction javax.servlet.ServletException:...

How to Remove Owner Role Permissions?

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Issue We have users who had Site Admin role on one of their Sites and created a Page/Asset. After we revoked their Admin role (but not the Site Membership, so they can still access the Site), they continue to have...

Backend Functionalities and SVG Icons Fail When Using a CDN

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Issue After setting up a CDN for static resources, some backend functionalities, such as buttons and dynamic functionalities, stop working. Browser console displays CORS errors when trying to access...

Does the use of tags cause an accessibility issue?

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Issue We have verified that Liferay uses the <small> tag in the Type and Category facet search filters and we think that it could lead to an accessibility issue, violating the WCAG 1.3.1 Information &...