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If Form entries are saved into an Object, email notification about Form submission is not sent

Issue We have created an Object and a Form. We save Form entries into the Object. When a Guest user submits the form, the notification is not sent out. We are getting the following error in the logs: ERROR...

Liferay instance node going into hang mode - Failed to validate connection

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Issue Liferay instance node goes into hang mode and the following error appears: HikariPool-1 - Failed to validate connection ... (This connection has been closed.) ... Possibly consider using a...

Is Liferay vulnerable to CVE-2024-38819: SpringFramework (spring-core-5.3.39)?

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Issue CVE-2024-38819: Path traversal vulnerability in functional web frameworks (2nd report) is related to the usage of WebMvc.jar. Is Liferay vulnerable to this vulnerability? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3...

Vulnerabilities reported in classes generated by Liferay Service Builder

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Issue While performing security scans, there are vulnerabilities found in custom classes that are generated by Liferay Service Builder. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Sometimes, these warnings are...

How to clear the data folder of Glowroot in Liferay PaaS

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Issue How to clear the data folder of Glowroot in Liferay PaaS. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Liferay PaaS Resolution To clear the data folder through the Glowroot UI. Follow the below steps: 1. Visit the site and...

What is Synchronous Database Replication and how does It enhance Data Consistency in Liferay?

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Issue What is Synchronous Database Replication and how does It enhance Data Consistency in Liferay? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Synchronous database replication is used in Liferay and it is a...

Updates are not visible without a page refresh

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Issue After editing and publishing a fragment or page, the changes are not immediately visible, but a similar behavior could be reproduced in other ways. A manual page refresh is required to see the...

Updating Custom Account Entry Fields Fails for Person Accounts with a Specific Role

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Issue 'users do not have permission' exception is showing when trying to update the same custom field on Person type accounts. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start a clean 2024.q1.1 bundle 2. Navigate to configuration >...

"HTTP Status 400 – Bad Request" error occured when Updating Blogs' Custom Friendly URL

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Issue While updating the "Blogs" custom-friendly URL from "/liferay-blog" to "test-blogs/liferay-blogs," an HTTP Status 400 - Bad Request error appears on the UI. (A video demonstrating the issue has been attached.)...

How to change the generated OTP from alphanumeric to numeric in multi-factor authentication?

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NOTE: The following resolution requires customization and should only be implemented at the discretion of your team. Liferay Support will not be able to assist with designing or implementing customizations. Issue...

Form Container does not display relationship field for parent object

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Issue I have an object A with a one-to-many relationship to object B. When I add a Form Container to a page and map it to object A, I cannot select the related object B entries. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution...

Asset Publisher Subscriptions Only Trigger Email for New Assets

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Issue When using the Asset Publisher with subscriptions enabled, email notifications are only sent when a new asset is added to the selection. Updating an existing asset's content does not trigger a new notification....

Knowledge Base Section Widget does not displaying the current version of Knowledge Base Article

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Issue When displaying Knowledge Base Articles using a Knowledge Base Section widget, once an article is edited, the displayed content will not reflect the changes made This behavior is reproducible when the Knowledge...

Do I need to request an activation key for my Liferay service on Liferay PaaS?

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Issue This article discusses whether PaaS subscribers will need to request a new activation key for the Liferay service. Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution An activation key will automatically be generated and applied for...

Tomcat Vulnerabilities CVE-2024-50379 and CVE-2024-56337 in Liferay DXP

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Issue Vulnerability for Tomcat discovered after moving to Liferay DXP 7.4. How to remediate Apache Tomcat 9 Remote Code Execution (RCE) Via Write Enabled Default Servlet Vulnerability (CVE-2024-50379) and...

Can I change the Article ID after disabling Autogeneration of IDs for Journal Articles?

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Issue When I change the ID of a previously created Web Content, after Publishing, the ID does not change. I have System settings → Web Content → Administration → Journal Article Force Autogenerate ID disabled...

How to create Charts in Quarterly Versions

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Issue The Chart Tag Library was removed in 2023.Q4 with no direct replacement. I would like to know how to create charts in a Liferay version higher than 2023.Q4. Environment 2023.Q4+ Resolution On GitHub, you...

Enabling ElasticSearch Sidecar logs

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Issue I would like to raise the log levels for ElasticSearch Sidecar The folder [liferay-home]/elasticsearch-sidecar/7.x.x/logs does not contain any log files Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution The...

Why doesn't the database's "userId_" update within the PLOEntry table with the ID of the last user to edit?

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Issue We've found that when updating any Liferay Language Override key-value, the PLOEntry table within the database is not being updated with the ID of the last user to edit. It is our understanding that the table...

Brave Browser Issues

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Issue I am experiencing an issue in Liferay, that is only reproducible in Brave browser, but not reproducible in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution The Compatibility...

Auditing the remote client IP address changed after upgrade

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Issue After upgrading from Liferay 7.0 to a more recent Quarterly Release we are facing changes to the Audit_AuditEvent table, which was storing, in the clientIP column, the content of the 'X-FORWARDER-FOR' HTTP...

Checking Commerce Permissions in Fragments Always Returns True

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Issue When using Freemarker variables userPermission and permissionChecker in a fragment to check if a user has specific permissions for their commerce account, the check always returns true, even for non-existent...

Expiring license error occurs in clustered environment for Liferay PaaS

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Issue The following expired licensing error displays in Liferay PaaS logs: ERROR [main][LicenseManager:-1] Digital Enterprise Unlimited Enterprise-Wide license is expired Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution There are two...

Vulnerability CVE-2024-52046 in Liferay DXP

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Issue Is Liferay vulnerable to the vulnerability described in CVE-2024-52046? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 and above Resolution Liferay uses the affected Apache Mina library (`mina-core`) only in LDAP-related code. If...

Certificate Renewal Failing with 403 Error on Liferay PaaS

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Issue When attempting to renew the SSL certificate generated by Let’s Encrypt, the process fails with multiple 403 (Forbidden) errors. The error messages suggest a security restriction that is preventing the...

'Error: Please enter content with valid content size no larger than 1 MB' when using Liferay Forms

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Issue When I am saving a form with a large amount of data, I get the following error: Error: Please enter content with valid content size no larger than 1 MB. Environment Liferay Quarterly Releases Resolution...

Received "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 65" when using JDK 21

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Issue I encountered the following error when compiling my custom JSON Webservice Module with JDK 21. exception "Unsupported class file major version 65" throwable "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:...

How to change the URL of the Site Logo

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Issue How can I change the logo link to redirect to a URL different than the home page? Environment Liferay Quarterly Release Resolution By default, the logo links to /web/site-friendly-url (Site Display URL),...

Does upgrade touch the doclib?

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Issue We are preparing the upgrade from a Liferay 7.3 FP2 to a Liferay 7.4 2024.Q1 and we are trying to prepare a rollback system if something goes wrong and we need go reinstall the 7.3. My question is about the document...

Locating Default Asset Publisher Templates

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Issue Where can I find the default display templates used by the Asset Publisher? Environment Quarterly Releases: 2024.Q3, 2024.Q2, 2024.Q1, 2023.Q4, 2023.Q3 Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution The templates are located in...

Browser Back Button Issue with Multiple Asset Publishers

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Issue When a page contains multiple Asset Publishers, the browser's back button may not work as expected. Clicking the back button may require multiple clicks to return to the previous page. Environment Liferay DXP...

Insufficient Permissions to Access Folders When Uploading Documents to Web Content

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Issue Users with a role other than Administrator, for example, the "Editor" role, receive a permissions error when they try to access folders within Documents and Media while uploading a document to Web Content. The...

Adaptive Media Images Not Displaying for Users in Product Catalog Search Results

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Issue When using Adaptive Media with images in Product Catalog search results, the images are displayed correctly for some users, but not others. For example, Adaptive Media is not working for...

When using a form, the email notification does not send the value selected from the dropdown menu

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Issue When using a configured form with "Object" as the storage with Picklist in use, the email notification that populates after each submission is not displaying the correct values from when the form was submitted....

Changing the Displayed Time Zone for Audit Logs

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Issue Even after changing the time zone for the instance within the Instance Settings, the time zone for the Create Date for the logs in Audit are still displayed in UTC. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Quarterly Release...

Web Content "Modified by" User Appears to be Incorrect After Translation

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Issue After translating existing web content, the last modified user displayed is the original author, not the translator. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution The "Modified by" user and timestamp for web content...

On RSS Feed feature deprecation and removal

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Issue When reviewing documentation such as https://help.liferay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028820652-Configuring-RSS-Feeds the RSS Feed feature is listed as deprecated, and has been 7.1 but is still available in 7.4. 1. If...

Getting BadPaddingException errors in the logs after an upgrade

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Issue After upgrading Liferay DXP, javax.crypto.BadPaddingException errors appear in the logs when using 'Auto Login' feature ('Remember me'). Example error message: ERROR [AutoLoginFilter:247] Current URL /home...

Customizing Email Notifications in Forms application after upgrading to Liferay Quarterly Release

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Issue In previous versions, we were customizing the email notifications sent by Forms application following the instructions of these articles: How can I configure or customize the look and content of email notifications...

"http://localhost:8080/o/oauth2/authorize" URL redirect to the Login Page

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue When accessing the OAuth2 authorization URL...

How to configure X-Pack secured search service liveness/readiness probes with authentication in Paas

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Issue We tried to configure in our PAAS environnement the Elasticsearch X-Pack feature. When we follow this article and enable X-Pack feature in dev server (with environment variable), the ElasticSearch endpoint used for...

Is possible to sort Object entries in a Collection Display Fragment?

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Issue I'm using a Collection Display fragment to show objects. I need to apply some order to the list. Is this possible? Environment Liferay DXP 2024.Q4 Resolution Currently, the only way to sort object entries (with...

Localizing Object Definitions.

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Issue We do not find where is the feature to get objects localization. Based on following documentation...

What URLs can be used to access my workflow tasks

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Issue You may need to access a user's tasks without including their name in the URL or by explicitly including it. Environment Quarterly Release DXP 7.4+ DXP 7.3 Resolution Without User Identifier: It is possible to...

Same timestamp parameter value for the document URL is being shown for multiple requests

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Issue Multiple requests show the same timestamp value ('t') in the document URL. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution The t parameter in the URL represents a timestamp, the t parameter in Liferay URLs serves as...

How to display form entries data which is submitted through form in user interface?

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Issue Is there any way to view form entries in a grid format by clicking a button labeled "View Form Entries." ? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution In Liferay DXP 7.2, the functionality to display form results...

SAML Logout Issues: Multiple Login Entries and Optimistic Locking Exceptions

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Issue When a user logs out after authenticating via SAML, multiple login entries might be recorded in the audit logs. This can lead to HibernateOptimisticLockingException errors, particularly during...

java.sql.BatchUpdateException: data exception: string data, right truncation from long client extension service names

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Issue When deploying a client extension, you may encounter an error, that can be traced to a BatchUpdateException, such as the following: Caused by: java.sql.BatchUpdateException: data exception: string data, right...

Data Migration Center: Unable to Import CSV file

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Issue The issue only occurs when the field is being translated, using objects alone does not cause it. Steps to reproduce 1. Navigate to the Applications Menu and click on Data Migration Center. 2. In that, click...

'External Reference Code' field on the UI

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Issue An 'External Reference Code' for the 'Address' field on UI is required since it is already there in the database for the entity. Environment Liferay DXP 2024.Q1 Resolution LIferay has started working on this...

CKeditor extra plugins

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Issue I would like to add extra plugins to CKeditor. I would like it to work in web content translator also. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3+ Resolution Go to...

Unable to Import Site Template LAR

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Issue Import of a LAR file exported from a Site Template through Publishing -> Export fails when being imported to another environment with an error stating: The LAR file could not be imported because it requires page...

Unexpected SAML calls: com.liferay.saml.internal.servlet.filter.SpSessionTerminationSamlPortalFilter.doProcessFilter

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Issue When navigating through the portal with SAML disabled, there are a few SAML-related filters that are still being processed, leading to database calls and causing slower performance. at...

Impersonated user is unable to add items to the cart

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Issue When impersonating a user with permissions to add items to a cart, a message is seen in the UI, which says: “Danger: [object Object]” and the items do not get added to the cart. This behavior can be...

SAML Authentication Error: "This message decoder only supports the HTTP POST method

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Issue The following SAML errors appear in the Liferay logs: ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-5][BaseSamlStrutsAction:53] org.opensaml.messaging.decoder.MessageDecodingException: This message decoder only supports the...

Including External JavaScript Libraries in Fragments from Documents and Media

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Issue Need to use external JavaScript libraries that are uploaded to Documents and Media in fragments. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution To include external JavaScript libraries stored in Documents and...

The assignments are missing between roles and user groups when transfer from one enviornment to another

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Issue The export/import of UserGroups and Roles does not contain the assignments between roles and user groups. So when 'transporting' the user groups and roles from one stage (or backup) to another stage (new...

In SAML setup user is not getting login in the SP and receiving warning on the UI

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Issue After setting up the SAML process, the user tries to log in receiving the warning below and not being logged in. Environment Liferay 2023.Q4.0 Resolution If users are setting up an identity provider as...

Why cannot see Publications after upgrade?

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Issue After making the upgrade from Liferay 7.4 update-46 to Liferay 7.4 Quarterly Release Q2 2024 user cannot see the Publications. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Consider to verify...

Duplicate files in Liferay theme WAR file

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Issue When building a Liferay theme using Liferay Developer Studio, multiple versions of CSS and JS files are created in the WAR file. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution To prevent duplicate files in...

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