Capability

Digital Asset Management

Liferay’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) tools simplify the organization and management of digital assets. Assets include images, videos, presentations, documents, and much more. Additionally, the Asset Library feature enables you to manage and publish assets in one central repository for use across multiple distinct sites.

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Not able to add Structure Key after unchecking Auto generate Structure Key
Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Download the liferay-dxp-tomcat-7.2.10.1-sp1-20191009103614075.tar.gz from Liferay 2. Unzip and start the out of the box liferay-dxp-tomcat-7.2.10.1-sp1. 3. Once Liferay started, go to...
Unable to add Image Field in Structure
Issue 1. Install a clean Liferay DXP 7.2 SP1 and install the liferay-hotfix-266-7210 2. In portal-ext.properties file, add "minifier.enabled=false" property 3. Start Liferay. Go to "Content & Data" -> "Web Content" ->...
Cannot map same IP address into multiple ports on Liferay PaaS VPN
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue You have mapped the same IP address to multiple ports...
Can I install a Jenkins plugin?
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue Is it possible to install a third-party Jenkins...
Backup service unexpectedly restarts while restoring
Issue While restoring a large number of files the backup service may unexpectedly restart with no error. Environment Liferay Cloud Resolution Update Backup service image to 3.2.11 or higher by changing the...
Support Tickets and Self-Service on Liferay Help Center
Help Center is the place where you can access our world-class customer support and abundant self-service resources.  Here is a guide to help you get the most from Liferay Support through Help Center. Self-Service Resources...
Importing a third-party JS package with liferay-npm-bundler will result into "Cannot use import statement outside a module"
Issue When adding and importing a third-party package dependency to a Liferay NPM module made with the Liferay Bundler (for example, npm Angular Portlet Template, the following errors may be observed in the...
Indexing is taking too long
Issue Reindexing is taking or has taken too long to finish. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution If reindexing is deemed slow or is still ongoing (the 2-arrow icon can be seen at the top right), it may have...
Workflows - Supported Statuses
Description Workflows on Liferay give the possibility of running assets like web content articles, wiki pages, or even users, through pre-determined review processes.  For this you can utilize workflow...
No administrative options can be accessed when an F5 load balancer is in front of Liferay forcing a secure protocol
Issue When a F5 load balancer is in front of Liferay and is forcing a secure protocol, no administrative options can be selected and accessed. On Liferay the following options are configured on the...
Google PageSpeed Insights (Mobile) results for a Liferay DXP site have a low score
Issue After submitting your Liferay site to the Google PageSpeed Insights tool, a low score for Mobile will be returned, flagging issues on aggregated resources as: - Eliminate render-blocking resources - Remove...
Liferay sends email notification with port number next to website address
Issue When receiving Liferay email notifications (for example: New account Created, Password reset link, etc ...), users may notice the app server's port number appended to the website domain, for example:...
"Problem with the configuration: Unknown release in folder ..." when patching the source code
Issue When patching the source code, customers may receive the error: "Problem with the configuration: Unknown release in folder ..." Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution Have a usable ReleaseInfo.java file...
aui-io-request throws io ... is not a function
Issue When using a code similar to the below: AUI().use('aui-io-request', function(A){} The browser's console will throw this error: Uncaught TypeError: "io.upload is not a function" Environment Liferay DXP 7.2...
Basic setup and tools to debug Elasticsearch queries
This article is a basic guide on how to view the queries Liferay produces and provide ways that developers can understand the results retrieved from Elasticsearch. These recommendations assume you are working in a...
Dynamic including and importing Javascript files
Issue What are the differences in the usage of javascript.barebone.files and javascript.everything.files across Liferay versions? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Importing Javascript files in Liferay 7.0...
What happened to the taglib on 7.1?
Issue Using the <liferay-ui:calendar /> taglib on 7.1 will no longer work as it used to do on Portal 6.2 or Liferay DXP 7.0 Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution <liferay-ui:calendar /> was deprecated as of...
Resolving Inaccuracies and Discrepancies in Search Results
Issue Search results are providing information that should not be made available to the user performing the search such as: The total count of search results is inconsistent with the actual number of results displayed...
Staging History deleted after a few days
Issue After a few days, past Staging publication records disappear from the history list located in Site Administration > Publishing > Staging  Environment DXP 7.2, DXP 7.1, DXP 7.0 Resolution By default, Liferay is...
Submitting a Document with the same name results in an error and losing the file from the form field
Issue When you submit a file in the Documents and Media portlet that has the same title as a different file, an error is produced that prevents you from submitting it. When this happens, the file is lost from the form...
Liferay redirects to iframe source URL upon logging in
Issue After adding an Iframe to a Liferay page and set the Source URL of that Iframe to e.g. /web/guest/page2, Liferay will redirect to /web/guest/page2 when logging in through the Welcome homepage. Environment...
How to set different favicons on different sites on the same Liferay instance
Issue Is there a way to set different favicons on different sites on the same Liferay instance? Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution The easiest, supported and...
After upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.X, Searches are not returning any results
Issue After upgrading to Liferay DXP, we are not able to perform successful searches. For example, when searching for Web Content articles that exist, no results are returned Environment Liferay DXP...
Exporting and Importing User Roles from One Environment to Another
Issue Whether you want to copy over User Roles and its respective permissions from one environment to another, or in order to keep a backup of your current Roles and Permissions set before making big changes, Liferay...
I want to define user permissions for the Notice and Warning portlets respectively.
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Can I use the Target Platform BOM to include the correct biz.aQute.bndlib version?
Issue When using the Target Platform functionality in a Liferay Workspace (to use the dependencies from the target version's BOM) to try to include the biz.aQute.bndlib in a 7.2 dxp-5 custom module, it fails to...
SAML logout when session expires
Issue The Single sign-on and Single log out are working fine when the user manually logs out but there is no Single logout happening on the portal session expiry Environment Liferay 7.0 as IdP Resolution  Service...
Invalid CSRF Token warnings
Issue Invalid CSRF Token warnings appear in the logs, if portlet.url.anchor.enable=true is set in portal-ext.properties. User 20127 is not allowed to access URL http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home and...
Can not change virtual host from an existing virtual instance
Issue After editing the virtual host field from an existing virtual instance, the new value suddenly disappears after clicking on Save button.  Environment Liferay DXP 7.2, fix pack dxp-5 or higher Resolution...
How to Resolve Commas Automatically Inserted Into Web Content When Using the Integer Structure
Issue When editing previously published web content which was made using the integer structure, commas are automatically inserted into the integers. This prevents the content from publishing. Environment Liferay...
Liferay Audience Targeting 3.0.0+ does not work with Hypersonic
Issue Liferay Audience Targeting does not work with the built-in Hypersonic or HSQL database. Environment Liferay Audience Targeting 3.0.0+ Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution Hypersonic is not supported by Liferay Audience...
Cannot deploy themes using the `themes` folder
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue Your themes (.war files) on the themes folder are not...
Setting Cookie Configurations 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). Issue One common service customization is to add the HttpOnly and...
How to load a third-party npm package as a JS provider OSGi bundle in Liferay 7.1 and 7.2?
Issue Front-End developers may at times need to load third-party NPM packages in Liferay DXP and consume them from the Liferay APIs Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 + Liferay Loader version 4.x Liferay DXP 7.2...
Unable to import User Groups from LDAP containing a comma "," or an asterisk "*"
Issue Receiving the following error when trying to import User Groups from LDAP containing a comma "," or an asterisk "*": 2020-06-04 08:23:50.268 WARN [main][LDAPUserImporterImpl:1165] Unable to create user group...
Web Content validation is not working on mandatory field
Issue Web Content validation is not working on the mandatory field. Steps are as follows: 1. Create a new Web Content structure with an Image field. 2. For Image field: change "Required" & "Repeatable" to Yes. 3. Create...
Impersonation won't give you all the permissions set of the impersonated User
Issue If User A impersonates User B than User A might not be able to perform the same actions as User B was originally able to. For example, downloading certain documents or checking the previews. For...
Make Recycle Bin available for regular users
Issue How to make Recycle Bin available for regular users?  Environment Liferay 6.2  Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Navigate to Control Panel --> User --> Roles. Create a new...
User is redirected to the Pages section after saving a Widget Page
Issue When creating a new Widget Page and saving it, the user is landed on the Pages section instead of the newly created Widget Page. Environment DXP 7.1+ Resolution This is an intended behavior that was...
Which table keeps the data for Web Content in the Database?
Issue Which table keeps the data for Web Content in the Database? Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution The tables whose name starts with "journal*" are the ones that keep the data related to Web Content.  , content:...
How to configure Liferay DXP to connect to Elasticsearch on Elastic Cloud
Disclaimer: please read the Liferay DXP compatibility with Elasticsearch hosted on Elastic Cloud article before starting to build your Elastic Stack for Liferay DXP on Elastic Cloud to understand the requirements and...
Content is not visible after an upgrade
Issue After our migration (upgrading to a newer version of Liferay) we cannot see our pages / web contents / templates When we create a new one, we see it gets created in the database but we don't see it...
Language priority when a page is displayed
Issue Which localization is being used when a page is displayed? Environment Liferay Portal DXP 7.0+ Resolution The language of a page can be determined by 3 factors: the page URL (whether there is a...
Cannot import an individual page template
Issue We have exported a page template through the template's context menu -> Export When we try to import it to another page templates, it fails and throws the below error: Please import a LAR file of...
External Elasticsearch server is not available and control panel is inaccessible
Issue The external Elasticsearch server configured for Liferay DXP is no longer available Liferay cannot be set to use the embedded Elasticsearch server because the Control Panel is showing a blank...
To which sites are the documents and media selected in the workflow associated?
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Why does it take so long to save a Web Content article?
Issue When we try to Publish (save) a Web Content article it takes several minutes. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution By default when a Web Content article is saved within Liferay DXP 7.2 all versions of the...
On slow networks, the browser's console throws "A require() call has failed but no failure handler was provided" at frontend-js-spa-web@/liferay/init.es
Issue Administrators may run their Liferay DEV instances on slow networks due to different reasons. In those cases, several issues will be observed: - Buttons unresponsive - Forms not showing data from the...
How to set an absolute path in an OSGi .config file for a directory on a shared network drive
Issue We are attempting to use a Document Library directory "External_Library" on a shared network drive, but cannot determine how to use an absolute path instead of a relative path; during startup, a relative path...
nodejs download fails due to invalid link
Issue Customers may encounter failures using Gradle v.4 + Workspace. Here is the relevant stacktrace exception: > Task :downloadNode FAILED Trying to download...
How to change Liferay DXP session timeout 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). Issue You need to change the session timeout for Liferay...
If a user is created under an organization, a user who does not have permission to change roles can control roles.
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Range affected by IP address changes
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Password Reset Expiration Date
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The /dtd/ folder of the war with sensitive information is exposed when deploying a portal on Weblogic 12c R2
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404 error when downloading module "com.liferay.saml.opensaml.integration" from Release Notes page
Issue Getting a 404 error when downloading module "com.liferay.saml.opensaml.integration" from Release Notes page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution The module for  "com.liferay.saml.opensaml.integration" can be...
Stuck reindex: How to check the progress of a reindex process and remove blocked BackgroundTask and Lock records
Symptom Sometimes a reindex will take a long time and seem like nothing is happening. You simply see the reindex icon in the Control Panel bar and/or the percentage does not change.  Environment DXP 7.4 DXP 7.3 DXP...
Web Contents still appear after updating Display Date to a future time
Issue 1. Create a Web Content with a future display date 2. Add an Asset Publisher in the home page 3. The Web Content does not appear in the list (as expected) 4. Create another Web Content and publish 5. The Web...
Can not generate a build from Bitbucket due to status 401 (unauthorised) error on Jenkins service
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue After trying to integrate your Bitbucket repository,...
Commerce guest checkout: country and region drop-downs show "undefined"
Issue When I checkout an order as a guest, on the checkout page the Country and Region drop-downs are wrongly populated, showing "undefined" for every country/region name Environment Commerce 2.1.1 DXP 7.1 Resolution The...