Capability

Sites

Liferay sites are customizable spaces for building personalized digital experiences. Each site includes applications for creating content, designing pages, and more. With these features, you can bring your custom solutions to life, whether intranets, public sites, customer portals, or e-commerce storefronts. In fact, you can leverage Liferay's multi-site capabilities to create multiple such sites in the same Liferay instance.

Feature
Deployment Approach
"Select Master Page is temporarily unavailable" when trying to add a Display Page Template
Issue I want to add a Display Page Template and I get the following error: In the logs, I see: 2025-02-10 18:18:39.160 ERROR [http-nio-6080-exec-8][PortletRequestDispatcherImpl:295] Unable to dispatch request:...
Security questions and answers are stored unencrypted
Issue User security questions and answers are stored unencrypted in the Liferay database and LDAP. Environment All Liferay versions. Resolution Liferay does not offer, out-of-the-box, the ability to...
HTML in Text field in structures is not escaped
Issue After upgrading to 2024.Q4, HTML markup found in the Text field within structures is no longer being escaped properly The HTML markup is showing up as plain text   Environment 2024.Q4 Resolution This is the...
Request to /o/change-tracking-rest/v1.0/ct-collections returns 403
Issue When accessing Publications through the UI, they are not displayed. The request to `/o/change-tracking-rest/v1.0/ct-collections` returns a 403 Forbidden error when it goes through the Web Application Firewall...
Updating Parent Object Fields from Child Object Actions
Issue How to update a field's value in the parent object when a new child instance is created using object actions of the child object. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution Use a Groovy script Action triggered by...
How to Exclude User Names (userName field) from Search Queries in Liferay
Issue We want to exclude the userName field from search queries. This is to prevent irrelevant search results based on user names. For instance, if a user's name contains a common search term, Liferay will return content...
Dynamic Blueprint parameters with Search API
Issue Blueprints offer static filtering by field values, but a dynamic approach is needed where search fields enable filtering based on user-provided values for specific structure fields, Is possible to...
Add New Custom Domains and Avoid Downtime while Let's Encrypt certificate Is Generated
Issue When new custom domains are appended to to the existing list under "customDomains" in the "certs" part of the webserver LCP.json file, a new Let's Encrypt certificate is issued to include them. In the mean...
Documents and Media widget displays "Copy to" action for Guest users
Issue The "Copy to" option is displayed in the Documents and Media widget for Guest users, even though they lack the necessary permissions to perform this action. This can lead to a poor user...
Client Extensions Not Visible After Deployment in SaaS
Issue Client extensions are successfully deployed to SaaS, the service registers as ready, and are listed in the Client Extensions Control Panel app, but they are not visible in the Widget UI when trying to add them...
Unassign Site Template from a Site / Export a site without the template it was based on
Issue Is there a way to unassign a Site Template from a Site? When importing a site using a .lar file into a company where the associated Site Template doesn't exist, an error occurs: "Site cannot be Imported as Site...
How to Get Website Availability Report for PaaS
Issue I would like to request a Website Availability Report from Liferay. It should include overall uptime, downtime, incident reports. Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution Liferay monitors API uptime. A report...
Is integration of mTLS possible in Liferay?
Issue We are required to use mTLS (Mutual Transport Layer Security) for certain requests Is it possible to integrate mTLS with Liferay? Environment DXP 7.4 Quarterly Releases Resolution Yes, it is possible to...
SAML - Can you end the Identity Provider's session when the Service Provider's session times out?
Issue We have Liferay configured as a SAML Service Provider (SP), and we use third-party software as the Identity Provider (IdP) Our IdP is used for multiple applications, so its session timeout is set for a...
Creating Display Page Templates for Calendar Events in DXP 7.3
Issue The documentation Using Display Page Templates in learn.liferay.com mentions you can create Display Page Templates for calendar events, but this for calendar events is missing in Liferay DXP 7.3. Environment...
Custom Widget Gets Rendered Twice
Issue After defining a Custom Element widget and placing it on a page, it is observed that the widget is loaded twice. Sometimes this happens so fast that it is unnoticeable, other times a couple of seconds...
Collection Display Fragment is not responsive when using the CSS Medium Screen Size (col-md)
Issue We've observed that when using the Collection Display fragment to display a collection of data/items and selecting the medium screen size (col-md), the responsiveness becomes unreliable.  Environment Quarterly...
XSS Vulnerability present when using Web Content Article's source code
Issue We've observed a XSS Vulnerability present when using Web Content Article's source code.  This vulnerability appears to be present when involving the deployment of a payload via the source code.  Steps to...
Old version of an updated file gets downloaded instead of the new version
Issue Some team members had to go into the 'Current Assets' asset library and re-version some files that needed updating. After re-versioning the files, when Person A went to download the files to see how...
The site name is appended to every Event/Meeting created in Liferay Calendar
Issue The site name is appended to every Event/Meeting created in Liferay Calendar. Environment DXP Quarterly Release 2024.Q2.0 Resolution Liferay calendar displays the site name as default when the event or...