Capability

Integration

Liferay is designed to be standards-compliant and highly interoperable. Connect Liferay DXP with external systems using SOAP, REST, GraphQL, and more to unite third-party software, legacy systems, and data.

Headless APIs, Remote Apps (Client Extensions), API Builder, and integrations with SSO platforms are some of the examples of the features in this area.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Calendar Event invitation mail is sent to the user before the approval of event
Issue If the workflow is applied for the Calendar Event, the user who is invited to that particular event gets an email invitation even before the approver approves the event. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0...
EXT Plugin not deploying
Issue EXT Plugin not deploying correctly through the methods presented in the documentation: Deploying an Ext Plugin Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution Deploy the EXT Plugin to marketplace/override folder...
DXP 7.2 Upgrade Reference Guide
An upgrade to Liferay DXP 7.2 gives you access to the latest Liferay technology, complete with all of the newest features, and the assurance of continued support for your Liferay environment. Our Subscription Services Team...
How can I execute a bulk update of the time zone of all users?
Issue After installing Liferay and creating all users, customer has realized that Liferay instance and all users are configured with the default timezone (UTC) but it should be updated to a correct one (ie: Europe/Paris)...
Page not found (404) redirects to the 'default' (Guest) web site
Issue When an incorrect URL is hit on the portal, the "The requested resource could not be found" error or Page not found error redirects to the default site and not to that particular site. Environment...
How to remove unnecessary parts from the URL / shorten URL / make URL friendlier
Issue We would like to remove the web/guest part of the URL, to shorten it e.g. http://www.example.com/web/guest/home-> http://www.example.com/home  Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0-7.4...
External images inside OpenOffice/LibreOffice document are not resolved when converted to PDF
Issue Upload to Document Library a new OpenOffice document with external link to image. Export the document to PDF. The document is converted to PDF but the image is blank. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1,...
How to get the total number of documents once migrated from File System to DB Store?
Issue If the data is moved from the File System to DB Store, then how to get the number of documents from the portal. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution When DB Store is used as a repository, the files...
Audience Targeting is deployed but unavailable
Issue After deploying and restarting, Audience Targeting is not available in site's Configuration > Audience Targeting. Tables corresponding to Audience Targeting are not created. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1...
After upgrading to Liferay 7.1+, guest users cannot see some web contents
Issue After upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.1+, guests users cannot see some web contents. This is also reproduced for users that aren't members of one site. They cannot see web contents that belong to that site. Environment...
"Too Many Open Files" error in log
Issue "Too Many Open Files" error is reported in the log. For example: 2019-05-06 09:41:20,142 SEVERE [org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint] Socket accept failed java.io.IOException: Too many open files at...
After upgrading to JDK 11, Tomcat can not be started due to "NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/DatatypeConverter"
Issue After upgrading to JDK 11, Tomcat can not be started due to "NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/DatatypeConverter" 28-Aug-2019 05:40:11.346 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart...
How to programmatically undeploy a module in DXP 7.1?
Issue I want to undeploy a module from my code, usig API I tried using DeployManagerUtil.undeploy(context), but nothing happens Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution If you are trying to undeploy a module by its context...
How to resolve AnnotationExceptions encountered during startup when updating 7.0 to de-67+ while using WebSphere
Issue Using WebSphere FP 11 as our application server, we are unable to start up a 7.0 deployment after patching to de-67, and are receiving an AnnotationException in the log, as follows: Annotation processing failed...
How can I disable Liferay's xml log file?
Issue In {Liferay_Home}/log folder, we can see two different files as below:      liferay.2019-08-25.log      liferay.2019-08-25.xml We only want "liferay.2019-08-25.log" file and need to disable "xml" file. Environment...
Setting different landing pages on different cluster nodes upon session timeout
Issue The users have to be redirected to different pages - depending on the nodes -, when the sessions expire. A possible use case: One of the Application Servers is an admin server, thus the admins need to...
Control Panel App Manager not showing
Issue The App Manager section in the control panel is missing. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1, 7.2 Resolution Try this list of steps: Stop the application server. Delete the contents of the...
Guest User can download the attachment from Knowledge Base
Issue The guest user can download the attachments present in the Knowledge Base Article  1. Create a Knowledge Base Article add an attachment to that article.  2. Now remove all the guest permission from that article....
Tips for minor updates in the infrastructure (application server, database server, ...)
Issue Sometimes, there is the need to update the infrastructure (application server, database server, elasticsearch server, etc.), to benefit from security fixes, performance improvements or others. Minor...
Liferay DXP and S3 security
Issue Does Liferay support server-side encryption on Amazon S3? Is Liferay calling S3 over HTTPS only? Will Liferay work on a restricted S3 bucket without public access? Environment Liferay 7.0 DXP Liferay 7.1...