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Published Sep. 10, 2025

Cannot Deploy a Portlet to a Widget Page

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Emma Carr-Gardner

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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: com.liferay.portal.kernel.security.auth.PrincipalException$MustHavePermission: User 20123 must have ADD_TO_PAGE permission for com.liferay.portal.kernel.model.Portlet_Sample_WAR_Sampleportlet_

 

Environment

  • Liferay DXP Quarterly Release

Resolution

  •  This is a regression bug that can resolved by requesting a fix built on LPD-51354, or upgrading to a Quarterly Release that contains the fix.
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