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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Missing translation using taglib liferay-ui:message

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Daniel Martinez Cisneros

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Issue

  • Trying to use liferay:ui message taglib in a custom module is not using key provided in Language.properties
  • view.jsp
    <liferay-ui:message key="test.caption"/>
  • Language.properties
    test.caption=label translated 
  • Label rendered:
    • expected: label translated
    • current: test.caption

Environment

  • 2024.Q1

Resolution

There are two ways to resolve this issue:

  • Add keys to the section "Languages Override" , which will replace the keys found and take preference over all locales added in your custom module.
    • Note that you may need to remove javax.portlet.resource-bundle=content.Language property from your Portlet's @Component annotation (see LPD-1300).
    • Also note that, depending on your version, you may be affected by this bug: LPD-29412
  • Modify bnd.bnd file in your custom module and add: 
    Provide-Capability:\
    liferay.language.resources;\
    resource.bundle.base.name="content.Language"

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