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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Most Viewed Assets Portlet Ignores Category Filters

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Tímea Bihari

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Issue

  • We created our categories programmatically (using APIs).
  • These categories are ignored by the Most Viewed Assets portlet.
  • Even with category filters configured, the portlet shows assets based on views only, including assets not belonging to the selected categories.

 

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.3+

 

Resolution

  • This could happen if in your script, you use AssetCategoryLocalServiceUtil.createAssetCategory followed by AssetCategoryLocalServiceUtil.updateAssetCategoryand you don't set all attributes of the category. 
  • You should avoid all the single Object typed parameterized update methods.
  • Instead, you should use AssetCategoryLocalServiceUtil.addCategory method, which triggers the necessary business logic for the (assetCategory) ServiceBuilder entity.
  • This method is written to take in the required parameters and fill out the blanks.
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