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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Replacement for Deprecated Portal Property: asset.categories.search.hierarchical=false

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Kenny Back

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Issue

  • We recently upgraded from Liferay 7.0 to 7.4 and observed that the portal property we were using seems to no longer exist: 
    asset.categories.search.hierarchical=false
  • Is there a replacement in 7.4 to achieve the same function it served in which only assets matching the category are shown in asset publisher results and it does not show assets with associated parent category? As we do not want assets with parent category being shown in results when a child category is selected in the category filter.

Environment

  • DXP 7.4

Resolution

  • Yes, you can go to Control Panel > System Settings > under Content Data, Assets > Categorization there is a property called 'Include child categories when searching parent categories'. If you uncheck that box and click Save, this will achieve the same result.
  • Further, this same property also exists under Instance Settings, in case you only wanted to set it for a particular virtual instance rather than the entire Liferay instance.

 

 

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