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I cannot upload images on Web Content larger than 50kb

Issue After uploading a small image greater than 50kb in the Featured Image of a Web Content, it does not allow to publish the changes, the following message is displayed: Error: Please enter a small image with a...

The source code format is misaligned in the AlloyEditor

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Issue When updating the DXP 7.1 instance patch level from de-17 to de-20, the code view shows the misaligned format of the tags in the editor of the web content. To format it again, every time while editing the code,...

Broken Document Links in Search Results

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Issue Clicking on a link to a document in Search Results leads to a /null page and error: Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution This behavior is reported and fixed in LPS-93120. The fix has been released...

How to modify the web.server.display.node and company.security.strangers.verify properties in a Liferay PaaS environment

Issue After updating our Liferay PaaS service version to v4.1.0+, our team noticed that the -uat environment now has the instance's node information displayed in the footer of Liferay pages. We tried to set...

Site Admin can't access Fragments page if Global fragments exist in the portal

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Issue After adding fragments in the Global site, site administrators are encountering a Fragments is temporarily unavailable error when attempting to access the Fragments under Site Administration. Environment DXP 7.2+...

On the Geo-location, all uploaded documents for a single location should be visible by clicking upon the marked pointer

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Issue When we upload more than one document for a single location and try to see all uploaded documents by clicking on the marked pointer in the map only one document will be visible. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2...

The purpose of the "Skip to Content" button

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Issue If a user presses the Tab key when the URL is highlighted, a "Skip to Content" button appears. Selecting this button with your mouse does not appear to do anything. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1...

Can I create unidirectional asset links?

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Issue In Liferay, when I configure Related Resources of a specific asset, I see that the asset links are bidirectional (two-way) by default. For example, if 'Web Content A' is published with 'Web Content B' as a related...

Special characters are escaped in instance names

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Issue After changing the instance name to have a special character (e.g. "Liferay's Portal"), I see that the special character is escaped when the instance name is rendered in the Control Panel menu (e.g. "Liferay\'s...

Fragment IDs get changed in upgrade to DXP 7.3

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Issue After upgrading to DXP 7.3, the fragment-id values of fragments on Content Pages get changed. This can cause issues as customization that apply to specific fragment-ids will no longer work after the upgrade. ...

Certain portlets have aria-autocomplete attributes

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Issue While inspecting the DOM for certain portlets (Page Comments, Blogs, etc ...) deployed on DXP pages, users may notice the below aria attributes: aria-autocomplete="list" aria-expanded="false"...

Web Content HTML issue

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Issue 1. Create basic web content and copy shared Html in Html editor. 2. Try to publish content. 3. Check logs for errors. 4. Remove commented code in shared HTML and copy again in the content's HTML editor. 5. Try to...

How to resolve a duplicated title within edit mode for a Card fragment observed in 7.3 GA1

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Issue When adding a Card fragment to a Content page in a 7.3 bundle patched to GA1, then editing the fragment's title text and changing its Heading to a different type, the title becomes duplicated. The duplicated...

CSS minifier skips translating relative urls for already minified files

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Issue Combo servlet bundles/aggregates multiple CSS files into single downloads. Some of those CSS files might already have been minified, so those are not minified again. Apart from bundling multiple files, the...

Changing comments' order of Web Content Display

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Issue I would like to configure the comments section in a Web Content Display to show comments in descending order by modification date (from newest to oldest). By default, they are displayed in...

Some form pages fail to show the content with error Unable to deserialize object

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Issue When trying to view a form page with an associated custom portlet, the page failed to render the form. The portal log shows the following error: 2021-01-26 00:04:23.021 ERROR...

#undefined is added to the URL when there is an Asset Publisher in a page

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Issue After upgrading from DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 96 to Fix Pack 97, the #undefined text is appended to the URL on the portal pages. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 97 Liferay DXP 7.1 Fix Pack 21 Resolution Please...

AlloyEditor Code View no longer respects line breaks

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Issue After upgrading from DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 96 to Fix Pack 97, the AlloyEditor "Code View" option no longer formats the markup. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 97 Resolution Please request a Hotfix with...

Toggle Controls button missing in Liferay DXP

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Issue In Liferay DXP, I no longer see the Toggle Controls button that was available in Liferay Portal. The Toggle Controls button in Portal 6.2. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution This...

Why Does the Site Selector Menu in the Control Panel Direct Traffic to an Empty Page?

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Issue In DXP 7.1 and below, the links in the site selector menu in the control panel took me directly to the site home page. In DXP 7.2 and above, clicking on the site name in Control Panel > Sites > Sites...

Error executing FreeMarker template with #null when rendering web content

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Issue When trying to render a web content we get the following error in Liferay DXP log: 2021-02-12 11:41:48.911 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-9][runtime:59] Error executing FreeMarker template FreeMarker template...

Is it Possible to View HTML Source Code in Text Fragments?

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Issue As a user, I would like to have access to the HTML source code for text fragments. Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution Alloy Editor does not currently have a source code view feature. Additional Information It...

Increase/decrease uploaded image resolution to make to 300 DPI as standard

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Issue A requirement of increasing/decreasing uploaded image DPI (resolution) to make to 300 DPI as standard. Required API which we can be called programmatically from the code to increase/decrease DPI for uploaded...

How can I modify the Admin Theme?

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Issue Sometimes we need to modify some aspects of the admin-theme, for example, to change the look and feel of web content editions. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1 Resolution The admin-theme can not be modified...

How Do I Resolve "Page Not Found" Errors Thrown by Custom 404.jsp Pages in 7.3?

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Issue When I navigate away from my custom 404.jsp page in 7.3, I see a "Page Not Found" error instead of the intended page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution A solution is described in LPS-127143, and will...

Unable to use the Action button under Sites

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Issue Steps to Reproduce: 1) Manually deploy Liferay on Wildfly 8.2. 2) Start up the portal and navigate to Control Panel > Sites > Add blank site. 3) Click on any Action button with to the Sites. Actual Result: The...

Using data providers to populate states based on their country

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Issue Create data providers for the country list and state list by using the below Liferay provided 'Rest Web Services'. localhost:8080/api/jsonws/country/get-countries and...

Custom Category in Breadcrumb

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Issue Trying to add an entry in Liferay Breadcrumb in the custom portlet. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution The requirement is not available out of the box in Liferay. If you want to achieve this functionality,...

Unable to preview images when selecting images in Web Content image field

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Issue Unable to preview images when selecting images in Web Content image field. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution There is a possibility the issue is caused by the missing configuration on the Adaptive Media page....

Uploading Images through Web Content disappear after upgrade

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Issue When uploading images using the image field in a web content structure, the images do not appear in the documents and media portlet. After running the upgrade to Liferay DXP 7.3 from a prior version of Liferay,...

Your browser doesn‘t support pasting with the toolbar button or context menu option

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Issue When trying to paste content from the clipboard into the CKEditor through the "Paste as plain text" button on Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, you'll receive the message: Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+...

Loss of CKEditor functionalities on Fix Pack 9 (DXP 7.2), Fix Pack 20 (DXP 7.1) and Fix Pack 97 (DXP 7.0)

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Issue After upgrading to Fix Pack 9 (DXP 7.2), Fix Pack 20 (DXP 7.1) and Fix Pack 97 (DXP 7.0) several CKEditor functionalities will no longer be operating: LPS-125443 - The "Browse...

Portlet drop-down menus don't collapse with a custom theme

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Issue When deploying a custom theme generated using the Theme Generator, the drop-down navigation menu of a portlet (in mobile view) does not close/collapse after the menu is expanded. This behavior does not occur when...

Empty style selector in Page Fragments

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Issue Steps to reproduce the issue: Create a page fragment with any text and publish it Drag it on a content page Publish the page Open the developer tool and inspect the fragment source code, you will get an empty css...

Tooltip Messages appear twice when hovering over icon

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Issue User sees tooltip messages appearing twice when hovering over various icons (i.e. help icon) throughout the portal. Environment DXP 7.2 GA1 to Fix Pack 9 Resolution This behavior is caused by a regression bug and...

Is it possible to leave alt text empty for a required image of a Web Content Structure?

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Issue As a content creator, I would like to leave the alt text empty of an image which is set as required by the corresponding Web Content Structure. This would allow screen readers to skip reading the image...

Internet Explorer 11 appends the "zx=" parameter to the URL

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Issue DXP administrators and users may notice a zx= parameter appended to the URL while navigating through the pages of the portal. For example: http://localhost:8080/web/guest/page2?zx=5ml8zs91pgxm Environment...

Can I add custom permissions through resource-actions/default.xml in a Liferay JS widget generated by Liferay JS Generator?

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Issue After generating a JS widget through the Liferay JS Generator, there won't be an apparent way to leverage custom permissions, like it's possible through the resource-actions/default.xml file in a...

Key Points while creating a 'Theme'

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Issue Key Points that can be noted when creating a new theme in order to avoid issues. Environment Liferay 7.2 Resolution In preferencesMap, values must be Strings, String[], or a Collection<String>. group_id is of...

Receiving no 'View Usage' count with embedded web content after deploying a custom theme

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Issue The usage count in 'view usages' does not change when the web content is embedded through the theme Steps to reproduce Create 'Site' Create 'Content Pages' Create 'Web Content' Copy the friendly URL of the...

Hide Content Page Fragments from Search Results

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Issue I want to exclude fragments on a Content Page from Search Results. Example Use Case: Having a footer fragment in each Content Page that contains the company's contact information. I do not want to include the...

Can I access the configuration variable in a JS widget created with liferay-js:adapt?

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Issue Following Adapting Existing Apps to Run on Liferay DXP, after re-adapting a pure JS project (React, Angular, Vue) to become a Liferay JS widget with the liferay-js:adapt command, there will be no...

Unable to display web content preview in Site Administration

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Issue When trying to display a web content preview through the web content admin portlet: Administrators may notice various issues: The preview does not load at all The preview loads, then disappears The preview...

No content shown in Content Pages responsive mode

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Issue When trying to preview a Content Page in responsive mode on DXP 7.3 (Tablet, Landscape Phone, Portrait Phone), no content will be shown: Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Warning! Being this issue...

Nested Web Content Workflow status are not getting updated

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Issue When editing and publishing the web content which is having another web content embedded into it, its status becomes pending but the expected is that the structured/embedded web content's status...

Logs are flooded with errors of java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException

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Issue The following error shows constantly on the logs: ERROR [catalina-exec-54][LiferayMethodExceptionEventHandler:34] java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 2, Size: 2 java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException:...

Same result counts from 'Portletpreferences Table'

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Issue Reverting the theme is not deleting the portlet settings. Steps to reproduce the issue after deployed custom 'Theme' consists of embedded 'Web Content'. Navigate to the home page Verify web content. Execute...

How can I manage custom portlet options on Content Pages?

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Issue When deploying a custom portlet on a Widget page, several options will appear in the ellipsis menu: After placing the same portlet on a Content Page, those options will no longer appear. Environment Liferay...

Favicon not showing on legacy Microsoft Edge

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Issue Liferay DXP is running locally on http://localhost:8080 Liferay DXP favicon doesn't show up on Microsoft Edge legacy (EdgeHTML) v.18 or lower. Instead, a dummy favicon placeholder will be shown: On the same...

Message displayed when "Paste" operation is used in editing web content (CKEditor)

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Ability to set default "Viewable by" permission for assets

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Issue On a Site with only Public Pages, if I create an asset (such as Web Content or Documents and Media) the "Viewable by" permission is set to "Anyone (Guest)" by default. After creating a Private Page on the Site,...

Wiki FrontPage cannot be deleted or renamed

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The page you are viewing has been machine translated for your convenience. As such, errors in translation are possible. Please refer to the original article for the most up-to-date version of this content HERE. Issue...

When pasting a content into the Liferay editor, all the formatting is lost

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Issue After installing a Fix Pack, when an HTML content is pasted to the Liferay Web Content editor, all the format is lost, it no longer respects the styles. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 62+ Liferay DXP...

Several unnecessary modules appear in the browser's console upon opening the Liferay site

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Issue When opening the page of a Liferay DXP portal (public or private, logged in or not), several modules will appear in the browser's Developer Tools' "Source" tab @ http://localhost:8080/o/js_bundle_config:...

Liferay Accessibility Conformance Report Whitepaper (508 and WCAG Compliance)

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Liferay DXP Accessibility Conformance report based on VPAT version 2.4. Conformance to the listed accessibility standards has been evaluated by Liferay using a combination of automated...

7.3 Applications Menu shortcut "CTRL+ Shift + M" conflicts with Firefox and Chrome native shortcuts

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Issue The new Applications Menu on 7.3 DXP can be toogled with the keyboard shortcut CTRL+Shift+M, however, when not logged into Liferay, the same shortcut natively toggles the Responsive Design Mode in Mozilla...

Site Facet is not working properly

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Issue Steps to reproduce Create the sites - site 1, site 2, site 3. Create the page named "search" Drag the "search result" and "site facet" portlet to enable search on this page. Search for any site. Expected...

Resolving a "compressed-looking" control panel menu in a custom 7.3 theme

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Issue While attempting to upgrade our custom theme from 7.2 to 7.3, we have run into an issue where there is a "compressed" look for the new top-right control panel menu when comparing the custom theme with the...

How can I share the same navigation menu(s) with child sites?

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Issue We have multiple sites, each of them has its own navigation for navigating between the other sites. If we want to make any changes, we need to update them manually. Is it possible to share the navigation items by...

Getting "Unresolved requirement osgi.extender=liferay.frontend.js.portlet" when deploying a JavaScript Widget on Liferay DXP 7.1

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Issue Developers create a JavaScript widget as per Creating and Bundling JavaScript Widgets with JavaScript Tooling The below error will be printed upon deployment: INFO...