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Performance issues with working in the Miller columns with a large page tree

Issue In environments with a large page structure having many sub-pages, portal administrators may notice slowness and lagging while browsing the tree. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution This is currently a...

In Account Settings, Chrome autofills the "Job Title" field with the username

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Issue When users update their password in the "Account Settings" section, Chrome will autofill the "Job Details" field: Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution Liferay is unable to reliably fix this issue as it...

How to prevent content pages from scrolling unexpectedly when interacting with a portlet below the fold

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Issue When interacting with a Liferay DXP portlet below the fold of a Content Page, the page unexpectedly scrolls to the top. The result of the interaction is properly displayed, but the user must scroll down to...

IE11 "unable to get property of 'selectors' of undefined or null reference" Errors

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Issue After patching to dxp-8, the Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) console is throwing "unable to get property of 'selectors' of undefined or null reference" errors Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution This error is...

The "Private Pages" menu can not be removed even after removing all private pages

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Issue After removing all of the private pages, the "Private Pages" menu remains. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 dxp-18 or before Resolution One possible reason is that the "content page" was created before under Private...

[CKEditor] Adding alt-text to images

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Issue In order to comply with WCAG accessibility guidelines, we would like to add alt-text to the images that are uploaded in the Documents & Media gallery. How can we do that? Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution If you...

How to search using JournalArticleLocalServiceUtil and sort by title?

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Issue When using the JournalArticleLocalServiceUtil class to search for web contents, we are facing the following issues It is not possible to sort by title, since its localization is being stored in the table...

Duplicated back button on search results

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Issue During search, duplicated back buttons appear on the result item's page. Steps to reproduce: 1) Set up a vanilla Liferay DXP 7.2 2) Create a Web Content to be searched on (for example name it as 'test') 3)...

Can I Customize Blog RSS Feeds?

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Issue I would like to be able to modify the Blog RSS feel to include custom fields from my Blogs portlet. Are there any out of the box methods for this? Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution It is not currently possible...

Copy-pasting an image into a Web Content HTML field is stored as base64 characters

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Issue When an image is copy-pasted into the Web Content editor, it is stored as a base64 collection of characters. What is the limit of this image? Are there any alternatives to this behavior? Environment DXP 7.0...

Special characters are used in friendly URLs

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Issue Special characters, e.g. åäö are shown in friendly URLs, instead of showing the ASCII version. Example: page is titled new page åäö becomes /new-page-åäö instead of /new-page-aao Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution...

Web Content articles' Title and Summary fields cannot be empty

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Issue Add a translation to a Web Content by deleting the default translation to the Title and Summary fields. After the publishing is successful and the web content is opened again, the default translation is shown...

Unable to embed videos in Knowledge Base articles with the

Issue After publishing a new Knowledge Base article including a video embedded with the <video> HTML5 tag: <video controls="" height="240" width="320"><source...

Why Are Announcements Visible to Everyone After Setting the Distribution Scope?

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Issue After setting the distributions scope in the Announcements Portlet, the announcements which it displays are now visible to all users and guests. I would like to restrict the announcements to the users...

Deprecation warning in the browser's console: "Value provided is not in a recognized RFC2822 or ISO format"

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Issue After patching a bundle with a fix (Fix Pack or hotfix) that includes the solutions for LPS-121066 and LPS-121499, customers and DXP users may notice the below warning message in the browser's console:...

I cannot set the default template for a web content structure

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Issue When I create web content based on a structure with multiple templates, I would like to change the default template of that structure. Environment Liferay portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0 + Resolution In order to...

JournalArticle not properly indexed with 'Document contains at least one immense term' error

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Issue When attempting to perform a re-index, JournalArticle contents are not properly indexed due to an error similar to the following: For Solr: 2020-09-23 06:32:13 ERROR org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Exception...

Filtering expired web contents shows incorrect results

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Issue We have a web content that we set to Expired, then changed the Expiration Date to a date in the future so not it is shown as Approved. When we look for the web content using the Approved filter, we can still see...

Adaptive Media not applied on Content Pages

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Issue I noticed that Adaptive Media is not applied in fragments with an image. Add an image to the Documents and Media Library with a width above 600px Go to Control Panel→Configuration→Adaptive Media Add a new...

After a web content owner loses his membership of a site, he can still edit all the previously authored web content

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Issue If an editor user creates a web content, and after his site membership is removed, he can still edit/configure the web content. Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.0+ Resolution This behavior works as intended. The Web...

Custom editor configuration is not applied to repeatable fields

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Issue After implementing a custom EditorConfigContributor to override the configuration of a web content editor, e.g. as below: @Component( immediate = true, property = { "editor.name=alloyeditor",...

Metadata is not restored when deleting recent modification from history

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Issue While restoring an older version of a web content article the metadata tags do not return to the previous state and stay in the modified state. Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution This behavior is intentional so it...

Making changes to a Velocity Application Display Template does not update dynamically

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Issue When making changes to a Velocity Application Display Template, these changes are not processed and updated dynamically, and are not reflected immediately upon saving. Environment Liferay 6.2 Resolution This...

Embedded Language Selector with "Select Box" template throws "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'attr' of null" when switching language

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Issue When embedding the Language Selector in the theme or a layout template and setting it to have "Select Box" template in the portlet's Configuration settings, the below error will be thrown in the browser's...

"Error: Please enter a valid title." when creating or editing a web content

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Issue After updating to DXP 7.2 Fix Pack 7, we can't create or edit web content articles that default language is different than the site's language by enabling the "Changeable Default Language" in the...

Asset Publisher ordering breaks when switching to a non-default language

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Issue I created some Web Contents based on a Web Content Structure The structure has a Date field I have an Asset Publisher Widget on the page The Widget is configured to show Web Contents with the above structure...

Javascript errors and disabled elements when editing or saving Web Contents

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Issue When editing or creating new web contents based on a custom structure, the information may be inconsistent, fields may be disabled and non editable, or related errors may be observed. This is an...

Gulp build task fails with: "Error: It's not clear which file to import for '@import ..."

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Issue After launching a gulp build task, the tool will encounter an error similar to the below: [15:14:33] 'build:compile-lib-sass' errored after 811 ms [15:14:33] Error in plugin 'gulp-sass' Message: ...

Disable Liferay "set your preferred language" message

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Issue In case the User's Display Language is set differently than the language of the Site that is being displayed, a warning message appears with the option to set your preferred language. You may wish to...

Web Content Display portlet shows content for Guest even when permission is denied

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Issue When creating a new web content with permission set to denying access to it for Guests and adding it to a Web Content Display portlet which a Guest can see, the portlet shows the content regardless of the...

After upgrading to Fix Pack 17, extra privateLayout=true lines are generated in the database

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Issue After upgrading to Fix Pack 17, we can see in the database that some private layouts are generated even though we have no private pages. Environment DXP 7.1 with Fix Pack 17 Resolution The private layouts are...

How to resolve an "Invalid state passed to 'buttonStyle'" browser console error when using an asset publisher to view Rich Summary content

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Issue When using the "Rich Summary" template in an Asset Publisher to view web content, we are seeing multiple warnings in the browser console that look like the following: Warning: Error: Invalid state passed to...

Microsoft Office XML metadata are copied in CKEditor

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Issue Liferay content editors and administrators may sometimes notice that, on Firefox ESR, when copying (CTRL+C) and pasting (CTRL+V) the content of e.g. Microsoft Word in the CKEditor, the below XML metadata...

Audience Targeting filename

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Issue What does WCM-XXXX in the Audience Targeting source filename? Example: Liferay Audience Targeting 3.0.0-WCM-1508-src.zip Environment DXP 7.1 Resolution Aside from the version (3.0.0.), the other part...

How to include unique links in an RSS feed that point to a displayed web content article

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Issue Our team is attempting to set up an RSS feed for web content, but are running into one of two issues: either all URLs listed in the feed are identical (pointing to the site, instead of pointing to where an...

In DXP, it is not possible to differentiate configuration per site on embedded portlets

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Issue In DXP, a portlet could be embedded like below: <#assign preferencesMap = {"portletSetupPortletDecoratorId" : "barebone"} /> <@liferay_portlet["runtime"] instanceId="1234"...

Navigation Menu portlet won't list child of child pages

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Issue While using any Navigation Menu portlet template different from the "List Menu" one (for example: Bar Minimally Styled), in a long page tree with multiple children pages, like: Only Welcome and Level1page...

Web content loses its display page when deleting the default Asset Publisher from the page

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Issue We have a Widget page with an Asset Publisher on it, which is set to be the default AP on that layout We also have a web content and our page is set as its display page in the web content's...

Getting the themeDisplay object in DXP themes and layout templates

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Issue In Liferay Portal 6.2, the themeDisplay object was inherited in themes and layout templates. How is it possible to get the same object in DXP? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay...

Changing layout's type removes portlet preferences

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Issue Changing our page's type from "Layout" to "Link to URL" then back to "Layout", the page won't retain its portlets configuration Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 with Fix Pack 93 or below Resolution The...

Contributed Fragment Collection's content is not correct after deployment

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Issue We have created a Contributed Fragment Collection, carefully following the documentation The collection contains two fragments After successful deployment, we see only one fragment is present twice...

How Can I Share Widget Content on Social Media?

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Issue I would like to share blogs, web content, and other asset-based widgets on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, or Linkedin. Environment DXP 7.2 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.0 Resolution Sharing widget content on...

Handling Freemarker Template Errors in the UI

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Issue Liferay renders Freemarker Template errors in the UI, particularly when a Web Content template references a non-existent value from a Web Content structure. This can potentially cause confusion or negative user...

Liferay Audience Targeting 3.0.0+ does not work with Hypersonic

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Issue Liferay Audience Targeting does not work with the built-in Hypersonic or HSQL database. Environment Liferay Audience Targeting 3.0.0+ Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution Hypersonic is not supported by Liferay Audience...

Locale exceptions

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Issue After upgrade, from Liferay 7.0 to Liferay 7.2, facing the issue when trying to disable any option in public page configuration. The below exception is observed...

How to Resolve Commas Automatically Inserted Into Web Content When Using the Integer Structure

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Issue When editing previously published web content which was made using the integer structure, commas are automatically inserted into the integers. This prevents the content from publishing. Environment Liferay...

Can not change virtual host from an existing virtual instance

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Issue After editing the virtual host field from an existing virtual instance, the new value suddenly disappears after clicking on Save button. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2, fix pack dxp-5 or higher Resolution...

Invalid CSRF Token warnings

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Issue Invalid CSRF Token warnings appear in the logs, if portlet.url.anchor.enable=true is set in portal-ext.properties. User 20127 is not allowed to access URL http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home and...

RSS Publisher portlet on Widget Pages can be refreshed by guest users

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Issue RSS Publisher portlet on Widget Pages can be refreshed by guest users. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Add an RSS publisher portlet to Wiget Page...

DevTools failed to load SourceMap: Could not load content for popper.min.js.map on Chrome browser

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Issue While using a production instance of Liferay, the below warning will appear in the Chrome console: DevTools failed to load SourceMap: Could not load content for...

Can not add images in a Paragraph fragment of a Content Page

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Issue It is not possible to link an image in the rich-text editor of a Paragraph fragment in a content page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 fix-pack dxp-6 or older. Resolution This is a known and fixed bug....

Errors occur after Liferay Faces upgrade

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Issue After the upgrade of Liferay Faces (by updating the given versions in dependencies shown in the provided screenshots), the following error occurs logs: javax.el.ELException: Function 'p:component' not found...

Are Blade/Gradle FrontEnd NPM 7.0/7.1 portlets still available and supported on 7.2?

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Issue Developers are using Blade/Gradle FrontEnd NPM portlets on DXP 7.0 / DXP 7.1, for example: https://help.liferay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018170751-React-npm-Portlet...

[CKEditor] Browse Server button is missing from Image Info tab

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Issue Using the CKEditor, in Image Properties I cannot see the Browse Server button under the Image Info tab so if I want to change the image, I have to delete it and add it again. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2...

User is redirected to the Pages section after saving a Widget Page

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Issue When creating a new Widget Page and saving it, the user is landed on the Pages section instead of the newly created Widget Page. Environment DXP 7.1+ Resolution This is an intended behavior that was...

Web Content validation is not working on mandatory field

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Issue Web Content validation is not working on the mandatory field. Steps are as follows: 1. Create a new Web Content structure with an Image field. 2. For Image field: change "Required" & "Repeatable" to Yes. 3. Create...

Which table keeps the data for Web Content in the Database?

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Issue Which table keeps the data for Web Content in the Database? Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution The tables whose name starts with "journal*" are the ones that keep the data related to Web Content. , content:...

How to load a third-party npm package as a JS provider OSGi bundle in Liferay 7.1 and 7.2?

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Issue Front-End developers may at times need to load third-party NPM packages in Liferay DXP and consume them from the Liferay APIs Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 + Liferay Loader version 4.x Liferay DXP 7.2...

Why does it take so long to save a Web Content article?

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Issue When we try to Publish (save) a Web Content article it takes several minutes. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution By default when a Web Content article is saved within Liferay DXP 7.2 all versions of the...

Language priority when a page is displayed

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Issue Which localization is being used when a page is displayed? Environment Liferay Portal DXP 7.0+ Resolution The language of a page can be determined by 3 factors: the page URL (whether there is a...

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