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ERROR: aggregate functions are not allowed in UPDATE Position: 54 when upgrading a PostgreSQL database

Issue During the upgrade progress to 7.4 a fatal error occurs in process com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_4_x.UpgradeCompanyId: INFO [main][UpgradeProcess:145] Failed upgrade process com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_4_x.UpgradeCompanyId in 76 ms INFO [main][PortalUpgradeProcess:190] Failed...

Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.journal.service

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Issue During your upgrade process, you might encounter an error during the com.liferay.journal.internal.upgrade.v1_1_0.DocumentLibraryTypeContentUpgradeProcess step: Caused by: com.liferay.portal.kernel.xml.DocumentException: Error on line 12 of document : The reference to entity "S"...

Does the Admin user have to be active to upgrade Liferay?

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Issue We are going to upgrade our Liferay portal and would like to know if there is any problem if the Admin user is inactive. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution To perform the Liferay upgrade it is not necessary for the user with the Administrator role to be active. Additional...

Failed upgrade process com.liferay.dynamic.data.mapping.internal.upgrade.v1_1_2.DynamicDataMappingUpgradeProcess

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Issue During your upgrade process, you might encounter an error where the upgrade step for module com.liferay.dynamic.data.mapping.service fails due to a NullPointerException: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at...

Update database indexes

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Issue You might face a requirement where you need to update your database indexes, such as during an upgrade process or a database migration process Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Up until Liferay DXP 7.3: setting the database.indexes.update.on.startup=true property in the...

Error updating time zone definition - n.f.ical4j.model.TimeZoneUpdater

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Issue The following logging error is observed on a regular basis: n.f.ical4j.model.TimeZoneUpdater - Error updating timezone definition java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out (Connection timed out) How can this Liferay server-side request be disabled? Environment DXP 7.0+...

"Portlet must not be null" error during upgrade

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Issue You might encounter an issue where you face an error during upgrade such as follows: 2023-03-29 08:09:14.891 ERROR [Framework Event Dispatcher: Equinox Container: 6a56b6f1-2524-4207-a9fb-dfe9b3dab41e][Framework:56] FrameworkEvent ERROR java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Portlet...

Unable to sync callable error during upgrade

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Issue You might encounter the following error during your upgrade attempt: ERROR [main][DependencyManagerSyncImpl:54] Unable to sync callable java.lang.NullPointerException: null at...

Installing hotfix on weblogic server

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Issue How to install the hotfix on weblogic server Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 - 7.4 Resolution Although this documentation explains Setting Up the Patching Tool in Weblogic, here are the easy steps Check theliferay.homefromportal-setup-wizard.propertiesand unzip the latest patching tool...

Illegal mix of collations during upgrade process

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Issue You might encounter the following error or similar during the upgrade process if your database's collation differs from the collation of the tables: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: java.sql.SQLException: Illegal mix of collations (utf8mb4_general_ci,IMPLICIT)...

Is there a Headless API to retrieve a User Profile Image?

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Issue I would like to retrieve a user profile image via Headless API. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Currently, there is no Headless API for retrieving User Profile Images. Additional Information A feature request was opened at LPS-166212. If this feature is selected for development by...

Users can't see all of their own roles when they make a my-user-account headless API call

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Issue When users make a my-user-account headless API call, most of their roles are listed in the response, but their custom regular roles are missing. If an administrator makes the headless API call, all of their roles are listed. Environment Liferay 7.4 Resolution When new roles are...

Can't change user's password: Passwords may not be changed under the current password policy.

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Issue As an administrator, when trying to change a user's password the message "Error: Passwords may not be changed under the current password policy" is shown. Under certain circumstances the message is NOT shown, but the passwords cannot be changed regardless. Environment Liferay DXP...

Starting nodes concurrently can lead to incorrect module upgrades

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Issue Module functionality seems to fail after moving to a newer fixpack. After executing a system:check unsatisfied dependencies like the following appear: Component with ID 58 is unavailable due to missing required dependencies: service dependency...

Log4j warnings after upgrading to Fix Pack 15

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Issue After upgrading Liferay DXP 7.2 to Fix Pack 15, the following warnings and error are printed in the logs on startup: log4j:WARN Continuable parsing error 3 and column 30 log4j:WARN Document root element "Configuration", must match DOCTYPE root "null". log4j:WARN Continuable parsing...

Cannot start up server after applying a new patch

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Issue After installing a new fix pack / hotfix, the portal is not starting up, even though the temporary folders have been deleted. 06-Dec-2021 13:15:32.439 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to listener...

Known Issue: "PermissionChecker not initialized" errors are observed and no pages are rendered following upgrade to 7.3

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Issue After upgrading from 7.0 to 7.3, when we start up our bundle for the first time the site does not render any pages (other than to show "powered by" on the home page) and the following error can be observed in the logs: Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException:...

How to get the groups associated to organizations using JSON Web Services

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Issue There is no method available in the JSON Web Services API to obtain the groups (i.e. sites) associated to organizations. Is there a way to get them? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 Resolution There are two auxiliary methods available in the JSON WS API than can be...

Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.portal.scheduler.quartz

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Issue During our upgrade process we are facing the following error: INFO - Failed upgrade process com.liferay.portal.scheduler.quartz.internal.upgrade.v1_0_1.QuartzUpgradeProcess in 1 ms ERROR - Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.portal.scheduler.quartz...

Accessing a site page from a different virtual host

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Issue When there are 2 or more sites for example Site1 and Site2. Site1 is mapped to the friendly URL "site1" and Site2 is mapped to "site2". They both have virtual hosts site1.com and site2.com. The sites can be reached through localhost:8080/web/site1 or localhost:8080/web/site2 as...

Allowing non-admin users to move between sites with minimal permissions.

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Issue Users who are assigned to multiple sites without admin permissions are not able to switch between sites. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution By defining and assigning a new Regular role with "Access in Control Panel" and "View" permissions for sites, you can grant non-admin users...

Guest User cannot upload File in Form - An unexpected error occurred

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Issue We have a Form with an Upload field where authenticated users can upload files but Guests cannot. All permissions are provided for Guest user. When the user selects the file to upload, an error message appears immediately: "An unexpected error occurred while uploading your file."...

Is it possible to manage resources per instance in Liferay?

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Issue You have a Liferay server and several virtual instances, and want to know if it’s possible to configure resources for each virtual instance. Environment DXP 7.2+ Resolution Unfortunately handling resources for each instance is not possible, in terms of memory, disk space and JVM...

user_ .modifiedDate table changes upon User Login

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Issue When a user logs in, Liferay is changing the user_ .modifiedDate value in the database table. Environment Liferay 7.4 Resolution The behavior where user_ .modifiedDate field is modified upon User Login has been determined to be Intended Behavior. This includes when a user's...

Liferay userGroup view permission not working

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Issue Post assigning VIEW permission of 'UserGroup' to a role, assigned users are able to perform all the operations on UserGroup, i.e. there is no restriction. Steps to reproduce: Create a custom regular role, with the permissions attached in the screenshot. Create a new user (say...

Getting Error 'java.io.IOException: Unable to include JSP'

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Issue User has encountered similar error post installation of a liferay hotfix: ERROR [https-jsse-nio-0.0.0.0-8443-exec-29][DynamicIncludeUtil:81] java.io.IOException: Unable to include JSP /html/portal/dynamic_include/view.jsp java.io.IOException: Unable to include JSP...

Guest users get a 200 OK response when calling URL

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Issue When guest users call http://<server>:<port>/manage, they get a 200 OK response. Steps: Start a vanilla Liferay DXP server Log in Go to the Personal Menu, click the user's avatar Log out Go to http://localhost:8080/manage Expected Behavior: HTTP 4xx Error Observed Behavior: HTTP...

Who added user ddm_form_default_user_screen_name in Liferay?

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Issue We found the user ddm_form_default_user_screen_name in our Liferay Portal. Could it be a security attack? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution The user with name ddm_form_default_user_screen_name is an internal user automatically created by Liferay. When there is a page that...

How to resolve duplicate Anonymous Users

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Issue My upgrade failed with the following error: failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.user.associated.data.web com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: com.liferay.portal.configuration.persistence.listener.ConfigurationModelListenerException: The listener...

Restricting impersonation to allow only a single users impersonation at a time

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Issue An Impersonator should be able to impersonate only one user at a time. Currently, Liferay supports multiple users to be impersonated, at the same time in the same browser. We tried to find any properties which can restrict the impersonation to only one user at a time. Can you...

Large number of records on the SamlSpSession table

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Issue There are a large number of records on the SamlSpSession table, which is causing issues with my upgrade. Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.2 All DXP versions Resolution Extra records can be removed using the attached groovy script (this script has been verified on Portal 6.2 and DXP...

Email are not sent from Liferay when Office365 is used as the server

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Issue Emails are not sent out from Liferay In the log, we see the following error: liferay[liferay-7] [dxp] ERROR [liferay/mail-6][MailEngine:74] Unable to send message: 535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, the request did not meet the criteria to be authenticated successfully....

Need to create a role for accessing Server Administration

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Issue User needs to create a custom role and add permissions to access Server Administration Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution There are no options provided under System to add these permissions. Only an Administrator role user would be able to access these portlets. There is a...

User can see more Organisations

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Issue We have a problem the User, who has access and rights to selected organizations, can see all organizations when updating user info. Reproduction steps: Customer main user opens Users and Organizations Portlet Selects Organization Selects user and clicks Edit (step3.png) Select...

Can SAML be used to send an attribute that can be used to assign site roles?

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Issue Currently, SAML is not designed to be utilized to send an attribute that can be used to assign site roles. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution This is an ongoing task, LPD-6336, for Liferay. Liferay is planning on implementing a form of this in the future but this will be...

How to remove languages in Instance Settings?

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Issue How can a user remove languages in Instance Settings? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Start up a vanilla bundle without any specific language settings. Go to Control Panel > Instance Settings > Localization. Make sure all languages are available. Stop the...

How to get a list of portal Users and what Roles are assigned to them?

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Issue I would like to get a list of Liferay portal users and what roles are assigned to them. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+ Resolution Please run the attached Groovy script: ListUsersAndRoles.groovy Additional Information Running Scripts From the Script Console, content:...

What is the Default Service Account?

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Issue What is the Default Service Account? What is its purpose? Why is a default-service-account row added automatically to the User_ table? Can this user be removed or adjusted? Environment 2023.Q3+ Resolution Imagine that you want to create a user via the API, and you're making the API...

Good practices in using Publications

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Issue I would like to understand from the Product's point of view what would be the best way to create a new website using the Publications tool. What would be the best option among the scenarios below: Create the website first, then the publication for pages and content? Create the...

"Unable to import user" messages when performing concurrent authenticated JSONWS calls against an LDAP cluster

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Issue Given an environment with the following components configured: LDAP cluster with more than one node. JSONWS calls through basic authentication. LDAP Import enabled. Login against LDAP. Several concurrent authenticated JSONWS calls are executed from the same user with basic...

Redirecting to a Custom Page post SAML Authentication in Liferay

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Issue I followed the guide Setting the Default Landing Page in Liferay Portal, to set up the default Landing Page, but it doesn't work with a Custom Page. Even though I followed the given steps, users are directed to the default Home Page after SAML authentication, not to the Custom Page...

Administrators cannot manage Omni Admin apps, like the App Manager

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Issue Users having the "Administrator" role cannot access the App Manager through Control Panel → System →App Manager. Environment DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 Quartery Releases Resolution Take into consideration the following points to resolve the situation: Users must have the...

Upgrade to 7.4: DDMFieldUpgradeProcess takes an awfully long time

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Issue We are upgrading to 7.4 and noticed that the upgrade process is working a lot at DDMFieldUpgradeProcess, this part seems to be taking a very long time Environment upgrade to 7.4 Resolution This is known. It happens because this process normalizes the json or xml data from the...

The Job Scheduler Portlet is not accessible through the Control Panel

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Issue A new Role has been created and enabled the Job Scheduler portlet to the new Role, but unable to access the Job Scheduler portlet with the new user. Steps to reproduce: 1. Navigate to Control Panel-> Role and click on the '+' icon and create a new role, with the name ‘New Role',...

Cannot redirect user account creation page to prevent guest users to create new accounts

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Issue Would like to be able to control user account creation on the portal. Trying to use the redirection feature of Liferay, however, it seemed not to be working. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Configure the following property and set its boolean: company.security.strangers=false With...

How to hide the particular folder from user under document and media

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Issue How to hide a particular folder from a particular user in the document and media section. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Follow the steps to achieve this requirement: Navigate to the Control Panel > Users > Roles and create a role say- 'Management' Navigate to Control Panel...

Data migration by virtual instance

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Issue we'd like to manage a gradual migration from DXP 7.0 to DXP 7.3 Is it possible to define a database per instance on DXP 7.3? Is it possible to migrate data per instance from DXP 7.0 to 7.3 knowing that the data for both environments will evolve in the meantime and that the...

Hide default login page /c/portal/login

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Issue Is it possible to hide the default /c/portal/login page? We want users to use a specific login page, and prevent them from using /c/portal/login to log into the portal. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution You can leverage auth.login.url property to achieve this: # Enter a URL...

Portal.properties link not up to date

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Issue I am looking at the link https://docs.liferay.com/dxp/portal/7.4-latest/propertiesdoc/portal.properties.html to inspect the default portal properties, but it doesn't seem to be up to date. For example, some properties, like com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.i18n.I18nFilter, are...

Approver does not have access to preview of Content Page

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Issue Created a custom role to approve Content Pages Added View and Update permissions for Pages When the user with the role opens the Workflow Task and clicks the preview button, the following error appears: Forbidden: You do not have permission to access the requested resource. ...

Unable to select organization in segment property

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.4. 2. Add an organization. 3. Add a segment. 4. Add an organization property. 5. Select the organization. Expected result: User should be able to select the organization. Actual Result: No response when clicking select, unable to select...

Enabling Special Characters for Screen Names and Passwords

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Issue When trying to use special characters for setting screen names and passwords, not all special characters are accepted. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution There is a simple workaround available to enable additional special characters to be accepted. Adding the following property to...

Screen name must not be duplicate but is already used by user SAML Error

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Issue Some users can't log into Liferay via SAML when Liferay acts as Service Provider. There's an error in the logs about a duplicate screen name: 2023-11-30 18:04:53.521 ERROR [ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8009-exec-2][WebSsoProfileImpl:809] Screen name 12345 must not be duplicate but is already...

Unable to assign organizations to users if SPA is disabled

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Create portal-ext.properties with this property to disable SPA: javascript.single.page.application.enabled=false 2. Navigate Control Panel → Users & Organizations → Organizations → Add Organization → Name it & Save it. 3. Navigate Control Panel → Users &...

File upload feature for guest users in Liferay Forms

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Issue We have a requirement to create a Liferay form having a document upload feature for guest users. Currently, in Liferay 7.1 uploading documents is not available for guest users. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution The file upload feature for guest users in Liferay Forms has...

Modules with escapeModel=true attribute in search-container not working

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Issue We have detected that the modules that implement the search-container with escapedModel="true" attribute in the search-container-row, are not working. We have also seen the following messages appear in the logs: at...

Error managing documents and URLs using GCS

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue When using GCS as a storage solution in your On-Premisse or Liferay PaaS environment, after adding an image file to your document...

How to solve error: the parameter is null: _companyLogRoutingFilePatterns

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Issue Trying to migrate from 7.4 to Q3, you could observe that in catalina.out file there are some errors such as the following: 2023-11-17 09:54:43,839 main ERROR The parameter is null: _companyLogRoutingFilePatterns 2023-11-17 09:54:43,840 main ERROR The parameter is null: _dirPattern...

How to check item display permissions

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Issue If the container folder (JournalFolder) of a web content does not have VIEW permissions for Guest, the contents are not seen if we are not logged in. This was different in 7.2. What has changed? Environment DXP 7.4 DXP 7.2 (Migrated to 7.4) Resolution In DXP 7.2 there is a setting...

Regarding the definition of privileges for roles, there are some items that are not reflected.

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue In the Summary of Role Permission Definitions, there are items whose...

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