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Defining Metadata Sets For Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions

Defining Metadata Sets For Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions With Documents and Media, you can define reusable groups of metadata fields that can be added to custom Document Types. Once created,...

Defining Document Types for Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions

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Defining Document Types for Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions In Liferay, Document Types are templates used for uploading files and categorizing them in Documents and Media. These templates are...

For Liferay 7.3.x and Earlier

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For Liferay 7.3.x and Earlier The Documents and Media application comes with a built-in image editor. Edit images right from your browser and apply filters, adjust contrast, or crop. In the...

Limiting File Size

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Limiting File Size You can configure file size limits in Documents and Media. Set a maximum file upload size or for more granularity, define file size limits based on MIME Types. This can take...

Document Types and Metadata Sets API Basics

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Document Types and Metadata Sets API Basics Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/Portal GA132+ Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST services for Documents and Media that add document types and...

Digital Asset Management

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Digital Asset Management Use Liferay’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) features to store, organize, and reuse documents, images, and other media across your site. The Documents and Media library...

Document Shortcut API Basics

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Document Shortcut API Basics Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST services for Documents and Media that add document shortcuts to sites or asset libraries, list their information,...

Documents and Media Analytics

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Documents and Media Analytics Documents and media files are assets you want site users to look at or download. Analytics Cloud provides insights on user engagement with your documents and media...

Documents and Media images Not Visible to Guest Users

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Issue Images and files uploaded to Documents and Media are not visible to guest users, even with "View" permission granted to the Guest role. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 [and above versions] Resolution Guest...

Documents and Media widget displays "Copy to" action for Guest users

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Issue The "Copy to" option is displayed in the Documents and Media widget for Guest users, even though they lack the necessary permissions to perform this action. This can lead to a poor user...

Is it feasible to hide fields in the upload Section of Document and Media?

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Issue Is there an OOTB feature to hide the following fields in the Document and Media Upload section? Document Type Display Page Categorization Expiration Date Friendly URL Related Assets Permissions Environment...

Web Content "Modified by" User Appears to be Incorrect After Translation

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Issue After translating existing web content, the last modified user displayed is the original author, not the translator. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution The "Modified by" user and timestamp for web content...

Google Drive authentication randomly fails in a multi-node cloud environment

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Issue Google Drive authentication usually works correctly, but sometimes it randomly fails with java.lang.IllegalStateException: Authorization oAuth2State not initialized errors in the logs. Google Drive was...

Empty search lists all the message board threads

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Issue We created a few message board threads in the portlet and if we run an empty string search, all threads are displayed in the search result. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution This is the...

Author information that is displayed in the forum posts

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Issue When users send messages or create threads in the discussion forum, certain information about them (name + surname) is displayed. This article covers the need to change this behavior through a customization and...

Understanding the 'Viewable by' dropdown and Download permission for file uploads in DL

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Issue How do the 'Viewable by' dropdown and Download permission work when uploading files to the Document Library? Environment 7.4 U76 - 2024.Q4 Resolution 'View' permission → 'View' and 'Download' permissions The...

How do you stop Liferay from saving files to tomcat/temp/?

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Issue How do I prevent Liferay from saving files in the tomcat/temp/ directory? Environment Liferay DXP Quarterly Release Resolution There is no OOTB way to stop files from saving in the tomcat/temp/...

Error 404 when trying to access Web Content & Document Media using a domain name

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Issue Error 404 when trying to access Web Content & Document Media using a domain name over the machine IP for the Liferay instance. Environment Windows Server 2019 using IIS Web Server Liferay...

Unable to Access Liferay Javadocs from docs.liferay.com

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Issue I'm trying to access Javadocs such as https://docs.liferay.com/portal/7.4-ga1/javadocs/portal-kernel/. However I'm getting redirected to https://learn.liferay.com/w/reference/index. Environment All versions...

Error during file indexing: ClassNotFoundException: org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Encodable

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Issue When indexing files, the process fails (terminates abruptly) and the following information is printed in the logs: org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Encodable cannot be found by...

Image added via rich text editor on Wiki tool losing reference

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Issue When adding an image in a rich text editor within a Wiki Page using Ctrl C + Ctrl V and then publishing that page, the image loses its reference and is no longer displayed in my content manager. Is there any way...

Adding or Editing a Web Content in an Asset Publisher does not display a success message

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Issue When editing or adding a Web Content in an Asset Publisher that is on one of my Portal pages, no message is displayed to the user confirming that the action was performed or if it was successful. If this step is...

Checking for missing files in the Document Library as a result of File Store Migration

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Issue If Document Library files are missing after performing a File Store Migration, can the missing files be identified? Environment Liferay 7.4 Resolution The following Query may be able to check for what is...

Can we hide the External Video Shortcut option?

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Issue We want to hide the above-mentioned option from the Documents and media because we don't want our users to be able to add videos, can we do it somehow? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution It is...

Some documents are missing the Download permission after an upgrade

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Issue After upgrading from 7.4u60 to 2024.Q1.4, users are unable to download files from documents and media. They are able to view the files, but the download permission isn't set on their roles. I understand the download...

After copying the data to the Message Board, the numbered list not continuing

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Issue Copied the data from the Word file, pasted it into the Message Boards's Thread, and published it. After publishing the Thread, the number list is not continued and shows like: 1. a. 1. a. 1 a. Steps to...

Uploaded document's file extension not visible in the URL

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Issue While uploading the documents in the 'Documents and Media' section the file extension is not showing in the URL. Example: In Liferay 7.4 update 24, uploaded the document in the 'Documents and Media' section,...

How to retrieve images associated with Asset Categories from custom code?

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Issue When editing a category, it is possible to set images. However, when trying to get those images from my custom code, I am unable to do that. There are no related methods in AssetCategory objects. Environment...

Authority to view form entries

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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...

What does the TempFileEntriesMessageListener actually do?

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Issue In our logs we see some errors apparently related to an hourly job, TempFileEntriesMessageListener the triggering interval of this job seems to be set in System Settings/ Documents and Media/Service/Temporary File...

Why after upgrading to Quarterly Release images show extra information?

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Issue After upgrading to Quarterly Release images show extra information like version, timestamp and so on. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Please consider requesting LPD-19203 on a Support ticket. Another...

Wrong guest view permission assigned to images inserted into message boards threads (not following the thread's guest view permission)

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Issue if there is no private page on a site, and we create a message boards thread with "Viewable By"="Site Members", and you insert an image in the message (with the editor's image icon), that image will in the Documents...

Documents Modified date changes if documents are moved between folders

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Issue If we move documents between folders their Modification date is updated even if the document itself has not been modified. Environment Liferay 7.3+ Resolution The actual behavior is expected and a...

Document Search takes too long to return results

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Issue I have a page for displaying document search results, and it takes too long to load (several seconds). My site has hundreds of content pages, each containing dozens of widgets (including those from the master...

WebDAV authentication with username and password has not been working since 2023.q4

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Issue Until version 2023.q4 (excluding), the standard authentication (using username and password) to connect to WebDAV worked correctly. Since this version, such authentication has been disabled. Environment 2023.Q4...

Retrieve file from a closed Help Center ticket

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Issue Is it possible to retrieve a file from a Help Center ticket that has been marked as closed? Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution After moving a ticket to a solved status, all the files shared on it are...

The editor is able to translate the non localizable value in Web Content

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Issue We've spotted a new translation-related bug, please follow the steps to reproduce it: 1. Go to Content & Data -> Web Content and switch to the Structures tab. 2. Click on the context menu in the top-right corner...

Placeholder text visible for empty mapped web content

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Issue If you have web content with optional inputs and then map these to fragment fields in display page template. The fragment components will display default placeholder texts if the web content doesn't have values...

The status for shared content is blank

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Issue The status is not visible, it always coming blank. Steps to reproduce: Navigate to the 'Content and Data'> Document and Media> upload 1-2 documents upload a new image and click on three dots to get the share...

ConnectionPoolTimeoutException: Timeout waiting for connection from pool when full reindex

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Issue As an Admin, users want to be able to decide if they want to cache extracted text when indexing so that if they are doing re-indexing they can disable this cache. In 7.4, there is an HTTP request call to S3...

Access to Display Page Template via webdav

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Issue The Display Pages templates aren't accesibles via webdav. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution It is not possible to access via webdav to Display Page Template. There is a solution to access it via Headless API...

Old images' thumbnails are not displayed in Google Chrome

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Issue Some thumbnails related to images created a long time ago are not displayed in Chrome, but they can be displayed in Firefox. When inspecting the request through the Developer Tools, there is one of following...

Users without permission can see title of other dynamic data lists

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Issue Consider the use case below. Log in as admin and create a regular role role1 and add to it the DDL permissions visible in the attached screenshot Dynamic-Data-Lists-01.png. Create a user A. Create a user group UG1...

Data migration of documents to S3 fails with NoSuchFileVersionException

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Issue We use the Data Migration tool to migrate our document library from FileSystemStore to S3 (although the issue might be relevant for other migrations too) While it runs, it fails with NoSuchFileVersionException (see...

How to set up OpenOffice/LibreOffice integration in a Docker environment

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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 I am running Liferay through Docker and I would like to enable the...

DocuSign is not working for Production environment

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Issue DocuSign works properly with developer DocuSign credentials in the UAT environment, however, while working in production with prod DocuSign credentials, users are unable to view or receive the entries on the...

Unable to play .wav audio files

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Issue Unable to play audio files of the '.wav' extension on the iOS app. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution To mitigate this concern, please include the...

DocuSign Error: The access token provided is expired

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Issue When attempting to work with a new token for DocuSign integration, the following errors are observed: DEBUG [https-jsse-nio-443-exec-38][DSEnvelopeManagerImpl:177] [LPP-50430] value of Json Object is...

DocuSign API rules and limit

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Issue APIs are failing, hence Liferay has to provide a feature to restrict the API limit. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 DocuSign Resolution With the current DocuSign integration feature provided by Liferay, the...

After migrating to DBStore, how to check it was (entirely) successful

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Issue We are in the process of migrating documents and media from our file-system based store to the database (DBStore) How to find out if all active documents and media are migrated to the database? Is there a way to do a...

Uploaded documents are available for all sites using different virtual hosts

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Issue Create two sites Set a different virtual host for each site e.g. testsite.local, testsite2.local Upload a document into Documents and Media on your second site See that the uploaded file is available when...

How to bulk edit Categories?

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Issue How can a Liferay user bulk edit Categories in the Documents and Media? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Go to a DXP site. Navigate to Content&Data --> Categorization -->...

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...

Performance problem when uploading a new file having a high number of pages

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Issue Users may experience significantly slow upload times when uploading a new file to a site that contains a high number of pages. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The issue is addressed by LPS-202905....

What are the differences between using name and property in metatags

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Issue We were creating custom meta tags and we see there are created using "property" attribute instead of "name" attribute. Are there any differences between using name and property? Are they equivalent?...

No preview is generated when Gifsicle is enabled

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Issue With Gifsicle enabled, when uploading a new image, its preview and adapted images are not generated. The following warning is reported in logs: WARN...

Guest user cannot see a Document when accessed by the Latest version URL

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Issue A Document has "View" permissions enabled for Guest users. When the Guest user wants to access the Document by using the Latest version URL, the Document is not accessible. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4...

Preview of PDF document (generated with ItextPDF) contains unwanted spaces between letters

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Issue We are generating our PDF files programmatically using ItextPDF 7.2.5 API The Library used is compileOnly group: 'com.itextpdf', name: 'itext7-core', version: '7.2.5' After uploading such a PDF file to DXP's...

Uploaded images are not visible to Guest users

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Issue Guest (Unauthenticated ) users are unable to see the images when uploaded in a folder via the portlet "Document and Media" even though "View" permission is enabled. Steps to reproduce: Navigate to...

Edit image from document & media accepting all file extentions regardless of configuration

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Issue The invalid extension document is uploaded with the valid extension name. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.4. 2. Navigate to Control Panel > System Settings > Documents and Media > Service. 3....

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