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

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...

Unable to install Liferay Push v. 4.0.1 on DXP 7.2 Fix Pack 4 or lower

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Issue When running a DXP 7.2 portal and trying to install the Liferay Push plugin v. 4.0.1 from the Marketplace, the following error will be thrown upon restarting the server: INFO...

LCS Grace Period in a Containerized Environment

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Issue Once my LCS subscription expired, my containerized environment was disconnected immediately instead of entering the LCS grace period. Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 DXP 7.3 Resolution...

LDAP Performance Issues after upgrading from 6.2 to 7.2

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Issue Seeing some slowness authenticating with LDAP after upgrading from 6.2 to 7.2. Environment DXP 7.2 [Upgraded from 6.2] Resolution Install Fix Pack 9 or a hotfix that includes LPS-122832 and run the upgrade process...

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...

Monitoring Disk Usage for Jenkins

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It is helpful to see how close you are to running out of space on Jenkins. We have provided a way to see the current disk usage of the CI service. Login to the Jenkins service and navigate to "Disk...

Is a duplicate Organization Name allowed in DXP?

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Issue Is there any way to turn off the duplicate name check for Organization Name? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution By default, the Organization Name is not allowed to be duplicated., content: Issue Is there any...

Understanding Liferay DXP's compatibility with Elasticsearch

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Introduction Last updated: May 28, 2025. The Search Product Team often receives questions about Liferay DXP's compatibility with Elasticsearch. This seemingly simple question belies surprising complexity: it depends...

[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...

What is App Builder?

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Issue What is the App Builder feature in DXP 7.3? Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution DXP 7.3 includes the possibility of building applications visually, backed by the Data Engine. To try this go to: Control Panel > App Builder >...

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...

Denied resolving class [...] error is shown in custom FreeMarker/Velocity templates (LSV-658)

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Issue Custom FreeMarker and Velocity templates generate the following error after installing a fix pack: Denied resolving class [...] by org.apache Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 FP92+ Liferay DXP 7.1...

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...

Restoring multiple items from the Recycle Bin

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Issue Is it possible to configure the Recycle Bin to allow users to select multiple objects and click a single time to restore all selected? If not, is this feature in your roadmap at all? Environment DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1...

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...

Message Board Portlet - File Attachments

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Issue Is it possible to deactivate File Attachments on the Message Board portlet? Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Liferay DXP+ Resolution By adjusting the role/permissions according to the user and the...

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...

How to implement custom resolvers for Liferay Connector to SAML 2.0

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Environment Liferay DXP 7.0-7.4 Liferay Connector to SAML 2.0 v3.1+, v4.1+, v5.x, v6.x,v7.x Resolution This sample module (^source is attached to this page) aims to provide minimal boilerplate code one can use to...

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...

"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...

How to send a confirmation email to authenticated users about Form submission?

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Issue I would like to send a confirmation email to the user who just submitted a Form Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution It is possible to use the Workflow engine to send an email to the logged-in user who...

Can not save a Form after adding a validation rule to a numeric field on a Form with a translation

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Issue In forms with a translation, if you add a Numeric field and add a validation rule to this field, you can not save the form. You will see the following message: Error: The validation expression () set...

SharePoint Repository Location

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Issue Not able to find the SharePoint Repository Location Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution To use the Sharepoint the portal should be on fix-pack dxp-4 or above. Also, the Sharepoint plugin is required which can...

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...

Multiple language support for Knowledge Base

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Issue How can content be created in the Knowledge Base in multiple languages? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution It is a current feature...

Backup service does not show on PRD 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 While checking all the services available at the...

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...

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: ...

Open Graph tags and feature is missing

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Issue I am trying to configure Open Graph based on the following article: Configuring Open Graph but the functionality is not available in our environment. Environment DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 Resolution Open Graph is...

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...

Assign bulk users to an organization/user group/site

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Issue I'd like to add many users at once to an organization/user group. How to do it? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Currently it is not possible to assign bulk users to an organization or user group from...

How to install Liferay Connector SAML 2.0 without need to restart in a Docker Container for Kubernetes usage

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Issue I have a docker image in Kubernetes with Liferay installed. I'd like to deploy the SAML 2.0 connector plugin without the need to restart. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Copy the SAML 2.0 Connector...

Configuring Liferay's LDAP Settings to Import Users in DXP 7.3

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This article shows how to setup Liferay DXP 7.3 to import users from an LDAP server through the graphical user interface. The steps are the basically the same as for earlier versions of Liferay, but the UI...

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...

I cannot select birthday year in date picker using Liferay Forms

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Issue I have a form with a date field The date field should be used to select birthdays The year-selector goes back only 5 years prior to the current year Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3...

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