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Designing and Displaying Reusable Navigation Menus

Introduction This recipe guides you through the basic steps to build a multi-step form. Prerequisites Liferay DXP environment An object definition with fields A user who has access and control to create and manage objects,...

Freemarker templates escape HTML content in Text fields after migrating from Liferay DXP 7.3 to 2025.Q1

Troubleshooting

Issue After migrating from Liferay DXP 7.3 to 2025.Q1, HTML content within web content "Text" fields is no longer interpreted by Freemarker templates using ${field.getData()}. It is displayed as...

Finding your Liferay Cloud location via egress IP address

How To

Issue The ingress IP address of our Liferay Cloud instance shows a different location than expected. Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution The ingress IP address does not reflect the actual location of the specific...

Content lost when changing language during creation

Troubleshooting

Issue When creating content, such as a calendar event or filling a form, changing the language during the process can cause the loss of all entered information. This can happen if another browser window or tab is open...

Changes to Content Page Template Not Propagated to Pages

Issue After creating a Content Page Template and then creating pages based on that template, any subsequent changes and publishing of the template do not reflect on the pages using the template. Environment...

How can I disable the Commerce Wish List creation

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Issue I have an issue with the commerce wish list table in the database. The table has lots of entries and it is growing more, even though we do not use the wish list feature. I would like to remove these entries and...

Implementing strict rules for virtual hosts and friendly URLs

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Having the different URLs for the same content could potentially impact SEO by affecting how pages are indexed. Even when a virtual host is defined for a site, it is possible to access that site...

Integrate Okta with Liferay DXP using OpenID Connect

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Introduction This recipe guides you through the steps to integrate Okta, your Identity Provider (IdP), with your Liferay environment using OpenID Connect. Prerequisites Okta Dev account Liferay DXP environment Administrative...

Liferay IDE: Resolving 'Unable to make field private' errors with JDK 21

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Issue I'm encountering java.lang.reflect.InaccessibleObjectException: Unable to make field private ... accessible errors when starting Liferay from the Liferay IDE plugin within the Eclipse IDE with JDK 21....

CKEditor Customizations Not Applying to Translations or Forms

Troubleshooting

Issue Customizations made to CKEditor using an `EditorConfigContributor` are only applying to the editor when editing Web Content, but not in the editor for translations (accessed through Control Panel...

How to Configure PaaS to Push Metrics to Dynatrace Account

How To

Issue What is the correct way to configure our new PaaS environment to push metrics to a Dynatrace account? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Set the following environment variables in LCP.json ...

The "Menu Display" text appears in the Navigation Menu widget

Troubleshooting

Issue After a failed login attempt, the navigation menu's display text appears above the menu itself. Steps to reproduce: Create a site. Create a login page and deploy the sign-in widget. Create a navigation...

Translatable fields display empty after deleting field translation instead default translation

Troubleshooting

Issue When adding content to a translatable field in a structure and subsequently deleting the content in a secondary language, the field displays as empty in that specific language instead of falling...

Liferay and CVE-2025-24813

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Issue Does Liferay DXP have the vulnerability CVE-2025-24813? Environment Liferay DXP Quarterly Releases 2025.Q1 Resolution Liferay bundles and docker images are not affected due to the attribute...

Can Layouts Be Dynamically Assigned to Object Entries Based on Experience (e.g., User Role)?

Issue I’ve created an Object named TestObject and added two layouts: Test Layout 1 and Test Layout 2 in the Site Builder → Pages section. Behavior observed: If no layout is marked as default, the system uses the...

Limit the languages displayed in the translation selector for object fields

Issue We want to limit the languages displayed in the translation selector for object fields to only those defined in the site, similar to how it works for Journal Articles. Currently, the selector shows all...

Monotype Font Licensing

Issue Usage of Monotype fonts require a license If a user does not have the Monotype font license, is it necessary to remove references to Monotype font throughout the portal? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution...

Email Address Validation for Forgot Password

Issue The Forgot Password option does not validate if the user enters a correct email address. You can enter anything and the field will accept it. Two types of validation are expected: Email format validation (to...

"Inconsistent patch level detected" error occured in the logs

Troubleshooting

Issue The following error occurs in the logs due to an inconsistency in patch levels: Example 1: ERROR [server.startup : 2][PatcherImpl:204] Inconsistent patch level detected WARN [server.startup :...

Sorting Structures by Name in Liferay DXP

Troubleshooting How To

Issue The order of Structures when creating Web Content seems to be random. The structures are not sorted alphabetically or by modification date. Environment Liferay DXP 2024.Q2 Resolution Web Content Display widget...

ClayDatePicker making everything inaccessible

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue We've discovered that the page becomes unresponsive when using the ClayDatePicker in a react element. Steps to reproduce: Click on Date Picker Field Click on year dropdown within the Date Picker Without...

Hotfix created for 2025.Q1.X won't install

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue A hotfix created for 2025.Q1.X won't install even though it is being installed on the required version. The following information appears in the patching-tool info file. Product information: * DXP version:...

Structures showing as 'Not Translated' after upgrading to 7.4+

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After upgrading from Liferay DXP 7.3 (or prior versions) to 7.4, some Web Content Structures are showing as not translated in the UI, even though the translations exist in the database. The structure's fields...

Unable to Create Liferay Module Project Fragments and Start DXP 2025.Q1.0 Quarterly Release (LTS) in Liferay Developer Studio 3.10.2

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Issue In Liferay Developer Studio (version 3.10.2), when navigating to File > New > Liferay Module Project Fragment, nothing happens. The popup window for creating the fragment does not appear....

Default Language not being applied to not translated content

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue There is an undesirable behavior present when creating an object and utilizing the language translation. The content is empty instead of showcasing the content translated. Steps to reproduce: Instance Settings...

Can I add internal vocabularies through the Site Initializer?

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Issue We use the site initializer to create sites and we want to use internal vocabularies to categorize content. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution This is not available out of the box in 7.4, but this feature has...

User profile is visible when accessing the /web/test

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When accessing localhost:8080/web/test, the user profile is visible to guest users. The concern is that the user data being accessible to guest users poses a security threat. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4...

How to use JQuery client extension?

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Issue How to upgrade jQuery version using client extension? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution By using a client extension, user can add new features or customize existing ones without modifying the core code. ...

How to create a Clay Dropdown Menu with Button in Liferay 2024.Q2

legacy How To

Issue Cannot create a dropdown menu with checkboxes and an Apply button that is used to save the selection in the menu using Clay UI. Environment DXP 7.4 2024.Q2 Resolution You can add button functionality to modul by...

How to approach creating a MessageListener to verify a Publish while using Publications?

legacy How To

Issue How to approach to creating a MessageListener to verify a Publish while using Publications? Environment DXP 7.3 DXP 7.4 Resolution The Customer Support team has limited ability to provide a complete...

Content created within Publication is searchable using the search results widget but not via Blueprint

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Steps to reproduce: Navigate to Control Panel->Applications->Publications and Enable Publications. Click on the "+" button and add 2 new publications as Dev 1 and Dev 2. Create web content for each...

Search Bar text suggestions does not show content created in a publication

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Steps to reproduce: Navigate to Control Panel->Applications->Publications and Enable Publications. In Production, create a web content “testProd” Create a new publication P1. In P1, create a web content...

When building Liferay DXP, SAML modules are not included in .BOM files

legacy How To

Issue When building Liferay DXP, the .BOM dependencies file does not include SAML modules. Environment DXP 2023.Q4.0 Resolution It is not an issue and is confirmed to be intended as it is. DXP...

Image uploaded from the Document and Media is blur as compared to image uplaoded from tomcat ROOT folder

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When the image is uploaded in the system using the Document and Media and also using the ROOT folder of the tomcat server (/tomcat-9.0.75/webapps/ROOT/html), then the image uploaded from the Document and...

LCP Command Fails with "UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY" Error

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When deploying a microservices client extension using the LCP command in a Liferay Cloud environment, the command fails with the following error message: UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY. Environment...

Unable to edit documents after rejection in workflow

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue User is unable to edit documents after they are rejected in a single approval workflow. The edit buttons are disabled, which prevents them from making changes before resubmitting. Steps to Reproduce: Log in...

Organization tab do not shows the user when user is added to organization via Groovy Script

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After the execution of the below syntax in the Groovy Script, the Organization name gets appended to the user and can be seen only under the "User's details Organization Tab" but not under the...

Images viewed by guest users should not be searchable in the search results to guest users

legacy How To

Issue Images stored in the Document and Media library are set to be viewable by the Guest user (public access). These images should not appear to Guest users in the Liferay internal search results. The...

Restricting the Guest Role's Access to the Home Page

Troubleshooting

Issue When trying to change the view permission of a page it's not possible to do it for the Guest role in the first page: it shows as non-interactive. Environment QR 2024.Q3, 2024.Q4, 2025.Q1 Resolution This is...

How to Compare Between Versions When Using Workflow

Issue Is it possible for a reviewer to compare both the Old and New versions when a user makes changes and resubmits for workflow approval in Web Content, Document & Media, and Commerce Products? Environment Liferay...

How to allow unauthenticated (guest user) requests for GraphQL

Troubleshooting

Issue I implemented ReactJS Widget that relies on GraphQL requests for custom object values, with a widget exposing object entries to the public. However, unauthenticated GrapQL requests are disabled by default and...

Unable to Provision Users via SCIM

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue User provisioning via SCIM is failing. Liferay logs indicate a permission error: ERROR [org.wso2.charon3.core.protocol.endpoints.AbstractResourceManager] Unable to provision a portal user for null...

Downloading Large Log Files from Liferay Cloud

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Unable to download complete log files from the Liferay Cloud console. The downloaded file size appears truncated. Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution The Liferay Cloud console limits log file downloads to...

Redirecting a non-www Domain to a www Domain

legacy How To

Issue How can I redirect traffic from my non-www domain (e.g., example.com) to my www domain (e.g., www.example.com)? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Quarterly Releases Resolution You can configure a redirect using Liferay's...

Can Liferay pass User Roles to the Service Provider?

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Issue In a SAML configuration where Liferay acts as the Identity Provider, is Liferay able to pass its User Roles to the Service Provider? Environment Liferay 7.4 Resolution Yes, it is possible. Liferay will send...

NoSuchFileEntryException when updating web content with images in a task executor

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When updating web content within a task executor, if the web content structure includes an image field (fileEntry), the update JournalArticle updateArticle(article.getUserId(), article.getGroupId(),...

Most Viewed Assets Portlet Ignores Category Filters

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue We created our categories programmatically (using APIs). These categories are ignored by the Most Viewed Assets portlet. Even with category filters configured, the portlet shows assets based on views only,...

Admin UI breaks after changing site default language

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After changing a site's default language to a non-English locale and disabling English (United States) support, the Admin UI breaks. The issue occurs when the "Use Localized URL" option is selected in...

HTML in Text field in structures is not escaped

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Issue After upgrading to 2024.Q4, HTML markup found in the Text field within structures is no longer being escaped properly The HTML markup is showing up as plain text Environment 2024.Q4 Resolution This is the...

"Select Master Page is temporarily unavailable" when trying to add a Display Page Template

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue I want to add a Display Page Template and I get the following error: In the logs, I see: 2025-02-10 18:18:39.160 ERROR [http-nio-6080-exec-8][PortletRequestDispatcherImpl:295] Unable to dispatch request:...

"Interval is either equal or less than 0" error is produced during the upgrade and checkInterval is reset to zero

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When upgrade from 6.2 to 2024.Q4, following error is produced in the log files: 2025-02-11 20:48:20.910 ERROR [main][ROOT:47] bundle com.liferay.journal.web:5.0.180...

Request to /o/change-tracking-rest/v1.0/ct-collections returns 403

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When accessing Publications through the UI, they are not displayed. The request to `/o/change-tracking-rest/v1.0/ct-collections` returns a 403 Forbidden error when it goes through the Web Application Firewall...

How to Exclude User Names (userName field) from Search Queries in Liferay

legacy How To

Issue We want to exclude the userName field from search queries. This is to prevent irrelevant search results based on user names. For instance, if a user's name contains a common search term, Liferay will return content...

Add New Custom Domains and Avoid Downtime while Let's Encrypt certificate Is Generated

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When new custom domains are appended to to the existing list under "customDomains" in the "certs" part of the webserver LCP.json file, a new Let's Encrypt certificate is issued to include them. In the mean...

Dynamic Blueprint parameters with Search API

legacy How To

Issue Blueprints offer static filtering by field values, but a dynamic approach is needed where search fields enable filtering based on user-provided values for specific structure fields, Is possible to...

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

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

Collection Display Fragment is not responsive when using the CSS Medium Screen Size (col-md)

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue We've observed that when using the Collection Display fragment to display a collection of data/items and selecting the medium screen size (col-md), the responsiveness becomes unreliable. Environment Quarterly...

XSS Vulnerability present when using Web Content Article's source code

Troubleshooting

Issue We've observed a XSS Vulnerability present when using Web Content Article's source code. This vulnerability appears to be present when involving the deployment of a payload via the source code. Steps to...

SAML - Can you end the Identity Provider's session when the Service Provider's session times out?

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue We have Liferay configured as a SAML Service Provider (SP), and we use third-party software as the Identity Provider (IdP) Our IdP is used for multiple applications, so its session timeout is set for a...

Is integration of mTLS possible in Liferay?

legacy How To

Issue We are required to use mTLS (Mutual Transport Layer Security) for certain requests Is it possible to integrate mTLS with Liferay? Environment DXP 7.4 Quarterly Releases Resolution Yes, it is possible to...

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