Capability

Personalization

Liferay provides powerful out-of-the-box features for building and delivering personalized experiences to users. Personalization features empower you to deliver novel site experiences that differ based on defined user segments, design and execute A/B Tests, and more.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Served pages contain links with URLs including the port number
Issue The server is generating HTML/pages with links containing the Web Server's port number in the URL. Example: https://www.myliferayportal.com:443 Environment All DXP versions Resolution If you want to avoid this...
For Oracle Database users, ORA-01795 appears while reindexing
Issue For Oracle Database users, an error indicating ORA-01795 appears while reindexing ORA-01795: maximum number of expressions in a list is 1000 Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Please try to adjust the...
Cannot display user input field value in Web Content templates
Issue When using getData in Web Content template (see example code below), the field reference is displayed instead of the user input field value.  (Output: 'Option92682299' is displayed instead of user input value "Test...
Compile Error when removing build.gradle changes needed for com.liferay.portal.dao.orm.custom.sql. in 7.1 and beyond
Issue When addressing build.gradle changes needed for com.liferay.portal.dao.orm.custom.sql by removing the version number, and a compile error is returned. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3...
Headless API doesn't return a 401 after token expiration
Issue When I make a headless API call after the OAuth token has expired, I expect the call to return with a 401 status code. However, Liferay returns other status codes after OAuth token expiry. For example, when...
We can't get the catalina home path in tomcat in DXP 7.4
Issue After migrating to DXP 7.4, we are unable to get catalina home path by using the variable ${catalina.base} or ${catalina.home} This was working in DXP 7.3 and below Environment Liferay DXP 7.4...
Sometimes the "This portlet could not be found. Please redeploy it or remove it from the page." error is displayed instead the real portlet
Issue Sometimes after starting the Liferay server, the: This portlet could not be found. Please redeploy it or remove it from the page. error is displayed instead the real portlet Environment Any Liferay DXP version...
Non service builder generated services are not retrieved by ServiceLocator in freemarker template
Issue By default, is not allowed to retrieve non-service builder generated services by ServiceLocator in freemarker template, getting this error: 2022-08-25 08:30:38.427 WARN [http-nio-8080-exec-10][ServiceLocator:42]...
Encountering 'UT005023: Exception handling request to /: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0' errors when starting JBoss EAP server
Issue The server cannot be started due to the following error after installing DXP 7.4 on the JBoss EAP server: ERROR [io.undertow.request] (default task-1) UT005023: Exception handling request to /:...
Deploy Liferay DXP 7.3 as a Windows Service in a Liferay Bundle
Issue How to deploy a Liferay DXP 7.3 bundle as a Windows Service Environment Windows OS Resolution  Download from Apache Tomcat windows binaries. Copy the missing files from the bin folder in the downloaded...
How to interpretate order in event actions like logout.events.post
Issue Imposing an order to event actions that can be defined either in portal-ext.properties or as an OSGi component (using key property) is somehow tricky. Environment Configuring an event action that needs to...
Can't change user's password: Passwords may not be changed under the current password policy.
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...
Unable to add 'related products' via headless API
Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.3 2. Create a site using a 'minium site template'. 3. Invoke the below API using CURL: curl --location --request PATCH...
The first FreeMarker Engine entry in the list cannot be removed by a user interface control
Issue FreeMarker Engine interface has 2 variables: 'Restricted classes' and 'Restricted variables'. Open user interface: Control Panel > System Settings> Template Engines > FreeMarker Engine (in DXP 7.4). There is...
How can jQuery be enabled by default without using the Control Panel?
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"No primary key column found for XXXXX" on upgrade process
Issue During the upgrade process you could see this errors in your upgrade logs: 2021-09-30 14:25:57.235 INFO [main][UpgradeProcess:115] Failed upgrade process com.liferay.portal.upgrade.PortalUpgradeProcess in 8114...
Empty drop down icon is visible in calendar portlet for guest users
Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.3 2. Drop the 'Calendar Widget' on a page. 3. Configure the Calendar portlet to disable the RSS subscription. 4. Now, access the page as a guest user. Expected...
Log level of jsonwebservice
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Using the default locale property/environment variable won't change the language
Issue Setting the default language in the portal-ext.properties, with the property company.default.locale=nl_NL or as an environment variable LIFERAY_COMPANY_PERIOD_DEFAULT_PERIOD_LOCALE=nl_NL  doesn't change the...
Dockbar is temporarily unavailable workaround
Issue Suddenly, while navigating or performing an action, an error like "Dockbar is temporarily unavailable" appears. Resolution Usually this error, if it doesn't happen consistently, is a consequence of...
User wants to setup a scheduler job, but only with one specific node within the cluster.
Issue User wants a scheduler job to run on only one specific node of the cluster. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution A cron job can be disabled in a certain node...
Invalid character found in the HTTP protocol
Issue The tomcat server is fully started, however for some reason, it's shutting down after some minutes with the below error INFO [http-nio-8080-exec-7] org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service...
Scheduled job not failing over when master node goes down
Issue You might encounter an issue with your custom scheduled jobs where they are not getting planned if the master node goes down and the new master is elected Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Make sure...
Show Number of Requests in Redirection > 404 URLs Tab
Issue When I navigate to Site Administration > Redirection > 404 URLs, all URLs show 0 requests Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution For the 404 URLs Requests counter to track the number of views, View Count must be...
Scheduled publications are always scheduled using the server time zone on 7.1
Issue Staging publishes scheduled for the future automatically defaults to server time zone, which does not allow for much flexibility unless one manually re-schedules them. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution...
How to redirect a user's browser refresh request to the logout page
Issue Users should redirect to the Logout page whenever they refresh the page (CTRL+R) or attempt to reload the page from anywhere in the application. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution There is no portal...
How to clear only a specific OSGi module directory from osgi/state/
Issue Is it possible to clear only the data from a specific module in osgi/state/ instead of clearing the whole directory? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Imagine we want to clear the data of module...
I cannot save Instance Settings after changing the default web ID
Issue I added the following property to the portal-ext.properties file: # # This sets the default web ID. Omniadmin users must belong to the company # with this web ID. # # Env:...
Web Content Display Widgets all Display the Same Content after Upgrading
Issue When upgrading from 7.2 to 7.4, importing a .LAR file results in the web content display widgets all displaying the same content. Additionally, updating any one of the web content display widgets causes the...
ClassNotFoundException when using DynamicQueryFactoryUtil.forClass
Issue When trying to using Dynamic Queries there can be ClassNotFoundException errors if the DynamicQuery is obtained using the method DynamicQueryFactoryUtil.forClass. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution To...
Database password needs to be changed
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Startup problems and slowness after installing an Antivirus on the Liferay host machine
Issue After installing an Antivirus on the Liferay host machine, we have detected startup problems and slowness using the Liferay product Environment Liferay DXP 7.0-7.4 Resolution Official support policy for antivirus...
White space is showing while inspecting the view source
Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Take Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3. 2. Add the below properties in portal-ext.properties. com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.strip.StripFilter=true strip.mime.types=text/html*,text/xml 3....
'Pre-bound JDBC Connection found!' exception
Issue We have some custom modules using a common external DataSource. When module A calls module B within a database transaction, following exception is raised:...
Impact of "Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory --April 2022" on DXPC
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java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Native Library xxxx already loaded in another classloader after redeploying
Issue In our custom developments, we are using a Jar library that uses an external native loaded using JNI. When we deploy our custom development in a clean environment everything works fine, but if we redeploy it,...
Unable to sort the product by price
Issue Sort the product by price i.e. low to high or high to low by using the price:asc sort field via catalog delivery headless API. But, getting below exception: { "status": "BAD_REQUEST", "title": "Unable to...
'The string this-site,this-site does not correspond to a valid search scope preference' console errors
Issue Even though the hotfix that was generated by including LPS-146763 is installed, the following errors appear. ERROR [default task-83][BaseJSPSettingsConfigurationAction:83] Unable to include JSP...
If the destination page is empty, the search bar portlet is temporarily unavailable
Issue When the default '/search' parameter from the destination page field is deleted, the search bar portlet becomes unavailable. Steps to reproduce: 1) Start Liferay DXP 7.2 with fix-pack-17 (previous fix pack...
Audit logs for site page deletion
Issue Need to get audit logs for site page deletion/ update. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution There are no OOTB configuration available for getting the Audit...