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Issue How can I configure an RSS feed for web content? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution In order to configure an RSS feed for web content, you should perform the following: Enable...

How to configure an asset publisher RSS feed with a short redirect URL and specific number of items

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Issue When configuring the RSS Feed in an Asset Publisher, I would like to have the URL in the RSS XML short without the long URL containing the "Redirect" part. I also would like to specify the number of items that...

How to modify or remove the logo when configuring SEO settings

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Issue When I create a new Site, I would like to remove or change the Liferay - DXP logo when configuring a specific page's SEO settings. How can I pursue this? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The...

How to create a fragment with a removable image

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Issue Is it possible to create a reusable fragment with different elements like the "Card Fragment" (headings, image, paragraph, button), but create it in such a way that there is a placeholder image that an end-user...

How to prevent a full day event from displaying on two days in the calendar's month view

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Issue When creating an all-day event that spans from 12:00 AM on one day to 12:00 AM on the next day, the event appears on both days in the calendar month view. How can I ensure the event is only visible on the first...

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...

Translatable fields display empty after deleting field translation instead default translation

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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...

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...

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...

Session timeout warning message does not show the counter

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Issue I have an issue with the session timeout message. After upgrading from DXP 7.1 to Quarterly Release, when a user session is about to expire, they receive a warning message that their session will expire in a...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Setting a Site-Specific Display Page Template for a Web Content created from a Global Structure

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Issue You are using a Web Content Structure that was created in the Global site so it can be shared across multiple sites. You need to set a default Display Page Template (DPT) for this structure, but you want the...

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...

Unassign Site Template from a Site / Export a site without the template it was based on

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Is there a way to unassign a Site Template from a Site? When importing a site using a .lar file into a company where the associated Site Template doesn't exist, an error occurs: "Site cannot be Imported as Site...

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...

Custom Widget Gets Rendered Twice

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Issue After defining a Custom Element widget and placing it on a page, it is observed that the widget is loaded twice. Sometimes this happens so fast that it is unnoticeable, other times a couple of seconds...

Creating Display Page Templates for Calendar Events in DXP 7.3

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Issue The documentation Using Display Page Templates in learn.liferay.com mentions you can create Display Page Templates for calendar events, but this for calendar events is missing in Liferay DXP 7.3. Environment...

The site name is appended to every Event/Meeting created in Liferay Calendar

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Issue The site name is appended to every Event/Meeting created in Liferay Calendar. Environment DXP Quarterly Release 2024.Q2.0 Resolution Liferay calendar displays the site name as default when the event or...

Impersonation Clashes with Cached Web Content Templates

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Web Content Templates can be configured for caching to boost performance. When not cached, the generated HTML is rendered for each request. When cached, the generated HTML is stored in the cache and...

Web Content Not Displayed in Context in Search Results

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Some web contents are not displayed in context when accessed from search results with the "Display selected search result in context" checkbox selected. For web contents displayed in an asset publisher, the...

How to modify the Cache-Control header to prevent browser caching issues

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Issue After deploying a new version of my theme, users are experiencing issues due to old Javascript files being loaded from the browser cache. Thus, we would like to modify the Cache-Control header of those...

Cannot add the Indonesia or Hebrew language to instance after changing locale codes to ISO 639 language codes

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue From Java 8 to Java 17, changes were made in locale support, specifically with the language codes for Hebrew(Israel) and Indonesian(Indonesia), according to this article:...

How to create Web Content with large images from text file?

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Copy-pasting large images from text file prevents the Web Content from being published, although it appears correctly in the editor. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution When images are copy-pasted...

How to preserve the structureId and formId during export/import to avoid mismatches between environments?

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When we export/import web content articles and forms, their IDs sometimes change. How to preserve the structureId and formId during export/import to avoid mismatches between environments? Environment...

Adaptive Media Images Not Displaying for Users in Product Catalog Search Results

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When using Adaptive Media with images in Product Catalog search results, the images are displayed correctly for some users, but not others. For example, Adaptive Media is not working for...

Changing the Displayed Time Zone for Audit Logs

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Even after changing the time zone for the instance within the Instance Settings, the time zone for the Create Date for the logs in Audit are still displayed in UTC. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Quarterly Release...

What URLs can be used to access my workflow tasks

legacy How To

Issue You may need to access a user's tasks without including their name in the URL or by explicitly including it. Environment Quarterly Release DXP 7.4+ DXP 7.3 Resolution Without User Identifier: It is possible to...

Duplicate files in Liferay theme WAR file

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When building a Liferay theme using Liferay Developer Studio, multiple versions of CSS and JS files are created in the WAR file. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution To prevent duplicate files in...

Including External JavaScript Libraries in Fragments from Documents and Media

legacy How To

Issue Need to use external JavaScript libraries that are uploaded to Documents and Media in fragments. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution To include external JavaScript libraries stored in Documents and...

Upgrading the theme: Can't find stylesheet to import errors

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue How many ways to build and upgrade the theme? Environment Liferay DXP [all version] Resolution There are three ways of upgrading the theme: 1. Client Extension 2. Gulp 3. Gradle If the user is updating to a...

Automated third-party translations: Translation Usage Metrics / Analytics

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Issue We would like to see more translation usage metrics or analytics about our translations when they are translated using third-party tools. For example, seeing the number of words displayed would be useful. Is this...

Sitemap does not show the complete page tree

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Using following URL http://my-domain/sitemap.xml does not show the complete page tree. What should we take into account for all pages are included in sitemap? Environment 2024.Q1.10 Resolution When you...

Is it possible to auto-generate translations for Web Content metadata such as the 'Description' field?

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Issue Beyond translating the web content fields from its DDM structure, does Liferay offer the capability to auto-generate translations for metadata such as the 'Description' field? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+...

Is there a setting that prevents Web Content publishing if the review date is set to a past date?

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Issue Providing a past date as the review date should trigger an error and block publishing Web Content Is there any configuration that would enable this? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Currently this feature...

Can URLs be localized in Navigation Menu and in "Link to URL" Layout Type ?

legacy How To

Issue We would like to have the possibility to use different external urls for different languages in the Navigation and menu elements and as Layout Type "Link to URL" in "Site builder -> Pages" For example: HU:...

After upgrading to Quarterly we can see a "could not resolve property: DDMStructureKey" error in the log

Troubleshooting

Issue After upgrading to Quarterly we can see the following error in the server log: ERROR [BasePersistenceImpl:629] Caught unexpected exception org.hibernate.QueryException: could not resolve property:...

Getting a web content in scheduled status using the headless rest API

legacy How To

Issue We are using the Liferay Headless API method getContentStructureStructuredContentsPage of headless-delivery /o/headless-delivery/v1.0/content-structures/<structure-id>/structured-contents To get a web content...

An error should appear immediately after uploading a file of wrong extension within the size limit

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Issue When trying to upload a file in blogs that is less than the specified limit with the wrong extension, it shows the progress bar for a while and then gives the error. Based on user experience, the error...

Access a site other than the default one without /web

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Issue By default, it is possible to access the pages of the website included with the default installation both with and without /web. This article addresses the need to change the site where this behavior is required,...

JournalArticleAssetEntryClassTypeIdUpgradeProcess WARN traces during upgrade process

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Issue After upgrading from 7.3 to 2024.Q3 we are getting lots of WARN traces related to com.liferay.journal.internal.upgrade.v5_1_1.JournalArticleAssetEntryClassTypeIdUpgradeProcess upgrade process: 2024-11-20...

Back Button is Unresponsive After Opening a Notification

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After opening a notification, I'm unable to return to the previous page by using the back button. The back button is unresponsive if I'm viewing a notification. Return button does not work when...

How to remove or deselect the theme for a specific page?

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Issue The user has deployed a custom theme as a WAR file, and it is configured as the default. As soon as they create a new page, the same theme is applied, but they want to remove or deselect the theme for that...

Query regarding special character (~) in the URL

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Issue There is a special character (~) observed in the URL when navigating to site settings. Is this special character "~" a part of the URL design pattern of the product or is this is a security concern?...

Is there an alternative to the 'Liferay.Util.selectEntity' function?

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Issue After upgrading to 2024.Q2+, Liferay.Util.selectEntity does not work anymore. It has been removed, according to the 2024.Q2 Breaking Changes. Is there any replacement for it? Environment Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+...

How to filter web content by structure field with headless APIs

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Issue Create a custom structure and use a headless API to filter web content based on specific fields within that structure Environment Quarterly Releases DXP 7.4 DXP 7.3 Resolution The following...

Categories translated to a new language do not show the updated language despite setting the language in Account Settings

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue We've found that when using the 'Multi Column Layout' widget template and setting the Language section on a category filter to French (ex: fr_Fr) it reverts back to 'en_US'. This occurs even when the Account...

How to add a comment in Page Comments widget as Guest?

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Issue How to add a comment in Page Comments widget as Guest? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution 0.) Use a vanilla Liferay 7.4 with the latest quarterly release. 1.) Go to Design --> Page Templates -->...

Angular custom element Client Extension does not load on SPA navigation

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Create and deploy an Angular custom element Client Extension, for example: liferay-sample-custom-element-3 . Drag the custom element into a page and navigate with Single Page Application enabled:...

DeepL Auto-Translation Error from English (en-US) to German (de-DE)

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When using the DeepL Translator integration in Liferay 2024q2.0, an error occurs while attempting to auto-translate web content from English (en-US) to German (de-DE), despite German being a supported language in...

Create journal articles (web contents) programmatically

legacy How To

Issue I would like to know an easy way to create web contents programmatically. Environment Liferay DXP 2023.Q4 Resolution NOTE: The following resolution requires customization and should only be implemented at the...

Pages Hierarchy menu is cutting off the menu items when there are many nested pages and no scrolling option available either

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Issue Customer has noticed that in the Pages Hierarchy menu there is no option to scroll horizontally if the page names don't fit the menu window. The page names are also cut and there isn't any way to read them....

Control Panel will not open until all portlets are loaded in the page

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Issue clicking on the Global Menu (aka Open Applications Menu) icon in that black bar which is at the top of our UI all of the time (for administrators) does nothing until the page below is fully loaded. Even though...

How to remove Glowroot from the environment in Liferay DXP 7.3

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Issue Steps to remove Glowroot from lower and production environment in Liferay Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Stop the server. Kindly take a backup of the Glowroot folder. Remove the -javaagent:[path of...

Error 406 No locales match the accepted languages

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue When creating web content using POST, PUT, or PATCH API requests, an Error 406 is returned if no locales match the accepted languages: { "status": "NOT_ACCEPTABLE", "title": "No locales match the accepted...