Site Search - Liferay Learn

Issue Expected Result: I expect links to look different than normal non-link text. Ex. -links should be blue in color with an underline so that users will know the link is available. Actual Result: Links...

When does a new version in JournalArticleLocalService.updateArticle is created?

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Issue New version of a web content can be created when calling JournalArticleLocalService.updateArticle Environment Liferay DXP Resolution A new version is created when the latest article version is in one of the...

Hide asset title in Asset Publisher's details view

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Issue Configure an Asset Publisher in a page using a display template different than the 'Full Content' one. Click on any asset: it shows its details, including the asset's title. Environment Liferay DXP...

Content page displays wrong title when special characters are used on it

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Issue If the title of a Content page has special characters on it, the title will then be displayed with "&". This usually happens when you place the character "&". For example: "Documents & Media", in...

SEO - Titles in Google's search results page don't display expected text

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Issue After configuring the "Title SEO" of a page, Google and other search engines don't display the value as-is. If we use a customization to remove the Site and Instance names, they keep showing in search results...

Integration with Vlibras Script

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Issue When attempting to include the Vlibras script into the page, certain errors arise, causing the script to malfunction or causing buttons and links to stop working properly, for example. Environment Liferay...

404 error for fragments images after updating site friendlyUrl

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Issue When we change the site friendly URL, fragment images stop working and 404 errors were found in the browser console. Steps to Reproduce: Set up Liferay DXP 7.4 Update 74. Navigate to Site Builder > Pages >...

Content display date not showing user timezone

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Issue The user's time zone setting is not reflected in the display date of mapped content in the fragment. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution This functionality does not exist yet in the Liferay Portal. There...

Bootstrap Accordion does not work correctly

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Issue When I click on the expand button, the expanded area is not displayed, so I am not able to change the text (without editing the text in the source code). Environment Liferay DXP 7.3+ Resolution System settings...

Assets created from an Asset Publisher don't keep the categories and/or tags of the filter

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Issue An Asset Publisher (AP) can be configured to filter by certain categories and/or tags. When the Display Settings of the AP has Show Add Content Button enabled, it's possible to create new assets directly from...

The validation message of some inputs doesn't mention the correct input name

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Issue Fields marked as required and left empty when trying to submit a form or publish a folder display a different error message than what is expected: “This field is required”. Environment DXP 7.4 U49+...

Mark searchable toggle button by default OFF while creating new web content

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Issue We would like to mark the searchable toggle button switched OFF by default in basic web content while creating new web content. Currently, while creating new web content, the searchable toggle button is ON by...

Site-Initializer: parent and child page

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Issue We are looking into how to generate child pages with the site-initializer. Can we use the native Liferay to generate child pages or do we have to go through code? Besides, maybe there is a simple way to override...

ADA Accessibility - Newly opened dialog box is not accessible using the tab key

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Issue Expected Result: Focus should move to the newly displayed content when navigating using the tab key. Actual Result: I expect focus to move to newly displayed content when I press the TAB key, like the...

Collection display page url not getting mapped properly

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Issue We have a collection page with web content cards and want to link those cards to the display page URL. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution By default, a Web Content's Display Page selector is set to "Default", but a...

Category Translations - Export/Import with LAR

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Issue We have thousands of categories and we have added translations into the category in one environment. We want to export all the translations related changes through LAR Export Feature and import it into other...

How to add custom Meta tags to specific page

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Issue We added the following meta tags via the page settings, but that generated html code is encoded and it is not working: <meta content="<html lang="fi"/> <meta name="sdg-tag"...

ADA Accessibility - Text appears to be Heading 1 but not announced by screenreader as Heading 1

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Issue Expected Result: All text which are visually appearing as text is recognized as text by the screen reader. Actual Result: There is text content visually appearing as heading but not recognized as heading by...

Cannot publish article without friendly url

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Issue In our Liferay 7.4 instance, editors encounter an error when attempting to publish an article without a Friendly URL, which differs from the behavior in Liferay 7.1. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The...

frontend-css-web module was removed in DXP 7.4

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Issue If I use frontend-js-override module, is there any impact on front-end-js-web module due to removal of frontend-css-web ? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution frontend-web-css was removed in Liferay 7.4 here:...

Importing LAR using "Copy as New" option does not create a new copy of it

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Issue When exporting a Web Content article as a .LAR file and importing it through a Web Content Display widget using the "Copy as New" option the imported one mirrors the changes of the original article...

Overlapping Buttons when using AlloyEditor for Web Content Articles

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Issue When using AlloyEditor, creating a web content structure that includes a repeatable HTML field causes the Source Button Toggle to be overlapped by the repeatable "plus" and "minus" signs. Environment Liferay DXP...

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

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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...

Modified date not match the author of a web content, document or any other asset.

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Issue The author displayed for content/documents is inconsistent when modifications are made by users other than the original author. When a user edits and publishes the content, the displayed author is...

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

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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...

I can select a Display Date in the past for a Web Content

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Issue After creating a Web Content, when I go to the Properties tab > Schedule section, I can select a Display Date in the past. No error message appears when I save the Web Content with a past Display Date....

Is it possible to create Style Books directly from a Client Extension?

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Issue Is it possible to create Style Books directly from a Client Extension? Environment DXP Quarterly Release 2024.Q4.0 Resolution Client Extensions can be created to modify the Liferay backend elements, like the...

Multilingual PDF search indexing fails with web content

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Issue Why does the main document entry contain only the metadata and not the content of PDFs? Is it possible to add the content of PDFs along with the metadata of PDFs in the main document entry? Steps to...

Including External JavaScript Libraries in Fragments from Documents and Media

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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...

Duplicate files in Liferay theme WAR file

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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...

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

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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...

What URLs can be used to access my workflow tasks

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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...

Web Content Display scope site selector

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Issue I cannot select content from other site different than Global and the current one. Environment Liferay 7.3, 7.4, Quarterly Releases Resolution The observed behaviour is the expected one: there is no...

Updates are not visible without a page refresh

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Issue After editing and publishing a fragment or page, the changes are not immediately visible, but a similar behavior could be reproduced in other ways. A manual page refresh is required to see the...

Browser Back Button Issue with Multiple Asset Publishers

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Issue When a page contains multiple Asset Publishers, the browser's back button may not work as expected. Clicking the back button may require multiple clicks to return to the previous page. Environment Liferay DXP...

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

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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...

Unable to redeploy a module

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Issue After deploying a module and removing it via UI or tomcat bundle, it doesn't redeploy successfully. It gets stuck in a "Processing" stage. Environment Quarterly Release DXP 7.4+ Resolution This is the expected...

Locating Default Asset Publisher Templates

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Issue Where can I find the default display templates used by the Asset Publisher? Environment Quarterly Releases: 2024.Q3, 2024.Q2, 2024.Q1, 2023.Q4, 2023.Q3 Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution The templates are located in...

"HTTP Status 400 – Bad Request" error occured when Updating Blogs' Custom Friendly URL

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Issue While updating the "Blogs" custom-friendly URL from "/liferay-blog" to "test-blogs/liferay-blogs," an HTTP Status 400 - Bad Request error appears on the UI. (A video demonstrating the issue has been attached.)...

How to create Charts in Quarterly Versions

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Issue The Chart Tag Library was removed in 2023.Q4 with no direct replacement. I would like to know how to create charts in a Liferay version higher than 2023.Q4. Environment 2023.Q4+ Resolution On GitHub, you...

Can I change the Article ID after disabling Autogeneration of IDs for Journal Articles?

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Issue When I change the ID of a previously created Web Content, after Publishing, the ID does not change. I have System settings → Web Content → Administration → Journal Article Force Autogenerate ID disabled...

Asset Publisher Subscriptions Only Trigger Email for New Assets

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Issue When using the Asset Publisher with subscriptions enabled, email notifications are only sent when a new asset is added to the selection. Updating an existing asset's content does not trigger a new notification....

Why doesn't the database's "userId_" update within the PLOEntry table with the ID of the last user to edit?

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Issue We've found that when updating any Liferay Language Override key-value, the PLOEntry table within the database is not being updated with the ID of the last user to edit. It is our understanding that the table...

Changing the Displayed Time Zone for Audit Logs

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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...

Can we filter users and child organisations separately in a parent organisation view?

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Issue Currently, when viewing users and child organisations assigned to a parent organisation, both entities appear in a unified list. This prevents users from viewing only child organisations or only users in a...

Can we get the Info panel visible in search results when selecting a specific Web Content?

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Issue When you go to Web Content, the Info Panel is visible on the top right corner. It is also visible when you select a specific Web Content and gives you valuable information. However, when you perform a search, the...

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...

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+...

Third-party translation engine: is it possible to configure banned/blacklisted words?

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Issue If using a third-party translation engine, does Liferay provide options to configure banned/blacklisted words to ensure they are excluded from generated translations across multiple languages? Environment Liferay...

Is auto-generating translations for widget pages, particularly for SEO metadata fields (e.g., keywords, HTML title, description) supported?

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Issue While Liferay provides the option to add translations for Content Pages, does it support auto-generating translations for widget pages, particularly for SEO metadata fields (e.g., keywords, HTML title,...

Third-party translation engine: is it possible to generate translations tailored to a specific brand tone?

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Issue If using a third-party translation engine, does Liferay provide options to generate translations tailored to a specific brand tone? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Liferay Quarterly Release Resolution Currently,...

Non-descriptive Accessibility Labels on Toggle Options

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Issue Toggle options in are labeled as 'checkboxes', and are not given an identifier. Therefore, Accessibility Readers report them as: “##### checkbox checked”. For example, inspect the element to find the...

How can a non-admin user access the Content Dashboard

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Issue I would like to create a non-admin user with permission to access the Content Dashboard. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution To make the Content Dashboard accessible to a non-admin user, you will need to...

Auto translation is not working using google cloud translation API

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Enabling Google Cloud Translation requires an active account and a Google Cloud project with Cloud Translation API enabled. This project must also have a service account with a JSON...

How to hide untranslated articles and pages

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Issue Is there an option to hide the articles, pages, and other content in particular languages? If the article does not contain a translation in the requested language, the user should be redirected to the main...

Users cannot edit some fields when using Firefox 119.

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Issue It has been noted that when using Firefox 119 users cannot edit some fields in certain widgets, affected Widgets included: calendars, categories, and blogs. Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution Updating to Firefox...

Unable to add new language in Liferay DXP

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Issue Set the new locale language from the available language to the current language. The below error appears on the UI. Steps to reproduce: Add the new language to Web.xml by navigating...

Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError When Creating a New Website

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Issue When try to create a new website from Control Panel > Websites, I can't create a new website. I don't get any error messages in Liferay logs, but in the Browser Console, the following error message appears:...

Python error when using theme generator on Windows

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Issue I am trying to create a theme with liferay theme generator on Windows but I am receiving a node-gyp or python related error. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution The generator uses node-sass. If you are on...