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Internet Explorer 11 appends the "zx=" parameter to the URL

Issue DXP administrators and users may notice a zx= parameter appended to the URL while navigating through the pages of the portal. For example: http://localhost:8080/web/guest/page2?zx=5ml8zs91pgxm Environment...

Can I add custom permissions through resource-actions/default.xml in a Liferay JS widget generated by Liferay JS Generator?

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Issue After generating a JS widget through the Liferay JS Generator, there won't be an apparent way to leverage custom permissions, like it's possible through the resource-actions/default.xml file in a...

Key Points while creating a 'Theme'

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Issue Key Points that can be noted when creating a new theme in order to avoid issues. Environment Liferay 7.2 Resolution In preferencesMap, values must be Strings, String[], or a Collection<String>. group_id is of...

Receiving no 'View Usage' count with embedded web content after deploying a custom theme

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Issue The usage count in 'view usages' does not change when the web content is embedded through the theme Steps to reproduce Create 'Site' Create 'Content Pages' Create 'Web Content' Copy the friendly URL of the...

Hide Content Page Fragments from Search Results

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Issue I want to exclude fragments on a Content Page from Search Results. Example Use Case: Having a footer fragment in each Content Page that contains the company's contact information. I do not want to include the...

Can I access the configuration variable in a JS widget created with liferay-js:adapt?

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Issue Following Adapting Existing Apps to Run on Liferay DXP, after re-adapting a pure JS project (React, Angular, Vue) to become a Liferay JS widget with the liferay-js:adapt command, there will be no...

Unable to display web content preview in Site Administration

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Issue When trying to display a web content preview through the web content admin portlet: Administrators may notice various issues: The preview does not load at all The preview loads, then disappears The preview...

No content shown in Content Pages responsive mode

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Issue When trying to preview a Content Page in responsive mode on DXP 7.3 (Tablet, Landscape Phone, Portrait Phone), no content will be shown: Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Warning! Being this issue...

Nested Web Content Workflow status are not getting updated

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Issue When editing and publishing the web content which is having another web content embedded into it, its status becomes pending but the expected is that the structured/embedded web content's status...

Logs are flooded with errors of java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException

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Issue The following error shows constantly on the logs: ERROR [catalina-exec-54][LiferayMethodExceptionEventHandler:34] java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 2, Size: 2 java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException:...

Same result counts from 'Portletpreferences Table'

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Issue Reverting the theme is not deleting the portlet settings. Steps to reproduce the issue after deployed custom 'Theme' consists of embedded 'Web Content'. Navigate to the home page Verify web content. Execute...

How can I manage custom portlet options on Content Pages?

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Issue When deploying a custom portlet on a Widget page, several options will appear in the ellipsis menu: After placing the same portlet on a Content Page, those options will no longer appear. Environment Liferay...

Favicon not showing on legacy Microsoft Edge

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Issue Liferay DXP is running locally on http://localhost:8080 Liferay DXP favicon doesn't show up on Microsoft Edge legacy (EdgeHTML) v.18 or lower. Instead, a dummy favicon placeholder will be shown: On the same...

Message displayed when "Paste" operation is used in editing web content (CKEditor)

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This article has been machine translated from its original language for your convenience. Please use discretion as this translation may include some inaccuracies. If you encounter issues with the translation, please...

Ability to set default "Viewable by" permission for assets

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Issue On a Site with only Public Pages, if I create an asset (such as Web Content or Documents and Media) the "Viewable by" permission is set to "Anyone (Guest)" by default. After creating a Private Page on the Site,...

Wiki FrontPage cannot be deleted or renamed

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The page you are viewing has been machine translated for your convenience. As such, errors in translation are possible. Please refer to the original article for the most up-to-date version of this content HERE. Issue...

When pasting a content into the Liferay editor, all the formatting is lost

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Issue After installing a Fix Pack, when an HTML content is pasted to the Liferay Web Content editor, all the format is lost, it no longer respects the styles. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 62+ Liferay DXP...

Several unnecessary modules appear in the browser's console upon opening the Liferay site

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Issue When opening the page of a Liferay DXP portal (public or private, logged in or not), several modules will appear in the browser's Developer Tools' "Source" tab @ http://localhost:8080/o/js_bundle_config:...

Liferay Accessibility Conformance Report Whitepaper (508 and WCAG Compliance)

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Liferay DXP Accessibility Conformance report based on VPAT version 2.4. Conformance to the listed accessibility standards has been evaluated by Liferay using a combination of automated...

7.3 Applications Menu shortcut "CTRL+ Shift + M" conflicts with Firefox and Chrome native shortcuts

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Issue The new Applications Menu on 7.3 DXP can be toogled with the keyboard shortcut CTRL+Shift+M, however, when not logged into Liferay, the same shortcut natively toggles the Responsive Design Mode in Mozilla...

Site Facet is not working properly

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Issue Steps to reproduce Create the sites - site 1, site 2, site 3. Create the page named "search" Drag the "search result" and "site facet" portlet to enable search on this page. Search for any site. Expected...

Resolving a "compressed-looking" control panel menu in a custom 7.3 theme

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Issue While attempting to upgrade our custom theme from 7.2 to 7.3, we have run into an issue where there is a "compressed" look for the new top-right control panel menu when comparing the custom theme with the...

How can I share the same navigation menu(s) with child sites?

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Issue We have multiple sites, each of them has its own navigation for navigating between the other sites. If we want to make any changes, we need to update them manually. Is it possible to share the navigation items by...

Getting "Unresolved requirement osgi.extender=liferay.frontend.js.portlet" when deploying a JavaScript Widget on Liferay DXP 7.1

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Issue Developers create a JavaScript widget as per Creating and Bundling JavaScript Widgets with JavaScript Tooling The below error will be printed upon deployment: INFO...

Performance issues with working in the Miller columns with a large page tree

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Issue In environments with a large page structure having many sub-pages, portal administrators may notice slowness and lagging while browsing the tree. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution This is currently a...

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

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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...

How to prevent content pages from scrolling unexpectedly when interacting with a portlet below the fold

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Issue When interacting with a Liferay DXP portlet below the fold of a Content Page, the page unexpectedly scrolls to the top. The result of the interaction is properly displayed, but the user must scroll down to...

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...

[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...

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...

Copy-pasting an image into a Web Content HTML field is stored as base64 characters

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Issue When an image is copy-pasted into the Web Content editor, it is stored as a base64 collection of characters. What is the limit of this image? Are there any alternatives to this behavior? Environment DXP 7.0...

Special characters are used in friendly URLs

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Issue Special characters, e.g. åäö are shown in friendly URLs, instead of showing the ASCII version. Example: page is titled new page åäö becomes /new-page-åäö instead of /new-page-aao Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution...

Web Content articles' Title and Summary fields cannot be empty

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Issue Add a translation to a Web Content by deleting the default translation to the Title and Summary fields. After the publishing is successful and the web content is opened again, the default translation is shown...

Unable to embed videos in Knowledge Base articles with the

Issue After publishing a new Knowledge Base article including a video embedded with the <video> HTML5 tag: <video controls="" height="240" width="320"><source...

Why Are Announcements Visible to Everyone After Setting the Distribution Scope?

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Issue After setting the distributions scope in the Announcements Portlet, the announcements which it displays are now visible to all users and guests. I would like to restrict the announcements to the users...

Deprecation warning in the browser's console: "Value provided is not in a recognized RFC2822 or ISO format"

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Issue After patching a bundle with a fix (Fix Pack or hotfix) that includes the solutions for LPS-121066 and LPS-121499, customers and DXP users may notice the below warning message in the browser's console:...

I cannot set the default template for a web content structure

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Issue When I create web content based on a structure with multiple templates, I would like to change the default template of that structure. Environment Liferay portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0 + Resolution In order to...

JournalArticle not properly indexed with 'Document contains at least one immense term' error

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Issue When attempting to perform a re-index, JournalArticle contents are not properly indexed due to an error similar to the following: For Solr: 2020-09-23 06:32:13 ERROR org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Exception...

Filtering expired web contents shows incorrect results

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Issue We have a web content that we set to Expired, then changed the Expiration Date to a date in the future so not it is shown as Approved. When we look for the web content using the Approved filter, we can still see...

Adaptive Media not applied on Content Pages

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Issue I noticed that Adaptive Media is not applied in fragments with an image. Add an image to the Documents and Media Library with a width above 600px Go to Control Panel→Configuration→Adaptive Media Add a new...

After a web content owner loses his membership of a site, he can still edit all the previously authored web content

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Issue If an editor user creates a web content, and after his site membership is removed, he can still edit/configure the web content. Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.0+ Resolution This behavior works as intended. The Web...

Custom editor configuration is not applied to repeatable fields

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Issue After implementing a custom EditorConfigContributor to override the configuration of a web content editor, e.g. as below: @Component( immediate = true, property = { "editor.name=alloyeditor",...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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...

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...

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...

Audience Targeting filename

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Issue What does WCM-XXXX in the Audience Targeting source filename? Example: Liferay Audience Targeting 3.0.0-WCM-1508-src.zip Environment DXP 7.1 Resolution Aside from the version (3.0.0.), the other part...

How to include unique links in an RSS feed that point to a displayed web content article

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Issue Our team is attempting to set up an RSS feed for web content, but are running into one of two issues: either all URLs listed in the feed are identical (pointing to the site, instead of pointing to where an...

In DXP, it is not possible to differentiate configuration per site on embedded portlets

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Issue In DXP, a portlet could be embedded like below: <#assign preferencesMap = {"portletSetupPortletDecoratorId" : "barebone"} /> <@liferay_portlet["runtime"] instanceId="1234"...