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How to programmatically add a form entry with API?

Issue I am currently working with a Liferay form. I am attempting to submit a new record to this form using the /ddm.ddmforminstancerecord/add-form-instance-record API via JSON Web Services (JSONWS). This API requires a...

How to create a read-only field in a form

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Issue When you are creating a form, sometimes you want to create a field that is read-only because, for example, it is automatically populated by taking information from an API or a database, and you don't...

Receiving multiple notification when clicking on 'Done' button multiple times in workflow

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Issue Getting multiple notifications in the workflow when clicking on the 'Done' button multiple times when assigning the task 'to me' or to the user in the slow network. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start the server....

Is there any risk to remove the SystemEvent table entries while using Staging?

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Issue I would like to remove all entries from the SystemEvent table using the approach from this article. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution The Site Deletions must be published before the property...

Why do I get PortletDataException when trying to delete a Site?

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Issue When I try to delete a Site, I am getting the following error (full stacktrace attached): ERROR [http-nio-7080-exec-4][GroupLocalServiceImpl:4161] Unable to delete data for portlet null in group 2934490...

Skippable Pages containing Mandatory Fields Can Break Forms

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Issue I'm trying to complete a multistep form that's supposed to have seven steps. Some questions on the form are required, while others are optional. When I reach the final step and click 'Submit,' I get an error...

In Progress Publications Can't Be Published After Upgrading

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Issue After upgrading, any "in progress" publications fail to publish. When I attempt to publish them, the publication fails and they are marked "out of date". An Unable to publish from test to Production because...

Workflow Tasks Are Missing History

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Issue After approving a document, I'm not able to see if it was previously approved or rejected. In previous versions of Liferay DXP, users could see the entire history of a task assigned to them in the...

Cannot add more than one notification for a task in workflow

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Issue When creating a workflow, adding more than one notification freezes the source view. Unable to edit the source view when adding notifications based on Role or Role Type. Steps to reproduce: Navigate...

Deprecation of Liferay Sync

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Issue I'd like to inquire about the support for Liferay 7.4 in the Liferay Sync. Currently, the Compatibility Matrix only lists support for Liferay DXP 7.3. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution Liferay Sync got...

Update object entries from workflow task screen

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Issue Allow users to access the object in edit mode from the workflow task screen Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution As of now (at the time of creating this article), there is no OOB (out-of-the-box) way...

Custom ActionExecuter always results in PortalException: No action executor for java

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Issue I tried to integrate a custom java ActionExecuter following this article https://learn.liferay.com/w/dxp/process-automation/workflow/developer-guide/creating-an-action-executor. But after using it in a workflow my...

Workflow Metrics display only in UTC

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Issue When viewing the “dateCreated” timestamps in the Workflow Metrics view, the timestamps are always rendered in UTC rather than the user’s time zone. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The observed behavior...

CAPTCHA does not work for Guest users on forms

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Issue When enabling CAPTCHA on my forms, Guest users are unable to submit the form. Environment DXP Quarterly Release 2023.Q3.4 (or earlier version) DXP 7.4 Resolution This behavior is a known error in the Product and...

Dynamic Picklist in Liferay Forms using Objects

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Issue We have created a Liferay form with Object and used the concept of dynamic picklist (data provider + picklist). However, we're facing issues with saving the data (selected from the picklist) upon form...

Files uploaded with Guest view permission - Forms Upload field

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Issue When a document is added in the Form Upload field it will have 'Guest view' permission. When a document is added directly in the Document and Media library it will NOT have 'Guest view' permission. Is there a...

Can you limit database results to show only the top results (ordered by a date field)?

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Issue Not all results in the database are necessary for my purposes. I want to know if it's possible to sort the results by only showing the top results and order it by a date field. Can this be done without having...

Form is not showed to guest (unauthenticated) users

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Issue We have a form, based on a custom object, in a page. This form is not showed when user is not logged in. Whereas the form is showed when user is logged in. Environment 2024.Q1 Resolution Check if the 'guest'...

There are invalid rule expressions while saving form

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Issue It's possible to save a Form with fields removed from the Form Builder that make part of a rule. Steps to Reproduce : 1. Go to Content&Data > Forms 2. Create a new Form 3. Add two fields: Text Field and Date...

I cannot add a relative URL into Form's "Redirect URL on Success"

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Issue Create a Liferay Form Open the Form's Settings In the field "Redirect URL on Success", enter a relative URL like "/web/guest" Result: Receive error message "Please enter a valid URL." Environment Liferay DXP...

When Javascript SPA is turned off, it's not possible to save form instance

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Issue When the portal property javascript.single.page.application.enabled is set to false, form entries cannot be saved or published. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution This behavior is solved in DXP 7.4...

Getting session ID from groovy script embedded in a workflow definition

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Issue I have an SEO requirement to track some information for my website. To that end I have inserted a groovy script in a workflow, which gets the user session, but it returns a null session ID. Steps to reproduce: 1....

When inviting users to a Publication, some of them are not shown

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Issue When trying to invite users to a Publication, some of them don't show up in the "Invite Users" box, despite having the Publications User role. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Quarterly Releases Resolution The users...

WARN [main][DDMFieldUpgradeProcess:626] Unable to get dynamic data mapping form field value type for content ID

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Issue When upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.4 or Quarterly Releases there are some warnings in upgrade.log with below stacktrace WARN [main][DDMFieldUpgradeProcess:626] Unable to get dynamic data mapping form field...

Recently published changes still shown as available for Staging in subsequent publication process

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Issue Have a staged site Create a new web content article Create a new publication process and publish all the 'Content' changes by choosing the 'Last 12 hours' option After successful publication, create another...

Metrics workflow data in the database

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Issue There is a metrics table in the workflow on UI: Navigate to Application Menu→ Workflow→ Metrics. Select the workflow belonging to it and open the transaction under the workflow In which table has the metrics...

“Your request failed to complete” shows up when trying to discard changes of a published Publication

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Issue “Your request failed to complete” is displayed in the UI when trying to discard the changes of a published Publication. Environment DXP 7.4+ Resolution What happens is that, originally, the Discard...

After activating Publications, publication users can make changes directly in production

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Issue With Publications active, we want to prevent publication users from being able to make changes directly in production, we only want them to be able to change publications. Environment Quarterly Release...

Approver does not have access to preview of Content Page

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Issue Created a custom role to approve Content Pages Added View and Update permissions for Pages When the user with the role opens the Workflow Task and clicks the preview button, the following error appears: ...

What should be the preferred sequence to import data to an environment?

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Issue User faces 'Missing References' issue many times when importing the data to an environment, therefore, if we have a probable sequence to import this, the issues might get minimised. Environment Liferay DXP...

The single approver doesn't work when Groovy has been added to the blacklist

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Issue Workflow doesn't work if I add com.liferay.portal.scripting.groovy.internal.GroovyExecutor to the blacklist file com.liferay.portal.component.blacklist.internal.ComponentBlacklistConfiguration.config ...

The warning 'This field is reruired.' can't be displayed properly under the Select From List in a multistep form

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Issue The warning of the required field can't be displayed properly in a multistep form under the Select From List as below: Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution This was fixed by LPS-197367, please open a help center...

Is it possible to clean up DDMTemplateVersion table? How?

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Issue DDMTemplateVersion table has many records and we are not using it. In addition, it can cause some minor performance issues. Is it possible to clean up that table? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution NOTE: Be...

Forms have no option for expiration time

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Issue There are use cases where users want the Liferay Form to expire on a certain day and at a certain time but on the Liferay Form settings, users only see an option for Expiration Date and no time option. Just...

Published web content has document URLs changed

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Issue We added page numbers to many of our document links. When this content is displayed you can click on the document links with page numbers and it will open the document to that page. When Published to Live,...

Broken master page template after importing LAR file between environments

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Issue When importing a .lar file between environments, when accessing the Master Page, a 404 error is displayed and the page is not displayed Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution This behavior is an error identified in the...

Form Cannot Save Due to Size

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Issue When trying to save a large form, the following error is pushed out, "The Page was not displayed because the entity was too large." This is common for environments that are using a V1 Web Application Firewall...

Liferay won’t delete all notifications, only the first page

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Issue With the workflow notification selection, it does not reflect for every pagination but only for the current page number, even if users select it for all. Steps to reproduce: Enable single approver workflow on...

User notification selection issue with more than 100 notifications

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Issue Steps to reproduce: Enable single approver workflow on web content, blogs, or any asset Create some web content or blogs to get notifications make it more than 100 notifications Navigate to notifications Tick...

Single Approver Workflow Recipient Type Changes Don't Save

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Issue We are currently running Liferay 7.4 U70 and discovered that when we make a copy of the Single Approver Workflow and try to update the "Review" node so that one of the notifications has a different Recipient Type...

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