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Can SAML be used to send an attribute that can be used to assign site roles?

Issue Currently, SAML is not designed to be utilized to send an attribute that can be used to assign site roles. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution This is an ongoing task, LPD-6336, for Liferay. Liferay is...

How to get a list of portal Users and what Roles are assigned to them?

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Issue I would like to get a list of Liferay portal users and what roles are assigned to them. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+ Resolution Please run the attached Groovy script: ListUsersAndRoles.groovy Additional...

Hide default login page /c/portal/login

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Issue Is it possible to hide the default /c/portal/login page? We want users to use a specific login page, and prevent them from using /c/portal/login to log into the portal. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution...

Portal.properties link not up to date

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Issue I am looking at the link https://docs.liferay.com/dxp/portal/7.4-latest/propertiesdoc/portal.properties.html to inspect the default portal properties, but it doesn't seem to be up to date. For example, some...

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: ...

Screen name must not be duplicate but is already used by user SAML Error

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Issue Some users can't log into Liferay via SAML when Liferay acts as Service Provider. There's an error in the logs about a duplicate screen name: 2023-11-30 18:04:53.521 ERROR...

Unable to assign organizations to users if SPA is disabled

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Create portal-ext.properties with this property to disable SPA: javascript.single.page.application.enabled=false 2. Navigate Control Panel → Users & Organizations → Organizations →...

How to solve error: the parameter is null: _companyLogRoutingFilePatterns

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Issue Trying to migrate from 7.4 to Q3, you could observe that in catalina.out file there are some errors such as the following: 2023-11-17 09:54:43,839 main ERROR The parameter is null:...

Unable to select organization in segment property

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.4. 2. Add an organization. 3. Add a segment. 4. Add an organization property. 5. Select the organization. Expected result: User should be able to select the...

Enabling Special Characters for Screen Names and Passwords

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Issue When trying to use special characters for setting screen names and passwords, not all special characters are accepted. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution There is a simple workaround available to enable...

File upload feature for guest users in Liferay Forms

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Issue We have a requirement to create a Liferay form having a document upload feature for guest users. Currently, in Liferay 7.1 uploading documents is not available for guest users. Environment Liferay...

Modules with escapeModel=true attribute in search-container not working

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Issue We have detected that the modules that implement the search-container with escapedModel="true" attribute in the search-container-row, are not working. We have also seen the following messages appear in...

Error managing documents and URLs using GCS

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue When using GCS as a storage solution in your On-Premisse or...

How to check item display permissions

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Issue If the container folder (JournalFolder) of a web content does not have VIEW permissions for Guest, the contents are not seen if we are not logged in. This was different in 7.2. What has changed?...

Regarding the definition of privileges for roles, there are some items that are not reflected.

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Set a wrong WebId causes "Unable to get company ID" after upgrade.

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Issue After upgrade from DXP 7.3 to 7.4 the following error is displayed: 2023-10-24 17:28:16.854 ERROR [SCR Component Actor][ROOT:47] bundle com.liferay.portal.properties.swapper:5.0.24...

Duplicate Entries in Control Panel after installing a Hotfix

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Issue After installing a new hotfix, the Control Panel shows repeated sections and options. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution This problem can be a consequence of not deleting the contents of...

Not able to set virtual host value for virtual instance: "Please enter a valid virtual host"

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Issue I want to set the virtual host on a virtual instance (Control Panel/Virtual Instances), but I cannot save it, I get error "Please enter a valid virtual host". This hostname is not set for any other virtual instance....

Asset Publisher Template for the Web Content Display is unusable after deleting owner of the content

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Issue After deleting a user from the portal, content created by it gets inaccessible if trying to edit with the specific user tag on Asset Publisher. Environment Liferay Portal 6.2+ Resolution Liferay does...

Default permissions for a new page to avoid revealing page information

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Issue It would be wonderful if default page permissions could be configured on a site level, and in addition, if guests do not have view permission for the page it would not appear in the sitemap even if the...

Can the same email address support multiple accounts created within Liferay?

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Issue We allow our customers to use the same email address for multiple accounts. Is there a workaround available so that our customers can still have multiple accounts associated with the same email address? ...

How to give permission to a specific user to use Fragments

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Issue How to give permission to the specific authorized person to access and edit the specific fragments. Currently, the admin can edit and access the fragments. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Liferay...

Unable to view users assigned to a particular Site Role

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Issue Unable to view the "Users" tab or section to view the list of users assigned to the particular site role in order to verify & delete unwanted users. Steps: Navigate to Control Panel > Roles > Site...

I cannot create Users with emails that start with "root"

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Issue Liferay does not allow me to register a user with the email root@acme.com. The UI displays the following error: Error: Please enter a valid email address. I would like to know if there is a setting that...

After changing password on Tivoli's LDAP server, users can't login for up to 20 minutes

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Issue On Liferay DXP (any version) connected to an IBM Tivoli Directory Server via LDAP, the users cannot login to the portal immediately after changing their password or any attribute on said LDAP. The...

Remove "Add to Page" permissions for the "Guest"/"User" role

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Issue "Add to page" permissions are populated by default for the roles "Guest" or "User". Although is the intended behavior, it may not be desired in some situations. Environment DXP 7.0, DXP. 7.1, DXP...

Disabling Login Portlet

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Issue How do I disable the default Login Portlet to prevent any guest accounts from being created. Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution In order to prevent any guest accounts from being created please follow these...

RoleLocalServiceUtil.addRole creates the role in the main instance

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Issue We are trying to use the scripting console to create roles. Either we are not doing this correctly, or something is not working correctly. When creating the roles we use RoleLocalServiceUtil.addRole to which we pass...

How to Change the Control Panel Favicon

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Issue Is there a way to change the default icon for the Control Panel to something custom? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution There are two ways to modify the favicon: The easiest way is creating their own theme...

Impersonation Clashes with Cached Web Content Templates

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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...

Using Required for system configurations.

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Issue We would like to add required = true configuration to our system configuration. Upon requesting the data through a groovy script the string returns empty when required = true is set. Environment DXP 7.4+...

Unable to see the add button to create a new language override key

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Issue When create a new user and assigning that user to a newly created regular role, then the add button to create a language override key is not visible to that user. Steps to reproduce: 1. Navigate to Control...

Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.portal.workflow.kaleo.service: Unable to convert XML to JSON

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Issue We are currently upgrading our DXP 7.4 u92 DB to 2024.Q1.12 We configured things for DB upgrade based on...

There are repeated languages that can't be modified in the Localization settings

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Issue The default language for the site is shown repeated several times in the column of Current languages in Site Settings > Localization > Languages. It can also happen for the instance in Instance Settings >...

Avoid last name field being mandatory when creating users

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Issue When creating new users, some fields (such as first name and last name) are mandatory, marked with a red asterisk. How can one specify the mandatory fields? Environment Quarterly Release 2024.Q1, 2024.Q2,...

Insufficient Permissions to Access Folders When Uploading Documents to Web Content

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Issue Users with a role other than Administrator, for example, the "Editor" role, receive a permissions error when they try to access folders within Documents and Media while uploading a document to Web Content. The...

DuplicateFileEntryException on Virtual Instance Startup

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Issue A `DuplicateFileEntryException` error occurs when starting a clustered DXP instance after a virtual instance is created, even if the file already exists in the Document Library. The error, seen in the...

Organization tab do not shows the user when user is added to organization via Groovy Script

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Issue After the execution of the below syntax in the Groovy Script, the Organization name gets appended to the user and can be seen only under the "User's details Organization Tab" but not under the...

"Inconsistent patch level detected" error occured in the logs

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Issue The following error occurs in the logs due to an inconsistency in patch levels: Example 1: ERROR [server.startup : 2][PatcherImpl:204] Inconsistent patch level detected WARN [server.startup :...

Hotfix created for 2025.Q1.X won't install

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Issue A hotfix created for 2025.Q1.X won't install even though it is being installed on the required version. The following information appears in the patching-tool info file. Product information: * DXP version:...

Restricting the Guest Role's Access to the Home Page

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Issue When trying to change the view permission of a page it's not possible to do it for the Guest role in the first page: it shows as non-interactive. Environment QR 2024.Q3, 2024.Q4, 2025.Q1 Resolution This is...

Unable to Provision Users via SCIM

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Issue User provisioning via SCIM is failing. Liferay logs indicate a permission error: ERROR [org.wso2.charon3.core.protocol.endpoints.AbstractResourceManager] Unable to provision a portal user for null...

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...

Handling an excess number of User Notifications

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Issue As my Liferay system sends out User Notifications over time, the UserNotificationEvent table accumulates many records quickly. I would like to schedule the cleanup of old User Notifications, so that the...

'External Reference Code' field on the UI

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Issue An 'External Reference Code' for the 'Address' field on UI is required since it is already there in the database for the entity. Environment Liferay DXP 2024.Q1 Resolution LIferay has started working on this...

Liferay instance node going into hang mode - Failed to validate connection

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Issue Liferay instance node goes into hang mode and the following error appears: HikariPool-1 - Failed to validate connection ... (This connection has been closed.) ... Possibly consider using a...

Does upgrade touch the doclib?

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Issue We are preparing the upgrade from a Liferay 7.3 FP2 to a Liferay 7.4 2024.Q1 and we are trying to prepare a rollback system if something goes wrong and we need go reinstall the 7.3. My question is about the document...

The assignments are missing between roles and user groups when transfer from one enviornment to another

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Issue The export/import of UserGroups and Roles does not contain the assignments between roles and user groups. So when 'transporting' the user groups and roles from one stage (or backup) to another stage (new...

Portlet 3.0 Control Panel Apps cause unexpected errors

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Issue Following the deployment of a Portlet 3.0 Control Panel App, other areas of the control panel are experiencing malfunctions. For instance, the My Sites selector is not responding, and in version 7.3, the Global...

I cannot disable the execution of Groovy scripts in Server Administration

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Issue Despite disabling Groovy scripting in System Settings > Security section > Script Management, Administrators are still able to execute Groovy scripts in the Server Administration > Script tab. Environment...

Users are redirected to home page on SAML sign-in in a clustered environment

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Issue Users are sometimes redirected to the home page on login rather than their page of entry. The environment is clustered with SAML authentication, and the property auth.forward.by.last.path is set to true....

Session keeps extending itself indefinitely in Page Edit Mode

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Issue When a user leaves a Page idle in Edit mode for a long time, the session keeps extending itself indefinitely, and the user is never logged out. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution This is the...

How does "company.default.home.url" property work?

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Issue I don't understand how company.default.home.url in portal-ext.properties and the setting of Control Panel ->Instance Settings -> Instance Configuration -> General -> Home URL work together. Environment DXP...

Cannot access .zip file error occurs when installing a hotfix with Patching Tool

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Issue When I try to install a hotfix in my environment I get the following error: Installing hotfix-3... Cannot access .zip file: ../osgi/portal/com.liferay.portal.zip.jar: java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException:...

How to manually trigger LDAP imports before the import interval is reached

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Issue I want to manually trigger LDAP imports by triggering the UserImportConfigurationModelListener scheduled job. However, when I trigger this job, I see the following line in the LDAP DEBUG logs: DEBUG...

Liferay starts up creating tables and populating them with default data after restoring an upgraded database

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Issue You might encounter the behavior where you successfully back up your current data and performed a successful upgrade in your local MySQL server. However, when restoring the upgraded data, Liferay does not...

Email test@domain.invalid is used instead of the configured one

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Issue Although you configure through Instance Settings -> Email -> Email Sender an specific email sender, test@domain.invalid is used and the following WARN log shows ups when trying to send emails from...

I would like to control email notifications to Liferay strangers.

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Issue How are strangers defined by Liferay? How can I control email notifications to strangers upon signup? Environment DXP 7.3+ Resolution The SAML property defining unknown users as strangers was introduced in DXP 7.3....

Disable Personal Information Fields in User Account Settings

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Issue I would like to disable personal information fields in user account settings to prevent users from editing their names, screennames and other such personal information. Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution Add the...

Multilingual support for password reset emails

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue...

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