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I cannot disable the execution of Groovy scripts in Server Administration

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...

"Cannot use import statement outside a module" JS error with a custom form field type

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Issue After creating a new form field type (e.g. blade create -t form-field ...) or upgrading a custom form field type to a newer version, a JavaScript error is displayed in the console when dragging...

High CPU and memory use with stacktraces associated to password encryption

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Issue The environment starts using a large amount of CPU and also memory. Reviewing thread dumps taking during that time, there are many threads associated to PBKDF2PasswordEncryptor.encrypt, such as:...

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+...

Understanding the 'Viewable by' dropdown and Download permission for file uploads in DL

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Issue How do the 'Viewable by' dropdown and Download permission work when uploading files to the Document Library? Environment 7.4 U76 - 2024.Q4 Resolution 'View' permission → 'View' and 'Download' permissions The...

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...

Unable to access the REST API from browser with other languages

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Issue Not able to access Headless API from a browser with different language than the one available in the website. Environment Liferay 2023.q4 Liferay 2024.q1 Resolution This is a known issue and fixed by: LPD-20528...

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

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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 install Glowroot on an Elasticsearch server?

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Issue Is there a possibility to install Glowroot on an Elasticsearch server? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution Officially, Glowroot doesn't directly support Elasticsearch for data storage. There...

A/B Testing - What are the conditions to declare the winner?

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Issue In conducting A/B testing, all the tests were run in anonymous sessions, ensuring that each session was isolated by closing the incognito tab between tests. I experimented with both anonymous and non-anonymous...

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...

It is not possible to switch between options using Incompatible in Bundle product relations

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Issue We added two bundle options for a product (i.e. myProduct) and between the products of each option we defined some Incompatible in Bundle product relations. If we open myProduct details and select an option...

Angular custom element Client Extension does not load on SPA navigation

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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)

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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...

How to set up client extension to be used in multiple On-Premise instances

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Issue You need to deploy a custom client extension to specific instances. What are the next steps? Environment DXP 7.4 Quarterly Releases. On-Premise, Local environment and PaaS Resolution A custom...

Unable to get OpenID Connect's link to work after upgrading to a Quarterly Release

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Issue After upgrading to Quarterly Release 2023.Q3.4 from DXP 7.3, we've found that OpenID Connect is no longer working. The button is no longer populating within the UI even after enabling it using this article:...

Create journal articles (web contents) programmatically

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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....

Error saving images in a custom structure after add a translation

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Issue A client encountered an error when using the 2024.Q2.(4+) versions while attempting to save a Journal article with translations using a custom structure. The issue could not be reproduced in the...

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

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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...

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:...

Display page template does not show content related

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Issue We add a Content Display fragment to a Display Page template to show the related content, but when we select the Display Page from a web content and click Preview, the Display Page doesn't show the web...

Cannot add segment with thousands of conditions due to indexing problems

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Issue When adding a segment with with thousands of conditions there are problems with the indexing by Elasticsearch. The logs show a StackOverflowError stacktrace. Environment Quarterly Release 2023.Q3 Resolution...

Getting ORA-01795 when editing a DDM structure

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Issue I'm trying to edit an DDMStructure and I got the error : => Edit xxx is temporarily unavailable. If I look at the logs I see this error : Caused by: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-01795: maximum number of...

SCIM API is not working as expected to link existing users to SCIM Client

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Issue I'm unable to use the PUT API to update users as linked to the SCIM Client. I'm not able to add new users and then update them using the PUT API linking them to the SCIM client. Environment 2024.Q1+ Resolution...

Custom portlet renders the language resources as the key

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Issue Custom portlet renders the language resources as the key. What should we change in our code to render the language correctly? Environment Liferay DXP 2024.Q2 Quarterly Release Resolution There’s a workaround...

(Cloud) Spring Boot Client Extension fails with [invalid_token_response] An error occurred while attempting to retrieve the OAuth 2.0

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Issue We have a Spring Boot extension client that interacts with the Liferay APIs and that makes the OAuth2 challenge via OAuth2AccessToken oAuth2AccessToken =...

Dynamic Data List Template

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Issue Users are unable to edit the Dynamic Data List Template in DXP 7.4 since the dynamic data List template editor is not visible Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 [all versions] Quarterly Release Resolution Users need...

Password for LDAP and Liferay users should not expire

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Issue After integrating Liferay with the LDAP server for users, the passwords for the users are expiring after some time and are required to be reset again. Is there any way for the passwords to never...

Users are not able to see the tasks under the 'My Workflow Tasks' menu

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Issue Users are unable to see the tasks under the 'My Workflow Tasks' menu after a workflow has been assigned to them for approval and the following errors related to elastic search and Kaleo instance token...

Multi-Factor Authentication via SMS

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Issue We want to set up MFA via SMS without using any external Apps. Is this possible with Liferay out-of-the-box? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution MFA by SMS is not...

How to handle "Connection Closed" Error with BLOB Type in Oracle DB?

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Issue A "Connection closed" error occurs when handling BLOB type columns in Oracle databases using the getBinaryStream() method in Java, a known issue when attempting to read BLOB data in chunks after the...

Configured Highlighted Structures are not displayed

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Issue After configured Highlighted Structures in 2024.Q1, they are not displayed in Web Content Administration. Environment Quarterly Releases: 2024.Q1 Resolution This feature is under a Release Feature Flag in...

User is unable to login after enabling ModSecurity

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Issue After enabling ModSecurity, below error message is printing in the webserver log file, and due to this user is unable to log in: ModSecurity: Access denied with code 403 (phase 2). Matched "Operator `StrEq'...

ModSecurity Alert Notifications

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Issue Users want to enable ModSecurity alert notification, so that, whenever there is any breach/alert an email notification is sent to the configured user. Environment LXC-SM 2024.Q2 Resolution ModSecurity does...

Fragment Links point to Staging from the Live site

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Issue After publication, some of the buttons mapped directly to pages in my site are pointing to Staging instead of the Live site. Clicking on these links prompts users to log in to the Staging site. The links...

Can SPA be safely disabled?

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Issue We are developing some components and we are having issues with single-page application (SPA). Therefore, we would like to know if it can be safely disabled Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution From Liferay...

Price does not update when using Product Detail Template

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Issue The Product Details Portlet shows the wrong product price when a Product Detail Template is configured as its application display. Environment 2024.Q2 Resolution If the getPrice() method is used in the template, this is...

Search results are showing unexpected visual changes when rendering Object items

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Issue When searching for Objects on a search page, there are some unexpected visual changes in the result. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution Please verify that whether there are any HTML in the description of the...

Asset Publisher filtering by structure shows web content and folders

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Issue In Liferay DXP 7.3, when filtering content in an Asset Publisher by structure, only the web content with that structure are shown In Liferay DXP 7.4, doing the same filtering will also show the folders that...

Page URL break with long text (414 URI Too Long)

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Issue The page URL is breaking and giving 414 URI too long errors. Steps to reproduce: Navigate to Control Panel> Instance Settings> Localization > Language> select required locales Now, click on 'Locale Prepend...

Configuring an external Web Application Firewall (Akamai) in PaaS

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Issue How to configure an external Web Application Firewall (Akamai) in PaaS? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Configuration of the external Web Application Firewall (Akamai) with Liferay Cloud comes...

If the user selects 'I disagree' for the Terms and Conditions, will they be logged out?

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Issue Does it log out the user if they select 'I disagree' on the Terms and Conditions page? Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution No, only a popup should be displayed to the user: Additional Information Terms of Use ,...

What is the default behavior when users click 'I agree' or 'I disagree' at the Terms and Conditions?

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Issue What is the default behavior when users click 'I agree' or 'I disagree’ button at the Terms and Conditions? Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution I agree: If accepted, the user is redirected to the home page or to...

Where is the logic for handling the actions for the Terms and Conditions page?

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Issue We would like to override the behavior of the default Terms and Conditions that can be activated in Liferay. Where is this logic located in the code? How can we override it? Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution An...

Group Memberships are being removed after signing in via SAML after upgrading to 2024.Q2 from 2023.Q4

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Issue We have observed that some users's existing group memberships are missing after they login via SAML(Okta). Environment Quarterly Release 2024.Q2 Resolution This is due to the change reported in these articles:...

The account email address is set to null

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Issue When updating a custom field at the account entry, the account email address is set to null Steps to reproduce: Create a new Account, “Account”. Attach an e-mail address “abc@liferay.com” to the account entry...

globalThis.process?.argv object contains an array set

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Issue The globalThis.process?.argv object contains an array set in DXP 7.3, but in the latest release 2024.Q2.6, this is null or undefined. Environment Liferay DXP [all versions] Resolution In this scenario,...

Check plan MALUs (Monthly Active Logged in Users) in Liferay SaaS

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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 A client of Liferay SaaS needs to check the metrics for MALUs...

Document and Media Storage Breakdown on cloud shell

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Issue There is an issue with the breakdown of document_library storage. In certain cases, document media occupies a larger amount of space, causing the cloud shell to become unresponsive and consume excessive CPU...

Is it expected for fragments using the getContent() selector to display non-alphanumeric characters from HTML, or XML, for Journal Article content?

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Issue When creating a Fragment with an itemSelector field configured to select a Journal Article, the displayed content includes unexpected characters, such as "]]>" at the end. This issue does not occur when the...

Language Keys are processed as Literal Text in custom MVC Portlets

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Issue When creating a MVC Portlet that leverages language keys, language key output is presenting as the literal text, rather than the key value For example: Language key in view.jsp: <b><liferay-ui:message...

Accessibility issues with the Underline button in CKEditor

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Issue When using CKEditor, there is an underline button available. If you use it, the text will be inserted within u elements. This fact causes some HTML validators to report an accessibility issue based on WCAG SC...

Custom Themes are no longer shown as Site Templates in DXP 7.4

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Issue In Liferay DXP 7.3, custom themes were seen under Site Templates Pop Up (Control Panel > Site > Choosing the template). However, in Liferay DXP 7.4, custom themes do not come under Site Templates, and...

Vulnerability: Robots.txt file must not be accessed and should be blocked

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Issue Encountered a vulnerability issue with the robots.txt file and the vulnerability test suggests preventing the robots.txt file from being accessed. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4...

Calling UserImporter in com.liferay.portal.security.exportimport.api throws unsatisfied references error.

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Issue On 7.3 we are using this class to Import users from a SamlProvider: com.liferay.portal.security.exportimport.UserImporter.importUser(long companyId, String emailAddress, String screenName) We call the service by...

Error "Portlet is temporarily unavailable" appears for Category Facet widget

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Issue When an invalid ID is passed as the value of the category field in the URL, all the widget shows the error "Portlet is temporarily unavailable". As a result, all the widgets should show the message "No...

Not able to paste image directly into the CKEditor (Web content)

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Issue Not able to directly paste the image in CKEditor (Webcontent). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Liferay Quarterly Release 2023.q4.4. 2. Navigate to Product Menu > Web Content > Click 'New Button' and then...

Dump of a Single Table from Liferay Database in PaaS

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Issue How we can take the dump from the Liferay database of a particular table? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The Liferay DXP Cloud product doesn't offer such a possibility to take the dump of a...

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