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Title field appears in wrong format when related

Issue The title field appears in the wrong format when related Steps to Reproduce: 1. Menu portlet > Control panel > Objects 2. Create Custom Object A 3. Create Custom Object B with a Date field 4. Create a...

"You do not have the roles required to access this portlet." errors seen when accessing Form

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Issue When attempting to access a form with a user that has the permissions to do so, "You do not have the roles required to access this portlet." errors are displayed in the UI. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Upgrade...

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...

Console errors when local staging is on

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Issue There is a staging initialization failure within the console when local staging is on. Steps to reproduce: Publishing > Staging > Toggle Local Staging On Navigate to the Home Page and check the console within...

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...

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+...

Email Settings not resetting completely from Instance Settings

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Issue If a user wants to reset Mail Settings from Instance Settings, it is not resetting completely Environment SaaS Resolution Open a Help Center ticket to have Support manage the environment Additional...

If Form entries are saved into an Object, email notification about Form submission is not sent

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Issue We have created an Object and a Form. We save Form entries into the Object. When a Guest user submits the form, the notification is not sent out. We are getting the following error in the logs: ERROR...

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...

Vulnerabilities reported in classes generated by Liferay Service Builder

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Issue While performing security scans, there are vulnerabilities found in custom classes that are generated by Liferay Service Builder. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Sometimes, these warnings are...

Tomcat Vulnerabilities CVE-2024-50379 and CVE-2024-56337 in Liferay DXP

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Issue Vulnerability for Tomcat discovered after moving to Liferay DXP 7.4. How to remediate Apache Tomcat 9 Remote Code Execution (RCE) Via Write Enabled Default Servlet Vulnerability (CVE-2024-50379) and...

Certificate Renewal Failing with 403 Error on Liferay PaaS

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Issue When attempting to renew the SSL certificate generated by Let’s Encrypt, the process fails with multiple 403 (Forbidden) errors. The error messages suggest a security restriction that is preventing the...

'Error: Please enter content with valid content size no larger than 1 MB' when using Liferay Forms

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Issue When I am saving a form with a large amount of data, I get the following error: Error: Please enter content with valid content size no larger than 1 MB. Environment Liferay Quarterly Releases Resolution...

How to configure X-Pack secured search service liveness/readiness probes with authentication in Paas

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Issue We tried to configure in our PAAS environnement the Elasticsearch X-Pack feature. When we follow this article and enable X-Pack feature in dev server (with environment variable), the ElasticSearch endpoint used for...

Localizing Object Definitions.

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Issue We do not find where is the feature to get objects localization. Based on following documentation...

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...

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...

Expiring license error occurs in clustered environment for Liferay PaaS

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Issue The following expired licensing error displays in Liferay PaaS logs: ERROR [main][LicenseManager:-1] Digital Enterprise Unlimited Enterprise-Wide license is expired Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution There are two...

Getting BadPaddingException errors in the logs after an upgrade

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Issue After upgrading Liferay DXP, javax.crypto.BadPaddingException errors appear in the logs when using 'Auto Login' feature ('Remember me'). Example error message: ERROR [AutoLoginFilter:247] Current URL /home...

"http://localhost:8080/o/oauth2/authorize" URL redirect to the Login Page

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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 accessing the OAuth2 authorization URL...

Impersonated user is unable to add items to the cart

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Issue When impersonating a user with permissions to add items to a cart, a message is seen in the UI, which says: “Danger: [object Object]” and the items do not get added to the cart. This behavior can be...

After Enabling Publications, Some Notifications are Listed as "Deleted" in the UI

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Issue When Publication is enabled, some notifications are unexpectedly displayed as "deleted" in the Notifications UI, even though the related workflow tasks and assets are still present and accessible....

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...

Updating Custom Account Entry Fields Fails for Person Accounts with a Specific Role

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Issue 'users do not have permission' exception is showing when trying to update the same custom field on Person type accounts. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start a clean 2024.q1.1 bundle 2. Navigate to configuration >...

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...

When using a form, the email notification does not send the value selected from the dropdown menu

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Issue When using a configured form with "Object" as the storage with Picklist in use, the email notification that populates after each submission is not displaying the correct values from when the form was submitted....

Unexpected SAML calls: com.liferay.saml.internal.servlet.filter.SpSessionTerminationSamlPortalFilter.doProcessFilter

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Issue When navigating through the portal with SAML disabled, there are a few SAML-related filters that are still being processed, leading to database calls and causing slower performance. at...

Why cannot see Publications after upgrade?

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Issue After making the upgrade from Liferay 7.4 update-46 to Liferay 7.4 Quarterly Release Q2 2024 user cannot see the Publications. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Consider to verify...

Some result searches for the same document can show text with replacement characters (�)

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Issue A text document (such as a PDF) has been added to the document library. Searching by a piece of text in the file, the result includes an excerpt with regular text including the search string. Searching by a...

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...

Enabling ElasticSearch Sidecar logs

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Issue I would like to raise the log levels for ElasticSearch Sidecar The folder [liferay-home]/elasticsearch-sidecar/7.x.x/logs does not contain any log files Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution The...

Received "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 65" when using JDK 21

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Issue I encountered the following error when compiling my custom JSON Webservice Module with JDK 21. exception "Unsupported class file major version 65" throwable "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:...

SAML Authentication Error: "This message decoder only supports the HTTP POST method

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Issue The following SAML errors appear in the Liferay logs: ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-5][BaseSamlStrutsAction:53] org.opensaml.messaging.decoder.MessageDecodingException: This message decoder only supports the...

In SAML setup user is not getting login in the SP and receiving warning on the UI

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Issue After setting up the SAML process, the user tries to log in receiving the warning below and not being logged in. Environment Liferay 2023.Q4.0 Resolution If users are setting up an identity provider as...

Unable to Import Site Template LAR

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Issue Import of a LAR file exported from a Site Template through Publishing -> Export fails when being imported to another environment with an error stating: The LAR file could not be imported because it requires page...

CORS request is failing

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Issue If the user allows any origin (Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *) to access the resource, the CORS request fails. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.4 U90 2. Navigate to Control Panel > Instance...

Form Container does not display relationship field for parent object

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Issue I have an object A with a one-to-many relationship to object B. When I add a Form Container to a page and map it to object A, I cannot select the related object B entries. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution...

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...

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...

Web Content "Modified by" User Appears to be Incorrect After Translation

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Issue After translating existing web content, the last modified user displayed is the original author, not the translator. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution The "Modified by" user and timestamp for web content...

JSP file [/monitor/app_check.jsp] not found errors are flooding the logs

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Issue After upgrading from 2023.q3.8 to 2024.q3.10, customer is seeing a lot of these errors in their logs: 2024-12-19 11:43:51.749 WARN [https-jsse-nio2-11251-exec-3][code_jsp:163] {code="404", msg="JSP file...

"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.)...

java.sql.BatchUpdateException: data exception: string data, right truncation from long client extension service names

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Issue When deploying a client extension, you may encounter an error, that can be traced to a BatchUpdateException, such as the following: Caused by: java.sql.BatchUpdateException: data exception: string data, right...

Regular users with specific roles cannot access the configuration of the widget Search Insights

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Issue Given a user with a custom role with permissions to access the configuration of Search Insights, she cannot access this configuration. Environment Quarterly Releases: 2024.Q3, 2024.Q2, 2024.Q1, 2023.Q4, 2023.Q3...

Knowledge Base Section Widget does not displaying the current version of Knowledge Base Article

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Issue When displaying Knowledge Base Articles using a Knowledge Base Section widget, once an article is edited, the displayed content will not reflect the changes made This behavior is reproducible when the Knowledge...

Brave Browser Issues

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Issue I am experiencing an issue in Liferay, that is only reproducible in Brave browser, but not reproducible in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution The Compatibility...

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...

SAML Logout Issues: Multiple Login Entries and Optimistic Locking Exceptions

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Issue When a user logs out after authenticating via SAML, multiple login entries might be recorded in the audit logs. This can lead to HibernateOptimisticLockingException errors, particularly during...

Data Migration Center: Unable to Import CSV file

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Issue The issue only occurs when the field is being translated, using objects alone does not cause it. Steps to reproduce 1. Navigate to the Applications Menu and click on Data Migration Center. 2. In that, click...

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...

LIFERAY.HEADLESS.DELIVERY scope missing or delayed in OAuth 2 applications

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Issue The LIFERAY.HEADLESS.DELIVERY scope is missing or delayed in appearing when creating or managing OAuth 2 applications. The issue can occur intermittently, with the scope sometimes appearing after a delay of...

S3 Requests Causing Timeouts in Environments Without Internet Access

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Issue We observe very long loading times (over 60 seconds) when accessing certain content management pages in the admin area, particularly: Editing a page in the page editor for the first time after login...

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...

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...

Only the person assigned to a Workflow task should be able to edit the Draft

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Issue A User, who is assigned to a Workflow task should be the only user who is able to edit the Draft while the Workflow task is assigned to him/her. Currently, users with edit/admin rights can edit the Draft any...

Preview of PDF document (generated with ItextPDF) contains unwanted spaces between letters

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Issue We are generating our PDF files programmatically using ItextPDF 7.2.5 API The Library used is compileOnly group: 'com.itextpdf', name: 'itext7-core', version: '7.2.5' After uploading such a PDF file to DXP's...

Uploading a large amount of data results in high memory usage on CI service

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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 Uploading more than 1 GB worth of files can result in a failed build...