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SAML with Azure AD Fails to Authenticate and Throws Email Validation Error when URL format attribute names are used

Issue Liferay SAML integration with Azure AD may not be properly configured, specifically in regards to the Attribute Mapping. This results in an Email Validation error being thrown in the logs when a user attempts to log-in for the first time. Sample error message: 2021-03-19...

CSS minifier skips translating relative urls for already minified files

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Issue Combo servlet bundles/aggregates multiple CSS files into single downloads. Some of those CSS files might already have been minified, so those are not minified again. Apart from bundling multiple files, the Combo servlet also translates relative URLs used in CSS files so that they...

Why is the public IP of a service changing?

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Issue Checking the web address for a service, for example webserver-acme-test--ports.lfr.cloud, administrators may notice an unexpected change in the public IP address. Environment Liferay Cloud Resolution In your internal architecture, point the devices to the hostname instead....

Patching Tool 'WARNING: some of the currently installed fixes are not available' while installing certain Fix Packs

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Issue When trying to upgrade from DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 90 to Fix Pack 96, the Patching Tool shows the following message: WARNING: some of the currently installed fixes are not available: * LPS-94011 * LPS-107323 The patch installation process won't run to prevent unintended rollbacks. If you...

How do I resolve a Tika WriteLimitReachedException error?

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Issue I am seeing the following error: org.apache.tika.sax.WriteOutContentHandler$WriteLimitReachedException: Your document contained more than 1048576 characters, and so your requested limit has been reached. To receive the full text of the document, increase your limit. (Text up to the...

"SSLException: No PSK available. Unable to resume" error is thrown and Elasticsearch Monitoring/X-Pack Monitoring widget is broken with Kibana 7.11+

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Environment Liferay DXP 7.1-7.3 with Liferay Enterprise Search subscription Elasticsearch Monitoring/X-Pack Monitoring widget Elasticsearch & Kibana 7.11+ JDK 11 Symptom When Liferay DXP is configured with JDK 11 and is connecting to Elasticsearch and Kibana 7.11+, the following error...

Lots of warnings in the logs: SecurityException Access denied to com.liferay.document.library.kernel.service.DLAppService#ge tFileEntryByUuidAndGroupId

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Issue In our server logs we see a lot of warnings with stack traces like these: 2021-03-05 07:10:40.666 WARN [http-nio-127.0.0.1-8080-exec-276][PortalImpl:6843] java.lang.SecurityException: Access denied to com.liferay.document.library.kernel.service.DLAppService#ge...

The Asset Publisher shows no content for non-admin roles after upgrading to 6.2 EE portal-173+ fix pack

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Issue After upgrading from an old 6.2 EE fix pack up to a newer one, for example portal-173-6210, users with non-admin roles will no longer be able to see web contents in the Asset Publisher, instead, users with OmniAdmin rights, will see the contents. Environment Liferay 6.2 EE...

Some form pages fail to show the content with error Unable to deserialize object

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Issue When trying to view a form page with an associated custom portlet, the page failed to render the form. The portal log shows the following error: 2021-01-26 00:04:23.021 ERROR [ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8009-exec-227][JSONWebServiceServiceAction:126] Unable to deserialize object 2021-01-26...

#undefined is added to the URL when there is an Asset Publisher in a page

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Issue After upgrading from DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 96 to Fix Pack 97, the #undefined text is appended to the URL on the portal pages. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 97 Liferay DXP 7.1 Fix Pack 21 Resolution Please install Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 99+ or Liferay DXP 7.1 Fix Pack 23+ Or...

AlloyEditor Code View no longer respects line breaks

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Issue After upgrading from DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 96 to Fix Pack 97, the AlloyEditor "Code View" option no longer formats the markup. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 97 Resolution Please request a Hotfix with the LPS-127857 Additional Information Update liferay-ckeditor to...

Errors Updating Liferay Workspace

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Issue I'm running into errors when attempting to update my Liferay Workspace to a higher version. Environment Liferay Developer Studio Liferay Workspace with Gradle Build Resolution If your project does not build or you're encountering errors when running any Gradle command, it likely...

Subscribed user does not receive email notification from Asset Publisher

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Issue I set up the option for users to subscribe to Asset Publisher content I subscribe with a separate User I add new content The User does not receive any notification email Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution The reason you are not receiving the email may be that Liferay performs...

DLFileRank query running for a long time and taking up pool usage

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Issue I am seeing a long running database query and am concerned about its impact on my environment: insert into DLFileRank (groupId, companyId, userId, createDate, fileEntryId, active_, fileRankId) values (:1 , :2 , :3 , :4 , :5 , :6 , :7 ) Environment Portal 6.2 Resolution Similar to...

Error executing FreeMarker template with #null when rendering web content

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Issue When trying to render a web content we get the following error in Liferay DXP log: 2021-02-12 11:41:48.911 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-9][runtime:59] Error executing FreeMarker template FreeMarker template error: The following has evaluated to null or missing: ==>...

Roles are getting deleted

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Issue While adding the roles up to 20 if chosen 20 Items per page but if try to add multiple roles further then all the roles is getting deleted except the latest one. Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Resolution The issue has been resolved in liferay-fix-pack-portal-169-6210 or above....

How Do I Resolve "Page Not Found" Errors Thrown by Custom 404.jsp Pages in 7.3?

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Issue When I navigate away from my custom 404.jsp page in 7.3, I see a "Page Not Found" error instead of the intended page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution A solution is described in LPS-127143, and will be released in a future fix pack. Additional Information Read this article...

A Liferay Cloud hosted website won't redirect https://mydomain to https://www.mydomain

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Issue When opening a Liferay Cloud hosted website without the www part in the URL, the redirection to the site with the www part in it will not happen. Example: https://mydomain.com will not redirect to https://www.mydomain.com Environment Liferay Cloud Resolution WARNING! The below...

Unable to use the Action button under Sites

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Issue Steps to Reproduce: 1) Manually deploy Liferay on Wildfly 8.2. 2) Start up the portal and navigate to Control Panel > Sites > Add blank site. 3) Click on any Action button with to the Sites. Actual Result: The action button doesn't work. Expected Result: The Action button should be...

Unable to render forms in custom portlet anymore

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Issue You have some custom code (e.g. a portlet) which programmatically renders a form But after a patch level upgrade, this does not work anymore, the form is not rendered Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution It might be that you are having this issue due to the changes introduced by...

Using data providers to populate states based on their country

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Issue Create data providers for the country list and state list by using the below Liferay provided 'Rest Web Services'. localhost:8080/api/jsonws/country/get-countries and localhost:8080/api/jsonws/region/get-regions?country-Id={countryId} State list is not coming on selecting of the...

Allow users to get accurate search results for public page content when using the common search functionality

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Issue After publishing to 'Live' and 'Re-indexing', when searching for the public page once again on the staging server, zero results displayed. After configuring 'Remote Staging', the search results which were appropriate earlier have even stopped coming up. Environment Liferay 7.2...

Accurate search results for public page content after configuring 'Remote Staging'

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Issue No results found after publishing changes to live Steps to reproduce: Set up a clean instance Set up another (remote environment) instance. Create a new content page in the local environment. Add a basic component (for eg. banner center). Update heading of the banner (added...

Huawei devices and Liferay Push notifications

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Issue Liferay Push uses Firebase Cloud Messaging. Firebase Cloud Messaging will not send notifications to devices that don't have Google Services running on them. As of May 16, 2019, Google Services cannot run on Huawei devices. See Answering your questions on Huawei devices and Google...

New Virtual Instance cannot be created if "passwords.default.policy.check.syntax=" is set to true

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Issue If I set passwords.default.policy.check.syntax=true in my portal-ext.properties file, I cannot create a New Virtual Instance I get an error in the logs: ERROR [ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8009-exec-34][EditInstanceMVCActionCommand:121]...

Unable to preview images when selecting images in Web Content image field

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Issue Unable to preview images when selecting images in Web Content image field. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution There is a possibility the issue is caused by the missing configuration on the Adaptive Media page. The Preview 1000x0 and Thumbnail 300x300 are enabled by default on...

How Do I Change Where Documents are Stored When Uploaded Through the Forms Upload Field?

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Issue As an administrator, I would like to make the files uploaded by one user through the forms upload field hidden from other users, but I don't see a way to restrict view permissions to the Document Library root folder (where documents are stored when using the forms upload field)...

Uploading Images through Web Content disappear after upgrade

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Issue When uploading images using the image field in a web content structure, the images do not appear in the documents and media portlet. After running the upgrade to Liferay DXP 7.3 from a prior version of Liferay, the web content that contained the images that were uploaded through...

Control Panel Menu is displaying for all users

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Issue All authenticated users are seeing the Control Panel displayed on the left-hand side of the screen Environment Liferay DXP Resolution Display of the control panel is controlled by the permission Portal: View Control Panel Menu If this permission has been added to any role that a...

Unable to download files bigger than 1GB: "upstream prematurely closed connection while reading upstream"

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Issue You can not download big files from the Liferay DXP, in general you can have problems with files bigger than 1 GB, as commonly are some LAR files. There is an error in the webserver service's log file similar to: [error] 75#75: *344298 upstream prematurely closed connection while...

Unable to initialize Elasticsearch cluster, health status is in RED

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Issue When the search cluster is in RED, this results in the Liferay service (DXP) not starting or starting without search capability. A RED status usually means that the search cluster has an inconsistent status because of a data lost or data corruption. You can see the following error...

Users without Admin role cannot initiate SSO on the SP when using expando fields

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Issue When using expando field as "Name Identifier Attribute Name=expando:concurid", user without Administrator role can not initiate SSO. Steps to reproduce: On IdP end Add a custom field 'field1' for user. Go to SAML Admin > Service Provider Connections, make sure the "Name Identifier...

Additional JavaMail properties not being considered in mail server configuration

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Issue JavaMail properties defined in the field Manually specify additional JavaMail properties to override the above configuration are not being considered. Environment Liferay 7.0+ Resolution Each property should be stated in a separate line. Property statement should follow the syntax...

Service keeps on restarting

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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 The service running on Liferay SaaS keeps on restarting without any errors Environment Liferay SaaS Resolution When the service is on...

Workflow is not getting triggered on a custom entity

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Issue The below errors are observed on the Liferay console whenever trying to apply a 'Single Approval Workflow' on a 'Custom Entity' ERROR [com.liferay.portal.workflow.metrics.internal.petra.executor.WorkflowMetricsPortalExecutor-2][WorkflowMetricsPortalExecutor:56]...

Custom widget template for breadcrumbs doesn't get applied in control panel and breadcrumbs aren't shown

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Issue When a widget template is configured via system settings in system scope it doesn't show any breadcrumb. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2. Resolution Those configurations are made inside System Settings -> Breadcrumb or inside osgi/configs in below files:...

Cannot read property 'help' of undefined error when trying to upgrade a theme to Liferay DXP 7.2

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Issue While following this tutorial: https://help.liferay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029005512-Upgrading-Your-Theme-from-Liferay-Portal-7-0-to-7-2, users may encounter the below error: $ gulp upgrade test-theme/node_modules/gulp-help/index.js:81 task = gulp.tasks[name]; ^ TypeError: Cannot...

Solr Error when searching for Users or Organizations

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Issue When I perform a search for Users or Organizations, I see a blank screen and an error like the following in the logs: 2021-01-29 00:15:48.429 WARN [http-nio-8080-exec-5][ProxyMessageListener:86] com.liferay.portal.kernel.search.SearchException: Error from server at...

Loss of CKEditor functionalities on Fix Pack 9 (DXP 7.2), Fix Pack 20 (DXP 7.1) and Fix Pack 97 (DXP 7.0)

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Issue After upgrading to Fix Pack 9 (DXP 7.2), Fix Pack 20 (DXP 7.1) and Fix Pack 97 (DXP 7.0) several CKEditor functionalities will no longer be operating: LPS-125443 - The "Browse Server" button is missing. LPS-125798, LPS-125296 - Certain toolbar buttons (e.g.: Smiley, SpecialChar,...

"Unable to initialize Elasticsearch cluster" error occurs after installing a new Fix Pack

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Issue After installing a new Fix Pack on your current environment you might encounter the following errors in the logs due to Liferay Connector to Elasticsearch version update:...

Portlet drop-down menus don't collapse with a custom theme

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Issue When deploying a custom theme generated using the Theme Generator, the drop-down navigation menu of a portlet (in mobile view) does not close/collapse after the menu is expanded. This behavior does not occur when the page is using Classic Theme. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3...

How to resolve "User 'x' must have 'y' permission" errors encountered while performing staging publication processes

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Issue Our team would like our staging managers to not be administrators, so we are only providing them with select permissions. However, publication attempts encounter errors such as: ERROR [liferay/background_task-1][EventRemotePropagatorExportImportLifecycleListener:222] Unable to...

Text Area (text fields with multiple line) no working in IE

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Issue Steps to Reproduce: 1) Take Liferay-dxp-tomcat-7.2.10-ga1 and install fix-pack dxp-1. 2) Go to Content > Forms. 3) Add a new Form. 4) Add text field. 5) Set text field as multiple lines. 6) Publish Form. 7) Now enter any character in the text field. Expected Result: The character...

Empty style selector in Page Fragments

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Issue Steps to reproduce the issue: Create a page fragment with any text and publish it Drag it on a content page Publish the page Open the developer tool and inspect the fragment source code, you will get an empty css selector Copy the whole source code and validate on...

SAML certificate renewal are not being replicated immediately on my Liferay PaaS cluster.

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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 SAML certificate renewal are not being replicated immediately on my Liferay PaaS cluster. Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution This...

Unable to define user in a Workflow Definition by identifier other than user-id

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Issue When writing a Workflow Definition, I want to specify a user to receive a Workflow notification by an identifier such as screen-name or email-address. However, when I attempt to define the user by these identifiers, I see that the code is automatically removed, for example:...

Sensitive Information disclosed via Application Status 400 Error

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Issue Application Server errors at times may identify software, software versioning and hint at how user input is processed. This sample trace to demonstrate was triggered by having invalid characters (namely a set of square brackets '[ ]' ) in a given URL. Tomcat considers the address...

Commerce modules fail to deploy due following license expiration

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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 There has been a documented case where Commerce modules fail to deploy following license expiration and redeployment WARN...

Tooltip Messages appear twice when hovering over icon

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Issue User sees tooltip messages appearing twice when hovering over various icons (i.e. help icon) throughout the portal. Environment DXP 7.2 GA1 to Fix Pack 9 Resolution This behavior is caused by a regression bug and should be fully resolved in an upcoming Fix Pack (possibly Fix Pack...

Authorising 'Data Source' using https/http

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Issue When authorizing from analytics, observed an error which seems like the 'HTTPS' request is getting converted to 'HTTP'. Environment Liferay 7.2 Resolution The browser never makes a request, it's AC which makes a request to the server in order to pull data. Therefore, in order for...

The Refresh CAPTCHA option does not work

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Issue The Refresh CAPTCHA button in the form seems to be disabled, it does not respond. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Fix Pack 6+ Resolution Please install Liferay DXP 7.2 Fix Pack 9+ Or request a Hotfix with the LPS-111714 Additional Information Enabling CAPTCHA on Form Submissions...

Unable to save Instance Settings modifications

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Issue When I make some configuration change in instance settings and click save, the page breaks (menus are gone) and the changes are not stored. In the logs I see a stacktrace is thrown, with parts like these: ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-4][PortletServlet:112]...

"JSON text did not start with array or object and option to allow fragments not set" error on Liferay Screens iOS-SDK

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Issue When trying to login on Liferay-iOS-SDK Screenlet on a DXP 7.0+ project, the operation will fail, throwing the below error: "LoginScreenlet | Failed to log in: Error Domain=com.liferay.mobile.sdk Code=1 \ "json-parsing-error\" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=json-parsing-error,...

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 above web content Deploy the custom theme. Go to the 'Site Builder' > page...

Elasticsearch 7.10 breaks Workflow Metrics in DXP 7.3 GA1

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Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1 Elasticsearch 7.10+ Symptom When Liferay DXP 7.3 is configured to connect to Elasticsearch 7.10, navigating to Applications Menu > Workflow > Metrics and selecting a workflow entry (like "Single Approver") generates the errors below in the console. The...

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 appears with visual errors and distortions There are errors in the browser's...

Unable to create IDP in SAML configuration with error “java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException”

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Issue Unable to create IDP in SAML configuration with error “java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException” 2021-01-08 18:31:29.437 DEBUG [default task-193][SamlAdminPortlet:74] java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException at...

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 related to the custom theme used, the root causes can be several. Only a...

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: Index: 2, Size: 2 Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.0 Resolution There are two...

Validation on Forms

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Issue Enable validation on the field(like Mobile Number) as Number then the field should not accept character or it should give an error message. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0(fix-pack de-32) Resolution The observed behavior is resolved and fixed by LPS-77783 which was released...

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