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Reordering Pages That Have Page Types That Are Links to Pages

When reordering pages, pages that use the "link to page" type will not be reordered. Resolution This issue is resolved by utlizing the following portal property: layout.first.pageable[link_to_layout]=true Additional Information LPS-49604 LPS-7985, content:...

Known Issues for Kaleo Workflow Designer's Diagram View

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By default, the Kaleo Forms EE plugin comes with the Kaleo Workflow Designer feature. This feature helps streamline the creation of workflow definitions and empower more users to create custom workflows. Inside the Kaleo Workflow Designer, there is one graphical view and this drag and...

Installing the Audience Targeting Application

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Currently, the Audience Targeting EE app can not be installed by simply downloading the app from Liferay...

Handling SASS Related Errors

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In Portal 6.2, the Liferay platform uses SASS and Compass to simplify CSS file creations, and to avoid manual mistakes during code duplication for distinct browser types. SASS is a Ruby based solution that helps you to make well-organized and maintainable source. Furthermore it builds...

Unable to Publish Content if there are Missing Page or File Links

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Issue In Liferay DXP attempting to publish content (pages, assets, or files) with broken links results in a "missing page reference" issue during publication. Also, even updating or creating basic web content is not possible with dead links (relative links). Or when trying to publish...

Pages With the Page Layout Type Web Content Are Missing After Upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.1 GA1 or Higher

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In earlier versions of Liferay Portal 6.0 SP2 or lower, the Web Content page layout type allowed a page to display a single piece of web content. This page layout type has been deprecated starting in Liferay Portal 6.1. After an upgrade the portal may not start correctly or these pages...

Glassfish Admin Console Is Not Accessible

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With JDK version 1.6.0_19, and above, Glassfish admin console is not accessible with Liferay Portal. Steps to Reproduce Download Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA3 or Portal 6.2 Glassfish 3 bundle. Unzip. Run server, wait while it will be started. Try to access Glassfish Admin Panel. Resolution...

Why was my custom domain rejected by Liferay PaaS?

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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 Why was my custom domain rejected by Liferay PaaS? Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution If you have configured your domain but Liferay...

Connection Timeout Caused by 'org.dom4j.DocumentException' When Deploying Portlet, Hook, Etc.

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Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. Liferay is not responsible for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. Any implementation of these principles is the responsibility of the subscriber. Some environments fail...

Users May Appear in the Database but Not in Liferay Control Panel

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You may encounter an issue where specific users, or a group of users, are not appearing with the Control Panel. If upon querying the relevant tables in the database you are able to see these users, then it is likely that there is simply a discrepancy between the database and the index....

NoSuchGroupException' Occurs When Deleting Deactivated Users

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When deleting deactivated users from UI or through API, NoSuchGroupException is thrown as follows. Example 1 com.liferay.portal.NoSuchGroupException No Group exists with the key {companyId=10155, classNameId=10191, classPK=48798001} Example 2 com.liferay.portal.NoSuchGroupException...

Default Landing Page Action Is Not Supported When Using Third-Party Authentication Mechanism

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Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. Liferay is not responsible for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. Any implementation of these principles is the responsibility of the subscriber. Third-party...

Cluster Fails to Start Up Due to JGroups Update

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Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. Liferay is not responsible for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. Any implementation of these principles is the responsibility of the subscriber. This article describes a...

Search portlet does not automatically reindex when new user is added

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. The intended behavior of the Liferay Portal is to automatically reindex when any user is updated or created....

Troubleshooting Activation Key Issues

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For customers working on Liferay DXP, Liferay Commerce or Liferay Portal, this article serves as a troubleshooting guide for activation key issues. Table of Contents Reading Folders and Logs Reading the License Manager Checking the Deploy Directory The *.li exists in data folder...

Staging Issues with Blogs Portlet

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The following is a checklist for getting blogs to stage if you're experiencing difficulties. While the example is blogs, this could apply to any content. Resolution When attempting to stage blog content: Before turning on staging, be sure to check Blogs. By default, Blogs are not...

Group Mapping Left Blank In LDAP Export Leads to Errors

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This articles serves as a troubleshooting guide. When Liferay is configured to export users from the portal to LDAP, the following error is encountered: 09:18:31,903 ERROR [LoginAction:128] com.liferay.portal.ModelListenerException: javax.naming.directory.InvalidAttributeValueException:...

SQL Server Database May Lock When Publishing Content in a Staged Environment or Importing a LAR

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Liferay portal may appear to hang or be unresponsive when importing a LAR or publishing to staging. This occurs if the database used in your environment is a SQL Server with default transaction isolation settings and it occurs regardless of the size of the content. Resolution 1. Set in...

Content Not Being Found By Search

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When searching the portal, you may find that search fails to find a piece of content (articles, images, message board, blog posts, etc). This can happen due to multiple reasons: Content is not indexed when it is added Index gets out of sync In case of cluster, the indexes are not...

CKEditor Issues in Liferay Portlets

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Many Liferay portlets—such as the Blogs portlet, the Web Content portlet, the Wiki portlet, and so on—utilize CKEditor. This article discusses ways to approach and troubleshoot issues involving CKEditor within Liferay portlets. Resolution Before testing for the issue on Liferay's...

Internet Explorer 11 Memory Leaks

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Issue This article describes a known issue specific to Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) as documented on LPS-73892. Liferay has discovered a memory leak occurring in IE11 and Edge. As the browser memory usage of the application increases, a page may render with mobile styling....

Known Issues: Liferay DXP 7.1 Fix Packs and Service Packs

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Note: This article is no longer maintained and is only made available for your reference. All the information in this article can now be found in the Liferay DXP Release Notes. This article documents a list of known issues in Liferay DXP 7.1 Fix Packs and Service packs. Fix Pack 8 Fix...

Unable to Access Liferay Due to Missing Theme(s)

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. When deploying themes to Liferay, theme references are created and saved into the database. If the theme is...

Lucene Indexing Errors

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If organizations are missing in the control panel and are accompanied by Lucene indexing errors they can be the result of not having the proper settings. Resolution In the portal-ext.properties file add "lucene.replicate.write=true" Verify that each node has their own index and aren't...

License fails to deploy due to permissioning

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One error that can occur in deploying licenses doesn't have anything to do with the app server but rather arises due to the permission settings on the operating system. Some symptoms of this are: The XML file sits in the "${liferay.home}/deploy" folder A .li file is not generated into...

Installing the New Version of Renamed Marketplace and Enterprise Search Applications in DXP

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Introduction This article documents how to install the new version of a renamed Marketplace application in Liferay DXP. The names of some Liferay Marketplace applications have been changed in order to distinguish that these applications are developed by Liferay in order to connect with...

Unable to upload documents to Document Library from remote machine through web service larger than 3MB

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Information about products not created by Liferay is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute Liferay Support recommendation nor endorsement. Liferay also does not assume any responsibility for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. When...

Possible LDAP NullPointerExceptions

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. When setting up LDAP in the portal-ext.properties, NullPointerException errors may be thrown if settings are not...

Grey screen when accessing document in Liferay Sync

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If you are having issues viewing file content within the iOS application, it could simply be an authentication issue. One specific possibility is that Basic Auth is not enabled. Resolution 1. Update to Liferay Sync iOS 1.1 2. If you are running version 1.0, add this line to your...

Can not Edit Calendar Event When User Language and Portal Language Differ

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Resolution Description 1. Set the Portal Language to English (US), add calendar portlet to homepage 2. Create a...

Unable to Remove Tags and Categories With Local Staging in Portal 6.2

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Since the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 users have been able to publish the deletion of major entities. This includes the removal of Web Content Articles, Documents and Media files, etc. However, for Tags and Categories, Staging in Liferay 6.2 offers limited support only, which means...

Liferay Maven Troubleshooting Guide

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This article is a troubleshooting guide to assist with common errors in using Liferay Maven SDK. The information listed below is applicable to all Liferay Portal versions. Resolution When encountering issues with Maven, it is important to verify that Maven has been installed correctly...

Linking to Unpublished Pages for Staging

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This article outlines a practical suggestion for preventing errors by keeping the order of publishing and referencing pages in mind when staging. Following the suggestion will help prevent broken links from appearing when publishing content that links to a given page after that new page...

Minimizing JRuby Memory Issues

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. This article addresses memory issues caused by JRuby, a Java implementation of the Ruby programming language....

Message Boards Do Not Work On MySQL Unless Character Set is UTF-8

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When the MySQL database is using a character set that is not UTF-8 (such as Latin1), new message boards posts with special characters like the one in the below screenshot cannot be published. You will see a, Message portlet unavailable message, and the following error:...

Setting Operating System Permissions in the Liferay Portal 6.2 EE Tomcat Bundle

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In the process of building the Tomcat bundle, some read/write/execute permissions may be lost for your operating system. Resolution To regain access to the various files and folders in the Tomcat Bundle, simply change the permissions via the operating system. In Windows, this means Right...

Preventing Inaccurate or Incomplete PDF Document Previews

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Generating Previews of PDF Documents using PDFBox can lead to the generation of incomplete or inaccurate results,...

Permissioning Documents as a Site Member

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This article explains an issue that arises even after applying a fix for LPS-34514 (this LPS ensures that the option "Site Members" is only shown in the role selection box if the user really had the permission to "View" the "Site Member" role). While this fix is correct, the best fix...

Unable to Move a Search Portlet in a Custom Page Template When Using Default Classic Theme

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If you are using the Liferay platform's default classic theme when creating a page template, the search and navigation portlets are added by default. You cannot move or remove those portlets from the page template. Resolution Because the page template is taking from the theme along with...

Exceptions when remote staging in a clustered environment

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. In a clustered environment with Remote Live staging turned on, user may see printed in the logs "unable to...

Improved search results when using multiple Asset Publisher portlets

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Before LPS-34161, there was redundancy in the search portlet which would manifest when multiple asset publishers...

Broken Links Prevent Web Content from Publishing in DXP 7.0

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Starting with Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.0, a new validation process was added to check if linked text in a web content article links to a valid Liferay page. The way the validator works is this: Once the validator detects a link within the text of a web content, it...

Incorrect Language Locale Appended to URLs for Authenticated Users

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This article documents an issue where Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.0 stores the locale (e.g. /fr) of a guest session (that is, no one has signed in yet) and then keeps the same locale even after a user has signed in (authenticated). Users might still see /fr in the URL...

Elasticsearch 6 and X-Pack Common Problems

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This article addresses some of the common problems you may encounter when working with Elasticsearch 6, and serves as a troubleshooting guide to help you resolve them. Please notice that some of these problems apply only to Liferay DXP 7.0, while others apply to versions 7.0 and 7.1....

Upgrading from Portal 5.2.8 to Portal 6.1.10 with JNDI datasource in Weblogic fails

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Setting the JNDI datasource in Weblogic and upgrading from Portal 5.2.8. to Portal 6.1 causes upgrades to fail...

Syncing between Servers with different groupIDs causes Liferay Sync to crash

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. After configuring the application to sync with another server (that has a different groupID), some administrators...

Common Errors When Applying CSS in DXP 7.1

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This article documents the CSS in Web Content Management and lists steps to resolve the issue or avoid it altogether. Resolution Error: CSS in the template is not applied to web content articles Summary: Users who write their CSS in the Web Content Template will see that the web content...

WstxEOFException End of file exception errors while upgrading with SQL Server

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. When upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.1 using SQL Server, "End of File" exceptions may occur. Resolution Be sure that...

Virtual hosts error caused by search engine robots

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. During the course of normal usage, the following error was received:...

Common Error With Staging or Export/Import Between Servers

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The article documents an error users may encounter when attempting to establish Remote Live Staging or when the export/import feature between two Liferay instances is used. It is mandatory to have exactly the same Liferay versions on both servers when attempting to establish Remote Live...

Globally Scoped Content Will Not Be Published nor Imported to Global Scope on Target Sites

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Under the following scenarios, globally scoped content is not published or imported to global scope on the target site when content refer to it get published or imported. While this may be an intended behavior, it could cause confusion or missing reference issues for certain use cases....

Search filters not working properly in Portal 6.1 GA2

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. When narrowing down search results using Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA2, the portal does not continue to constrain...

No Access to the Control Panel if Guest Site is Inactive

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. This article documents a known issue where users are able to deactivate the default Liferay Portal site, which...

Unable to Publish Pages With Type 'Link to Page' When Page Versioning Is Enabled

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This article describes a known issue that makes it impossible to publish pages with "Link to Page" type, when Page Versioning is enabled. Steps to Reproduce Create a new Site. Activate Staging with Page Versioning enabled (public or private). Create an empty page. (only on 6.2) Create a...

Older Version of the JavaMelody Hook Prevents Creating Structured Web Content in Liferay Portal 6.2 SP13 and above

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. This article documents the solution to a known issue when creating structured web content if the customer is using...

Sync Unable to Connect to Upgraded Liferay Portal 6.2

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If a 6.1 portal is configured to work with Liferay Sync 1.2 or below, and then that portal is upgraded to Liferay 6.2 EE, Liferay Sync may not be able to connect to the portal. Resolution If you are experiencing issues connecting Liferay Sync to the upgraded Liferay Portal, you'll need...

PropertySettingJobFactory WARN Messages Appearing Within Clustered Environment

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Several PropertySettingJobFactory WARN messages are logged with a clustered Liferay: WARN...

SQL Errors in the Console When Re-ordering Site Pages on Oracle Database 12.1.0.2

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Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. Liferay is not responsible for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. Any implementation of these principles is the responsibility of the subscriber. This article describes a...

Authentication Error When Logging In With Google Account

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This article documents an authentication error when attempting to log in to the portal instance using a google account. Listed below are the steps to resolve the issue or avoid it altogether. Resolution Error: redirect_uri_mismatch Summary: After the user has been authenticated with...

JSP Compilation Errors when Deploying Liferay Portal 6.2 on Apache Tomcat 7.0.75 (Or Higher)

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This article documents a known issue when administrators deploy Liferay Portal 6.2 EE on Apache Tomcat 7.0.75 (or higher). An error will appear in the console (see truncated log below): An error occurred at line: [430] in the generated java file:...

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