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Reverse Chronological Order in WebContent

Issue The default order of showing the WebContent articles is in "Chronological" order, which shows the older created articles first. And, want to list the latest created articles first. Steps to reproduce 1. Navigate to Content > WebContent 2. Create 3-4 Basic Web Contents. 3. Check...

Unable to publish WebContent for localized Site

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Setup the vanilla bundle and start the Liferay. 2. Go to system settings > WebContent > Administration > Changeable default language as true. 3. Set en_US, es_ES as instance languages and en_US as the default language of the instance. 4. Go to the Global...

More than one status of WebContent is showing on Live site

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Issue Steps to reproduce 1. Create a WebContent named "Test" on the staging site. 2. The status of the created WebContent is showing as "approved". 3. Expire the "Test" WebContent (Now, the status will change to "Expired") 4. Do "Publish to Live" from the WebContent. Observed Behavior:...

en_US and en_GB is available and it is always displayed in long-form

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Issue We want to have both American English and British English available in the Instance settings, but only use one of them on a site that has a non-English language set as the default language. The URL should be displayed as follows: www.portal.com/en but the long form of the language...

Display setting is blank for Asset Publisher in the configuration

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Issue When clicking on the display settings tab of the Asset publisher configuration, it displays a blank screen with the below error. ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-18][BaseJSPFormNavigatorEntry:55] Unable to include JSP /configuration/source.jsp build-10657 [liferay-64c8f68f4-qp6h2] [dxp]...

Configuring portlets, embedded by a theme within the header or the footer

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Issue When a portlet is embedded within a footer/header on a content page, the portlet configuration is inaccessible, even in edit mode. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Configuring portlets - embedded by a theme - are disabled within both the header and the footer as well. Such...

Applying decorators on a content page within fragments

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Issue Using fragments with embedded widgets, like web content display, the default theme decorator is not being applied to the embedded widget. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+ Resolution The desired scenario of applying decorators on a content page within fragments is not available by...

An empty Control Menu is visible for a user without permissions

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Issue When a regular user (user created with default settings) log in to the portal, an empty Control Menu bar is displayed on all Content Pages. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3. Liferay DXP 7.4. Resolution Please install DXP 7.3 Update 4, DXP 7.4 Update 6 or higher. Or request a Hotfix with...

Error displaying geolocation field OpenStreetMap (Leaflet) for the second time, showing a white map when cached

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Issue We have a web content structure with a "geolocation" type field (we use the Open Street Map option). We display it using a template for said structure. The map appears correctly the first time it is loaded, but if we reload the page it appears completely blank map area. We note...

Unable to order by published date at the time of selecting assets for a manual collection

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Issue When we use Manual Collections, we have to select the items manually, using a selection screen. In this screen, under the Filter and Order selector, we can set Title or Modified Date as an item order. Is there a way to set Publish Date as item order instead of Title or Modified...

What to expect if the company.default.home.url is set as "/"

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Issue This article provides a high-level overview of what to expect if the company.default.home.url is set as /. Environment Liferay DXP with sites or instances with multiple virtual hosts Resolution Let's say that your Liferay DXP instance has the following setup: Two sites with the...

Site template propagation performance

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Issue The layouts, portlets, and data from the template are copied to the site created from the template using the export-import process. The initial site created using the template just copies the content data. Only portlet configurations and layouts are exported and imported when the...

Journal Articles display causing pages loading delay

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Issue Pages loading delays are detected after updating your patch level. Those pages include jorunal articles to be displayed. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Liferay DXP 7.3 from fixpack-3 Liferay DXP 7.2 from fixpack-16 Resolution LPS-139726 introduces a performance regression : when the...

Why is the rich-text toolbar floating instead of permanent?

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Issue Users can't see the rich-text actions toolbar until they select a piece of text if they create a new fragment with a rich-text type editable field and place it on a content page. Steps to reproduce 1) Start Liferay 7.3 instance 2) Create a collection and a fragment in it 3) Create...

Use CKEditor plugins button on AlloyEditor

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Issue What are the steps to add the colorbutton plugin as an AlloyEditor button? This official documentation doesn't work on DXP by default and needs some extra configuration. Environment DXP 7.0, DXP 7.1, DXP 7.2, DXP 7.3 Resolution The solution is to add on the configuration this...

After a failed CAPTCHA forgot password submission, the 'Text verification failed' alert persists after refreshing the page

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Issue The screen name/email address field value is not removed from the page after refreshing the page after an invalid 'forgot password' CAPTCHA attempt, and the 'Text verification failed' alert persists. Steps to Reproduce 1. Start Liferay 7.2 2. Click on the login link, then select...

Can we prevent editors from injecting executable code in Web Content fields?

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Issue When rendering the text fields stored for a Web Content through Web Content Templates, the resulting markup might execute undesired code if the editor has introduced executable code like: <img src=x onerror=alert("Hello")> Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution This can easily be...

Deleting pages from Live site is allowed

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Issue Regardless of who created the page, the Admin user or any site owner role needs to be able to control its deletion on the live site. Steps to reproduce: 1. Startup Liferay DXP 7.2 2. Enable remote staging and create a public page (Test Page) on the local site. 3. Publish page from...

Page permissions are not getting reflected while creating the pages with copy page option.

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Issue Create a page like Ad Campaign. Apply for permission on the page by using the Permission option in the action of the page. Create a page (Ad Campaign Copy) by choosing the option Copy page from the action of the Ad Campaign page. Give the name of the page and create it. Open the...

413 Request Entity Too Large

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Issue Whenever a user is trying to upload a file/document in Document & Media portlet, the error "HTTP response 413 and Request Entity Too Large message" is thrown. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution This error usually occurs when a request made from a client is too large to be...

Administrator can't assign an existing regular site to an organisation

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Issue A portal administrator wants to assign an existing regular site as an organisation site. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Liferay doesn't currently have such functionality to assign an existing regular site as an...

Asset Publisher view.jsp has potential XSS vulnerability

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Issue When a user tries to retrieve the assetEntryId in asset-publisher-web/view.jsp, the content is not validated or escaped. This means XSS could occur. Reproduction Steps: 1. Add 3 journal articles. 2. Add an asset publisher to the home page. The asset publisher should show 3...

In Safari, wrong button press is read when SPA is enabled

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Issue In Safari (macOS and iOS versions) wrong button press is read when SPA is enabled Steps to reproduce: 1. Deploy testspaformmultiplesubmit1-1.0.0.jar 2. Open Safari browser, add a module to a page, and make sure senna is on. 3. Click on the first button and see "You Clicked Button...

With Firefox, the UI publication process is not feasible

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Issue Users are experiencing issues on the UI with the latest version of Firefox (86.0.1). Steps to reproduce: 1) Start a clean instance of Liferay 7.0 2) Open the portal in Firefox version 86.0.1 3) Open a settings page (or basically any page) with form fields on it (for example:...

How to keep the session logged between different subdomains

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Issue You need to logging each time you enter in each site even sub domines of the same domain. To keep de same session across different sites that are subdomains of the same domain. For example siteA.example.com and siteB.example.com Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 DXP...

addEventListener property is null when previewing page template

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Issue Steps to reproduce 1. Go to Site → Design → Page Templates and select the Masters tab. 2. Add a custom master. 3. Add an Asset Publisher to the master page template. 4. Click the Preview button. 5. Assert the Asset Publisher is shown in a preview dialog. 6. Right-click on Inspect >...

Unable to save after unchecking Enable propagation of changes from the site template

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Issue Reproduction steps: Startup the portal Set the following log levels: com.liferay.portlet.sites.util DEBUG com.liferay.exportimport.internal.controller INFO com.liferay.layout.admin.web.internal.exportimport.data.handler.LayoutStagedModelDataHandler WARN Create a site template...

Literal is not localized in item selectors breadcrumb

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Issue Steps to reproduce 1. Navigate to blogs under Content & Data. 2. Create new blog entry. 3. In edit page, click select file. 4. Select Document & Media. 5. Check that the breadcrumb shows the literals: sites > Liferay 6. Change display locale for example adding the locale to the...

When configuring a Page it is not highlighted on the Page Tree

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Issue Reproduction Steps: 1. Set up DXP 7.3 2. Go to Control Panel --> Site Builder --> Pages and add a couple of pages. 3. Go to Site Builder --> Pages so you can see the Page Hierarchy 4. Click on the Page Tree icon on the upper left of the site. 5. On the Page Hierarchy of the Site...

Ability to delete Page directly from the page edit

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Issue How to delete a page from the edit/configure option on the page or directly from the page when viewing it. When viewing a page in Liferay Portal 6.2, there was a delete button on the side menu. Users can only delete a Page in Liferay DXP 7.2 via the Site Builder > Pages menu, where...

Permission option is missing from page configuration

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Issue Unable to access the delete or permissions options on a page. Steps to reproduce: 1) Start a clean instance of Liferay 7.2 2) Go to the Pages section 3) Click on the home page's context menu 4) You will see the permission option there 5) Go to the page's configuration Actual...

Error copying a page: An unexpected error occurred.

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Issue You find an "Unexpected error occurred" message during a Copy page action. Checking the logs there is a trace like this: 2021-12-28 12:09:49.911 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-9][LayoutExceptionRequestHandler:132] User 35215 must have...

Web Content display style UI is changing when navigating to other assets

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Issue Steps to reproduce 1. Navigate to Web Content. 2. Create Basic Web Content (Note that display style of UI is "list"). 3. Change display style icon to table. (Display style changes correctly and UI indicator also changes correctly) 4. Navigate away(e.g Blogs) and then again click on...

Prevent Site Members from adding documents from the Asset Publisher

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Issue Site Member are able to add files from the Asset Publisher without adding explicit permissions Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Documents and Media's default permissions include Add Document in...

Widget permissions aren't available on Content pages

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Issue After upgrading from 6.2 to 7.2 version, when we try to modify the permissions of a widget used on a page, we don't have this option available (as we had in 6.2). This problem happens only for Content Pages. For Widget Pages you can still modify widget permissions. Environment...

Link page in fragments in 7.3

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Issue In 7.3, contrary to 7.4, it is not possible to select a page using the type='link' tag in a fragment. Only 'content' and 'URL' options are available. This feature would be very useful to, for example, avoid creating as many manual URL links as languages needed. Environment Liferay...

What if Liferay 7.0 Page Templates are not visible after upgrade?

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Issue The Page Templates from Liferay 7.0 are no longer visible for the certain users after the Liferay upgrade. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution LPS-136413 and LPS-137014 are the solutions that improved the case. These fixes make...

Saving Site Settings with thousands of pages takes a long time and stops with a time out error

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Issue We made a change in Configuration > Site Settings and then clicked on Save. After processing for for a long time the portal returns a time out message and the change is not saved. We currently have more than 25 thousand pages related to our site. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay...

Configuration of a fragment that appears on the selection section scrolls up when selecting the fragment present at the bottom

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Issue The configuration of a fragment that appears on the selection section scrolls up when selecting the fragment present at the bottom. Steps to reproduce: 1) Add a container to the home page 2) Add a card fragment into it and duplicate it for 5 times 3) Select the card fragment...

Fixes present in Fix Packs affecting themes are not directly applied to my custom theme

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Issue Part of the fixes included in a given Fix Pack can be located within the base themes Unstyled or Styled. Just applying that Fix Pack might not make those changes appear in the custom themes which inherits from those base theme. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Regenerate the...

Can I change the font and font size in the CKEditor of web content?

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Issue Cannot set up the font and font size in the CKEditor Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution In DXP 7.3, there is no UI option to change font and font size in the CKEditor of web content by default. This is because the default CKEditor itself doesn't support setting font and size of...

I cannot add more than one resource into fragments

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Issue When I try to add multiple files in the Resources section of the fragment using Drag & Drop, the portal only adds the first one. How do I upload several resources into fragments? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Unfortunately, currently it is not possible to upload more than...

Content Page image lost after changing site's default language

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Issue After changing the default language on a site and checking content fragments that include images, the content on existing pages is not displayed anymore if we change the translation. Environment DXP 7.2 DXP 7.3 Resolution This is the expected default behavior because every...

How to change site URL prefix from /web/sitename to a custom one

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Issue Our Liferay web site has the following URL prefix: /web/sitename and its URLs are: http://example.com/web/sitename/mypage We want to change the URL prefix to: /level1/level2/level3 so its URLs are changed to: http://example.com/level1/level2/level3/mypage How can we change it?...

Unable to move fragments in a page structure

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Issue When editing a Content Page, it's not possible to move fragments using the tree in the page structure sidebar panel. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Please contact support and request a hotfix with the LPS-133007. Additional Information LPS-133007. , content:...

Image Properties window is no longer available

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Issue After updating the portal, we noticed that the Image Properties window no longer appears when editing images in a Web Content. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 with fix-pack-dxp-11-7210 or higher. Resolution This behavior is due to LPS-127058 (included in the portal since Fix Pack 11),...

Structure item is not getting saved in Asset Publisher.

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Issue Steps to reproduce Navigate to default site > Content & Data > Web Content:Structure Add a structure named "test structure" with a "text box" field Add a web content using the structure added in step 2 Navigate to Site Builder > Pages Add a content page Add an Asset Publisher...

Unable to show journal articles

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Issue We have some troubles when trying to show web contents. Scenario 1: Trying to show a web content in search results page. Some of the web contents in the search result show the error message "An error occurred while processing the template. The following has evaluated to null or...

Repeatable Geolocation field cannot be moved properly

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Issue Steps to reproduce 1. Start Liferay 7.3 Bundle. 2. Create a new structure. 3. Add a geolocation field and set property to repeatable 4. Create new web content with the above created structure. 5. Repeat the geo field in webcontent. Observed Behavior: When geolocation field is...

View permission for the "Guest" is not selected by default

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Issue When we create WebContent, the permission for guest user is not selected by default. Steps to reproduce 1. Create new basic webcontent. 2. Before publishing, check the permissions of webcontent. 3. We see that permission selector point defaults to site member instead of guest....

Portlet Id changes from Staging to Production

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Issue ID of the portlet instance is different in the staging environment than in the real environment Steps to reproduce: Add a content editor portlet to a page. Go to staging. In staging: Edit "Configuration" Go to "Advanced styles" tab. Click on the button "Add CSS code for this...

Custom Layout Templates shows source code in Nested Application Portlet

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Issue Configure the Nested Application Portlet to appear with any of the custom layouts whenever it is used. Instead of the layout's rendering, the source code is shown. Steps to reproduce 1) Deploy the custom layout war file 2) Startup Liferay 7.1 with Fix pack 16 installed 3) Create a...

How to identify a Page Template using Freemarker

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Issue I need to identify if the current page is a page template or not, using Freemarker from the applied theme. Is there a method similar to Layout.isPublicLayout() to achieve this? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Unfortunately there is no direct method available...

7.4 styled custom themes not working properly

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Issue When applying a styled based custom theme to a page in 7.4, header and other elements are misplaced and when you click the three elipsis button of a widget, options show up in the incorrect location. Environment Liferay 7.4 and Liferay Theme Generator 10.1.0. Resolution The...

Runtime CSS minifier creates invalid CSS animation action

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Issue transition: background-color 5000s ease-in-out 0s; becomes transition: background-color 5000s ease-in-out 0; when minification is used. At build time, the CSS gets compiled, but at the run time, when deployed into Liferay, the output depends on whether the minifier is used:...

Rendering Adapted Images in a Web Content Article Using Asset Publisher with Custom Display Template

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Issue How can I use Adapted Images in a web content article displaying in the Asset Publisher with custom Display Template? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Go to System Settings > Template Engines > Freemarker Engine > Restricted Classes and remove serviceLocator from the...

Incorrect French translation of the site language change message

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Issue Steps to reproduce 1. Go to Configuration > Site Settings > Languages and select `Define a custom default language and additional available languages for this site.` and set the French Language as the default one from the Default Language menu. 2. Navigate to Home page and add `fr`...

CKEditor is not displaying full source code text

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Issue Steps to reproduce 1. Set CKEditor as an editor for WebContent. 2. Start Liferay DXP 7.3 3. Create a new basic WebContent. 4. Write a long text, with multiple lines so that scroll should be visible. 5. Go to Source code and see we can't scroll until the end. Expected Behavior:...

Do we need gzip for images?

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Issue When retrieving images from Liferay server, gzip is not enabled. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution As images are already compressed, using gzip on them won't provide any additional benefit, and can actually make them larger., content:...

Fragment editable values can create history entries without changing

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Issue When users drag a fragment onto the content page, it appears to be edited, even though they aren't editing anything about the fragment. Steps to Reproduce: Add a Content Page Place a Paragraph fragment on it and press Publish Open the Content Page again for editing Double click on...

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