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How to remove users from Liferay that are deactivated / deleted in the LDAP server

Issue When a user is no longer listed in the LDAP server, the authentication fails and the user cannot log in anymore, but a dead user entry remains in Control Panel -> Users. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+...

Custom site/organizational role gives too many permissions

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Issue I have created a custom site/organizational role to see Document and Media contents. I only selected VIEW options in Define Permissions > Site Administration > Content > Documents and Media, but the...

Deactivate Liferay users automatically when they are deactivated on LDAP

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Issue We have an LDAP server connected to Liferay and we want to deactivate Liferay users automatically when they are deactivated on LDAP. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution We can use the...

What are the folders to clean in a Jboss bundle? - DXP 7.0+

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Issue After applying a new patch, I am not able to find the cache folders that should be removed in the Jboss bundle after e.g. installing a patch Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Jboss Resolution How to clean Jboss?...

The user is not being associated with the organization

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Issue When a new user is added to an organization through the action menu of the organization. An error is returned if the email address starts with 'postmaster' (for example, postmaster@liferay.com). The new user...

Disable email notifications of web content, when you post a comment

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Issue When you write a comment on a web content, you will automatically start receiving emails on every update that is made on that web content. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2, DXP 7.3 Resolution This is an expected...

LDAP y gestion de usuarios en idiomas con dos apellidos

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Issue En un servidor LDAP que se ha configurado conjuntamente con Liferay se tienen almacenados los apellidos de los usuario en dos campos diferentes. Al visualizar los usuarios en el portal no aparece su nombre...

Non-admin owner of a User Group is unable to perform any actions on it

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Issue Steps to reproduce: Create a new role (name doesn't matter) Grant the following permissions to this role: Portal: Add User Group Portal: View Control Panel Menu User Groups: Access in Control Panel User Groups:...

Cannot open action menu for users who have similar screen names

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Issue Steps to Reproduce 1. Go to Control Panel - Users and Organizations 2. Add a new user with the screen name "test-test" 3. Add another user with the screen name "test.test" 4. Go back to the list of...

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]...

Fatal error when using the Patching Tool in Windows

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Issue When executing the command patching-tool.bat info in Windows, a fatal error is shown: C:\liferay\patching-tool>patching-tool.bat info Loading product and patch information... Product information: * installation...

Cannot access portal due to NoSuchResourcePermissionException exception

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Issue An error when rendering a page produces a critical issue that blocks the portal access. In the logs you could see a trace similar to this: com.liferay.portal.kernel.events.ActionException:...

Autocomplete issue during login

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Issue During login, the browser autocompletes the user's credentials into the fields based on past logins. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution These login...

Site Administrator cannot add images of global site to current site's web content

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Issue Site Administrator cannot see global site and it's content listed when trying to add an image from global site to current site's web content. Steps to reproduce: Log in as admin. Go to the Global site's...

Instance level LDAP configuration

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Issue When configuring LDAP authentication from DXP 7.3, the companyId has to be configured on an instance level. This issue can present itself for example during a CI / CD development. Environment DXP 7.3...

UserTrackerPath entries limitation in clustered environment

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Issue Track user visited paths in a clustered environment. Environment Clustered environment with the following properties enabled to use Live Users and Session Tracker: live.users.enabled=true...

Expand the available special characters for passwords

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Issue If you have a password policy enabled where the users must have special characters in their passwords certain characters that are not allowed such as "&" or "%". You will get the following error message when you...

Can I have different Fix Pack levels in a remote Staging environment?

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Issue We are in the process of upgrading our portal to a higher Fix Pack and I was wondering if there is any issue with having the Staging environment with the new Fix Pack and the Live environment with the current...

Allow only one user to be logged into an account

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Issue When someone is logging into an account I want to invalidate the previous session. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution With the following portal-ext property you can invalidate sessions, allowing only one...

How to build a SOAP JAX-WS (Java API for XML Web Services) client using the Liferay infrastructure.

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Issue We have a WSDL (Web Services Description Language) descriptor and we need to build a client from it. Finally, we will make this service (client) available to any application installed on our Liferay instance....

Unexpected operator and Bad substitution errors executing the patching-tool

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Issue When you try to execute the patching-tool, the following errors show up: $ sh ./patching-tool.sh patching-tool.sh: 13: [: unexpected operator patching-tool.sh: 13: [: unexpected operator patching-tool.sh: 13: [:...

SessionTracker in clustered environment

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Issue Session Tracker cannot be used to track visited paths among cluster nodes. Environment Clustered environment with two or more nodes. Resolution Session Tracker doesn't support tracking visited paths when...

Patching Tool 'support-info' command

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Issue Trying to run the 'support-info' command using the patching tool, but nothing happens. But there is no output, and there is no error. How can users find out about modules? Environment Liferay DXP Patching...

Allow custom site administrator role to see all users of Liferay

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Issue When creating a site role that is able to add members to a site, they see a limited amount of users or just themselves. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution In order to allow a user to see all members of Liferay, you...

User unable to Login with CSRF error

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Issue User is unable to login, and gets the below error in logs: User 0 did not provide a valid CSRF token for com.liferay.portlet.SecurityPortletContainerWrapper Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Firstly,...

Create a custom logout action

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Issue I want to control what happens after a user logs out. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution There are two ways of achieving the desired outcome. The first is to create a custom module and add it to the list of...

I cannot download the vCard from another user

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Issue The Contacts Center Widget allows users to export the user’s vCard and save it as a VCF file. vCard is a file format standard for electronic business cards. If a regular user clicks on the vCard from...

Users can't be assigned to sites

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Issue java.lang.IllegalArgumentException is occured when trying to add a user to a site. Steps to reproduce: 1. Add below property in portal-ext.properties file. users.search.with.index=false 2. Start the...

Impersonation Security concerns

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Issue Impersonation is a powerful feature of Liferay. This article serves to answer the following questions regarding its security. Who triggers the impersonation request? How long that kind of access will be used?...

I cannot export Liferay Portal users

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Issue When I try to export the portal users, the process fails and the portal displays the error "This site cannot be accessed". The portal log shows the following errors: ERROR [default...

User Export to CSV is limited to 10,000 entries

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Issue I’m unable to export the complete list of user ids from Liferay. When attempting to export users to a CSV file, only up to the first 10,000 users are exported.  Environment DXP 7.3 Service Pack 1 Resolution...

Not able to define document viewing permissions for a child site

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Issue Document viewing permissions for a child site is not getting save properly and the below error is thrown in Liferay logs on saving the permission: 2021-06-02 18:40:15.129 ERROR...

Disable password verification for SSO users

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Issue When changing the screen name or email address of a user, the portal now requires a password verification. This was not a requirement for previous versions of Liferay. Environment DXP 7.3+ Resolution This is a...

Time Zones in Australia

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Issue By default, Liferay only displays a few Australian time zones that do not account for regional rules related to daylight savings time. How can we adjust Liferay's time zones in order to reflect Australia's regional...

While using Azure B2C a SAML error occurs when getting a parameter with whitespaces

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Issue When SAML module is configured and integrated with an Azure B2C and we need to map a parameter to a Liferay parameter, a problem might occur due to a whitespace: <saml:Attribute FriendlyName="Given...

How to Disable Groovy Scripts and the Scripting Console in Control Panel

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Issue I want to disable Groovy Scripts from being executed in Control Panel's Server Administration panel Environment Prior to DXP 7.4 Resolution 1. Go to Control Panel > Configuration > System Settings 2. In the Platform...

How to Disable Gogo Shell

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Issue I want to disable the Gogo Shell from my Liferay instance Environment Liferay DXP Resolution The Gogo Shell can be disabled by performing the following actions: 1. Go to Control Panel > Configuration > Components 2....

Is it possible to know the timeline for when a hotfix from Liferay Support will be ready?

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Issue Is it possible to have an exact timeline on when a hotfix from Liferay Support will be ready? Environment Portal 6.1/6.2 DXP 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3/7.4 Resolution While there is no exact timeline from Liferay...

Viewer Role is able to upload/edit the documents

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Issue Steps to Reproduce: 1) Create a Site called HR 2) Create a Private page called Documents 3) In the Document's Page drag and drop Document and Media (Image-1) 4) Click on Document and Media Configuration and check...

Deleting old data from 'AUDIT_AUDITEVENT' table in 6.2

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Issue I want to clean up the AUDIT_AUDITEVENT table because the old data is taking up too much space. Environment Portal 6.2 Resolution Note: The following information involves customizations that are beyond the scope of...

A non-friendly error message appears in the logs when trying to create a new user through API with a firstName that is longer than allowed

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Issue Trying to create a new user via API with a longer than allowed firstName produces a non-friendly error message in the logs Reproducing steps Start Liferay and go to Control Panel > Server Administration >...

The size of the user_ table's firstName field should be increased

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Issue The size of the firstName (75) field of the user_ table should be increased since it sometimes prevents the creation and access of certain users in an environment. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution In...

Trace about Reflection.getCallerClass is not supported when executing Patching Tool

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Issue When you try to use the Patching Tool (for example, the command patchingtool.sh info), you get an error similar to the following: 2021-07-16 06:41:48,143 INFO sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass is not...

What permissions are needed to edit content pages?

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Issue What permissions does a role need to edit content pages, including adding, configuring and deleting widgets and fragments in it? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2, 7.3 Resolution There are a handful of basic...

Why a big .lar import, using SQL Server database makes the Liferay system unreachable?

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Issue The Customer has initiated a big .lar import, and during the actual import-process the system cannot be accessed. Environment Liferay 6.2 Liferay 7.0 Liferay 7.1 Liferay 7.2 Liferay 7.3 Resolution For...

Importing LDAP users with the same email address

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Issue I want to import LDAP users that have the same email address, but the import fails due to an error about a duplicate email address: 2021-08-02 16:53:47.766 ERROR [https-jsse-nio-4443-exec-13][LDAPAuth:432] Problem...

Does an upgrade to a new Liferay Fix Pack include the upgrade of Tomcat version?

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Issue Do we need to upgrade the Tomcat version when we upgrade to a Liferay version? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution A Fix Pack doesn't change the Tomcat version, it only patches Liferay that was...

After applying the hotfix, the warning 'properties modified in the future' shows

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Issue After the installation of the hotfix, the following warnings might appear on the Liferay console. INFO [main][BaseDeployer:871] Deploying admin-theme.war Warning: WEB-INF\liferay-plugin-package.properties...

Set permissions required to create an organization site

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue...

User Initials are no longer present in DXP 7.2+

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Issue In Liferay DXP 7.0 the default user avatar had the user's initials in it. Now with DXP 7.2+ those initials are no longer present. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Unfortunately it is...

Authority to edit notices

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue...

Is it safe to delete the standard automatically generated roles?

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue...

How to check the list of members who have been granted sight rolls

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue...

How to check users who have turned on "Receive change notifications" in Asset Publisher

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue...

How to manage (deactivate, delete) themes

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Issue After deploying a theme, how can it be managed, i.e., deactivated or deleted? Environment DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 DXP 7.3 Resolution Use the App Manager to manage your themes: Open the App Manager: Prior DXP...

Behavior of existing users when logging in to instances that have been used without the "Require license" check box checked and the check box is checked.

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue...

The LAR file could not be imported because it requires page templates or site templates

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Issue "The LAR file could not be imported because it requires page templates or site templates" error message apprears when the user is importing pages from different Liferay systems. Environment DXP 7.0 or higher...

How to define the log level of a service at the Liferay Cloud console from the URL

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Issue I want to define the log level of a service To increase le VPN lo level to DEBUG Environment Liferay Cloud Console Resolution Just need to configure the URL with the following structure with the correct...

LDAP Imported Users are not been shown in control panel

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Issue LDAP is configured (and tested by using the testing buttons) in the portal. If you check the database you could find them (it means that they have been imported to the portal from LDAP as expected). The problem...

How to remove the English language from the User Configuration

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Issue I set these properties in the portal-ext.properties file: company.default.locale=es_ES locales=es_ES locales.enabled=es_ES I restart the server Then I go to Control Panel > Users and Organizations > Edit and...

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