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

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...

NoSuchGroupException' Occurs When Deleting Deactivated Users

legacy Troubleshooting

When deleting deactivated users from UI or through API, NoSuchGroupException is thrown as follows. Example 1 com.liferay.portal.NoSuchGroupException...

Search portlet does not automatically reindex when new user is added

legacy Troubleshooting

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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable.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...

Group Mapping Left Blank In LDAP Export Leads to Errors

legacy Troubleshooting

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]...

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

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

License fails to deploy due to permissioning

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

Lucene Indexing Errors

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

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...

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...

Linking to Unpublished Pages for Staging

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

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...

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

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

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

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

Permissioning Documents as a Site Member

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

Preventing Inaccurate or Incomplete PDF Document Previews

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

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

legacy Troubleshooting

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....

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...

Broken Links Prevent Web Content from Publishing in DXP 7.0

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

Improved search results when using multiple Asset Publisher portlets

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

Elasticsearch 6 and X-Pack Common Problems

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

Incorrect Language Locale Appended to URLs for Authenticated Users

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

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

legacy Troubleshooting

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...

Known issue - NullPointerException is thrown with SoyTofuException for frontend.taglib.chart - spline chart

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue With dxp FP 15 in Liferay DXP 7.1, the chart functionality is not working. After deploying the module, the NullPointerException is getting thrown with the SoyTofuException as below. 2020-01-29 06:29:51.273...

Limit the script in Text field of Web Content Structure to avoid XSS vulnerabilities

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue The Text field of Web Content Structure can be injected by any script if ${textfield_name.getData()}is used in the template to display the text. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay Portal EE 6.2 Resolution When...

Asset Publisher shows assets with categories missing in the filtering options

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After setting the Asset Publisher to filter assets that only have certain categories, portal administrators may notice that even other assets with different categories (not present in the filtering...

RSS Feed won't display and will show "cannot be found" error

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue After adding a certain URL in the RSS Publisher widget, the feeds will not be displayed, showing a red error message on the widget's interface: "$RSS_FEED_URL cannot be found." Environment Liferay Portal...

What happened to the Liferay WYSIWYG portlet on 7.1+ ?

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Looking for a 7.1 DXP or 7.2 DXP compatible version of the Liferay WYSIWYG portlet on the Marketplace, customers will not find any Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution Liferay WYSIWYG portlet was...

I cannot change the site name of default site of an instance

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue In site configuration I cannot see any options to change the site's name for the default site of an instance. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 - Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Site name of default instance can only...

Impact of Google Chrome 80 and changes in the default behavior of the SameSite cookie setting on SAML

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Updated (May 31, 2021): The behavior is enabled by default since Chrome 84. Updated (April 3, 2020): Chrome is Temporarily rolling back SameSite Cookie Changes Updated (June 12, 2020): Added information about...

Known Issue: Liferay Commerce Downloads Go to Empty Page

legacy Troubleshooting

This article documents a known issue regarding Liferay Commerce downloads in Help Center. When Liferay Commerce customers and partners attempt to download one of the available releases, in most cases the user...

Byte is not localized to french language, it should be octet

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue The storage size is not localized in the TextFormatter class in the com.liferay.portal.kernel.util package. This values are hardcoded in the variable _STORAGE_SIZE_SUFFIX_B, _STORAGE_SIZE_SUFFIX_KB,...

With the search engine disabled on dxp-15-7110+ fix pack, no more Pages are shown in the Site Administration

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue In special environments where the search engine has been disabled and the fix pack dxp-15-7110 has been installed, both Public and Private layouts will not be shown Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution A...

PrimeFaces non-standard protocol within will result into _jsfBridgeRedirect=true in the DOM

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue In a Liferay Faces (PrimeFaces) portlet, when using a markup similar to the one below: <p:link href="d3://searchdefault&test_1=dummy==" value="Hover the mouse or inspect here to see the resulting...

Error in configuring/authorising data source

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Facing following error while authorizing analytics data source for liferay instance. Redirect...

Unable to Reindex Elasticsearch due to missing analyzer plugins

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue Unable to reindex on a remote Elasticsearch server. Although it seemingly works in the UI, the following errors are thrown in the logs: 2019-12-10 12:15:45.183 ERROR...

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