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How do you edit robots.txt for virtual host public pages?

Issue We are trying to edit the robots.txt file through public pages, but we are getting the following message: 'Please set the virtual host before you set the robots.txt'. We are using one instance with two sites and...

"module java.base does not 'opens java.lang.invoke'" Error Prevents Elasticsearch Sidecar Startup

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Issue I'm unable to get the Elasticsearch Sidecar to start after upgrading to a quarterly release of Liferay DXP. When checking the server logs, I see the following error message:...

Last Login Date is not updated in the User's and Organizations Menu

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Issue The Last Login Date displayed in the Users and Organizations UI is not updating accurately. Even after a user logs in, the date remains unchanged. Environment Liferay DXP 2024.Q4+ Resolution Enable Feature...

In the Documents and Media portlet, the search is not performed on the selected folder in its configuration

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Issue I have an issue with the documents and media portlet document search. I have two document folders and two document and media portlets on a page. One folder is set at a document folder, the other is set at another...

Empty searches return no results using a Text Match Over Multiple Fields blueprint element

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Issue When a Blueprint is configured with the Text Match Over Multiple Fields element, performing an empty search yields no results. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 U5+ Liferay DXP Quarterly Releases Resolution Text...

How Blueprints Work in Liferay while using Fuzziness?

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Issue How Blueprints Work in Liferay while using Fuzziness? Environment Liferay Quarterly Release Resolution Example case: 1.) Create new environment. 2.) Create new blueprint 3.) Open preview 4.) Add Text...

Search navigation not showing the correct pagination or displaying the last couple of Web Content documents

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Issue When using the search navigation, we've discovered that not all of the web contents are displayed. The pagination is also not reflecting the correct amount of web content documents. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start...

Incorrect Pagination Behavior in the SearchResultsPortlet

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Issue I have an issue with the search results portlet pagination. When searching for an item by selecting a page after page 20, the first page results are shown instead of the selected page. Steps to reproduce: Set up...

Pages Appear in Search Results But Lead to 404 Errors

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Issue Some search results lead to 404 pages, even after reindexing. Pages exist but cannot be navigated to with the search bar. Search bar is unresponsive when clicking on certain results. Environment...

Running script to import Result Rankings data fails

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Issue When attempting to run the script from step 2 on Importing the Search Tuning Indexes in 7.4 to import the Result Rankings data, execution fails with the following errors: startup failed: Script1.groovy: 3: unable to...

Sites/Groups Not Searchable in Out-of-the-Box Liferay

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Issue We do not see sites as an option while selecting different asset types in the Type Facet portlet as well as in Blueprint configuration. However, we can see in the Liferay source code that SiteAssetRendererFactory...

Hindi Month Names Are Truncated in Search Results

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Issue After adding the JVM argument -Djava.locale.providers=CLDR, long month names in Hindi get truncated in search results. Example: "सितंबर 07, 2001" to "सितं 07, 2001" Environment Liferay DXP 2023.Q4 Resolution...

Blueprints Display External Reference Codes (ERC)

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Issue After updating Liferay, Blueprints configuration now displays External Reference Codes (ERC) next to the categories, sites and other elements. Environment 2024.Q4+ Resolution This change was implemented in...

Upgrading to a Quarterly Release fails due to Elasticsearch exceptions in the logs

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Issue When upgrading to a Quarterly Release, coming from an old DXP version, the upgrade fails because of some Elasticsearch errors that can be seen in the logs: ERROR [main][ROOT:47] bundle...

"Elasticsearch node search-1 does not meet the minimum version requirement of 7.16" when updating to u30

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Issue During our recent update to Update 30, the portal experienced an issue and did not start correctly. The logs show the following error: Elasticsearch node search-1 does not meet the minimum version requirement...

Search Blueprints feature is not shown in Liferay

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Issue According to this documentation, Search Blueprints, the Search Blueprints functionality is available in DXP 7.3 starting with Update 6. However, after installing DXP 7.3 Update 6, the Search Blueprints...

AssetTagException when using special characters in tag names

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Issue AssetTagException is thrown when the article gets published, in case special characters are used in tag names. 2020-06-23 07:16:18.168 ERROR [http-nio-10.155.2.197-443-exec-4][PortletServlet:112]...

Users Not Appearing in Control Panel After Upgrading Liferay Version

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Issue Users are not appearing in the Control Panel > Users > Users and Organizations section after upgrading to a newer Liferay version. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1 Resolution 1. Remove...

Indexed documents are removed after full reindex with LPS-152937

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Updating Elasticsearch certificates for x-pack security

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Commerce product specification values (and translations of the values) are searched by taking into account the instance/site default language, not the user display language

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Where to find Liferay Connector for Elasticsearch 7 for Liferay DXP 7.2

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Flood stage disk watermark [95%] exceeded

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Team Members are missing from Projects in Customer Portal

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Restringir una búsqueda mediante una query de Elasticsearch y el widget de Filtro personalizado

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Elasticsearch exception no mapping found para los campos spellCheckWord_es_ES o spellCheckWord_en_US

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Limiting the Number of Search Results and Mitigating "Result window is too large." Errors when Using Elasticsearch via index.search.limit and index.max_result_window

Troubleshooting

Every functionality that relies on search engine queries in Liferay can return a maximum of 10,000 results by default. This applies to Search Bar widget searches, search toolbar searches, search REST API usages, and...

Search

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Search You can use the search page to find content available on a Liferay site. This can be web content, knowledge base articles, documents, images, products, etc. The search page contains a search...

Reindexing Modes

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Reindexing Modes Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ Reindexing is refreshing all or part of the search index that's used for searching, and in some cases displaying, Liferay's content. Execute a...

Search Configuration Reference

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Search Configuration Reference Search in Liferay DXP can be configured in lots of ways. Once you understand the concept of configuration scope, you'll understand where to find a certain...

Search Pages and Widgets

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Search Pages and Widgets Liferay's default search page is at . You can create your own page from scratch or reuse the existing page, adding or removing Search widgets as you like.

Category Facet

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Category Facet The Category Facet narrows search results for categorized assets that match the search query keywords. Each matching result's categories are aggregated as facet terms. Example of...

Custom Facet Examples

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Custom Facet Examples The custom facet is a powerful aid to customizing your site's search experience. When the out-of-the-box facets don't meet your requirements, the custom facet fills the gap....

Custom Facet

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Custom Facet The Custom Facet is unique among the out-of-the-box search facets. Rather than always grouping results by a single static field (like the modified date or the asset type), you can...

Folder Facet

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Folder Facet The Folder Facet narrows search results down to content found in specific Asset Folders. Note that the search match is not for folder names but for content found in the folders. ...

Using a Search Blueprint on a Search Page

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Using a Search Blueprint on a Search Page By default, a search page does not have a search blueprint associated with it. A blueprint must be applied to a search page to affect the Liferay search...

Sorting Results in a Search Blueprint

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Sorting Results in a Search Blueprint Add a sort configuration to search blueprints to control the order of search results: Open the Global Menu (Global Menu), click the Applications tab, and...

Search Administration and Tuning

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Search Administration and Tuning Search Administration Panel Overview Reindexing Modes Search Tuning Synonym Sets Result Rankings Troubleshooting Search Search Insights Troubleshooting...

Elasticsearch Indexes Reference

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Elasticsearch Indexes Reference Liferay 7.3 and 7.4 each have a set of indexes created in Elasticsearch. Understanding these indexes and what they do can help you better configure and administer...

Semantic Search

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Semantic Search 7.4 U70+ [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Semantic search evaluates the intent behind a searched phrase....

Setting Up a Text Embedding Provider

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Setting Up a Text Embedding Provider 7.4 U70+ [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) A text embedding provider has two jobs: At...

Understanding Search Blueprints

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Understanding Search Blueprints Use Search Blueprints to tailor the search page experience to your users' needs, without deploying any custom code. With Blueprints you can Create context-aware...

Creating a Search Blueprint for Semantic Search

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Creating a Search Blueprint for Semantic Search 7.4 U70+ [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Once a model is selected and the...

Installing Search Experiences on Liferay 7.3

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Installing Search Experiences on Liferay 7.3 [LES Subscription](./activating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) DXP 7.4 U5+; 7.3 U6+ The Liferay Enterprise Search Experiences app includes a suite of...

Creating and Managing Search Blueprints

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Creating and Managing Search Blueprints You can create Search Blueprints from the Global menu's Applications section → Search Experiences. If you already have a Blueprint and want to apply it's...

Predefined Element Variables Reference

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Predefined Element Variables Reference In the Element Source editor, place the cursor in the desired location and click the variable in the left hand sidebar to insert it. In the Custom JSON...

Search Blueprints Elements Reference

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Search Blueprints Elements Reference Elements are one of the fundamental building blocks of a Search Blueprint. To explore all the available Elements, navigate to the Global Menu (Global) →...

Search Blueprints Configuration Reference

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Search Blueprints Configuration Reference The Search Blueprints user interface has a Query Builder for creating Blueprints. Beyond adding Elements and configuring the query settings, there are...

Custom Element Examples

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Custom Element Examples Here are example elements that use custom fields and nested fields in their contributed query clauses. Using Custom Fields (Expando) in Elements You can add custom fields...

Managing Elements

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Managing Elements To create new Elements, click Add (Add). See Creating Elements for more details. As of Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+, the title and description fields are localizable. To...

Optimizing Search Response Size

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Optimizing Search Response Size In rare cases, an overly large search response can result in ERROR messages from the search engine: ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-335][ElasticsearchIndexSearcher:165]...

Personalizing the Search Experience

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Personalizing the Search Experience One of the premier use cases for Search Blueprints is to personalize Liferay's search results. With a personalized search experience, each user sees results...

Modified Facet

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Modified Facet The Modified Facet narrows search results down to those that match the searched keyword and results that were created or modified during a certain time period. Example of modified...

Site Facet

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Site Facet The Site Facet narrows search results down to those existing in a certain site. Each site with content matching the searched keyword appears as a facet term. Example of Site facet...

Tag Facet

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Tag Facet The Tag Facet narrows search results for any assets with tags that match the search keyword. Each match appears as a facet term. Example of tag facet results. Configuring the Tag Facet...

Type Facet

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Type Facet The Type Facet narrows search results down to those associated with a certain Asset Type. Each Type with content matching the searched keyword appears as a facet term. Example of type...

User Facet

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User Facet The User Facet narrows search results down to those created by certain Users. Example of user facet results. Configuring the User Facet To configure the User Facet, open the Options...

Search Bar Suggestions

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Search Bar Suggestions 7.4 U36+ and GA36+ Liferay's Search Bar Suggestions provides search as you type functionality. As you type search keywords into the Search Bar widget, the query is processed...

Configuring Search Bar Suggestions

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Configuring Search Bar Suggestions 7.4 U36+ and GA36+ Search Bar Suggestions adds search as you type functionality to Liferay's Search Bar widget. Select a result from the drop-down list or...

Search Administration

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Search Administration In Control Panel → Configuration → Search there are three administrative UIs: Connections, Index Actions, and Field Mappings. Connections shows you the search engines your...