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DLFileRank query running for a long time and taking up pool usage

Issue I am seeing a long running database query and am concerned about its impact on my environment: insert into DLFileRank (groupId, companyId, userId, createDate, fileEntryId, active_, fileRankId) values (:1 , :2 , :3 , :4 , :5 , :6 , :7 ) Environment Portal 6.2 Resolution Similar to...

Error executing FreeMarker template with #null when rendering web content

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Issue When trying to render a web content we get the following error in Liferay DXP log: 2021-02-12 11:41:48.911 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-9][runtime:59] Error executing FreeMarker template FreeMarker template error: The following has evaluated to null or missing: ==>...

Is it Possible to View HTML Source Code in Text Fragments?

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Issue As a user, I would like to have access to the HTML source code for text fragments. Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution Alloy Editor does not currently have a source code view feature. Additional Information It may be possible to create a custom button on the inline toolbar using the...

Increase/decrease uploaded image resolution to make to 300 DPI as standard

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Issue A requirement of increasing/decreasing uploaded image DPI (resolution) to make to 300 DPI as standard. Required API which we can be called programmatically from the code to increase/decrease DPI for uploaded image. Environment Liferay 7.2 Resolution Liferay doesn't have such API...

How can I modify the Admin Theme?

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Issue Sometimes we need to modify some aspects of the admin-theme, for example, to change the look and feel of web content editions. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1 Resolution The admin-theme can not be modified directly, we need to create a new theme based on the admin-theme and then...

Roles are getting deleted

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Issue While adding the roles up to 20 if chosen 20 Items per page but if try to add multiple roles further then all the roles is getting deleted except the latest one. Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Resolution The issue has been resolved in liferay-fix-pack-portal-169-6210 or above....

Site Administrators can't edit or create Workflows

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Issue A user with the Site Administrator can't create or edit workflows through Kaleo Forms Admin. When attempting to do so, the user sees that the fields are greyed out and the 'Save' button is missing. Environment DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 82+ DXP 7.1 Fix Pack 12+ DXP 7.2+ Resolution This...

How Do I Resolve "Page Not Found" Errors Thrown by Custom 404.jsp Pages in 7.3?

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Issue When I navigate away from my custom 404.jsp page in 7.3, I see a "Page Not Found" error instead of the intended page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution A solution is described in LPS-127143, and will be released in a future fix pack. Additional Information Read this article...

A Liferay Cloud hosted website won't redirect https://mydomain to https://www.mydomain

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Issue When opening a Liferay Cloud hosted website without the www part in the URL, the redirection to the site with the www part in it will not happen. Example: https://mydomain.com will not redirect to https://www.mydomain.com Environment Liferay Cloud Resolution WARNING! The below...

How do I remove items from the User Personal Bar without customizing it?

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Issue There are items in the User Personal Bar by default that we aren't using or don't want users to access. We want to remove these items without creating a custom module. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution There are two different configuration areas...

Unable to use the Action button under Sites

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Issue Steps to Reproduce: 1) Manually deploy Liferay on Wildfly 8.2. 2) Start up the portal and navigate to Control Panel > Sites > Add blank site. 3) Click on any Action button with to the Sites. Actual Result: The action button doesn't work. Expected Result: The Action button should be...

Unable to render forms in custom portlet anymore

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Issue You have some custom code (e.g. a portlet) which programmatically renders a form But after a patch level upgrade, this does not work anymore, the form is not rendered Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution It might be that you are having this issue due to the changes introduced by...

Using data providers to populate states based on their country

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Issue Create data providers for the country list and state list by using the below Liferay provided 'Rest Web Services'. localhost:8080/api/jsonws/country/get-countries and localhost:8080/api/jsonws/region/get-regions?country-Id={countryId} State list is not coming on selecting of the...

Allow users to get accurate search results for public page content when using the common search functionality

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Issue After publishing to 'Live' and 'Re-indexing', when searching for the public page once again on the staging server, zero results displayed. After configuring 'Remote Staging', the search results which were appropriate earlier have even stopped coming up. Environment Liferay 7.2...

Accurate search results for public page content after configuring 'Remote Staging'

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Issue No results found after publishing changes to live Steps to reproduce: Set up a clean instance Set up another (remote environment) instance. Create a new content page in the local environment. Add a basic component (for eg. banner center). Update heading of the banner (added...

Huawei devices and Liferay Push notifications

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Issue Liferay Push uses Firebase Cloud Messaging. Firebase Cloud Messaging will not send notifications to devices that don't have Google Services running on them. As of May 16, 2019, Google Services cannot run on Huawei devices. See Answering your questions on Huawei devices and Google...

Custom Category in Breadcrumb

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Issue Trying to add an entry in Liferay Breadcrumb in the custom portlet. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution The requirement is not available out of the box in Liferay. If you want to achieve this functionality, you can achieve it through customization. Additional Information...

New Virtual Instance cannot be created if "passwords.default.policy.check.syntax=" is set to true

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Issue If I set passwords.default.policy.check.syntax=true in my portal-ext.properties file, I cannot create a New Virtual Instance I get an error in the logs: ERROR [ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8009-exec-34][EditInstanceMVCActionCommand:121]...

Unable to preview images when selecting images in Web Content image field

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Issue Unable to preview images when selecting images in Web Content image field. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution There is a possibility the issue is caused by the missing configuration on the Adaptive Media page. The Preview 1000x0 and Thumbnail 300x300 are enabled by default on...

Only deleting pages from Staging to Remote Live

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Issue I want to be able to delete pages on my Remote Live site without publishing any other changes or content from Staging to Remote Live. Environment Liferay DXP Resolution After deleting the respective pages from the Staging environment, click Publish to Live> Switch to Advanced...

How Do I Change Where Documents are Stored When Uploaded Through the Forms Upload Field?

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Issue As an administrator, I would like to make the files uploaded by one user through the forms upload field hidden from other users, but I don't see a way to restrict view permissions to the Document Library root folder (where documents are stored when using the forms upload field)...

Disabling embedded Elasticsearch in DXP 7.3

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Issue How to disable the Embedded Elastic Search? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Please refer to the steps below: Create a configuration file named "com.liferay.portal.bundle.blacklist.internal.BundleBlacklistConfiguration.config" and place this file into $Liferay-Home → osgi →...

Uploading Images through Web Content disappear after upgrade

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Issue When uploading images using the image field in a web content structure, the images do not appear in the documents and media portlet. After running the upgrade to Liferay DXP 7.3 from a prior version of Liferay, the web content that contained the images that were uploaded through...

Control Panel Menu is displaying for all users

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Issue All authenticated users are seeing the Control Panel displayed on the left-hand side of the screen Environment Liferay DXP Resolution Display of the control panel is controlled by the permission Portal: View Control Panel Menu If this permission has been added to any role that a...

Unable to download files bigger than 1GB: "upstream prematurely closed connection while reading upstream"

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Issue You can not download big files from the Liferay DXP, in general you can have problems with files bigger than 1 GB, as commonly are some LAR files. There is an error in the webserver service's log file similar to: [error] 75#75: *344298 upstream prematurely closed connection while...

Number of unknown visitors is lower for past months than it was before in Analytics Cloud

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Issue When accessing data from past months, we noticed that the number of unknown visitors is smaller that what it previously was, and keeps getting smaller when I consult the same past month over and over in time. Environment Liferay Analytics Cloud Resolution Analytics Cloud stores...

Your browser doesn‘t support pasting with the toolbar button or context menu option

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Issue When trying to paste content from the clipboard into the CKEditor through the "Paste as plain text" button on Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, you'll receive the message: Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+ CKEditor v.4.7.0+ Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox Resolution Use the keyboard...

How to identify the fixes included in a hotfix

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Issue I want to be able to know what fixes are included in my hotfix. Environment Liferay Portal Liferay DXP Resolution The hotfix ZIP archive contains a file called fixpack_documentation.xml. All the fixes included in the hotfix should be listed under the tag <fixed-issues>. In newer...

Values of hidden form fields are not saved/submitted anymore

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Issue After installing dxp-18 (DXP 7.1) or dxp-2 (DXP 7.2), values we have in form fields hidden through rules show empty after submitting the form, when viewing the form entries. Environment DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 Resolution This change was introduced by...

Unable to initialize Elasticsearch cluster, health status is in RED

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Issue When the search cluster is in RED, this results in the Liferay service (DXP) not starting or starting without search capability. A RED status usually means that the search cluster has an inconsistent status because of a data lost or data corruption. You can see the following error...

Users without Admin role cannot initiate SSO on the SP when using expando fields

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Issue When using expando field as "Name Identifier Attribute Name=expando:concurid", user without Administrator role can not initiate SSO. Steps to reproduce: On IdP end Add a custom field 'field1' for user. Go to SAML Admin > Service Provider Connections, make sure the "Name Identifier...

Additional JavaMail properties not being considered in mail server configuration

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Issue JavaMail properties defined in the field Manually specify additional JavaMail properties to override the above configuration are not being considered. Environment Liferay 7.0+ Resolution Each property should be stated in a separate line. Property statement should follow the syntax...

Service keeps on restarting

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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 The service running on Liferay SaaS keeps on restarting without any errors Environment Liferay SaaS Resolution When the service is on...

CDN Server location for Liferay Cloud

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Issue Where are the CDN server locations? Environment Liferay Cloud Resolution CDN available in Liferay Cloud is provided by Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Please check the GCP's CDN location for more information. The CDN is enabled in all environments by default, except for dev...

Workflow is not getting triggered on a custom entity

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Issue The below errors are observed on the Liferay console whenever trying to apply a 'Single Approval Workflow' on a 'Custom Entity' ERROR [com.liferay.portal.workflow.metrics.internal.petra.executor.WorkflowMetricsPortalExecutor-2][WorkflowMetricsPortalExecutor:56]...

Custom widget template for breadcrumbs doesn't get applied in control panel and breadcrumbs aren't shown

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Issue When a widget template is configured via system settings in system scope it doesn't show any breadcrumb. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2. Resolution Those configurations are made inside System Settings -> Breadcrumb or inside osgi/configs in below files:...

Why does my instance have a default@liferay.com user?

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Issue I see a default@liferay.com user in my database. What is the purpose of this default user? If you have a virtual instance is configured, you may see another default user with the configured mail domain (i.e. default@companydomain.com) Environment Liferay DXP Resolution...

Cannot read property 'help' of undefined error when trying to upgrade a theme to Liferay DXP 7.2

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Issue While following this tutorial: https://help.liferay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029005512-Upgrading-Your-Theme-from-Liferay-Portal-7-0-to-7-2, users may encounter the below error: $ gulp upgrade test-theme/node_modules/gulp-help/index.js:81 task = gulp.tasks[name]; ^ TypeError: Cannot...

Solr Error when searching for Users or Organizations

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Issue When I perform a search for Users or Organizations, I see a blank screen and an error like the following in the logs: 2021-01-29 00:15:48.429 WARN [http-nio-8080-exec-5][ProxyMessageListener:86] com.liferay.portal.kernel.search.SearchException: Error from server at...

How to change the HTTP port for Sidecar Elasticsearch 7

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Issue Need to run two or more instances of Liferay with Elasticsearch Sidecar locally. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The default HTTP port in Sidecar mode is 9201 If two or more 7.3 or 7.4 instances are run locally, then this port will need to be configured...

User notification selection issue with more than 100 notifications

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Issue Steps to reproduce: Enable single approver workflow on web content, blogs, or any asset Create some web content or blogs to get notifications make it more than 100 notifications Navigate to notifications Tick the select all checkbox Then click Select all All will be selected - all...

How to implement a token system instead of using credentials to access remote services

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Issue Trying to write a custom remote service using Liferay (ServiceImpl file), so which method may be used to authenticate using a token rather than credentials? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Liferay has Authentication Verifiers that authenticate remote invocations of Liferay...

Jenkins builds are failing due to an exit value of 137

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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 After adding the 'hostAliases' in the environment, the Jenkins builds are failing with the below error: ERROR: the command "[ lcp,...

SSL certificate cannot be parsed

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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 Deployment is not getting triggered due to the following error in the console: Some error has happened during the build. Try again....

Single Approver Workflow Recipient Type Changes Don't Save

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Issue We are currently running Liferay 7.4 U70 and discovered that when we make a copy of the Single Approver Workflow and try to update the "Review" node so that one of the notifications has a different Recipient Type it reverts back to Asset Creator. This was not an issue in our...

Is There A Way To Verify ClamAV Integration With Liferay?

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Issue We followed the instructions below to enable document virus scanning, but we do not see any way to confirm the ClamAV integration was successful or that file scans are occurring when new files are uploaded to Documents and Media. Is there a way to validate the ClamAV - Liferay...

Replacement for Deprecated Portal Property: asset.categories.search.hierarchical=false

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Issue We recently upgraded from Liferay 7.0 to 7.4 and observed that the portal property we were using seems to no longer exist: asset.categories.search.hierarchical=false Is there a replacement in 7.4 to achieve the same function it served in which only assets matching the category are...

Running gw initBundle fails at the verifyBundle task

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Issue Running gw initBundle fails at the verifyBundle task stating an invalid checksum, even though liferay.workspace.bundle.checksum.md5 is not in use in gradle.properties. Despite setting that value explicitly in gradle.properties to match your desired bundle file, the error still...

Is it possible to track down page visits using Audit?

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Issue Is Liferay Audit able to track who visits your page? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Based on the official documentation and articles, Audit does not have the feature of showing who visits the page or even the number of people who do so. However, this specific request can be...

ADA Accessibility - I expect the Search, Info Icon, and Menu buttons to have the correct labels

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Issue Expected Result: I expect the Search, Info Icon, and Menu buttons to have the correct labels, and for the Screen Reader to announce each with the following announcement: "Search Button" "Info Button" "Menu Button" Actual Result: the Screen Reader is announcing the Search, Info...

Is it possible to send notifications to my Portal users?

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Issue Is there a way to send an alert so that a group of users, at a site or organization level, receive a notification in the Portal? Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 - 7.4 Resolution Currently, there is no way to configure OOTB alerts to appear in user notifications. The way users are...

Should the themeDisplay.getCanonicalURL() function return a canonical URL on a HTML page?

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Issue When a custom canonical URL is configured on a HTML page, running themeDisplay.getCanonicalURL() in the browser console returns the friendly URL instead. Environment Analytics Cloud Resolution The getCanonicalUrl function is defined here. This method is not expected to read the URL...

Warning about unavailable LPS

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Issue I received a long list of missing LPS/LPE after deploying a new hotfix. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution This is only a fix pack documentation error, that can be ignored. The portal-impl.jar contains a list of fixed issues in its META-INF/MANIFEST.MF under the...

Persistent XSS at Site - Builder

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Issue Persistent XSS vulnerability found in the Web Page builder. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution This is expected behavior, the HTML fragment does not provide any out-of-the-box sanitation, as it is expected that clients will allow only advanced roles to use it, and clients can restrict...

ORA-12899 because OpenID access token is too large

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Issue We store several things in our OpenID access token and when a user tries to log in, it fails because the token size exceeds the 3000-character limit specified in the ACCESSTOKEN column of the OPENIDCONNECTSESSION table Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+ Oracle database Resolution The...

AntiSamy sanitizer cleans some of the HTML tags and styles, how can we solve that?

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Issue We turned on AntiSamy but it removes certain HTML code and CSS styles from our Web Content articles. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution Usage of HTML and CSS in Web Content article HTML fields Web content articles are not really intended to be used like this - they should not replace...

How is AntiSamy configured?

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Issue We configured AntiSamy to santize Web Content articles. We would like to understand how AntiSamy works and what parts are expected to be removed in Web Content articles. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution In the article How to configure validation directives in AntiSamy, you can find...

Is there a way to map the LAR file to an XML format?

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Issue Is there a way to map the LAR file to an XML format with roles for content and documents & media? Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution Unfortunately is not possible adding roles to various content within an existing LAR by editing the XML file within. Manually editing a LAR file in...

Limiting the number of pages in the pagination to be shown on the search results or require deep pagination

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Learn more: Search Result Limit with Elasticsearch: Mitigating "Result window is too large." errors with index.max_result_window Issue Is there any way to limit the total count of the number of records or pages in the pagination to be shown on the search results or to obtain large...

Can Liferay Support SP and IDP initiated SAML Simultaneously?

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Issue Our team is the design phase for authentication and we want to know if Liferay supports IDP and SP initiated SAML logins at the same time? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution No, a single instance should not be both an IDP and a SP. With Liferay, you are either an IDP or an SP. For...

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