Capability

Development and Tooling

Liferay offers a comprehensive toolkit to extend or customize your digital experience. Build applications quickly with low-code/no-code features like Objects, or leverage developer tools like Liferay Workspace and Blade CLI for further customizations.

For users on PaaS or running Self-Hosted, Liferay also offers tools deploying customizations.

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Creating the Role Change Request Object
Creating the Role Change Request Object Subscribers Consider a Human Resources application that collects employee requests to change Roles within the software engineering department: the Role...
Creating a Workflow Powered Application
Creating a Workflow Powered Application Subscribers Workflow Powered Applications require data from multiple stakeholders. These process-driven applications can go through multiple stages before...
Creating the Role Change Request App
Creating the Role Change Request App Subscribers The Role Change Request App starts with the employee submitting a request form. Processing then proceeds to the Current Manager, then to the...
Creating a Standard Application
Creating a Standard Application To create applications based on a custom object takes four steps: create the object, create at least one form view, create at least one table view, and deploy the...
Data Sets
Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). Data sets collect data from Liferay headless APIs for you to manage and...
Creating Data Sets
Creating Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). You can create data sets from different resources available through...
Using Data Set Actions
Using Data Set Actions Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). Here are some examples for how to use data set actions and perform...
Data Set Sorting
Data Set Sorting Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). While managing data sets, you can set default sorting rules for Data Sets...
Managing Data Sets
Managing Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). Once you create a data set, you can customize how users see it....
Data Set Filters
Data Set Filters Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). While managing data sets, you can define pre-applied filters to be used...
Viewing Data Sets
Viewing Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). Once you create a data set, add it to a page to present it to your...
Data Set Actions
Data Set Actions Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). While managing data set, define actions to be used in the data set...
Data Set Visualization Modes
Data Set Visualization Modes Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). To customize the data display in your data set, use the...
Objects
Objects Liferay 7.4+ With Liferay Objects, you can build and deliver applications without having to write code or deploy modules. Each application built with Objects is integrated with Liferay's...
Defining Object Actions
Defining Object Actions Liferay 7.4 U60+/GA60+ Object actions define operations that you can run manually or automatically for object entry events. To add an action, Open the Global Menu (...
Actions
Actions Object actions define custom business logic that you can run manually or automatically for object entry events. Examples include delivering entry event data to a webhook URL, sending email...
Creating and Managing Objects
Creating and Managing Objects Liferay 7.4+ Liferay Objects provides a convenient UI for creating custom applications that meet your business needs without writing code. You can also use Objects to...
Creating Objects
Creating Objects Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ Liferay Objects provides development capabilities in the Liferay UI. Using Objects, you can build fully integrated Liferay applications without...
Exporting and Importing Object Definitions
Exporting and Importing Object Definitions You can export and import object definitions as .json files. These files include the definition's complete schema (e.g., configurations, fields, actions,...
Adding and Managing Custom States
Adding and Managing Custom States Liferay 7.4+ Some use cases may require assigning multiple states to an object entry at the same time. For example, when building an Order application, you may...