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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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Understanding the Liferay npm Bundler Loader
Official Documentation
Understanding the Liferay npm Bundler Loader The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and it's planned for future removal. liferay-npm-bundler's mechanism is...
Understanding Test Results and Debugging Tests
Official Documentation
Understanding Test Results and Debugging Tests Poshi tests are run on the terminal or command line. When a test run is completed there are multiple ways to view the test results and diagnose test...
Poshi Advantages
Official Documentation
Poshi Advantages Simplified Syntax To make it easier for less technical testers to read and write test automation, Poshi uses a simplified Groovy-like script syntax. It is less wordy than most...
Functions
Official Documentation
Functions In Poshi, Functions handle extra WebDriver commands that an element might require to interact with a page object or element. Functions combine the basic methods defined in the...
Poshi Layers
Official Documentation
Poshi Layers
Using Variables
Official Documentation
Using Variables Though not a Poshi layer, variables are a large part of Poshi tests. Variables, like in other programming languages, are used to store data which can be referenced and reused in...
Testcases
Official Documentation
Testcases A testcase file in Poshi is a collection of test scenarios grouped in blocks of code called test blocks. The three main test blocks: setUp, test, and tearDown, are made up of multiple...
Poshi Resources
Official Documentation
Poshi Resources To give Poshi test writers easy access to commonly used functions or other files, Poshi resources were created to store existing Poshi files as dependencies that can be loaded apart...
Paths
Official Documentation
Paths A path is an element on a page that a test will interact with. An element can be a button, text field, link, image, paragraph, or just about anything you would need to assert, click, or type...
Poshi Basics
Official Documentation
Poshi Basics New features, improvements, and system upgrades can sometimes introduce unexpected behaviors and bugs. Running suites of automated tests is an advantageous method of identifying issues...
Macros
Official Documentation
Macros A macro is a set of functions that perform a task. Macros are where locators (paths) and functions are brought together to script interactions that a user performs on the system being...
Configuration
Official Documentation
Configuration In order to give test writers easy access to commonly used functions, paths, or macros, Poshi resources were created to store existing Poshi files as dependencies. These resources can...
Node Version Information
Official Documentation
Node Version Information Liferay DXP uses Node (and NPM) for many different frontend components. Specifically, the Liferay Theme Generator and Liferay's JavaScript application tools require the use...
Reference
Official Documentation
Reference Node Version Information
Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4
Official Documentation
Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4 As of Liferay DXP 7.4 GA1, the Bootstrap 3 compatibility layer is removed from the built-in packages in Liferay frontend applications. If...
Categorizing a Configuration
Official Documentation
Categorizing a Configuration When you register a configuration interface, the UI for your application is generated in System Settings → Platform → Third Party. If you prefer a different section and...
Completely Custom Configuration
Official Documentation
Completely Custom Configuration A configuration UI is generated automatically when you create a configuration interface. But in some cases you want a completely custom UI for your configuration....
Configuration Form Renderer
Official Documentation
Configuration Form Renderer When you create a configuration interface, a configuration UI is automatically generated. But in some cases you want customize the look and feel of the UI. For example,...
Hiding the Configuration UI
Official Documentation
Hiding the Configuration UI Liferay generates a configuration UI automatically after a configuration interface deploys. But you may have certain use cases where you want to hide the UI. For...
Setting and Accessing Configurations
Official Documentation
Setting and Accessing Configurations You can use Liferay's configuration framework to add a settings UI for a MVC Portlet. See the Example Portlet Then, follow these steps: Download and unzip...