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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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Asset Framework
Official Documentation
Asset Framework The asset framework is behind many of Liferay's most powerful features. It provides tools for displaying and interacting with any type of content and data. For example, if you build...
Portlets
Official Documentation
Portlets Liferay DXP started off as a portal server for Java-based web applications called portlets (see JSR 168, JSR-286, and JSR-362). Portlets process requests and generate responses like any...
Portlet IDs
Official Documentation
Portlet IDs Below is a listing of the portlet IDs for the default portlets in Liferay DXP. You can use these IDs to embed portlets in your theme's sitemap. Collaboration PortletID...
Servlets
Official Documentation
Servlets
Portlet 3.0 API Opt In
Official Documentation
Portlet 3.0 API Opt In A portlet must specify version 3.0 to opt in to the Portlet 3.0 API. The 3.0 Portlet API version can be specified in the following ways. Standard Portlet @PortletApplication...
Enabling Assets
Official Documentation
Enabling Assets Many of Liferay's applications (e.g. Blogs, Documents and Media, Message Boards, etc.) are asset-enabled out of the box. You can publish assets with the Asset Publisher widget or...
Expando
Official Documentation
Expando Accessing Custom Fields with Expando
Data Scopes
Official Documentation
Data Scopes
Cache
Official Documentation
Cache
Service Builder
Official Documentation
Service Builder An application without reliable business logic or persistence isn't much of an application at all. Unfortunately, writing your own persistence code often takes a great deal of time....
Accessing Custom Fields With Expandos
Official Documentation
Accessing Custom Fields With Expandos When you need additional fields in your application, you can always add them in your service model definition and re-run Service Builder. This adds new columns...
Advanced Queries
Official Documentation
Advanced Queries Service Builder doesn't limit you to elements in service.xml. If simple finders aren't sufficient for getting data out of your application, there are three other ways to make the...
Implementing an Item Selector
Official Documentation
Implementing an Item Selector Item selectors are pop-up dialogs for selecting assets, such as documents, videos, or users. By configuring the item selector's criteria and defining its usage, you...
Defining Entities
Official Documentation
Defining Entities Entities are the heart and soul of a service. They represent the map between the model objects in Java and your database fields and tables. Service Builder automatically maps your...
Business Logic with Service Builder
Official Documentation
Business Logic with Service Builder Once you've generated model, persistence, and service code with Service Builder, you can begin adding business logic. Entities generated by Service Builder...
Configuring Global Service Options
Official Documentation
Configuring Global Service Options A service's global options apply to all its entities. Here are the options: Dependency Injector Package path Multiversion concurrency control Namespace...
Defining Entity Relationships
Official Documentation
Defining Entity Relationships Relationships between database entities or Java objects are necessary for most applications. Take Liferay's Message Boards application as an example. Each Message...
Adding Model Hints
Official Documentation
Adding Model Hints Once you've used Service Builder to define model entities, you may want to refine how users enter that data. Model hints specify entity data restrictions and other formatting....
Defining Entity Columns
Official Documentation
Defining Entity Columns An entity's columns represent its attributes. These attributes map table fields to Java object fields. Here you'll examine the sample project from Understanding and...
Defining Entity Finder Methods
Official Documentation
Defining Entity Finder Methods Finder methods retrieve entity objects from the database based on specified parameters. For each finder defined, Service Builder generates several methods to fetch,...