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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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Using Poshi Resources
Using Poshi Resources Once the Poshi resources jar file is loaded onto your Poshi project, you are now able to use Liferay's commonly used functions, paths, and macros. To distinguish between files...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Reference
Reference Node Version Information
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Node Version Information
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Architecture
Architecture The Liferay DXP/Portal architecture has three parts: Core: Bootstraps DXP and its frameworks. The Core provides a runtime environment for managing services, UI components, and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
7.2 Breaking Changes
7.2 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay developers or users. We try our best to...
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7.3 Breaking Changes
7.3 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay developers or users. We try our best to...
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7.4 Breaking Changes
7.4 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay 7.4, starting with the latest quarterly...
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Exported Third Party Packages
Exported Third Party Packages Liferay provides over one-hundred third party Java packages at run time. The com.liferay.portal.bootstrap module exports the packages by specifying individual packages...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Developer Guide
Developer Guide Below are developer-related articles for site building.
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Developing Page Fragments
Developing Page Fragments Page fragments are the building blocks for content pages. They're made from the three components of web pages: CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. To create a page you combine...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Applying Styles to Fragments
Applying Styles to Fragments When you add a fragment to a page, you can use the sidebar menu to configure the fragment, including the Styles configuration tab. Use the Styles tab in the sidebar...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Auto-Deploying Fragments
Auto-Deploying Fragments Liferay Portal 7.3 GA1+ or Liferay DXP 7.3+ If you're developing page fragments with your own tooling, you can deploy them by packaging them in ZIP files for importing via...
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Best Practices for Using Fragment Configurations
Best Practices for Using Fragment Configurations When you are creating page fragments for your site with your own configurations, it's your responsibility to use them in their HTML presentation...
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Creating Form Fragments
Creating Form Fragments Liferay 7.4 U45+/GA45+ The form components fragments are for building your object's forms in a content page. If Liferay's form fragments don't satisfy your use case, create...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Adding Configuration Options to Fragments
Adding Configuration Options to Fragments Liferay DXP 7.2 SP1 Configurable options make your fragments flexible, minimizing the maintenance of similar fragments. For example, instead of creating...
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Creating a Contributed Fragment Set
Creating a Contributed Fragment Set Contributed fragment sets are deployable modules containing page fragments. Fragments in a contributed set can be used like regular fragments, but aren't...
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Including Default Resources in Fragments
Including Default Resources in Fragments You can include images files (e.g. .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, or .png) direct in your fragment sets. Keeping images with your fragments, rather than in other...
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Validating Fragment Configurations
Validating Fragment Configurations When defining fragment configuration options, you can add validation properties to text type fields that determine rules for valid entries. Determine what type of...
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Developing Page Fragments Reference
Developing Page Fragments Reference The Developing Fragments Reference provides essential information on key aspects of fragment development in Liferay. It covers command references, configuration...
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Defining Fragment Drop Zones
Defining Fragment Drop Zones Drop zones are integral to building your content pages. With them, you can create unique page layouts and dynamic displays by defining areas within fragments where...
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Setting the Order of Elements in a Fragment
Setting the Order of Elements in a Fragment Liferay 7.4+ The Slider or Tab fragments are typically used to show different areas of information. Sliders present this information in a carousel of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Using Custom Fields in Page Fragments
Using Custom Fields in Page Fragments If you've added custom fields to Liferay's users or pages, you can access them in fragments. To get the value of a page custom field, use ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Using the Fragments Editor
Using the Fragments Editor Liferay DXP includes a built-in editor for developing content page fragments. To access the editor, open the Site Menu ( Site Menu ) and navigate to Design → Fragments....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Using the Fragments Toolkit
Using the Fragments Toolkit The Fragments Toolkit is deprecated as of Liferay 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+. See Alternatives for the Fragments Toolkit for more information. The Fragments Toolkit helps...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Fragments Toolkit Command Reference
Fragments Toolkit Command Reference The Fragments Toolkit is deprecated as of Liferay 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+. See Alternatives for the Fragments Toolkit for more information. The Fragments...
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Page Fragment Editor Interface Reference
Page Fragment Editor Interface Reference The page fragment editor's interface is organized into two tabs: Code Editor Configuration The sections below cover how to use these portions of the...
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Fragment Specific Tags and Attributes Reference
Fragment Specific Tags and Attributes Reference Along with standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can use Liferay-specific tags and attributes to define editable sections, embed widgets, and more....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Liferay Development
Liferay Development Liferay's development platform makes developers faster and more efficient by providing a baseline set of features to build upon. Rather than start from scratch, you can start...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Building Applications
Building Applications For maximum compatibility with all of Liferay's deployment options, you can combine Liferay's Objects, Client Extensions, and other features and tools to build real-world...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Building a Custom Ticketing System
Building a Custom Ticketing System Liferay makes it easy for you to build digital solutions. For example, you can create a custom ticketing application with the styling and features needed for your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Defining a Custom Data Schema
Defining a Custom Data Schema The ticketing application requires custom data fields and selections. You use Liferay objects and picklists to define a custom data schema. Creating Custom Picklists...
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Deploying a Custom Application
Deploying a Custom Application You can use a custom element client extension to render a JavaScript application as a widget on a Liferay site page. The application is served by Liferay and...
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Implementing a Documentation Referral System
Implementing a Documentation Referral System The ticketing system can be further enhanced with a documentation referral system. The system searches automatically for relevant documentation based on...
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Ticket Management with Cron Jobs
Ticket Management with Cron Jobs Use Cron jobs to automate managing tickets. For example, have a job to run at a regular schedule to delete any tickets that have a resolution type of duplicate or...
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Applying a Custom Theme
Applying a Custom Theme You can use different front-end client extensions to customize the look and feel of your site. Specifically, theme CSS type client extension can be used as an alternative to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Building a Time Off Requester
Building a Time Off Requester Liferay 7.4+ With Liferay Objects, you can build entire applications without writing code or deploying modules. Here, create a Time Off Request application using...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Asset Framework
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Enabling Assets
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Cache
Cache
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Expando
Expando Accessing Custom Fields with Expando
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

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