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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.

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Data Frameworks
Data Frameworks
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Data Scopes
Data Scopes
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Adding Model Hints
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....
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Configuring Global Service Options
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...
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Accessing Custom Fields With Expandos
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...
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Implementing an Item Selector
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...
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Service Builder
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....
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Business Logic with Service Builder
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...
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Defining Entity Columns
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...
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Defining Entity Relationships
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...
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Modifying Database Fields in Development
Modifying Database Fields in Development As you develop an application, you might need to add fields to your database. This is a normal process of iterative development: you get an idea for a new...
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Service Builder Basics
Service Builder Basics Using Service Builder helps you learn it. You'll use it to learn the basics: Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code: Define a basic model, generate code from it,...
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Upgrading Data Schemas
Upgrading Data Schemas When you upgrade Liferay, you might run into incompatibility issues with your custom modules' data schemas. There are three ways you can resolve these issues: You can run...
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Developing a Java Web Application
Developing a Java Web Application
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Reference
Reference
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Sorting Entity Instances
Sorting Entity Instances Often, you want to retrieve multiple instances of a given entity and list them in a particular order. The service.xml file lets you specify the default order of your...
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Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code
Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code Service Builder makes it easy to define models and generate model, persistence, and service code for them. You'll experience this by defining a model...
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Using Glowroot with Liferay
Using Glowroot with Liferay Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Liferay bundles Glowroot, the open source Java application monitoring tool. The tool displays helpful statistics about your system...
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Troubleshooting JVM Issues with Glowroot
Troubleshooting JVM Issues with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot displays a dashboard for identifying system issues quickly. Click the Errors tab to see a list of tracked...
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Troubleshooting Templates with Glowroot Freemarker Plugin
Troubleshooting Templates with Glowroot Freemarker Plugin Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot can troubleshoot FreeMarker templates to pinpoint slow transactions. Configuring the...
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Developing Glowroot Plugins
Developing Glowroot Plugins Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot provides various out-of-the-box plugins. You can also build your own with the use of their plugin API. Here are some tips...
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Liferay Performance Use Cases with Glowroot
Liferay Performance Use Cases with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Use Glowroot to diagnose and inform you on making performance improvements to your Liferay installation. Here are a...
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Troubleshooting Liferay Performance Issues with Glowroot
Troubleshooting Liferay Performance Issues with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Use Glowroot to identify and diagnose performance issues in your Liferay installation. The following...
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Using the Script Engine
Using the Script Engine Liferay provides a robust script engine for executing Groovy scripts. You can execute scripts to perform maintenance tasks involving data cleanup, user maintenance...
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Running Scripts From the Script Console
Running Scripts From the Script Console The Script Console provides a single view for executing Groovy scripts and printing their output. It has predefined variables that facilitate working with...
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Script Examples
Script Examples Here are some examples to help you use scripts in DXP. Most of the examples originated from the Liferay blog post 5 Tips to Improve Usage of the Liferay Script Console. Example 1:...
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Developer Guide
Developer Guide
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Account Users and Roles APIs
Account Users and Roles APIs You can manage Account Users and Account Roles from the Applications menu, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to create and manage account...
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Adding the UAD Framework
Adding the UAD Framework You can manage and delete user data with Liferay's User Associated Data (UAD) management tool. The tool is available out-of-the-box for many of Liferay's applications (e.g....
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Creating Video Shortcut Providers
Creating Video Shortcut Providers Liferay DXP 7.4+ By default, Liferay's external video shortcuts support YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Twitch. However, you can extend this feature to support...
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Using Client Extensions
Using Client Extensions Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Using client extensions, you can extend Liferay without using OSGi modules. Deploy them to any Liferay environment, whether you host it...
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Using the Checkout Step Client Extension
Using the Checkout Step Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ You can use a client extension to create a new checkout step. This tutorial uses an example client extension from the...
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Using the Payment Integration Client Extension
Using the Payment Integration Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ You can use a client extension to integrate with a new payment method in Liferay. This client extension from the...
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Using the Shipping Engine Client Extension
Using the Shipping Engine Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ You can use a client extension to add a new shipping engine to Liferay. This client extension from the sample...
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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...
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Data Sets
Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). Data sets are like virtual containers that help organize and manage related...
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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...
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Defining Entities
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...
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Liferay Faces Alloy
Liferay Faces Alloy Liferay Faces Alloy is distributed in a .jar file. You can add Liferay Faces Alloy as a dependency to your portlet projects, to use AlloyUI in a way that is consistent with JSF...
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Defining Entity Finder Methods
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,...
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