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Liferay’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) tools simplify the organization and management of digital assets. Assets include images, videos, presentations, documents, and much more. Additionally, the Asset Library feature enables you to manage and publish assets in one central repository for use across multiple distinct sites.

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Sharing Documents with Other Users
Official Documentation
Sharing Documents with Other Users Using DXP's Documents and Media app, users can share files directly with each other. You can disable sharing. For instructions on this, see Enabling and...
Publishing Documents
Official Documentation
Publishing Documents Liferay makes it easy to publish and showcase documents and other types of media files. As you begin uploading media files, you probably want to start sharing them on your...
Adding Image Resolutions
Official Documentation
Adding Image Resolutions By default, Adaptive Media includes two image resolutions: preview and thumbnail. You can define additional image resolutions to help optimize site performance for common...
Enabling Optimization of Animated GIFs
Official Documentation
Enabling Optimization of Animated GIFs To scale animated GIFs, Adaptive Media uses an external tool called Gifsicle. If Gifsicle isn't installed and image/gif is included as a supported MIME type,...
Managing Metadata
Official Documentation
Managing Metadata Leverage your Liferay environment to manage metadata for your digital assets. Learn how to define and organize metadata to enhance the searchability and usability of your...
Linking to Files on Google Drive
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Linking to Files on Google Drive You can create files in your Document Library that link to files in Google Drive™ or images in Google Photos™. To enable this functionality, see Enabling Links to...
Defining Metadata Sets
Official Documentation
Defining Metadata Sets With Documents and Media, you can define reusable groups of metadata fields that can be added to custom Document Types. Once created, these Metadata Sets can be selected...
Uploading Files
Official Documentation
Uploading Files With Documents and Media, you can upload any type of file to your Liferay instance's file store or connected repositories. Once uploaded, users with the requisite permissions can...
Using Folders
Official Documentation
Using Folders By default, uploaded files are stored in the Documents and Media root folder (i.e., Home), but you can create additional folders to organize and manage your files. Each folder can...
Videos
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Videos
Embedding Videos Into Liferay Assets and Pages
Official Documentation
Embedding Videos Into Liferay Assets and Pages With Liferay, you can use URLs and video shortcuts to embed videos into Web Content, Knowledge Base articles, Forms, Blog entries, and Site Pages. ...
Creating External Video Shortcuts
Official Documentation
Creating External Video Shortcuts Liferay 7.4+ With Liferay's Documents and Media application, you can save references to videos hosted on external platforms. These references can then be used to...
Document Shortcut API Basics
Official Documentation
Document Shortcut API Basics Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST services for Documents and Media that add document shortcuts to sites or asset libraries, list their information,...
Documents and Media Analytics
Official Documentation
Documents and Media Analytics Documents and media files are assets you want site users to look at or download. Analytics Cloud provides insights on user engagement with your documents and media...
Asset Library Content
Official Documentation
Asset Library Content Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ Asset libraries provide a convenient way to share content across Liferay sites while streamlining content collaboration and reducing the risk of data...
Asset Libraries
Official Documentation
Asset Libraries The Asset Libraries application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2026.Q1. Available 7.3+ Asset Libraries are virtual spaces for storing reusable assets. You can create as...
Creating and Managing Asset Libraries
Official Documentation
Creating and Managing Asset Libraries Liferay 7.3+ You can create and manage libraries for your assets via the Asset Libraries application. To access this application, open the Global Menu (Global...
Digital Asset Management
Official Documentation
Digital Asset Management Use Liferay’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) features to store, organize, and reuse documents, images, and other media across your site. The Documents and Media library...
Developer Guide
Official Documentation
Developer Guide This guide provides comprehensive information and references to help you effectively use the Document API, understand adaptive media modules, and create video shortcut providers.
Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365
Official Documentation
Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365 Subscription Liferay DXP integrates with Microsoft Office 365™ so you can create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and...
Adaptive Media Configuration Reference
Official Documentation
Adaptive Media Configuration Reference Liferay 7.3 U28+/GA28+ and 7.4 U78+/GA78+ With Adaptive Media, you can configure supported media types, determine the resolutions used for previews and...
Generating Images Using AI
Official Documentation
Generating Images Using AI Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ The Documents and Media application provides integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT engine using the AI Creator tool. With an OpenAI API...
Enabling and Configuring Sharing
Official Documentation
Enabling and Configuring Sharing The Sharing configuration allows users to share files with each other. You can enable file sharing at the Global, Virtual Instance, and Site scopes. Sharing is...
Limiting File Size
Official Documentation
Limiting File Size You can configure file size limits in Documents and Media. Set a maximum file upload size or for more granularity, define file size limits based on MIME Types. This can take...
Defining Document Types
Official Documentation
Defining Document Types In Liferay, Document Types are templates used for uploading files and categorizing them in Documents and Media. These templates are created using metadata fields and provide...
Configuring Limits for File Previews
Official Documentation
Configuring Limits for File Previews Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 Users can preview certain documents (e.g. PDF or text files) in the Documents and Media application; however, previews can...
Document Types and Metadata Sets API Basics
Official Documentation
Document Types and Metadata Sets API Basics Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/Portal GA132+ Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST services for Documents and Media that add document types and...
Document API Basics
Official Documentation
Document API Basics Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST services for Documents and Media that add documents and folders, list their information, modify them, delete them, and...
Securing Site Documents Content
Official Documentation
Securing Site Documents Content By default, your Site's Documents and Media files and folders are not visible in the web server directory index, so you can't view them through the browser. To...