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Liferay DXP is a robust platform with its own navigation menus, configuration methods, and core features. These core features are foundational to effective system administration, maintenance, notifications, and other core platform functions.

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Picklists API Basics
Picklists API Basics Liferay provides the headless-admin-list-types REST APIs for creating and managing picklist definitions (ListTypeDefinition) and their entries (ListTypeEntry). You can view and...
API Headers Reference
API Headers Reference API headers are components of HTTP requests that provide essential information to the server about the client's request and how the server should handle it. You can use API...
Batch Engine API Basics - Exporting Data
Batch Engine API Basics - Exporting Data Liferay's Headless Batch Engine provides REST APIs to import and export data. Call these services to export data from Liferay. Exporting Data Then,...
Batch Engine API Basics - Importing Data
Batch Engine API Basics - Importing Data Liferay's Headless Batch Engine provides REST APIs to import and export data. Call these services to import data to Liferay. Importing Data Then follow...
Data Migration Center
Data Migration Center Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ [Beta Feature](../../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Currently,...
Workflow Definition Link API Basics
Workflow Definition Link API Basics Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/Portal GA132+ You can manage workflow definition links from the Liferay UI or using Liferay's REST APIs. In Liferay, the Control Panel →...
Notifications API Basics
Notifications API Basics Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST and GraphQL services for subscribing to or unsubscribing from notifications for platform events across several default...
Consuming REST Services
Consuming REST Services Liferay DXP contains REST services for most of its applications. These services are fully OpenAPI compliant. Here, learn how to consume them. This takes only three steps: ...
Configuring JSON Web Services
Configuring JSON Web Services Liferay’s services are exposed as JSON web services out-of-the-box. This is enabled by default. You can access these services via the API page at...
Consuming GraphQL APIs
Consuming GraphQL APIs Liferay DXP contains GraphQL APIs for most of its applications. The GraphQL APIs are available at http://[host]:[port]/o/graphql. Here's how to consume them in three steps: ...
Using External Reference Codes
Using External Reference Codes Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ Many of Liferay's headless API endpoints support an external reference code (ERC). The ERC field is useful in wide range of scenarios. For...
Making Unauthenticated Requests
Making Unauthenticated Requests By default, Liferay DXP restricts API access for the sake of security, requiring authentication to get a valid response. However, in certain cases it may make sense...
Using OAuth 2.0
Using OAuth 2.0 OAuth 2.0 is an industry-standard authorization protocol. Users with accounts on a Liferay-based website can share select credentials with various clients seamlessly. OAuth 2.0...
Sample API Tutorials
Sample API Tutorials Follow the links below for sample API tutorials that include example requests and example code. Building Applications (Objects) Custom Objects API Basics Custom Objects...
OAuth 2 Scopes
OAuth 2 Scopes In OAuth 2.0, applications are granted access to limited subsets of user data. These are called scopes (not to be confused with Liferay scopes). You can create them in two ways: ...
Authorizing Account Access with OAuth2
Authorizing Account Access with OAuth2 Once you have an application registered, you can start authorizing users. To do that, you must construct the URL to the authorization server (Liferay DXP)....
Client Secret JWT
Client Secret JWT Liferay supports client secret JWT as an authentication method for OAuth 2 clients. In this flow, the client itself creates the assertion and signs it using the client secret....
Issuing JWT Access Tokens
Issuing JWT Access Tokens Liferay DXP 7.4 U45+/GA45+ You can configure Liferay to issue access tokens in the JWT format from System Settings. Enabling JWT Tokens Open the Global Menu...
Using OAuth2 to Authorize Users
Using OAuth2 to Authorize Users You can create applications that access Liferay's headless REST APIs using the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol. The provided sample React app demonstrates three...
REST Builder
REST Builder REST Builder is a code generation tool that makes it easy for you to take your local APIs and make them available on the web. It uses the OpenAPI Specification to generate REST and...