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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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Introduction to Workflow
Introduction to Workflow Liferay DXP ships with a workflow engine that allows users to review and approve content such as Blogs, Web Content, Wikis before they are published. The Workflow...
Using Workflows
Using Workflows Activating Workflow Reviewing Assets Using Workflow Metrics Workflow Metrics Reports
Working with Workflow Context
Working with Workflow Context Workflows in Liferay are used as approval processes. At each step of the process, the workflow has certain data that's available in a Map object referred to in your...
Activating Workflow
Activating Workflow You can activate a workflow process for an asset type either across the DXP instance or only on a specific site. When a workflow process is activated across the instance for a...
Workflow Definition Node Reference
Workflow Definition Node Reference Node elements and their sub-elements are fundamental building blocks making up workflow definitions. Nodes often reflect the real life stages of the review...
Reviewing Assets
Reviewing Assets When an asset's workflow is activated, one or more users must review it before publication. You can assign workflow review processes to specific users or to a particular Role (for...
Using Workflow Metrics
Using Workflow Metrics Subscription This feature works only with Elasticsearch. Workflow Metrics gives insight into the time spent to complete certain workflow events. To use it, set up...
Workflow Metrics: Reports
Workflow Metrics: Reports Subscription Open the Workflow Metrics from the Applications Menu (Applications Menu) (Control Panel → Workflow → Metrics) and you immediately see metrics on each...
Setting Up Liferay
Setting Up Liferay After installing Liferay, configure it to meet your needs. Here are common setup tasks. Setup Tasks Preconfigure the System Activate Liferay (Subscription Required) ...
Configuring Cluster Link
Configuring Cluster Link Enabling Cluster Link activates distributed caching. The cache is distributed across multiple Liferay DXP nodes running concurrently. Cluster Link uses Ehcache replication....
Database Configuration for Cluster Nodes
Database Configuration for Cluster Nodes At minimum, nodes in a DXP cluster must be configured to share the same database (or database cluster) in order to function. Optimizations discussed here...
Example: Creating a Simple DXP Cluster
Example: Creating a Simple DXP Cluster A fast, easy way to learn DXP clustering is to set up a two node DXP cluster environment on one machine using Docker containers. This example creates two DXP...
Session Replication with Tomcat
Session Replication with Tomcat Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA92+ To ensure user session data is synchronized across all instances in the cluster, Liferay supports session replication. If one...
Clustering for High Availability
Clustering for High Availability Liferay DXP can scale to serve everything from the smallest to the largest web sites. Out-of-the-box, it's configured optimally for a single server environment. If...
Configuring Unicast over TCP
Configuring Unicast over TCP If your network configuration or the geographical distance between cluster nodes prevents you from using UDP Multicast clustering, you can configure TCP Unicast. You...
Initial Instance Localization
Initial Instance Localization Liferay DXP supports localization by language, time zone, and more. The English (US) language translation and GMT time zone are the defaults, but DXP has over 40...
Tuning Your JVM
Tuning Your JVM Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning primarily focuses on adjusting Java heap and non-heap settings and configuring garbage collection. Finding settings that perform well for you...
Using a CDN
Using a CDN A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a distributed infrastructure for caching static, file-based content. When visitors hit your site, your static content is loaded from the server...
Tuning Liferay
Tuning Liferay There are several ways to tune Liferay's performance. This involves configuring the Java Virtual Machine and frameworks that support the Liferay application, monitoring performance...
Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth
Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth Liferay DXP 7.4 U79+/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA79+ Connect your Microsoft email service to Liferay with the use of OAuth 2.0 authorization. Note, Microsoft...