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Configuring Liferay Authentication With PingOne Using SAML
This recipe guides you through the basic steps needed to integrate PingOne, your Identity Provider (IdP), with your Liferay environment using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). PingOne...
Integrate Azure AD with Liferay DXP Using OpenID Connect
This recipe guides you through the basic steps needed to integrate Azure AD (now known as Microsoft Entra ID), your Identity Provider (IdP), with your Liferay environment using OpenID Connect....
Navigating DXP
Official Documentation
Navigating DXP Liferay DXP's out-of-the-box navigation is organized into three major areas: Site Menu, Personal Menu, and Global Menu. Site Menu The DXP Site Menu on the left side of the screen...
Getting Started
Official Documentation
Getting Started Liferay DXP is a powerful, open source, enterprise-ready platform for building and deploying web applications. However, all of that power and functionality can make it difficult to...
Introduction to the Admin Account
Official Documentation
Introduction to the Admin Account The Admin User account is created by default in any new installation of Liferay DXP and has full permissions to modify every facet of a Liferay DXP instance. The...
DXP
Official Documentation
DXP Welcome to the official documentation for the latest versions of Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal! Liferay DXP is the commercially supported and enterprise ready platform used around the world,...
API Builder
Official Documentation
API Builder Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ [Beta Feature](../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) This feature is currently...
Building a Sample API Application
Official Documentation
Building a Sample API Application Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) The...
Captcha API Basics
Official Documentation
Captcha API Basics Liferay provides a headless API to retrieve and submit captchas using the SimpleCAPTCHA engine. Using the /captcha endpoint from the API Explorer, you can add captchas in your...
SCIM Group API Basics
Official Documentation
SCIM Group API Basics Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Liferay provides a headless API to perform CRUD operations on SCIM groups to keep their information in sync with your company's...
SCIM Resource Type, Service Provider, and Schema Basics
Official Documentation
SCIM Resource Type, Service Provider, and Schema Basics Liferay DXP 2025.Q2+ Liferay provides a headless API to query the SCIM resource types, service providers, and schemas available. Use the...
SCIM User API Basics
Official Documentation
SCIM User API Basics Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Liferay provides a headless API to perform CRUD operations on SCIM users to keep their identity information in sync with your company's...
Managing Object Entries Using GraphQL
Official Documentation
Managing Object Entries Using GraphQL You can use GraphQL to manage custom object entries in Liferay efficiently. This API framework simplifies data interaction and serves as an alternative to REST...
Picklists API Basics
Official Documentation
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...
Notifications API Basics
Official Documentation
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...
Workflow Definition Link API Basics
Official Documentation
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 →...
Consuming APIs
Official Documentation
Consuming APIs APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, serve as the bridge between different software applications, allowing them to communicate and exchange data. By consuming external APIs,...
Batch Engine API Basics - Exporting Data
Official Documentation
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,...
API Query Parameters
Official Documentation
API Query Parameters Whether you consume REST APIs or GraphQL APIs, different query parameters are available to help you filter the responses. Some endpoints do not make use of the filter, sort,...
Consuming GraphQL APIs
Official Documentation
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: ...
Configuring JSON Web Services
Official Documentation
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...
Data Migration Center
Official Documentation
Data Migration Center Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ [Beta Feature](../../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Currently,...
Using OAuth 2.0
Official Documentation
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...
Configuring the JWT Bearer Flow
Official Documentation
Configuring the JWT Bearer Flow The JWT Bearer flow trades a signed JWT from an external token service in exchange for an access token from Liferay. To use this flow, create an OAuth 2 client and...
JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
Official Documentation
JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) represent encoded data. They are compact, self-contained, and secure. There are two primary types of JSON Web Tokens: Encrypted JWT: ensures the...
Using External Reference Codes
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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...
Authorizing Account Access with OAuth2
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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....
Using Private Key JWT (JSON Web Token)
Official Documentation
Using Private Key JWT (JSON Web Token) Liferay supports private key JWT as an authentication method for OAuth 2 clients. In this flow, the client itself creates the assertion. Liferay authenticates...
Issuing JWT Access Tokens
Official Documentation
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...
OAuth 2 Scopes
Official Documentation
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: ...
JSON Web Token Assertions
Official Documentation
JSON Web Token Assertions An assertion helps in sharing identity and security information across different domains. There are two uses for assertions: Authorization grants Client authentication...
Using OAuth2 to Authorize Users
Official Documentation
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...
Low Code
Official Documentation
Low Code
REST Builder
Official Documentation
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...
Producing and Implementing APIs with REST Builder
Official Documentation
Producing and Implementing APIs with REST Builder With REST Builder, you can define the API you want to build, and REST Builder provides the framework and endpoints for you. Deploy an Example REST...
Using Camunda Business Processes
Official Documentation
Using Camunda Business Processes Liferay 7.4+, and all quarterly releases Liferay's native workflow features are designed for business processes requiring basic review and approval. If your...
Calling Liferay APIs from Camunda
Official Documentation
Calling Liferay APIs from Camunda The Liferay Connector enables calling Liferay APIs from your Camunda tasks. It's a protocol connector built on top of the Camunda HTTP REST connector. Follow...
Triggering Events in Camunda with Liferay Webhooks
Official Documentation
Triggering Events in Camunda with Liferay Webhooks You can send payloads from Liferay's webhook object actions to your Camunda process instances. This enables inbound communication from Liferay to...