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Publishing Tools
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Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. With each tool you can edit sites and content in a working environment...
Publications
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Publications Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ You can use Publications to develop, track, and publish changes across your DXP instance. It works by creating a database column to determine which version of...
Best Practices for Managing Publications
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Best Practices for Managing Publications Efficient publication workflows in Liferay help improve collaboration, reduce errors, and streamline content delivery. Follow these best practices to...
Collaborating on Publications
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Collaborating on Publications Liferay 7.4+ By default, a publication can only be accessed by its creator. However, publication creators can invite other users to view, edit, and publish their...
Creating and Managing Publications
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Creating and Managing Publications Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ With Publications, users can create instance-scoped blocks of changes. Because each publication is instance-scoped, they can be accessed...
Making and Publishing Changes
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Making and Publishing Changes Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient way to manage changes to your Liferay instance. With it, you and your team can create and collaborate on blocks of...
Publications Permissions
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Publications Permissions 7.4+ Publications works with Liferay's permissions framework, so you can assign application and resource permissions to regular roles. You can also assign permissions...
Configuring Remote Live Staging
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Configuring Remote Live Staging With Remote Live staging, your staging and live environments are hosted on separate Liferay servers. When enabled, the site or asset library used to configure...
Staging
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Staging Liferay's Staging application provides a working environment for making changes to a site or asset library before publishing your changes to your live environment. With it, you can modify...
Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content
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Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content Available 7.4+ By default, only content explicitly included in a publishing process is published to Live. If desired, you can configure your...
Configuring Local Live Staging
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Configuring Local Live Staging With Local Live staging, both your staging and live environments are hosted on the same Liferay server. When enabled, Liferay DXP creates a local clone of your site...
Configuring Page Publishing
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Configuring Page Publishing Staging and publishing settings control how pages and their content are published to Live, optimizing performance and ensuring consistency. These settings determine...
Managing Data and Content Types in Staging
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Managing Data and Content Types in Staging Liferay DXP's Staging tool provides ways to manage available application data and content types both during initial configuration and the publishing...
Managing Staging Permissions
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Managing Staging Permissions With Staging, you can manage User permissions that deal directly with Staging and Page versioning. General Staging Permissions Related Site Permissions Individual...
Publishing Single Assets and Widgets
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Publishing Single Assets and Widgets You can publish single assets and widgets when needed without going through the entire publishing process. This is much faster than publishing all content at...
Understanding the Publishing Process
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Understanding the Publishing Process Publishing is the process whereby changes made in the Staging environment are transferred to the Live environment. Understanding this process can improve...
Using Staging in Asset Libraries
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Using Staging in Asset Libraries Staging is supported for Asset Libraries since Liferay DXP 7.4 and 7.3.10 FP1. Liferay's Staging application is a publishing tool for managing changes on DXP. For...
Page Versioning
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Page Versioning With Page Versioning enabled, you and your team can work in parallel on multiple versions of your site's widget pages. These versions are called variations, which are you create and...
Site Staging UI Reference
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Site Staging UI Reference After enabling Local or Remote Live Staging for your site, most page configuration options are only accessible in your Staging environment. This prevents users from...
Batch Engine API Basics - Importing Data
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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...
Consuming GraphQL APIs
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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
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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 REST Services
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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: ...
Data Migration Center
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Data Migration Center Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ [Beta Feature](../../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Currently,...
Creating an OAuth2 Application
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Creating an OAuth2 Application When you have an application that can use OAuth 2.0 for authorization, you must register that application so Liferay can recognize it. Open the Global Menu...
Authorizing Account Access with OAuth2
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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)....
JSON Web Token Assertions
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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 Private Key JWT (JSON Web Token)
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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...
REST Builder
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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...
Forms
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Forms The Forms application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. Migrate your forms to objects and form container fragments to future-proof your solutions. You can use...
Building Forms with Conditional Fields
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Building Forms with Conditional Fields Forms can become dynamic forms where the answer to one question may allow the respondent to skip the next three questions, or require the respondent to answer...
Creating and Managing Forms
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Creating and Managing Forms The Forms application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. Migrate your forms to objects and form container fragments to future-proof your...
Creating Forms
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Creating Forms You can create multi-field forms with the Forms application. Only authenticated users with the requisite permissions can create forms. At minimum, they should have permission to...
Customizing Auto-Save Behavior
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Customizing Auto-Save Behavior The Forms application automatically saves the form creation progress as you create a form. By default, a form's draft is auto-saved every minute. To change the...
Forms Configuration Reference
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Forms Configuration Reference Here's an overview of all the Forms configurations so you can quickly find a configuration you need. Forms Options You can export and import forms between sites. To...
Forms Permissions Reference
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Forms Permissions Reference This article serves as a guide for all permissions associated with the Forms application. Form Widget Permissions Navigate to the site page where the Form widget has...
Reusing Sets of Form Elements
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Reusing Sets of Form Elements Forms often request the same sets of information, such as name, birthday, and address. Rather than adding these fields for every new form, you can group elements as a...
Forms Field Types Reference
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Forms Field Types Reference The Liferay Forms application contains lots of field types and elements to add to your forms. To discover the available elements, Open the Product Menu (Product Menu)...
Providing Help Text and Predefined Values
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Providing Help Text and Predefined Values Form fields can be configured to have help text, placeholder text, and predefined values that assist users in understanding and filling out a form. Help...
Translating Forms
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Translating Forms Forms can be translated and presented in any language that is currently enabled on the current site. To add a translation: Begin by viewing an existing form (e.g., Guest...