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AntiSamy

AntiSamy Liferay DXP includes an AntiSamy module that protects against user-entered malicious code. If your site allows users to post content in message boards, blogs, or other applications, these...

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Setting Up Liferay

Setting Up Liferay After installing Liferay, configure it to meet your needs. Here are common setup tasks. Setup Tasks Activate Liferay (Subscription Required) Configure Your Instance ...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Configuring Mail

Configuring Mail Liferay DXP/Portal can be configured to use a mail server to send email notifications for a variety of purposes: User registration and password management, Site membership...

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Using Liferay's Delta Manager for Improved Session Replication Performance

Using Liferay's Delta Manager for Improved Session Replication Performance Liferay 7.4 2023.Q3+/GA92+ To ensure user session data is synchronized across all instances in the cluster, Liferay...

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Alternative Email Configuration Methods

Alternative Email Configuration Methods There are several methods of configuring Liferay DXP to connect to a mail server. The simplest way to get started is to configure mail using through the...

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Configuring Default Email Senders

Configuring Default Email Senders By default, emails sent by Liferay DXP use the name and email address as the default admin user. This behavior can be configured for each of the different email...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Provisioning DXP Apps

Provisioning DXP Apps Free apps can be downloaded, deployed to Liferay DXP, and used immediately without deploying a license. Paid apps have trial, developer, or standard licenses based on the...

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Publishing Apps in Marketplace

Publishing Apps in Marketplace The Liferay Marketplace contains both Cloud apps (for Liferay SaaS, PaaS, and self-hosted) and DXP apps (for Liferay PaaS and Liferay Self-Hosted). As a publisher,...

Published Date: Aug 16, 24, 3:45 PM

Publishing Solutions in Marketplace

Publishing Solutions in Marketplace The Liferay Marketplace contains business solutions you can use to improve productivity and reduce your time to market. Currently, only existing Liferay partners...

Published Date: Aug 31, 24, 7:45 PM

Become a Publisher

Become a Publisher To publish apps and solutions on the Marketplace, you must have a Liferay account with additional publisher permissions. It is free to become a publisher, but you must submit a...

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Marketplace

Marketplace Liferay's new Marketplace is a platform where you find, download, and share apps. It comes with a revamped UI and also supports Liferay SaaS. To access the new Marketplace, go to...

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Enabling Workflow for Objects

Enabling Workflow for Objects Liferay 7.4+ Every published object is integrated automatically with the Workflow framework, so you can direct object entry creation through a defined review and...

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Picklists

Picklists Liferay 7.4+ Liferay picklists are predefined lists of string values that consist of a name/key pair and can include any number of items. Once a list is created, you can use it to add a...

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Creating Picklists

Creating Picklists Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ Picklists are lists of name/key pairs stored as string values. Once defined, you can use the lists with object definitions to populate single or multiple...

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Exporting and Importing Picklists

Exporting and Importing Picklists You can transfer picklists between environments as JSON files using Liferay's export/import framework. Exporting Picklists Open the Global Menu (Global Menu),...

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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...

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Managing Picklist Permissions

Managing Picklist Permissions Liferay 7.4+ Picklist is integrated with Liferay's permissions framework. This means you can assign application and resource permissions to user roles to determine...

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Managing Object Entries Using GraphQL

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...

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Process Automation

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Forms

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Creating and Managing Forms

Creating and Managing Forms Creating Forms Customizing Form Layouts Reusing Sets of Form Elements Providing Help Text and Predefined Values Building Forms with Conditional Fields Validation...

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Building Forms with Conditional Fields

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...

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Exporting and Importing Forms

Exporting and Importing Forms You can export all your forms as a LAR file and then import them into a different Site for reuse. See Exporting/Importing Site Pages and Content to learn about the...

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Field Autocompletion

Field Autocompletion You can configure form field autocompletion in the Forms application: Autocompletion TypeConfigurationField Types ManualType a list of autocompletion optionsText Data...

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Forms Configuration Reference

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...

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Forms Field Types Reference

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)...

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Using Forms with Objects

Using Forms with Objects Liferay 7.4+ Liferay objects are integrated with the Forms application, so you can design forms for receiving user input and creating object entries. To do this, first add...

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Creating Forms

Creating Forms You can create multi-field forms with the Forms application. Only authenticated users with the requisite Process Automation Permissions can create forms. At minimum, they should have...

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Customizing Auto-Save Behavior

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...

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Customizing Form Layouts

Customizing Form Layouts By default, new elements on your form are added to a new row and occupy the entire width of the form. Form with all elements occupying entire width of form. Sometimes it...

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Customizing the Submit Button

Customizing the Submit Button Available 7.4+ When a User is finished entering data into a form, they must submit the form. By default a button that says Submit is displayed for this purpose. ...

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Forms Permissions Reference

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...

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Providing Help Text and Predefined Values

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...

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Reusing Sets of Form Elements

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...

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Translating Forms

Translating Forms Forms can be 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...

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Using Storage Adapters

Using Storage Adapters When a User adds a form record, Liferay routes the processing of the request through a storage adapter API. The same is true for the other CRUD operations performed on form...

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Using the Search Location Field

Using the Search Location Field Use a Search Location field so a user can interact with Google's Maps JavaScript API and Google Places API, selecting a location and getting these fields autofilled...

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Validation and Masking

Validation and Masking Certain Forms fields can be validated (Text, Date, and Numeric fields) and masked (Numeric fields) to ensure User input is valid. Date Fields can be validated beginning in...

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Validation Conditions Reference

Validation Conditions Reference There are several out-of-the-box validation conditions that can be used to validate form responses before they are submitted. Text Field Validation Conditions...

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Data Providers

Data Providers Data Providers Overview Using the REST Data Provider to Populate Form Options

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Data Providers Overview

Data Providers Overview Data providers serve data that can be consumed by the Forms application. The REST Data Provider is included with the Forms application. With it, you can consume data from...

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Using the REST Data Provider to Populate Form Options

Using the REST Data Provider to Populate Form Options Select from List fields can hold many options. Those options can be automatically supplied by using the JSON web services registered in Liferay...

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Developer Guide

Developer Guide Forms Writing a Custom Form Field Type Understanding Form Storage Adapters Writing a Custom Data Provider Writing a Form Storage Adapter Developing a Custom Form Field for...

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Developing a Custom Form Field for Liferay 7.2

Developing a Custom Form Field for Liferay 7.2 React-based custom form fields can be developed for Liferay 7.3 and Liferay 7.4. See Writing Custom Form Field Types to learn how. Liferay 7.2 used a...

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Understanding Form Storage Adapters

Understanding Form Storage Adapters Available: Liferay DXP 7.3 and Liferay DXP 7.2 versions that include the fix for LPS-97208 (planned for Liferay DXP 7.2 SP3). When a user adds a form record,...

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Creating Data Lists

Creating Data Lists Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data Lists to Objects as soon...

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Writing a Custom Form Field Type

Writing a Custom Form Field Type The Forms application contains many highly configurable field types out-of-the-box. Most use cases are met with one of the existing field types. If your use case...

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Writing a Custom Data Provider

Writing a Custom Data Provider Liferay Forms fields can be populated using a Data Provider. Out of the box, there's a REST Data Provider that provides a flexible way to consume data from most REST...

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Dynamic Data Lists

Dynamic Data Lists Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data Lists to Objects as soon...

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Writing a Form Storage Adapter

Writing a Form Storage Adapter Available: Liferay DXP 7.3 and Liferay DXP 7.2 versions that include the fix for LPS-97208 (planned for Liferay DXP 7.2 SP3). By default, forms are stored as JSON in...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM