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Configuring SAML at the Instance Level
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Configuring SAML at the Instance Level Each portal instance can be a SAML provider, either an Identity Provider (IdP) or a Service Provider (SP). Whichever role your DXP instance fills, you can...
Configuring SAML at the System Level
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Configuring SAML at the System Level Before allowing any portal instances to enable SAML authentication, you should configure it at the system level so those instances have a foundation from which...
Authenticating with Kerberos
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Authenticating with Kerberos You can use Kerberos to authenticate Microsoft Windows™ accounts with Liferay DXP. This is done by using a combination of Liferay DXP's LDAP support and a web server...
SAML Authentication Process Overview
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SAML Authentication Process Overview Both the IdP and the SP can initiate the Single Sign On process, and the SSO flow is different depending on each one. Regardless of how it's initiated, SSO is...
Configuring Liferay Authentication With Auth0 Using OpenId Connect
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Configuring Liferay Authentication With Auth0 Using OpenId Connect This tutorial guides you through integrating Auth0, your Identity Provider (IdP), with your Liferay environment using OpenID...
Multi-Factor Authentication Checkers
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Multi-Factor Authentication Checkers Liferay DXP 7.4 ships with two additional factor checkers for Multi-Factor Authentication. Both of them are disabled by default, because they're only useful in...
Configuring Liferay Authentication With Okta Using OpenId Connect
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Configuring Liferay Authentication With Okta Using OpenId Connect This tutorial guides you through the basic steps needed to integrate Okta, your Identity Provider (IdP), with your environment...
Configuring Liferay Authentication With PingOne Using SAML
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Configuring Liferay Authentication With PingOne Using SAML This tutorial guides you through the basic steps needed to integrate PingOne, your Identity Provider (IdP), with your Liferay environment...
Token-based Single Sign On Authentication
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Token-based Single Sign On Authentication Token-based SSO authentication was introduced in Liferay Portal 7.0 to standardize support for Shibboleth, SiteMinder, Oracle OAM, and any SSO product that...
Using OpenAM
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Using OpenAM Deprecated in Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 OpenAM 13 is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. OpenAM 12 and below were deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.2. Versions of...
Multi-Factor Authentication
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Multi-Factor Authentication Liferay DXP 7.3+ Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) provides better security by requiring users to prove their identity in multiple ways, or factors. The basic user...
Fast IDentity Online 2
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Fast IDentity Online 2 Available: Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ The Fast IDentity Online 2 or FIDO2 standard allows for the use of biometrics (i.e., fingerprint readers), mobile devices, or other...
Using Multi-Factor Authentication
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Using Multi-Factor Authentication To enhance your installation's security, you should disable less secure, one-factor forms of authentication, such as Basic Auth, Digest Auth, and WebDAV. You can...
AntiSamy
Official Documentation
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...
Reverting Changes
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Reverting Changes Liferay Publications maintains a history of all published changes. You can use this publishing history to easily create publications that revert earlier changes to production....
Using Publication Templates
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Using Publication Templates Liferay 7.4 U73+/GA73+ To simplify creating publications with shared details and contributors, use publication templates. You can create a list of users to invite and...
Using the Publications Toolbar
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Using the Publications Toolbar The Publications Toolbar provides essential information for Publications users, including the name of the current publication or Production if working in the...
Using Workflow with Publications
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Using Workflow with Publications 7.4 U44+/GA44+ Publications is integrated with Liferay's Workflow framework, so you can continue to use custom workflows for reviewing content and pages while...
Enabling Publications
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Enabling Publications Available Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient and flexible way for you and your teams to develop, track, and publish changes. When enabled, Publications is...
Comparing Publishing Tools
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Comparing Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. Publications is recommended over Staging in nearly all use cases...
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
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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
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...
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
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,...
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
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 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...
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...
Forms
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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...