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Liferay sites are customizable spaces for building personalized digital experiences. Each site includes applications for creating content, designing pages, and more. With these features, you can bring your custom solutions to life, whether intranets, public sites, customer portals, or e-commerce storefronts. In fact, you can leverage Liferay's multi-site capabilities to create multiple such sites in the same Liferay instance.

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Deployment Approach
Defining Headers and Footers
Defining Headers and Footers
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Managing Master Page Templates
Managing Master Page Templates Available: Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ To manage a master page template, follow these steps: Open the Site Menu (Site Menu) and navigate to Design → Page Templates. ...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Master Page Templates
Master Page Templates Available: Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ Master page templates provide a way to define elements common to every page using fragments (e.g. headers and footers previously provided...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Page Fragments and Widgets
Page Fragments and Widgets Liferay provides page fragments and widgets for building site pages and page templates. Fragments cannot be used in widget pages. They are only available in content...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Using Fragments
Using Fragments Page fragments are extensible and reusable drag-and-drop elements for building content pages and templates (i.e., masters, pages, and display pages). Built with HTML, CSS, and...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Configuring Fragment Visibility
Configuring Fragment Visibility Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ Fragments can be used to assemble content pages with a variety of layouts and information. Starting with Liferay DXP 7.4, you can configure...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Configuring Fragments
Configuring Fragments You can configure fragments and their sub-elements. Available options can vary, though some are common to all. To view available configuration options, begin editing a page or...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Advanced Settings Reference
Advanced Settings Reference Available 7.4 U37+/GA37+ All Liferay's default fragments include advanced settings except for the Collection Display fragment. Advanced settings can add custom CSS to a...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Fragment Sub-Elements Reference
Fragment Sub-Elements Reference In addition to General and Style settings, many fragments include sub-elements with their own configuration options. To access these options, begin editing a page or...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
General Settings Reference
General Settings Reference All fragments have general settings. Some of these options are standard (e.g., visibility and frame), while others are unique to each fragment. The following reference...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Creating Dropdown Menus with Fragments
Creating Dropdown Menus with Fragments Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ Liferay provides the Dropdown fragment to create advanced drop-down menus (A). With it, you can define drop zones for additional page...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Styles Reference
Styles Reference All fragments have a Styles settings section except for the Collection Display fragment. Use the style settings to configure your fragments' look and feel. Many of these options...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Localizing Fragment Configuration Fields
Localizing Fragment Configuration Fields Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ When using Liferay Fragments, you can localize the following Fragment configuration fields to match your target audience's...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Default Fragments Reference
Default Fragments Reference Liferay provides many out-of-the-box fragments, so you can start building your solution immediately. To view available fragments, begin editing a content page or page...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Duplicating Fragments
Duplicating Fragments When building a page or template with fragments, you can duplicate configured fragments to save time. A duplicated fragment includes the original fragment's settings,...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Managing Fragments
Managing Fragments Liferay DXP provides tools for managing fragments in the Liferay UI. With out-of-the-box tools, you can edit fragment code, export/import fragment sets between sites, and more. ...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Mapping and Linking Fragment Elements
Mapping and Linking Fragment Elements You can map and link fragments together as reusable components for your digital experiences (e.g., form submissions and navigation actions). Not all...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Personalizing Custom Forms Using Form Fragments
Personalizing Custom Forms Using Form Fragments Form fragments auto-generate forms based on custom objects. If Liferay's out-of-the-box form fragments don't satisfy your use case, you can create...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Saving Fragment Compositions
Saving Fragment Compositions Layout and composition are the foundation of your page design. They make pages easier to read and navigate, resulting in a richer and more consistent user experience....
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Propagating Fragment Changes
Propagating Fragment Changes By default, changes made to a custom fragment's code are not propagated to deployed instances of the fragment. Using fragment propagation, you can propagate changes to...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Using Layout Elements
Using Layout Elements For Liferay 7.4 U22+/GA22+ Layout elements define drop zones for designing page or template layouts. By default, Liferay includes two layout elements: containers and grids....
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Using Widgets
Using Widgets Widgets are full-blown web applications that must be deployed to a Liferay instance. Built on the Portlet specification, widgets provide a way to create customized web experiences for...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Communication Between Widgets
Communication Between Widgets Portlet widgets can communicate with each other using public render parameters and events. Some Liferay portlets provide a configuration UI to help you get the most...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Configuring Widgets
Configuring Widgets Widgets available out-of-the-box with Liferay DXP share several configurable features: look and feel, import/export of widget data, inter-widget communication, and more.
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Configuring Templates
Configuring Templates Once you've configured a widget, Configuration Templates can save those settings in a reusable template. Configuration templates are only available for widgets placed on a...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Exporting/Importing Widget Data
Exporting/Importing Widget Data You may need to export data from a specific widget instance, without regard to content on the rest of the Site. Many widgets can export or import their data...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Setting Widget Permissions
Setting Widget Permissions All of Liferay's widgets support Liferay's robust, fine-grained permissions system. Some higher level permissions can be configured in the permissions tab of the widget's...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Setting Widget Scopes
Setting Widget Scopes By default, Liferay's page widgets are scoped by site. This means all widget instances in a site share the same data and display the same content. For example, adding the...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:56 PM
Sharing Widgets with Other Sites
Sharing Widgets with Other Sites You can share widgets with other sites by embedding an instance of a widget running on your site into another website, such as Facebook, OpenSocial and Netvibes....
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:57 PM
Default Widgets Reference
Default Widgets Reference Liferay provides a variety of widgets out-of-the-box, so you can start building your solution right away. Widgets can be placed on content pages, widget pages, and page...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:57 PM
Styling Widgets
Styling Widgets Once you've added widgets on a page, you can customize the look and feel of the widgets to meet your needs. With a range of configuration options available, you can tailor the...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:57 PM
Configuring Widget Look and Feel
Configuring Widget Look and Feel Click Options (Actions Button) in the top right corner of the widget. Select Look and Feel Configuration. Look and Feel Configuration has six tabs: General ...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:57 PM
Creating a Widget Template
Creating a Widget Template Widget Templates use FreeMarker to determine how widgets are rendered in site pages. Each template is designed for a specific widget type and can be selected while...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:57 PM
Using a Widget Template Example
Using a Widget Template Example Widget Templates are great tools for customizing how widgets look and feel on your site. This example shows changing the default configuration of the Media Gallery...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:57 PM
Setting a Default Widget Template
Setting a Default Widget Template You can change the widget template for individual widgets through their own configuration; however you can also configure a default widget template to apply to all...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:57 PM
Configuring Locked Pages
Configuring Locked Pages Liferay DXP 2023.Q3+/Portal 7.4 GA92+ Liferay locks pages during editing to avoid conflicts when multiple users try to edit the same page. This feature works with...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:57 PM
Updating Page Permissions
Updating Page Permissions By default, when users join a site, they can see all of its pages. However, you can configure permissions for individual pages to restrict access based on user roles. ...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:57 PM
Types of Utility Pages
Types of Utility Pages Utility pages are content pages managed at the site level. Since the default system-level pages are not customizable, you can use site-level utility pages to provide a unique...
Published Date: May 13, 24, 8:24 PM
Setting Default Permissions
Setting Default Permissions Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal 7.4 GA125+ You can define a set of default permissions for Liferay pages. The default permissions setting is available at both instance and...
Published Date: Jul 16, 24, 3:43 PM
Other Page Types
Other Page Types Content pages are the most commonly used page type, but there are uses for the other page types. Utility Pages Utility pages are content pages you can apply to system-level pages,...
Published Date: May 9, 24, 6:57 PM

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