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Liferay offers a comprehensive toolkit to extend or customize your digital experience. Build applications quickly with low-code/no-code features like Objects, or leverage developer tools like Liferay Workspace and Blade CLI for further customizations.

For users on PaaS or running Self-Hosted, Liferay also offers tools deploying customizations.

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Enabling Glowroot on PaaS
Official Documentation
Enabling Glowroot on PaaS Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot is included with Liferay in the /opt/liferay/glowroot folder. If you're running Liferay in a clustered environment, enable...
Using a CAPTCHA Client Extension
Official Documentation
Using a CAPTCHA Client Extension Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+ CAPTCHA challenges are used on websites to verify a human user is accessing it, and not a bot or malicious code attacking the site. Liferay...
Integrating Microservices
Official Documentation
Integrating Microservices Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay SaaS Liferay PaaS Liferay 7.4 You can define microservice client extensions to run your own code in response to events in your Liferay...
Remote Applications with Headless APIs
Official Documentation
Remote Applications with Headless APIs Available 7.4+ After creating and publishing objects, headless REST APIs are automatically generated. Here you'll see how to integrate these endpoints to...
Extending Unmodifiable System Objects
Official Documentation
Extending Unmodifiable System Objects Liferay 7.4 U86+/GA86+ With Liferay Objects, you can extend supported system services. These services are integrated with the Objects framework as...
Using Object Data with React Charts
Official Documentation
Using Object Data with React Charts Here you'll use Objects, Headless APIs, and custom element remote applications to create a dynamic chart for data dashboards. First, you'll set up a new DXP...
Creating Objects
Official Documentation
Creating Objects Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ Liferay Objects provides development capabilities in the Liferay UI. Using Objects, you can build fully integrated Liferay applications without...
Understanding Object Integrations
Official Documentation
Understanding Object Integrations Published custom objects are integrated with Liferay's core frameworks, so you can leverage Liferay's features to build unified experiences across the platform....
Configuring a Liferay Docker Container
Official Documentation
Configuring a Liferay Docker Container Creating and deploying containers is an important part of the modern developer workflow. Liferay Workspace makes it easy to use Docker containers both for...
Localizing Object Definitions and Entries
Official Documentation
Localizing Object Definitions and Entries Liferay DXP 2023.Q3+/Portal GA92+ Liferay objects are integrated with the localization framework, so you can add translations for definition labels, and...
Scheduling and Subscription
Official Documentation
Scheduling and Subscription [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) (LPD-17564) Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+/Portal...
Assignee Fields
Official Documentation
Assignee Fields Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+/Portal 2026.Q1+ Assignee fields are for selecting existing users or roles in the object entry. Assigned users can edit the entry with no manual permission...
Managing Object Entries with Data Sets
Official Documentation
Managing Object Entries with Data Sets Data sets offer a flexible way to display object entries. When your advanced use case outgrows collections, data sets fill the gap. For example, Collections...
Client Extensions UI Reference
Official Documentation
Client Extensions UI Reference Liferay's widget client extensions (custom element and iframe) register applications with Liferay, adding them as widgets to site pages. Additionally, you can style...
Fragment Specific Tags and Attributes Reference
Official Documentation
Fragment Specific Tags and Attributes Reference Along with standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can use Liferay-specific tags and attributes to define editable sections, embed widgets, and more....
Micro Frontends
Official Documentation
Micro Frontends Micro frontends extend the concept of microservices to the frontend side of development. You can build a fully-featured and powerful browser application that uses a microservice...
Using Routes with Custom Elements
Official Documentation
Using Routes with Custom Elements Liferay 7.4+ Custom element client extensions use Liferay's frontend infrastructure to register external applications with the Liferay platform and render them as...
Service Builder
Official Documentation
Service Builder An application without reliable business logic or persistence isn't much of an application at all. Unfortunately, writing your own persistence code often takes a great deal of time....
Configuring service.properties
Official Documentation
Configuring service.properties Service Builder generates a service.properties file in your *-service module's src/main/resources folder. Liferay uses this file's properties to alter your service's...
Attachment Fields
Official Documentation
Attachment Fields Attachment fields are for uploading files to your instance's Document Library. When uploaded, the file is linked to the entry's attachment field. Each field can only be linked to...