Capability

Development and Tooling

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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Renaming Table Columns
Renaming Table Columns Liferay 7.4 U21+/GA21+ With custom views, you can change and localize the display name for table columns so you can serve your global users and ensure the table's naming...
7.2 Breaking Changes
7.2 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay developers or users. We try our best to...
Integrating Objects with Third Party Services
Integrating Objects with Third Party Services You can use Liferay Objects with popular data integration tools to create automated tasks for syncing Object data with external services. These tasks...
Setting a Default Sorting
Setting a Default Sorting Liferay 7.4 U18+/GA18+ With custom views, you can set a default sorting for tables. Follow these steps: Begin editing the desired view and go to the Default Sort tab. ...
Using Objects with SugarCRM
Using Objects with SugarCRM [Release Feature](../../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#release-feature-flags) You can create objects that map to...
Objects Application Permissions
Objects Application Permissions Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ The Objects application is integrated with the permissions framework, so you can assign application and resource permissions to...
Managing Data from External Systems
Managing Data from External Systems [Release Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#release-feature-flags) Liferay Objects provides...
Managing Object Entries with Data Sets
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...
Displaying Object Entries with Collections
Displaying Object Entries with Collections Liferay 7.4 U77+/GA77+ When you publish an object definition, Liferay creates a collection provider for it. For site-scoped objects, you can also create...
Deploying Object Widgets to Sites
Deploying Object Widgets to Sites Liferay 7.4+ When an Object is published, Liferay automatically generates a dedicated widget you can deploy to site pages. This includes both site-scoped and...
Using Objects with Salesforce
Using Objects with Salesforce [Release Feature](../../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#release-feature-flags) With Liferay, you can create...
Understanding Object Integrations
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....
Troubleshooting JVM Issues with Glowroot
Troubleshooting JVM Issues with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot displays a dashboard for identifying system issues quickly. Click the Errors tab to see a list of tracked...
Troubleshooting Templates with Glowroot Freemarker Plugin
Troubleshooting Templates with Glowroot Freemarker Plugin Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot can troubleshoot FreeMarker templates to pinpoint slow transactions. Configuring the...
Using Glowroot with Liferay
Using Glowroot with Liferay Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Liferay bundles Glowroot, the open source Java application monitoring tool. The tool displays helpful statistics about your system...
Developing Glowroot Plugins
Developing Glowroot Plugins Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot provides various out-of-the-box plugins. You can also build your own with the use of their plugin API. Here are some tips...
Liferay Performance Use Cases with Glowroot
Liferay Performance Use Cases with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Use Glowroot to diagnose and inform you on making performance improvements to your Liferay installation. Here are a...
Troubleshooting Liferay Performance Issues with Glowroot
Troubleshooting Liferay Performance Issues with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Use Glowroot to identify and diagnose performance issues in your Liferay installation. The following...
Using the Script Engine
Using the Script Engine Liferay provides a robust script engine for executing Groovy scripts. You can execute scripts to perform maintenance tasks involving data cleanup, user maintenance...
Running Scripts From the Script Console
Running Scripts From the Script Console The Script Console provides a single view for executing Groovy scripts and printing their output. It has predefined variables that facilitate working with...
Script Examples
Script Examples Here are some examples to help you use scripts in DXP. Most of the examples originated from the Liferay blog post 5 Tips to Improve Usage of the Liferay Script Console. Example 1:...
Invoking Liferay Services From Scripts
Invoking Liferay Services From Scripts Many scripting scenarios require invoking Liferay services. Liferay *ServiceUtil classes are the fastest and most convenient way to invoke Liferay services in...
Portal Developer Properties
Portal Developer Properties There are Portal Properties that facilitate development. Liferay's portal-developer.properties file includes all of them. The portal-developer.properties file is enabled...
7.3 Breaking Changes
7.3 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay developers or users. We try our best to...
7.4 Breaking Changes
7.4 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay 7.4, starting with the latest quarterly...
Creating Form Fragments
Creating Form Fragments Liferay 7.4 U45+/GA45+ The form components fragments are for building your object's forms in a content page. If Liferay's form fragments don't satisfy your use case, create...
Contributing to Liferay Development
Contributing to Liferay Development The first thing to do in learning to fix bugs or contributing a feature is to become familiar with how to build the system. The Liferay Portal build system now...