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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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Defining Entity Relationships
Official Documentation
Defining Entity Relationships Relationships between database entities or Java objects are necessary for most applications. Take Liferay's Message Boards application as an example. Each Message...
Service Builder Basics
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Service Builder Basics Using Service Builder helps you learn it. You'll use it to learn the basics: Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code: Define a basic model, generate code from it,...
Understanding and Extending Generated Classes
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Understanding and Extending Generated Classes Service Builder generates both tables for your entity and model, persistence, and service classes for it. Here you'll examine generated classes for an...
Using Upgrade Processes
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Using Upgrade Processes Liferay DXP 7.4 U10+/Portal 7.4 GA14+ An upgrade of your application may require making changes to your database tables. Liferay's upgrade framework makes it easy to make...
Invoking a Service Locally
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Invoking a Service Locally Service Builder services that are deployed to DXP/Portal can be invoked from other classes in the same JVM. These services are local to the classes. Service Builder...
Upgrading Data Schemas
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Upgrading Data Schemas When you upgrade Liferay, you might run into incompatibility issues with your custom modules' data schemas. There are three ways you can resolve these issues: You can run...
Using Upgrade Processes in Earlier Versions
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Using Upgrade Processes in Earlier Versions Liferay DXP 7.4 U10/Portal 7.4 GA14 and Below Follow these steps to create an upgrade process for your module: Open your module's bnd.bnd file, and...
Invoking Actions with MVC Portlet
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Invoking Actions with MVC Portlet A portlet's Action phase applies state changes. You can bind your portlet's action-handling methods to UI components using portlet action URLs. They are...
Liferay Faces Portal
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Liferay Faces Portal Liferay Faces Portal is distributed in a .jar file. You can add Liferay Faces Portal as a dependency for your portlet projects to use its Liferay-specific utilities and UI...
MVC Resource Command
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MVC Resource Command MVC Resource Command classes retrieve resources: images, XML, or any other kind of resource from a DXP/Portal instance without triggering any actions or renders. Requests or...
Using MVC
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Using MVC If you're an experienced developer, this is not the first time you've heard about Model View Controller. If there are so many implementations of MVC frameworks in Java, why did Liferay...
CDI Portlet Predefined Beans
Official Documentation
CDI Portlet Predefined Beans Liferay DXP provides injectable portlet artifacts for CDI called Portlet Predefined Beans, as specified by JSR 362. There are two types of predefined beans: Portlet...
Liferay Faces Alloy
Official Documentation
Liferay Faces Alloy Liferay Faces Alloy is distributed in a .jar file. You can add Liferay Faces Alloy as a dependency to your portlet projects, to use AlloyUI in a way that is consistent with JSF...
MVC Render Command
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MVC Render Command MVC Render Commands are classes that handle which page to render. They are invoked by MVCPortlet render URLs and requests. If your render logic is simple you can implement all of...
Liferay Faces Bridge
Official Documentation
Liferay Faces Bridge Liferay Faces Bridge enables you to deploy JSF web apps as portlets without writing portlet-specific code. It also contains innovative features that make it possible to...
MVC Action Command
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MVC Action Command MVC Action Commands handle actions as separate classes. With Action Commands, you can organize action logic in MVCPortlets that have many actions. Action URLs in the portlet's...
Portlet Preferences
Official Documentation
Portlet Preferences You can give administrators and users a way to customize a portlet with portlet preferences. Portlet preferences can be added to any MVC Portlet to give users a UI to access and...
Building Forms with AUI Tags
Official Documentation
Building Forms with AUI Tags The AUI tag library provides all the components you need to build forms for your applications. AUI tags provide many benefits to standard form elements, such as custom...
Alloy UI (AUI) Tag Library
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Alloy UI (AUI) Tag Library The AUI tag library provides tags that implement commonly used UI components. These tags make your markup consistent, responsive, and accessible. You can find a list of...
Rendering Views with MVC Portlet
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Rendering Views with MVC Portlet If you want users to access your portlet's views, you must implement navigation to them. Portlet render URLs help you do this. Here you'll deploy an example...
Tag Libraries
Official Documentation
Tag Libraries You have access to a powerful set of taglibs for creating commonly used UI components in your apps, themes, and web content. The following taglibs are covered in this section: AUI:...
Gauge Charts
Official Documentation
Gauge Charts Gauge charts are percentage-based. A gauge chart shows where percentage-based data falls over a given range. Each data set must be defined as a new instance of the SingleValueColumn...
Line Charts
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Line Charts Line charts contain multiple sets of data. A Line chart displays the data linearly. Each data series (created with the addColumns() method) is defined with a new instance of the ...
Predictive Charts
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Predictive Charts Predictive charts let you visualize current data along with predicted/forecasted data within a given value range. Predicted/forecasted data is surrounded by a highlighted area of...
Bar Charts
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Bar Charts Bar charts contain multiple sets of data. A bar chart models the data in bars. Each data series (created with the addColumns() method) is defined with a new instance of the...
Donut Charts
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Donut Charts Donut charts are percentage-based. A donut chart is similar to a pie chart, but it has a hole in the center. Each data set must be defined as a new instance of the SingleValueColumn...
Pie Charts
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Pie Charts Pie charts are percentage-based. A pie chart models percentage-based data as individual slices of pie. Each data set must be defined as a new instance of the SingleValueColumn object....
Refreshing Charts to Reflect Real Time Data
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Refreshing Charts to Reflect Real Time Data The polling interval property is an optional property for all charts. It specifies the time in milliseconds for the chart's data to refresh. You can use...
Spline Charts
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Spline Charts Spline charts contain multiple sets of data. A spline chart connects points of data with a smooth curve. Each data series (created with the addColumns() method) is defined with a new...
Geomap Chart
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Geomap Chart A Geomap Chart shows data based on geography, given a specified color range---a lighter color representing a lower rank and a darker a higher rank usually. The default configuration...
Combination Charts
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Combination Charts Combination charts have minor differences from other charts. In a combination chart, you must define the representation type of each data set: AREA, AREA_SPLINE, AREA_STEP, BAR,...
Scatter Charts
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Scatter Charts Scatter charts contain multiple sets of data. A scatter chart models the data as individual points. Each data series (created with the addColumns() method) is defined with a new...
Clay Dropdown Menus and Action Menus
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Clay Dropdown Menus and Action Menus You can add dropdown menus to your app via the clay:dropdown-menu and clay:actions-menu taglibs. The Clay taglibs provide several menu variations for you to...
Step Charts
Official Documentation
Step Charts Step charts contain multiple sets of data. A step chart steps between the points of data, resembling steps. Each data series (created with the addColumns() method) is defined with a new...
Clay Alerts
Official Documentation
Clay Alerts Clay alerts come in two types: embedded and stripe. Both types, along with several examples of each, are shown below. Embedded Alerts Embedded alerts are usually used inside forms. The...
Clay Cards
Official Documentation
Clay Cards Cards visually represent data. Use them for images, document libraries, user profiles and more. There are four main types of Cards: Image Cards File Cards User Cards Horizontal...
Liferay UI Tag Library
Official Documentation
Liferay UI Tag Library The Liferay UI tag library provides tags that implement commonly used UI components. These tags make your markup consistent, responsive, and accessible. You can find a list...
Liferay UI Icon Help
Official Documentation
Liferay UI Icon Help The icon help tag lets you communicate additional information to your users in an unobtrusive way. It renders as an iconic question mark that provides more information through...
Liferay UI Icons
Official Documentation
Liferay UI Icons The Liferay UI taglibs provide several icons you can include in your apps. To add an icon to your app, use the liferay-ui:icon tag and specify the icon with either the icon,...
Using Liferay Util Body Bottom
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Using Liferay Util Body Bottom The body bottom tag is not a self-closing tag. It lets you add additional HTML or scripts to the bottom of the body tag. content placed between the opening and...