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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.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Poshi Layers
Official Documentation
Poshi Layers
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Functions
Official Documentation
Functions In Poshi, Functions handle extra WebDriver commands that an element might require to interact with a page object or element. Functions combine the basic methods defined in the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Understanding Test Results and Debugging Tests
Official Documentation
Understanding Test Results and Debugging Tests Poshi tests are run on the terminal or command line. When a test run is completed there are multiple ways to view the test results and diagnose test...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Testcases
Official Documentation
Testcases A testcase file in Poshi is a collection of test scenarios grouped in blocks of code called test blocks. The three main test blocks: setUp, test, and tearDown, are made up of multiple...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Paths
Official Documentation
Paths A path is an element on a page that a test will interact with. An element can be a button, text field, link, image, paragraph, or just about anything you would need to assert, click, or type...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Node Version Information
Official Documentation
Node Version Information Liferay DXP uses Node (and NPM) for many different frontend components. Specifically, the Liferay Theme Generator and Liferay's JavaScript application tools require the use...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Using Variables
Official Documentation
Using Variables Though not a Poshi layer, variables are a large part of Poshi tests. Variables, like in other programming languages, are used to store data which can be referenced and reused in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Reference
Official Documentation
Reference Node Version Information
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Configuration
Official Documentation
Configuration In order to give test writers easy access to commonly used functions, paths, or macros, Poshi resources were created to store existing Poshi files as dependencies. These resources can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Poshi Resources
Official Documentation
Poshi Resources To give Poshi test writers easy access to commonly used functions or other files, Poshi resources were created to store existing Poshi files as dependencies that can be loaded apart...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Using Poshi Resources
Official Documentation
Using Poshi Resources Once the Poshi resources jar file is loaded onto your Poshi project, you are now able to use Liferay's commonly used functions, paths, and macros. To distinguish between files...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4
Official Documentation
Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4 As of Liferay DXP 7.4 GA1, the Bootstrap 3 compatibility layer is removed from the built-in packages in Liferay frontend applications. If...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Traditional Java-Based Development
Official Documentation
Traditional Java-Based Development Liferay is a complex open-source platform built on several key technologies and architectural principles. Liferay is written mostly in Java and built on the OSGi...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Core Frameworks
Official Documentation
Core Frameworks
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Configuration Framework
Official Documentation
Configuration Framework Setting and Accessing Configurations Categorizing a Configuration Scoping Configurations Portlet Level Configuration Configuration Form Renderer DDM Form Annotations ...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Configuration Form Renderer
Official Documentation
Configuration Form Renderer When you create a configuration interface, a configuration UI is automatically generated. But in some cases you want customize the look and feel of the UI. For example,...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Categorizing a Configuration
Official Documentation
Categorizing a Configuration When you register a configuration interface, the UI for your application is generated in System Settings → Platform → Third Party. If you prefer a different section and...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Configuration Model Listener Reference
Official Documentation
Configuration Model Listener Reference Use model listeners in your own configurations to listen for events and execute code in response. Creating a model listener requires only three steps: ...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
DDM Form Annotations
Official Documentation
DDM Form Annotations The auto-generated configuration interface UI may be too simplistic for some configurations. You can use the Dynamic Data Mapping (DDM) form annotations to customize your...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Field Options Provider
Official Documentation
Field Options Provider You can populate a drop-down list manually in the @Meta.AD annotation of the configuration interface. But you can also populate the option labels and values automatically...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Portlet Level Configuration
Official Documentation
Portlet Level Configuration With the configuration framework, you can set your application's configuration for different levels of scope. Where Instance and Site-scoped configurations use...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Completely Custom Configuration
Official Documentation
Completely Custom Configuration A configuration UI is generated automatically when you create a configuration interface. But in some cases you want a completely custom UI for your configuration....
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Hiding the Configuration UI
Official Documentation
Hiding the Configuration UI Liferay generates a configuration UI automatically after a configuration interface deploys. But you may have certain use cases where you want to hide the UI. For...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Setting and Accessing Configurations
Official Documentation
Setting and Accessing Configurations You can use Liferay's configuration framework to add a settings UI for a MVC Portlet. See the Example Portlet Then, follow these steps: Download and unzip...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Scoping Configurations
Official Documentation
Scoping Configurations In Liferay DXP, you can set an application's configuration to different levels of scope: System, Instance, Site, or Portlet. For example, if you create an application to have...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Dependency Injection
Official Documentation
Dependency Injection
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Logs
Official Documentation
Logs The OSGi Log Service Extender enables bundles to provide OSGi logging configuration using embedded properties files META-INF/osgi-logging.properties or META-INF/osgi-logging-ext.properties....
Published Date: Dec 3, 2024 3:11 PM
Listening for Registration Events
Official Documentation
Listening for Registration Events Liferay DXP 2023.Q3/Portal GA92 and Below The messaging API supports listening for destination and message listener registration events. Here are some reasons to...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Listening for Messages
Official Documentation
Listening for Messages You can listen for messages sent to any registered Message Bus destination, whether it's built-in to DXP/Portal, defined by third-parties, or created by you. Messages sent to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Message Bus
Official Documentation
Message Bus The Message Bus provides a loosely coupled way to exchange messages. A class sending a message invokes the Message Bus to send the message to a destination, while other classes...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Portlet 3.0 API Opt In
Official Documentation
Portlet 3.0 API Opt In A portlet must specify version 3.0 to opt in to the Portlet 3.0 API. The 3.0 Portlet API version can be specified in the following ways. Standard Portlet @PortletApplication...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Portlet Descriptor to OSGi Service Property Map
Official Documentation
Portlet Descriptor to OSGi Service Property Map Here's a map of portlet XML descriptor values to OSGi service properties for publishing OSGi Portlets. The properties centralize and simplify portlet...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Tuning Messaging Performance
Official Documentation
Tuning Messaging Performance Messaging performance is tuned at the destinations. Performance depends on the destination type, the amount of processing the message listeners require, and the thread...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using Direct Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions
Official Documentation
Using Direct Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions Synchronous messaging was removed and is no longer supported for Liferay DXP 7.4 U49/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA49 and above. Direct synchronous...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Portlets
Official Documentation
Portlets Liferay DXP started off as a portal server for Java-based web applications called portlets (see JSR 168, JSR-286, and JSR-362). Portlets process requests and generate responses like any...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using Default Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions
Official Documentation
Using Default Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions Synchronous messaging was removed and is no longer supported for Liferay DXP 7.4 U49/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA49 and above. In default...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Using Asynchronous Messaging
Official Documentation
Using Asynchronous Messaging Message Bus's asynchronous option provides fire and forget behavior; send a message and continue processing without waiting for a response. An asynchronous message is...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Portlet IDs
Official Documentation
Portlet IDs Below is a listing of the portlet IDs for the default portlets in Liferay DXP. You can use these IDs to embed portlets in your theme's sitemap. Collaboration PortletID...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Data Frameworks
Official Documentation
Data Frameworks
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Servlets
Official Documentation
Servlets
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM