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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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Configuring Dependencies
Official Documentation
Configuring Dependencies Liferay provides a container where modules can publish and consume functionality through their Java packages. Modules can leverage packages from other modules or...
Module Projects
Official Documentation
Module Projects Liferay applications and customizations are OSGi modules: .jar files containing Java code and some extra configuration for publishing and consuming APIs. A module project comprises...
Importing Packages
Official Documentation
Importing Packages You often find yourself in a position of needing functionality provided by another module. To access this functionality, you must import packages from other modules into your...
Exported Third Party Packages
Official Documentation
Exported Third Party Packages Liferay provides over one-hundred third party Java packages at run time. The com.liferay.portal.bootstrap module exports the packages by specifying individual packages...
JARs Excluded from WABs
Official Documentation
JARs Excluded from WABs [Liferay-generated web application bundles (WABs) are stripped of third party JARs that contain packages that Liferay exports already. Deploying the same third party...
Exporting Packages
Official Documentation
Exporting Packages In OSGi, packages are private by default. You must explicitly exporting a package so other modules can import and use them. Here's how to export packages: Open your bnd.bnd...
Semantic Versioning
Official Documentation
Semantic Versioning Semantic Versioning is a three tiered versioning system for incrementing version numbers based on the degree of API change made in a releasable software component. It's a...
Using the Gogo Shell
Official Documentation
Using the Gogo Shell The Gogo shell provides a way to interact with the module framework. Among other things, you can Dynamically install/uninstall bundles (modules) Examine package...
Command Line Gogo Shell
Official Documentation
Command Line Gogo Shell If you're in a development environment, you can interact with the module framework locally from the command line. Gogo shell should only be run from the command line in...
Using an OSGi Service
Official Documentation
Using an OSGi Service Liferay APIs are readily available as OSGi services. You can access a service by creating a field of that service type and annotating the field with @Reference, like this: ...
Gogo Shell Commands
Official Documentation
Gogo Shell Commands The Gogo shell executes Felix Gogo basic commands and Liferay commands. The Gogo shell is accessible in the Control Panel (recommended) and from the command line. Here are some...
Creating Video Shortcut Providers
Official Documentation
Creating Video Shortcut Providers Liferay DXP 7.4+ By default, Liferay's external video shortcuts support YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Twitch. However, you can extend this feature to support...
Account Users and Roles APIs
Official Documentation
Account Users and Roles APIs You can manage Account Users and Account Roles from the Applications menu, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to create and manage account...
Account Groups API Basics
Official Documentation
Account Groups API Basics Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ You can manage account groups from the Applications menu or use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to create and manage account groups. ...
Workflow Definition Link API Basics
Official Documentation
Workflow Definition Link API Basics Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/Portal GA132+ You can manage workflow definition links from the Liferay UI or using Liferay's REST APIs. In Liferay, the Control Panel →...
Accounts API Basics
Official Documentation
Accounts API Basics Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ You can manage accounts from the Applications menu or use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to create and manage accounts. Adding an Account ...
User Management APIs
Official Documentation
User Management APIs You can use headless APIs to interface with important Liferay user management features, including user accounts, organizations, and roles. Here are resources to help you...
Postal Address API Basics
Official Documentation
Postal Address API Basics Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ Use Liferay's REST APIs to manage postal addresses. Add Postal Address to Account Then, follow these steps: Download and unzip Postal Address...
Adding the UAD Framework
Official Documentation
Adding the UAD Framework You can manage and delete user data with Liferay's User Associated Data (UAD) management tool. The tool is available out-of-the-box for many of Liferay's applications (e.g....
Organizations API Basics
Official Documentation
Organizations API Basics You can Create and Manage Organizations from the Application menu, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to manage organizations. Adding an...
Countries API Basics
Official Documentation
Countries API Basics Liferay 7.4 U24+ and GA24+ Use Liferay's Rest APIs to create and manage countries. Adding a Country Then, follow these steps: Download and unzip Countries API Basics. ...
Regions API Basics
Official Documentation
Regions API Basics Liferay 7.4 U24+ and GA24+ Use Liferay's REST APIs to create and manage regions. Adding a Region Then, follow these steps: Download and unzip Regions API Basics. curl...
Roles API Basics
Official Documentation
Roles API Basics You can create and manage roles from the Application menu, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to manage roles. Associate a User to a Regular Role Then,...
User Account API Basics
Official Documentation
User Account API Basics You can add and manage users from the Control Panel, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. You can call these services to add, edit, delete users. Start with adding a...
User Groups API Basics
Official Documentation
User Groups API Basics You can Create and Manage User Groups from the Application menu, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to manage user groups. Adding a User Group ...
App Builder
Official Documentation
App Builder Liferay CE/DXP 7.3 (deprecated and removed in 7.4) App Builder is a low-code application development solution for Liferay DXP. Build a data model, define the application's forms (for...
Managing Data Sets
Official Documentation
Managing Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). Once you create a data set, you can customize how users see it....
Data Sets
Official Documentation
Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). Data sets are like virtual containers that help organize and manage related...
Data Set Actions
Official Documentation
Data Set Actions Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). While managing data set, define actions to be used in the data set...
Using Data Set Actions
Official Documentation
Using Data Set Actions Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). Here are some examples for how to use data set actions and perform...
Creating a Workflow Powered Application
Official Documentation
Creating a Workflow Powered Application Subscribers Workflow Powered Applications require data from multiple stakeholders. These process-driven applications can go through multiple stages before...
Data Set Filters
Official Documentation
Data Set Filters Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). While managing data sets, you can define pre-applied filters to be used...
Creating a Standard Application
Official Documentation
Creating a Standard Application To create applications based on a custom object takes four steps: create the object, create at least one form view, create at least one table view, and deploy the...
Creating the Role Change Request Object
Official Documentation
Creating the Role Change Request Object Subscribers Consider a Human Resources application that collects employee requests to change Roles within the software engineering department: the Role...
Data Set Visualization Modes
Official Documentation
Data Set Visualization Modes Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). To customize the data display in your data set, use the...
Creating the Role Change Request App
Official Documentation
Creating the Role Change Request App Subscribers The Role Change Request App starts with the employee submitting a request form. Processing then proceeds to the Current Manager, then to the...
Creating Data Sets
Official Documentation
Creating Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). You can create data sets from different resources available through...
Data Set Sorting
Official Documentation
Data Set Sorting Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). While managing data sets, you can set default sorting rules for Data Sets...
Objects
Official Documentation
Objects Liferay 7.4+ With Liferay Objects, you can build and deliver applications without having to write code or deploy modules. Each application built with Objects is integrated with Liferay's...
Defining Object Actions
Official Documentation
Defining Object Actions Liferay 7.4 U60+/GA60+ Object actions define operations that you can run manually or automatically for object entry events. To add an action, Open the Global Menu (...