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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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Testcases
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...
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Using Variables
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...
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Poshi Resources
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...
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Configuration
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...
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Using Poshi Resources
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...
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Reference
Reference Node Version Information
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Node Version Information
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...
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Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4
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...
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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...
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Fundamentals
Fundamentals Liferay development projects consist primarily of simple .jar files. These contain a few extra configuration files that make them OSGi modules, but they're easily understandable by...
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APIs as OSGi Services
APIs as OSGi Services After you've learned what a module is and how to deploy one, you can use modules to define APIs and implement them. Liferay APIs are OSGi services, defined by Java interfaces...
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Finding Artifacts
Finding Artifacts To use external artifacts in your project, you must configure their dependencies in your build.gradle Gradle script. Before specifying an artifact as a dependency, you must first...
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Configuring Dependencies
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...
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Specifying Dependencies
Specifying Dependencies You must satisfy all dependencies to compile and deploy a module successfully. After you find the dependency artifacts, add them as dependencies in your Gradle build file....
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Exporting Packages
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...
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Module Projects
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...
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Command Line Gogo Shell
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...
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Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies
Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies An application can rely on multiple OSGi modules. Resolving their Java package dependencies can be challenging. In a perfect world, every package...
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Importing Packages
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...
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Semantic Versioning
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...
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Using an OSGi Service
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: ...
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Using the Gogo Shell
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...
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Micro Frontends
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...
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Gogo Shell Commands
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...
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Reference
Reference 7.4 Breaking Changes 7.3 Breaking Changes 7.2 Breaking Changes Exported Third-Party Packages Portal Developer Properties
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Exported Third Party Packages
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...
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Developer Guide
Developer Guide Below are developer-related articles for site building.
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Applying Styles to Fragments
Applying Styles to Fragments When you add a fragment to a page, you can use the sidebar menu to configure the fragment, including the Styles configuration tab. Use the Styles tab in the sidebar...
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Auto-Deploying Fragments
Auto-Deploying Fragments Liferay Portal 7.3 GA1+ or Liferay DXP 7.3+ If you're developing page fragments with your own tooling, you can deploy them by packaging them in ZIP files for importing via...
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Best Practices for Using Fragment Configurations
Best Practices for Using Fragment Configurations When you are creating page fragments for your site with your own configurations, it's your responsibility to use them in their HTML presentation...
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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...
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Adding Configuration Options to Fragments
Adding Configuration Options to Fragments Liferay DXP 7.2 SP1 Configurable options make your fragments flexible, reducing the need to maintain many similar fragments. For example, instead of...
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Creating a Contributed Fragment Set
Creating a Contributed Fragment Set Contributed fragment sets are deployable modules containing page fragments. Fragments in a contributed set can be used like regular fragments, but aren't...
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Including Default Resources in Fragments
Including Default Resources in Fragments You can include images files (e.g. .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, or .png) direct in your fragment sets. Keeping images with your fragments, rather than in other...
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Validating Fragment Configurations
Validating Fragment Configurations When defining fragment configuration options, you can add validation properties to text type fields that determine rules for valid entries. Determine what type of...
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Developing Page Fragments Reference
Developing Page Fragments Reference The Developing Fragments Reference provides essential information on key aspects of fragment development in Liferay. It covers command references, configuration...
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