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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.

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Using Liferay Util Get URL
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util Get URL The get URL tag scrapes the URL provided by the url attribute. If a value is provided for the var attribute, the content from the screen scrape is scoped to that...
Using Liferay Util Whitespace Remover
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util Whitespace Remover The whitespace remover tag removes line breaks and tabs from code blocks included between the opening and closing of the tag. Below is an example configuration...
Extending Liferay
Official Documentation
Extending Liferay Liferay DXP/Portal is highly customizable. Its modular architecture contains components you can extend and override dynamically using APIs.
Customizing Localization
Official Documentation
Customizing Localization Liferay ships with 55 translations, making it ideal for deployments all over the world. Sometimes, however, you must modify a translation or provide a new one. Here you can...
Using Liferay Util Param
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util Param The param tag lets you set a parameter for an included JSP page. This configuration requires two JSPs. JSP A, the main view of the app, includes JSP B and sets its...
Reference
Official Documentation
Reference PortletMVC4Spring integrates Spring, the Spring Web Framework, and the MVC design pattern with portlet development. As such, it uses configuration files from each of these areas and...
Using React
Official Documentation
Using React Build your own solutions using Liferay and React.
PortletMVC4Spring Annotations
Official Documentation
PortletMVC4Spring Annotations PortletMVC4Spring provides several annotations for mapping requests to controller classes and controller methods. @RenderMapping Annotation Examples The following...
Using Liferay Util Dynamic Include
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util Dynamic Include The dynamic include tag lets you specify a point or points in a JSP or theme where a developer can inject additional HTML, resources, or functionality, using the...
Using Spring
Official Documentation
Using Spring PortletMVC4Spring is a way to develop portlets using the Spring Framework and the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. While the Spring Framework supports developing servlet-based web...
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...
Picklist Fields
Official Documentation
Picklist Fields Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ Picklists define lists of text values usable as single select or multi-select fields in object definitions. By default, single select fields appear as...
Deleting Objects
Official Documentation
Deleting Objects Liferay 7.4 U26+/GA26+ You can delete draft and published object definitions. Deleting a definition removes its associated data, including the stored entries for published...
Actions
Official Documentation
Actions Object actions define custom business logic that you can run manually or automatically for object entry events. Examples include delivering entry event data to a webhook URL, sending email...
Using System Objects with Custom Objects
Official Documentation
Using System Objects with Custom Objects
Relationships
Official Documentation
Relationships Liferay 7.4 U47+/GA47+ Relationships add fields and tables to object definitions for relating their entries with one another. This provides access to entry data in different...
Removing Relationships
Official Documentation
Removing Relationships Liferay 7.4 U26+/GA26+ You can remove relationships from both draft and published object definitions. Removing a relationship permanently deletes its field from the related...
Setting a Default Sorting
Official Documentation
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. ...
Integrating Objects with Third Party Services
Official Documentation
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...
Localizing Object Definitions and Entries
Official Documentation
Localizing Object Definitions and Entries Liferay DXP 2023.Q3+/Portal GA92+ Liferay objects are integrated with the localization framework, so you can add translations for definition labels, and...
Client Extensions UI Reference
Official Documentation
Client Extensions UI Reference Liferay's widget client extensions (custom element and iframe) register applications with Liferay, adding them as widgets to site pages. Additionally, you can style...
Micro Frontends
Official Documentation
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...
Fragment Specific Tags and Attributes Reference
Official Documentation
Fragment Specific Tags and Attributes Reference Along with standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can use Liferay-specific tags and attributes to define editable sections, embed widgets, and more....
Scheduling and Subscription
Official Documentation
Scheduling and Subscription [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) (LPD-17564) Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+/Portal...
Assignee Fields
Official Documentation
Assignee Fields Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+/Portal 2026.Q1+ Assignee fields are for selecting existing users or roles in the object entry. Assigned users can edit the entry with no manual permission...
Managing Object Entries with Data Sets
Official Documentation
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...
Using Routes with Custom Elements
Official Documentation
Using Routes with Custom Elements Liferay 7.4+ Custom element client extensions use Liferay's frontend infrastructure to register external applications with the Liferay platform and render them as...
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...
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...
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...
Custom Element YAML Configuration Reference
Official Documentation
Custom Element YAML Configuration Reference You can define a custom element client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml file defines a custom...
Understanding Bundler Configuration Presets
Official Documentation
Understanding Bundler Configuration Presets The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and it's planned for future removal. The liferay-npm-bundler comes with a...
Creating A Path File
Official Documentation
Creating A Path File Test Scenario Write your first path file using the test scenario below: You would like to test that your name does not appear on any learn.liferay.com article. The steps you...
Auto-Deploying Fragments
Official Documentation
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...
Developing Page Fragments
Official Documentation
Developing Page Fragments Page fragments are the building blocks for content pages. They're made from the three components of web pages: CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. To create a page you combine...
Liferay CLI Tool
Official Documentation
Liferay CLI Tool The Liferay CLI tool is deprecated as of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and it's planned for future removal. The Liferay CLI tool makes it easy to create Angular, JavaScript,...
Using a Frontend Data Set Cell Renderer Client Extension
Official Documentation
Using a Frontend Data Set Cell Renderer Client Extension Liferay 7.4+ You can use Frontend Data Set (FDS) cell renderer client extensions to customize the display for your data set. Use this type...
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...
Using a JSP and MVC Portlet
Official Documentation
Using a JSP and MVC Portlet An easy way to start developing a web application is to add markup to a JSP file and render it using a portlet Java class. The W3E7 example application demonstrates...
Liferay Faces Version Scheme
Official Documentation
Liferay Faces Version Scheme In this article, you'll learn which Liferay Faces artifacts should be used with your portlet and explore the Liferay Faces versioning scheme by discovering what each...