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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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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...
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...
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....
Gauge Charts
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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...
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...
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...
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 Buttons
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Clay Buttons Buttons come in several types and variations. This tutorial covers the different styles and variations of buttons you can create with the Clay taglibs. Types Primary button: Used for...
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...
Clay Tag Library
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Clay Tag Library The Liferay Clay tag library provides a set of tags for creating Clay UI components in your app. AUI taglibs are deprecated as of Liferay 7.1. We recommend that you use Clay...
Step Charts
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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 Badges
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Clay Badges Badges help highlight important information such as notifications or new and unread messages. Badges have circular borders and are only used to specify a number. This covers the...
Clay Alerts
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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
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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...
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...
Clay Management Toolbar
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Clay Management Toolbar The Management Toolbar gives administrators control over search container results in their apps. It lets you filter, sort, and choose a view type for search results, so you...
Clay Labels and Links
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Clay Labels and Links Liferay Clay taglibs provide tags for creating labels and links in your app. Both of these elements are covered below. Labels The Liferay Clay taglibs provide a few different...
Clay Stickers
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Clay Stickers Whereas badges display numbers and labels display short information, stickers are small visual indicators of the content (usually the content type). They can include a small label or...
Clay Form Elements
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Clay Form Elements The Liferay Clay tag library provides several tags for creating form elements. An example of each tag is shown below. Checkbox Checkboxes give the user a true or false input. "...
Clay Icons
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Clay Icons The Liferay Clay taglibs provide several icons that you can use in your apps. Use the clay:icon tag and specify the icon with the symbol attribute: You can include icons in your app...
Clay Navigation Bars
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Clay Navigation Bars Similar to dropdown menus, navigation bars display a list of navigation items. The key difference is navigation bars are displayed in a horizontal bar with all navigation items...
Clay Progress Bars
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Clay Progress Bars You can add progress bars to your app with the clay:progressbar tag. These indicate the completion percentage of a task and come in three status styles: default (blue), warning...
Liferay Portlet Objects For JSPs
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Liferay Portlet Objects For JSPs You may have noticed the tag in your JSPs. Similar to the theme:defineObjects tag, when you include this tag in your JSP, you gain access to several variables ...
Liferay UI Tag Library
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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 Icons
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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,...
Liferay Theme Objects For JSPs
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Liferay Theme Objects For JSPs When you include the tag in your JSP, you gain access to several Liferay theme objects via variables. These objects are described in the table below: ...
Liferay UI Icon Help
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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 Icon Lists
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Liferay UI Icon Lists An icon list displays icons in a horizontal list, instead of in a pop-up navigation menu like an icon menu. You can see an example of an icon list menu in a message board...
Liferay UI Tabs
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Liferay UI Tabs Tabs create dividers that organize content into individual sections. Content can be embedded or included from another JSP. To add tabs to your app, use the tag and specify each...
Liferay UI Icon Menus
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Liferay UI Icon Menus You can add a pop-up navigation menu to your app with the liferay-ui:icon-menu tag. Icon menus display menu options when needed, storing them away in a collapsed menu when...
Liferay Util Tag Library
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Liferay Util Tag Library The Liferay Util taglib is used to pull other resources into a portlet or theme. You can use it to specify which resources to insert at the bottom or top of the page's...
Using Liferay Util Body Top
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Using Liferay Util Body Top The body top tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the top of the body tag. When something is passed...
Using Liferay Util Buffer
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Using Liferay Util Buffer The buffer tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is saved to a buffer and its output is assigned to the Java...
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...
Using Liferay Util HTML Top
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Using Liferay Util HTML Top The HTML top tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the tag. When something is passed using this...
Using Liferay Util Get URL
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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 HTML Bottom
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Using Liferay Util HTML Bottom The HTML bottom tag is not a self-closing tag. Content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the bottom of the tag. When something is passed...
Using Liferay Util Dynamic Include
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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 Liferay Util Include
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Using Liferay Util Include The include tag lets you include other JSP files in your portlet's JSP, theme, or web content. This can increase readability as well as provide separation of concerns for...
Using Liferay Util Param
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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...
Using Liferay Util Whitespace Remover
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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...
Using a JSP and MVC Portlet
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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...
Remote Applications with Headless APIs
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Remote Applications with Headless APIs Available 7.4+ After creating and publishing objects, headless REST APIs are automatically generated. Here you'll see how to integrate these endpoints to...
Aggregating Resource Bundles
Official Documentation
Aggregating Resource Bundles When working with a module that shares localized messages, the bnd header must specify the resource bundles you want to associate with the module. Liferay provides a...
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...
PortletMVC4Spring Annotations
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PortletMVC4Spring Annotations PortletMVC4Spring provides several annotations for mapping requests to controller classes and controller methods. @RenderMapping Annotation Examples The following...
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.
Generating Translations Automatically
Official Documentation
Generating Translations Automatically Liferay DXP supports 50 languages out-of-the-box. Each locale has its own language properties file containing keys for its language. When you create an...
Adding a Language
Official Documentation
Adding a Language Liferay ships with over 50 languages out-of-the-box. Translation is complete for many of these languages, and some are still in the translation process. Each language has its own...
Architecture
Official Documentation
Architecture The Liferay DXP/Portal architecture has three parts: Core: Bootstraps DXP and its frameworks. The Core provides a runtime environment for managing services, UI components, and...
Using Localized Messages in an MVC Portlet
Official Documentation
Using Localized Messages in an MVC Portlet Liferay's localization framework is for creating localized messages in your MVC portlet. Deploy the Sample Code Then, follow these steps: Download...
Sharing Localized Messages
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Sharing Localized Messages As you work on an application you might have multiple modules, each of which with its own language keys. Instead of maintaining various language properties files in...
Using React
Official Documentation
Using React Build your own solutions using Liferay and React.
React Component Utilities Reference
Official Documentation
React Component Utilities Reference Several useful tools are available to help you build high-performance components and applications in Liferay DXP using React: frontend-js-react-web module ...
PortletMVC4Spring Configuration Files
Official Documentation
PortletMVC4Spring Configuration Files A PortletMVC4Spring application has these descriptors, Spring contexts, and properties files in its WEB-INF folder: web.xml → Web application descriptor ...
Customizing Localization
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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...
Reference
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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...
PortletMVC4Spring Project Anatomy
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PortletMVC4Spring Project Anatomy PortletMVC4Spring portlets are packaged in WARs. Liferay provides Maven archetypes for creating projects configured to use JSP/JSPX and Thymeleaf templates. Their...
Finding Artifacts
Official Documentation
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...
Specifying Dependencies
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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....