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Overriding Module Language Translations

Overriding Module Language Translations For Liferay DXP 7.4 U4/Portal 7.4 GA8+, the Language Override tool is the recommended approach. Overriding language translations in specific applications...

Overriding OSGi Services

Overriding OSGi Services Liferay's OSGi container is a dynamic environment in which services can be added, removed, or overridden as needed. This framework registers Liferay components with the...

Using Servlet Filters

Using Servlet Filters Servlet filters can both pre-process requests as they arrive and post-process responses before they go to the client browser. You can apply functionality to requests and...

Architecture

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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...

APIs as OSGi Services

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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...

Fundamentals

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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...

Waiting for Life Cycle Events

Waiting for Life Cycle Events Liferay registers life cycle events like portal and portlet initialization into the OSGi service registry. Your OSGi classes can listen for these service registrations...

Bundle Classloading Flow

Bundle Classloading Flow The OSGi container searches several places for imported classes. It's important to know where it looks and in what order. Liferay DXP's classloading flow for OSGi bundles...

Liferay Classloader Hierarchy

Liferay Classloader Hierarchy All Liferay DXP/Portal applications live in an OSGi container. DXP/Portal is a web application deployed on your application server. Its Module Framework bundles...

Module Life Cycle

Module Life Cycle In OSGi, all components, Java classes, resources, and descriptors are deployed via modules (OSGi bundles). The MANIFEST.MF file describes the module's physical characteristics,...

Configuring Dependencies

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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...

OSGi and Modularity

OSGi and Modularity Modularity makes writing software, especially as a team, fun! Here are some benefits to modular development on Liferay: Liferay's runtime framework is lightweight, fast, and...

The Benefits of Modularity

The Benefits of Modularity Dictionary.com defines modularity as the use of individually distinct functional units, as in assembling an electronic or mechanical system. The distinct functional units...

Exported Third Party Packages

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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...

Deploying WARs (WAB Generator)

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Deploying WARs (WAB Generator) You can create applications as Java EE-style Web Application ARchive (WAR) artifacts or as Java ARchive (JAR) OSGi bundle artifacts. Bean Portlets, PortletMVC4Spring...

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....

Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies

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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...

Exporting Packages

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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...

Importing Packages

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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...

Module Projects

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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...

JARs Excluded from WABs

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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...

Semantic Versioning

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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 an OSGi Service

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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: ...

Command Line Gogo Shell

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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...

Adaptive Media Modules Reference

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Adaptive Media Modules Reference Adaptive Media's Modules Some modules in the Adaptive Media app are mandatory and must be enabled for Adaptive Media to function, while others can be disabled. The...

Developer Guide

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Developer Guide This guide provides comprehensive information and references to help you effectively use the Document API, understand adaptive media modules, and create video shortcut providers.

Digital Asset Management

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Digital Asset Management Use Liferay’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) features to store, organize, and reuse documents, images, and other media across your site. The Documents and Media library...

Creating Video Shortcut Providers

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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...

Gogo Shell Commands

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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...

DevOps

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DevOps :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: Local Integrations Configuring Documents and Media Previews Enabling Antivirus Scanning for Uploaded Files Configuring Cache Control for Documents and Media...

Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews

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Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews Documents and Media provides integration with the FFmpeg multimedia framework for generating audio and video file previews. To use this integration, you...

Enabling LibreOffice / OpenOffice Integration

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Enabling LibreOffice / OpenOffice Integration LibreOffice and OpenOffice are open source productivity suites that you can integrate with Liferay. By default Liferay includes PDFBox, which generates...

Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365

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Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365 Subscription Liferay DXP integrates with Microsoft Office 365™ so you can create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and...

Google Drive Integration

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Google Drive Integration Integrate Google Drive with Liferay DXP to create, edit, and manage Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides directly from Documents and Media. This integration provides two main...

SharePoint Integration

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SharePoint Integration Integrate SharePoint with Liferay DXP for managing SharePoint libraries within Documents and Media. Create and manage repositories that mount SharePoint libraries, and...

Setting Storage Quotas for Documents and Media

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Setting Storage Quotas for Documents and Media You can define storage quotas in Documents and Media by enabling the data.limit.dl.storage.max.size portal property. Once you define a value for this...

Creating SharePoint Repositories in Documents and Media

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Creating SharePoint Repositories in Documents and Media Once you've added a SharePoint OAuth2 configuration, you can use it to create repositories in Documents and Media that are mounted to...

Documents and Media UI Reference

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Documents and Media UI Reference The Documents and Media application is used to store, view, and manage files for your Liferay DXP instance. It's available in all sites and can be enabled for asset...

Publishing and Sharing

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Publishing and Sharing

Accessing Documents with WebDAV

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Accessing Documents with WebDAV You can access the Document Library from your desktop file manager via WebDAV. WebDAV is a protocol based on HTTP for managing files stored on web servers. WebDAV is...

Documents and Media Permissions Reference

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Documents and Media Permissions Reference Liferay 7.4 U76+/GA76+ Manage access to Documents and Media assets using application and resource permissions. With role-based access control, you can...

Documents and Media

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Documents and Media The Documents and Media application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2026.Q1. The Documents and Media application stores and manages files in your Liferay instance....

Generating Images Using AI

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Generating Images Using AI Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ The Documents and Media application provides integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT engine using the AI Creator tool. With an OpenAI API...

Managing Document Access

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Managing Document Access Effectively managing document access in Liferay ensures that your organization’s data remains secure while being accessible to the right users. Control document access by...

Enabling and Configuring Sharing

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Enabling and Configuring Sharing The Sharing configuration allows users to share files with each other. You can enable file sharing at the Global, Virtual Instance, and Site scopes. Sharing is...

Managing Document Changes with Checkout

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Managing Document Changes with Checkout When you check out a document in the Document Library, only you can make changes to it until you check it back in. This prevents conflicting edits on the...

Sharing Documents with Other Users

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Sharing Documents with Other Users Using DXP's Documents and Media app, users can share files directly with each other. You can disable sharing. For instructions on this, see Enabling and...

Permissions and Documents

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Permissions and Documents With Liferay's permissions framework, you can control which users can create, view, download, and manage Documents and Media assets. You can give permissions to an...

Publishing Documents

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Publishing Documents Liferay makes it easy to publish and showcase documents and other types of media files. As you begin uploading media files, you probably want to start sharing them on your...

Using Adaptive Media

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Using Adaptive Media Liferay 7.4+ Liferay Adaptive Media processes images stored in the document library to produce copies at different resolutions. Once generated, you can use the adapted images...

Using Workflow with Documents and Media

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Using Workflow with Documents and Media Documents and Media is fully integrated with Liferay's workflow engine. This means you can define custom review and approval processes for your files. In...

Using Adapted Images in Site Content

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Using Adapted Images in Site Content Adaptive Media operates in the background to create multiple resolutions for images uploaded to Liferay DXP. When used in blogs, web content, or content pages,...

Uploading and Managing

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Uploading and Managing Use your Liferay environment to upload and manage digital assets. This section covers topics from the basics of uploading files to advanced management of digital documents...

Configuring Document URLs

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Configuring Document URLs Liferay 7.4 U27+/GA27+ When a file is uploaded, Liferay automatically generates a friendly URL for accessing it. This URL uses the following structure:...

Creating Documents

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Creating Documents You can use external tools like Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365 to create, edit, and store documents, spreadsheets, and presentations directly within Liferay's Documents...

Creating and Editing Documents with Google Drive

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Creating and Editing Documents with Google Drive You can use Google Docs™ to create and edit text documents, spreadsheets, or presentations for storage in the Docs and Media library. When you...

Creating and Editing Documents with Microsoft Office 365

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Creating and Editing Documents with Microsoft Office 365 Use Office 365™ to create and edit text documents, spreadsheets, or presentations for storage in the Documents and Media library. After...

Editing Images

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Editing Images Liferay's Documents and Media includes a built-in image editor for cropping and rotating images without switching contexts. To use the image editor, open Documents and Media, click...

For Liferay 7.3.x and Earlier

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For Liferay 7.3.x and Earlier The Documents and Media application comes with a built-in image editor. Edit images right from your browser and apply filters, adjust contrast, or crop. In the...

Enabling DocuSign Digital Signatures

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Enabling DocuSign Digital Signatures Liferay Portal 7.4 GA3+ You can now integrate DocuSign digital signatures into your Liferay documents. DocuSign is a service that manages documents to be...

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