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Asset Framework
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Asset Framework The asset framework is behind many of Liferay's most powerful features. It provides tools for displaying and interacting with any type of content and data. For example, if you build...
DDM Form Annotations
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DDM Form Annotations The auto-generated configuration interface UI may be too simplistic for some configurations. You can use the Dynamic Data Mapping (DDM) form annotations to customize your...
Configuration Model Listener Reference
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Configuration Model Listener Reference Use model listeners in your own configurations to listen for events and execute code in response. Creating a model listener requires only three steps: ...
Field Options Provider
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Field Options Provider You can populate a drop-down list manually in the @Meta.AD annotation of the configuration interface. But you can also populate the option labels and values automatically...
Portlet Level Configuration
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Portlet Level Configuration With the configuration framework, you can set your application's configuration for different levels of scope. Where Instance and Site-scoped configurations use...
Creating Job Scheduler Templates
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Creating Job Scheduler Templates Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay PaaS Job Scheduler Tasks are created by implementing the DispatchTaskExecutor interface. Liferay DXP provides multiple out-of-the-box...
Categorizing a Configuration
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Categorizing a Configuration When you register a configuration interface, the UI for your application is generated in System Settings → Platform → Third Party. If you prefer a different section and...
Core Frameworks
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Core Frameworks
Completely Custom Configuration
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Completely Custom Configuration A configuration UI is generated automatically when you create a configuration interface. But in some cases you want a completely custom UI for your configuration....
Setting and Accessing Configurations
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Setting and Accessing Configurations You can use Liferay's configuration framework to add a settings UI for a MVC Portlet. See the Example Portlet Then, follow these steps: Download and unzip...
Scoping Configurations
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Scoping Configurations In Liferay DXP, you can set an application's configuration to different levels of scope: System, Instance, Site, or Portlet. For example, if you create an application to have...
Enabling Assets
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Enabling Assets Many of Liferay's applications (e.g. Blogs, Documents and Media, Message Boards, etc.) are asset-enabled out of the box. You can publish assets with the Asset Publisher widget or...
Cache
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Cache
Data Scopes
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Data Scopes
Implementing an Item Selector
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Implementing an Item Selector Item selectors are pop-up dialogs for selecting assets, such as documents, videos, or users. By configuring the item selector's criteria and defining its usage, you...
Accessing Custom Fields With Expandos
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Accessing Custom Fields With Expandos When you need additional fields in your application, you can always add them in your service model definition and re-run Service Builder. This adds new columns...
Service Builder
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Service Builder An application without reliable business logic or persistence isn't much of an application at all. Unfortunately, writing your own persistence code often takes a great deal of time....
Using Custom SQL Queries
Using Custom SQL Queries Service Builder creates finder methods that retrieve entities by their attributes (their column values). When you add a column as a parameter for the finder in your...
Advanced Queries
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Advanced Queries Service Builder doesn't limit you to elements in service.xml. If simple finders aren't sufficient for getting data out of your application, there are three other ways to make the...
Using Dynamic Query
Using Dynamic Query Liferay's Dynamic Query API wraps Hibernate's Criteria API. It helps you think in terms of objects and member variables instead of tables and columns. Complex queries can be...
Using Domain-Specific Language Queries
Using Domain-Specific Language Queries Liferay 7.4+ DSL Query is an acronym for Domain-Specific Language Query. The foundation is based upon using a domain-specific language for the...
Tuning Messaging Performance
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Tuning Messaging Performance Liferay DXP 2023.Q3/Portal GA92 and Below Messaging performance is tuned at the destinations. Performance depends on the destination type, the amount of processing the...
Using Asynchronous Messaging
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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 Direct Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions
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Using Direct Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions Liferay DXP 7.4 U48/Portal GA49 and Below Direct synchronous messaging is the easiest way to block processing until all listeners receive a...
Portlet Descriptor to OSGi Service Property Map
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Portlet Descriptor to OSGi Service Property Map Here's a map of portlet XML descriptor values to OSGi service properties for publishing OSGi Portlets. The properties centralize and simplify portlet...
Portlet 3.0 API Opt In
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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...
Expando
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Expando Accessing Custom Fields with Expando
Business Logic with Service Builder
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Business Logic with Service Builder Once you've generated model, persistence, and service code with Service Builder, you can begin adding business logic. Entities generated by Service Builder...
Connecting Service Builder to an External Database
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Connecting Service Builder to an External Database Service builder creates the necessary tables for the service in the lportal database with all other data used by Liferay. If you want to store the...
Defining Entities
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Defining Entities Entities are the heart and soul of a service. They represent the map between the model objects in Java and your database fields and tables. Service Builder automatically maps your...
Defining Entity Finder Methods
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Defining Entity Finder Methods Finder methods retrieve entity objects from the database based on specified parameters. For each finder defined, Service Builder generates several methods to fetch,...
Defining Entity Relationships
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Defining Entity Relationships Relationships between database entities or Java objects are necessary for most applications. Take Liferay's Message Boards application as an example. Each Message...
Adding Model Hints
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Adding Model Hints Once you've used Service Builder to define model entities, you may want to refine how users enter that data. Model hints specify entity data restrictions and other formatting....
Defining Entity Columns
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Defining Entity Columns An entity's columns represent its attributes. These attributes map table fields to Java object fields. Here you'll examine the sample project from Understanding and...
Modifying Database Fields in Development
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Modifying Database Fields in Development As you develop an application, you might need to add fields to your database. This is a normal process of iterative development: you get an idea for a new...
Configuring Global Service Options
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Configuring Global Service Options A service's global options apply to all its entities. Here are the options: Dependency Injector Package path Multiversion concurrency control Namespace...
Configuring service.properties
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Configuring service.properties Service Builder generates a service.properties file in your *-service module's src/main/resources folder. Liferay uses this file's properties to alter your service's...
Sorting Entity Instances
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Sorting Entity Instances Often, you want to retrieve multiple instances of a given entity and list them in a particular order. The service.xml file lets you specify the default order of your...
Invoking a Service Locally
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Invoking a Service Locally Service Builder services that are deployed to DXP/Portal can be invoked from other classes in the same JVM. These services are local to the classes. Service Builder...
Service Builder Basics
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Service Builder Basics Using Service Builder helps you learn it. You'll use it to learn the basics: Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code: Define a basic model, generate code from it,...