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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...
Node Version Information
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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...
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: ...
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...
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...
Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4
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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...
Traditional Java-Based Development
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Traditional Java-Based Development Liferay is a complex open-source platform built on several key technologies and architectural principles. Liferay is written mostly in Java and built on the OSGi...
Using Poshi Resources
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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...
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...
Job Scheduler Framework
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Job Scheduler Framework Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay PaaS Job Scheduler is a flexible framework built on Liferay's scheduler engine for running and scheduling business logic. This framework uses...
Logs
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Logs The OSGi Log Service Extender enables bundles to provide OSGi logging configuration using embedded properties files META-INF/osgi-logging.properties or META-INF/osgi-logging-ext.properties....
Manually Programming Scheduled Jobs
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Manually Programming Scheduled Jobs Implementing the SchedulerJobConfiguration interface provides greater flexibility and improved performance as it is closer to the core of the job scheduler...
Job Scheduler UI Reference
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Job Scheduler UI Reference Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay PaaS Job Scheduler Triggers View, create, and manage Job Scheduler Tasks. The Job Scheduler Triggers tab lists all tasks added to the...
Job Scheduler Dispatch Framework Reference
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Job Scheduler Dispatch Framework Reference Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay PaaS Liferay Job Scheduler is a flexible framework built on top of Liferay's Scheduler Engine. You can use it to add,...
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 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...
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...
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...
Message Bus
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Message Bus The Message Bus provides a loosely coupled way to exchange messages. A class sending a message invokes the Message Bus to send the message to a destination, while other classes...
Listening for Messages
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Listening for Messages You can listen for messages sent to any registered Message Bus destination, whether it's built-in to DXP/Portal, defined by third-parties, or created by you. Messages sent to...
Using Default Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions
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Using Default Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions Liferay DXP 7.4 U48/Portal GA49 and Below In default synchronous messaging, the sender blocks while a Message Bus thread dispatches the...
Portlet IDs
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Portlet IDs Below is a listing of the portlet IDs for the default portlets in Liferay DXP. You can use these IDs to embed portlets in your theme's sitemap. Collaboration PortletID...
Listening for Registration Events
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Listening for Registration Events Liferay DXP 2023.Q3/Portal GA92 and Below The messaging API supports listening for destination and message listener registration events. Here are some reasons to...
Portlets
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Portlets Liferay DXP started off as a portal server for Java-based web applications called portlets (see JSR 168, JSR-286, and JSR-362). Portlets process requests and generate responses like any...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code
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Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code Service Builder makes it easy to define models and generate model, persistence, and service code for them. You'll experience this by defining a model...
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....