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Using Layout Elements
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Using Layout Elements For Liferay 7.4 U22+/GA22+ Layout elements define drop zones for designing page or template layouts. By default, Liferay includes two layout elements: containers and grids....
Configuring Templates
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Configuring Templates Once you've configured a widget, Configuration Templates can save those settings in a reusable template. Configuration templates are only available for widgets placed on a...
Exporting/Importing Widget Data
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Exporting/Importing Widget Data Export data from individual widget instances without affecting the rest of the site. Many widgets support exporting and importing their data separately, including: ...
Setting Widget Permissions
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Setting Widget Permissions All of Liferay's widgets support Liferay's robust, fine-grained permissions system. Some higher level permissions can be configured in the permissions tab of the widget's...
Setting Widget Scopes
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Setting Widget Scopes The Scope configuration is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and is scheduled for removal in a future release. By default, Liferay's page widgets are scoped...
Sharing Widgets with Other Sites
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Sharing Widgets with Other Sites The Sharing options for widgets are deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and are scheduled for removal in a future release. Currently, this feature...
Default Widgets Reference
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Default Widgets Reference Liferay provides a variety of widgets out-of-the-box, so you can start building your solution right away. Widgets can be placed on content pages, widget pages, and page...
Styling Widgets
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Styling Widgets Once you've added widgets on a page, you can customize the look and feel of the widgets to meet your needs. With a range of configuration options available, you can tailor the...
Building Liferay Source
Building Liferay Source This section aims to provide instructions for building Liferay Portal from source as quickly as possible. Using a nightly snapshot bundle no longer requires a full build...
Reference
Reference Note: These pages contain the latest Liferay reference documentation. You can download reference documentation for older releases from Github here. :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: DXP...
Handling Friendly URL Conflicts in Site Templates
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Handling Friendly URL Conflicts in Site Templates Currently, this feature is behind a beta feature flag (LPS-174417). Read Beta Feature Flags for more information. Liferay doesn't allow...
Liferay Documentation Format
Liferay Documentation Format The format, or how a style of documentation is organized, is important to maintaining consistency of experience. As readers make more use of the documentation, the...
Propagating Template Changes
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Propagating Template Changes When site template propagation is enabled, you can make changes to the template's pages and automatically propagate those changes to connected sites. However, making...
Contributing to Liferay Development
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Contributing to Liferay Development The first thing to do in learning to fix bugs or contributing a feature is to become familiar with how to build the system. The Liferay Portal build system now...
Liferay Style Guide
Liferay Style Guide The Liferay Style Guide sits on the shoulders of giants---specifically, the giants of The Chicago Manual of Style and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. Where this guide...
Liferay University
Liferay University This page serves as an archive and index of videos that were previously hosted on Liferay University. As of February 28, 2023 Liferay University is no longer operational....
Legacy Documentation
Legacy Documentation Using Liferay DXP 7.2 Developing Liferay DXP 7.2 Using Liferay DXP 7.1 Developing Liferay DXP 7.1 Using Liferay DXP 7.0 Developing Liferay DXP 7.0 Using Liferay...
Liferay High-Level Style
Liferay High-Level Style There are five types of documentation: Introduction: Placed hierarchically at the top of a section, the introduction is a high level explainer that summarizes how the...
File Storage
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File Storage All files uploaded to Liferay DXP are stored in the instance's designated file store. This includes files uploaded using Documents and Media, as well as those uploaded using...
Web Content Analytics
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Web Content Analytics Web content articles are important assets for presenting site visitors with information. Analytics Cloud gives you important insights into how site users are engaging with...
Custom Domains
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Custom Domains With Liferay Cloud, you can connect custom domains to environment services with a DNS provider. First, register your custom domain with your environment's Load Balancer IP address....
Enabling Glowroot on PaaS
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Enabling Glowroot on PaaS Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot is included with Liferay in the /opt/liferay/glowroot folder. If you're running Liferay in a clustered environment, enable...
Using a CAPTCHA Client Extension
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Using a CAPTCHA Client Extension Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+ CAPTCHA challenges are used on websites to verify a human user is accessing it, and not a bot or malicious code attacking the site. Liferay...
Integrating Microservices
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Integrating Microservices Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay SaaS Liferay PaaS Liferay 7.4 You can define microservice client extensions to run your own code in response to events in your Liferay...
Order Pages
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Order Pages Liferay DXP 2024.Q4+/Portal GA129+ [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Currently, this feature...
Training Material
Training Material These materials supplement some recorded and in-person trainings by providing you with opportunities to practice key skills, test your understanding, and gain confidence in...
Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay Exercises
Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay Exercises These exercises supplement the Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay video training and provide an opportunity to solidify your learning....
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...
Extending Unmodifiable System Objects
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Extending Unmodifiable System Objects Liferay 7.4 U86+/GA86+ With Liferay Objects, you can extend supported system services. These services are integrated with the Objects framework as...
Using Object Data with React Charts
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Using Object Data with React Charts Here you'll use Objects, Headless APIs, and custom element remote applications to create a dynamic chart for data dashboards. First, you'll set up a new DXP...
Creating Objects
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Creating Objects Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ Liferay Objects provides development capabilities in the Liferay UI. Using Objects, you can build fully integrated Liferay applications without...
Understanding Object Integrations
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Understanding Object Integrations Published custom objects are integrated with Liferay's core frameworks, so you can leverage Liferay's features to build unified experiences across the platform....
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on JBoss EAP
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on JBoss EAP Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below Installing on JBoss EAP requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring JBoss,...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebLogic
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebLogic Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below If you are using WebLogic as your application server, it is highly recommended to install DXP to a...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Wildfly
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Wildfly Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.1 or below Installing on WildFly requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring WildFly, and...
Installing on JBoss EAP
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Installing on JBoss EAP Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ For pre-Jakarta Liferay versions, see Installing Earlier Versions on JBoss EAP. Installing on JBoss EAP requires installing the DXP...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Tomcat
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Tomcat Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below Using a Liferay-Tomcat bundle or Docker image is the fastest way to get started using Liferay DXP. This...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Application Servers
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Application Servers As new Liferay versions are released, their dependencies and installation steps change. Liferay made a big change for DXP with the 2025.Q3...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebSphere
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebSphere Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 or below Compatibility with IBM WebSphere application server has been removed in 2024.Q2 and later releases. ...
Installing on Tomcat
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Installing on Tomcat Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ For pre-Jakarta Liferay versions, see Installing Earlier Versions on Tomcat. Using a Liferay-Tomcat bundle or Docker image is the...
Installing on WildFly
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Installing on WildFly Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ For pre-Jakarta Liferay versions, see Installing Earlier Versions on WildFly. Installing on WildFly requires installing the DXP WAR,...
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...
Downloading and Uploading Backups
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Downloading and Uploading Backups The Liferay Cloud backup service creates backups of an environment's database and the full contents of the Liferay instance's LIFERAY_HOME/data folder. This...
Understanding Service Stack Versions
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Understanding Service Stack Versions The Liferay Cloud service stack represents the major version of all of the services in your Liferay Cloud environment. Each individual service may have a...
Configuring a Liferay Docker Container
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Configuring a Liferay Docker Container Creating and deploying containers is an important part of the modern developer workflow. Liferay Workspace makes it easy to use Docker containers both for...
Using Configuration Files
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Using Configuration Files System Settings provides a user interface for making system-scoped configuration changes and setting default configurations for other scopes. The same configurations in...
Client Secret JWT
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Client Secret JWT Liferay supports client secret JWT as an authentication method for OAuth 2 clients. In this flow, the client itself creates the assertion and signs it using the client secret....
Liferay Style Conventions
Liferay Style Conventions Conventions are neither correct or incorrect; they are decisions that vary greatly in the industry. After much comparison and use, Liferay's documentation uses the...
Configuring the Liferay DXP Service
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Configuring the Liferay DXP Service There are several methods available to configure DXP in Liferay PaaS: through the in DXP System Settings and through the use of config and property files. DXP...
JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
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JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) represent encoded data. They are compact, self-contained, and secure. There are two primary types of JSON Web Tokens: Encrypted JWT: ensures the...
Using the AWS Chart to Run Liferay in AWS
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Using the AWS Chart to Run Liferay in AWS Using the AWS chart is a CLI-only method for provisioning Liferay in AWS. Launch Liferay Set and export an environment variable to hold the Liferay AWS...
Portal Properties
Portal Properties Configuration options are specified using Portal Properties, sets of name/value pairs read from properties files and Docker environment variables on server startup. Default values...
Activating Liferay DXP
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Activating Liferay DXP Subscription Required Liferay DXP is activated using an XML (.xml) activation key. It specifies your DXP subscription terms or trial agreement. When you run Liferay DXP for...
Configuring Containers
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Configuring Containers Everything that is configurable in a Liferay installation is configurable in a Liferay Docker container. Here are the most common things to configure: JVM Options Portal...
Using the Database Upgrade Tool
Using the Database Upgrade Tool The Liferay Database Upgrade Tool is a client program for upgrading Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal databases offline. Always back up your data and installation...
Liferay Cloud Maintenance and Release Schedule
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Liferay Cloud Maintenance and Release Schedule Liferay SaaS and PaaS both have a weekly maintenance and release schedule. Liferay Cloud uses a transparent and predictable release cadence so you can...
Configuring Unicast over TCP
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Configuring Unicast over TCP If your network configuration or the geographical distance between cluster nodes prevents you from using UDP Multicast clustering, you can configure TCP Unicast. You...
Standard Permissions
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Standard Permissions Liferay defines several standard permissions across various applications and resources, such as view, edit, update, and more. Managing permissions Permissions are best managed...
AWS Managed Resources Reference
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AWS Managed Resources Reference By default, Liferay uses several managed services to run background operations when hosting in AWS. These resources facilitate the provisioning and continued use of...
Optimizing Sites
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Optimizing Sites From having top-tier SEO, to understanding and acting on your site's content, to building a site that is accessible to all types of users, Liferay provides tools for identifying...