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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...
Adding Fields to Objects
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Adding Fields to Objects Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ Fields are data definitions that represent database columns and store different types of values. By default, all objects include these...
Encrypted Fields
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Encrypted Fields Self-Hosted and PaaS Only Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ Liferay provides the encrypted field type for storing sensitive user data. To use encrypted fields, first add an encryption...
Using Read-Only Fields
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Using Read-Only Fields Some use cases may require data fields to be read-only. For example, data integrity may require some field values to remain immutable, or you may need to prevent unauthorized...
Designing Object Layouts
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Designing Object Layouts Liferay 7.4 U31+/GA31+ Layouts define how fields and relationships appear when creating and editing object entries. Each layout can include multiple tabs containing...
Picklist Fields
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Picklist Fields Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ Picklists define lists of text values usable as single select or multi-select fields in object definitions. By default, single select fields appear as...
Adding Categorization to Fields Tabs
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Adding Categorization to Fields Tabs Liferay 7.4 U31+/GA31+ You can add categorization blocks to fields tabs so end users can apply tags and categories to object entries. Follow these steps: ...
Managing Objects with Headless APIs
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Managing Objects with Headless APIs Liferay 7.4+ You can create and manage objects from the Applications menu, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to create and manage...
Organizing Objects with Folders
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Organizing Objects with Folders By default, object definitions are grouped in the Uncategorized folder, but you can add object folders to organize data models and manage access to definitions. ...
Using System Objects with Custom Objects
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Using System Objects with Custom Objects
Accessing Accounts Data from Custom Objects
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Accessing Accounts Data from Custom Objects Liferay 7.4 U35+/GA35+ In some use cases, you may want to access account data from a custom object. For example, if you're building a custom returns...
Using the Objects Model Builder
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Using the Objects Model Builder [Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+](#model-builder-availability) For Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+, you must have Object Folder → View permissions to...
Validations
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Validations Liferay 7.4+ Object validations set rules for determining valid field inputs. You can define validations with Groovy scripts, Liferay expressions, or a specified Composite Key...
Expression Builder Validations Reference
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Expression Builder Validations Reference Liferay 7.4 U67+/GA67+ You can create object field validations using Liferay's Expression Builder. This tool provides an integrated editor for quickly...
Designing Object Views
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Designing Object Views Liferay 7.4+ Views define how entries appear in an object's application page. Though each published object has an autogenerated view, you can create your own. Design custom...
Deploying Object Widgets to Sites
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Deploying Object Widgets to Sites Liferay 7.4+ When an Object is published, Liferay automatically generates a dedicated widget you can deploy to site pages. This includes both site-scoped and...
Managing Data from External Systems
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Managing Data from External Systems [Release Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#release-feature-flags) Liferay Objects provides...
Views
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Views Views define how entries appear in an object's application page. All published objects include an autogenerated table that displays all field columns alphabetically. However, you can design...
Adding Filters to Views
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Adding Filters to Views Liferay 7.4 U49+/GA49+ When designing a custom view, you can determine which fields appear as filter facets. Also, you can set default filters that apply automatically to...
Displaying Object Entries with Collections
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Displaying Object Entries with Collections Liferay 7.4 U77+/GA77+ When you publish an object definition, Liferay creates a collection provider for it. For site-scoped objects, you can also create...
Integrating Objects with Third Party Services
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Integrating Objects with Third Party Services You can use Liferay Objects with popular data integration tools to create automated tasks for syncing Object data with external services. These tasks...
Using Google Sheets with Objects
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Using Google Sheets with Objects Liferay 7.4+ These articles explain how to use webhooks to trigger sync tasks between Liferay Objects and Google Sheets using a variety of third party tools.
Using Integrately to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets
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Using Integrately to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets Liferay 7.4+ Here you'll learn how to use webhooks to trigger sync tasks between Liferay Objects and Google Sheets using Integrately....
Using Make to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets
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Using Make to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets Liferay 7.4+ Here you'll learn how to use webhooks to trigger sync tasks between Liferay Objects and Google Sheets using Make (formerly...
Using IFTTT to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets
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Using IFTTT to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets Liferay 7.4+ Here you'll learn how to use webhooks to trigger sync tasks between Liferay Objects and Google Sheets using IFTTT. Syncing your data...
Using Workato to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets
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Using Workato to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets Liferay 7.4+ Here you'll learn how to use webhooks to trigger sync tasks between Liferay Objects and Google Sheets using Workato. Syncing your...
Using Zapier to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets
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Using Zapier to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets Liferay 7.4+ Here you'll learn how to use webhooks to trigger sync tasks between Liferay Objects and Google Sheets using Zapier. Syncing your...
Objects Application Permissions
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Objects Application Permissions Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ The Objects application is integrated with the permissions framework, so you can assign application and resource permissions to...
Picklists
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Picklists Liferay 7.4+ Liferay picklists are predefined lists of string values that consist of a name/key pair and can include any number of items. Once a list is created, you can use it to add a...
Using Pabbly to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets
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Using Pabbly to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets Liferay 7.4+ Here you'll learn how to use webhooks to trigger sync tasks between Liferay Objects and Google Sheets using Pabbly. Syncing your...
Managing Guest User Entries
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Managing Guest User Entries When you create an object and its application UI, unauthenticated users cannot add object entries, even if you add an object-backed application to a page and grant the...
Creating Picklists
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Creating Picklists Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ Picklists are lists of name/key pairs stored as string values. Once defined, you can use the lists with object definitions to populate single or multiple...
Managing Picklist Permissions
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Managing Picklist Permissions Liferay 7.4+ Picklist is integrated with Liferay's permissions framework. This means you can assign application and resource permissions to user roles to determine...
Permissions Framework Integration
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Permissions Framework Integration Liferay 7.4+ Published objects are integrated automatically with Liferay's permissions framework. You can manage user access to an object and its entries with...
Object API Basics
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Object API Basics When you publish an Object, Liferay automatically generates REST APIs for it. These APIs differ for Company and Site scoped Objects, but they all use the c/[pluralobjectlabel]...
Using Relationship REST APIs
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Using Relationship REST APIs Liferay 7.4 U70+/GA70+ When you add relationships to custom or system objects, Liferay generates REST endpoints for accessing those relationships. You can relate and...
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...
Using nestedFields to Query Related Entries
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Using nestedFields to Query Related Entries Liferay 7.4 U69+/GA69+ The nestedFields parameter returns multiple levels of related object entries in a single GET request. Pass the nestedFields...
Creating a Standard Application
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Creating a Standard Application To create applications based on a custom object takes four steps: create the object, create at least one form view, create at least one table view, and deploy the...
Creating the Role Change Request Object
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Creating the Role Change Request Object Subscribers Consider a Human Resources application that collects employee requests to change Roles within the software engineering department: the Role...
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...
Troubleshooting Blade CLI
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Troubleshooting Blade CLI If Blade CLI isn't working as expected, you may find answers here. The blade command is not available in my CLI The Blade CLI installer adds the blade command to your...
Generating Projects with Blade CLI
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Generating Projects with Blade CLI Blade CLI exists to create, build, and deploy Liferay projects in Liferay Workspaces. Once created, these projects can be imported into an IDE or worked on...
Other Tools (Deprecated)
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Other Tools (Deprecated) These tools are deprecated as of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and they are planned for future removal. Modern browsers (and Liferay DXP) all support including JavaScript...
Making and Publishing Changes
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Making and Publishing Changes Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient way to manage changes to your Liferay instance. With it, you and your team can create and collaborate on blocks of...
Publications Permissions
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Publications Permissions 7.4+ Publications works with Liferay's permissions framework, so you can assign application and resource permissions to regular roles. You can also assign permissions...
Resolving Conflicts
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Resolving Conflicts During the publishing process, Liferay checks for conflicts between your publication and the production environment. Resolving all conflicts is necessary to complete publishing....
Using Publication Templates
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Using Publication Templates Liferay 7.4 U73+/GA73+ To simplify creating publications with shared details and contributors, use publication templates. You can create a list of users to invite and...
Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content
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Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content Available 7.4+ By default, only content explicitly included in a publishing process is published to Live. If desired, you can configure your...
Configuring Local Live Staging
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Configuring Local Live Staging With Local Live staging, both your staging and live environments are hosted on the same Liferay server. When enabled, Liferay DXP creates a local clone of your site...
Configuring Page Publishing
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Configuring Page Publishing Staging and publishing settings control how pages and their content are published to Live, optimizing performance and ensuring consistency. These settings determine...
Configuring Remote Live Staging
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Configuring Remote Live Staging With Remote Live staging, your staging and live environments are hosted on separate Liferay servers. When enabled, the site or asset library used to configure...
Managing Data and Content Types in Staging
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Managing Data and Content Types in Staging Liferay DXP's Staging tool provides ways to manage available application data and content types both during initial configuration and the publishing...
Staging
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Staging Liferay's Staging application provides a working environment for making changes to a site or asset library before publishing your changes to your live environment. With it, you can modify...
Managing Staging Permissions
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Managing Staging Permissions With Staging, you can manage User permissions that deal directly with Staging and Page versioning. General Staging Permissions Related Site Permissions Individual...
Site Staging UI Reference
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Site Staging UI Reference After enabling Local or Remote Live Staging for your site, most page configuration options are only accessible in your Staging environment. This prevents users from...
Configuring Menu Displays
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Configuring Menu Displays Use a Menu Display fragment or a Menu Display widget to display and configure a menu display. With either option, you can define the menu display options, levels, and...
Site APIs
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Site APIs Use Liferay’s REST APIs to manage site elements programmatically. This guide introduces the Navigation Menu API and shows how to create, retrieve, update, and delete navigation menus...
Page Versioning
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Page Versioning With Page Versioning enabled, you and your team can work in parallel on multiple versions of your site's widget pages. These versions are called variations, which are you create and...
Publishing Single Assets and Widgets
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Publishing Single Assets and Widgets You can publish single assets and widgets when needed without going through the entire publishing process. This is much faster than publishing all content at...