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Exporting/Importing Site Templates You can export and import site templates to share them between Liferay installations. Exporting Individual Site Templates Open the Global Menu (Global Menu),...

Propagating Template Changes (for Liferay DXP 2025.Q4 and Earlier Versions)

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Propagating Template Changes (for Liferay DXP 2025.Q4 and Earlier Versions) In Liferay version 2025.Q4 and earlier, you can enable site template propagation to propagate template changes to...

Inviting Members to Your Site

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Inviting Members to Your Site The Invite Members widget is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and is scheduled for removal in a future release. You can use the Invite Members...

Creating Site Templates

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Creating Site Templates With site templates, you can design and configure templates for creating sites. Each template is built using the same tools as sites. Site templates are primarily intended...

Beta Features and Feature Flags

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Beta Features and Feature Flags Feature Flags DXP 7.4 U69+/GA69+ Some features in Liferay are hidden behind feature flags. Using feature flags, you have control over new functionality introduced...

Managing Countries

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Managing Countries Liferay DXP 7.4 U36/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA36 and above Liferay contains a list of available countries as defined by the ISO 3166 Standard, but you can use the Countries...

Adding Custom Fields

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Adding Custom Fields Custom fields are in maintenance mode. Use Liferay Objects if possible. Many of Liferay's assets and resources can be extended with custom fields. Adding custom fields can...

Changing Translations with Language Override

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Changing Translations with Language Override Liferay DXP 7.4 U4/Portal 7.4 GA8. Import/Export and filtering functionality in Liferay DXP 7.4 U17/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA17 Liferay's Language...

Understanding Configuration Scope

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Understanding Configuration Scope Liferay DXP settings are applied at four levels, or scopes: System, Virtual Instance, Site, and Widget. System Settings define the system-wide defaults. For all...

User Authentication

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User Authentication The User Authentication settings define how Users can authenticate, the various authentication methods that are required for them, and the screen names and email addresses that...

Configuring Users in Virtual Instances

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Configuring Users in Virtual Instances You can define the look and feel of the personal menu, the default user associations, and the fields that appear when a new user creates an account. To...

Users and Permissions

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Users and Permissions Liferay comes with a comprehensive framework to manage user access and roles within Liferay. To support complex organizational needs, there are several entities within the...

Accounts

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Accounts Available 7.4+ Accounts provide administrators with a way to organize and manage users for various commerce or business needs. Unlike organizations or user groups, accounts help...

Account Groups

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Account Groups Available 7.4+ Use Account Groups to organize related accounts. For example, group accounts by region (Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, etc.). Creating an Account Group Open the...

Account Management Widget

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Account Management Widget Available 7.4+ Use Account Management widget to manage and access account information from any page. This provides access for those without permission to view the Control...

Account Addresses

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Account Addresses Available 7.4+ Account addresses are the billing or shipping addresses associated with Business or Person accounts. Adding an Account Address Open the Global Menu (Global...

Account Roles

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Account Roles Available 7.4+ Create different account roles with specific permissions and assign them to account users to manage access to accounts. There are two types of account roles: ...

Account Users

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Account Users For Liferay 7.4 U55+/GA55+ Once you've created an account, you can associate existing users with it manually. Alternatively, you can create and associate users with an account...

Channel Defaults Permissions Reference

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Channel Defaults Permissions Reference Liferay DXP 7.4 U75+/GA75+ Setting channel defaults for an account ensures that addresses, shipping options, terms and conditions, and payment methods are...

Setting Channel Defaults

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Setting Channel Defaults Liferay 7.4 U49+/GA49+ Users with the necessary account management permissions can set channel defaults for business accounts. Open the Global Menu ( Global Menu ) and...

Contacts

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Contacts Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ Using the new Contact tab on an account, you can add contact details related to the account: Addresses Phone Numbers Email Addresses Websites ...

Channel Defaults

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Channel Defaults Available Liferay 7.4 U49+/GA49+ After creating a business account, set channel defaults to streamline ordering and tailor Commerce behavior for specific accounts. Channel...

Using Workflow with Accounts

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Using Workflow with Accounts Liferay 7.4 U49+/GA49+ Accounts are fully integrated with Liferay's workflow engine, so you can enable an approval process for account creation. To enable a workflow...

Connecting to an LDAP Directory

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Connecting to an LDAP Directory Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers are common user stores for Liferay DXP. Configure LDAP at the system scope in System Settings or at the instance...

Connecting to a User Directory

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Connecting to a User Directory LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a common user store for Liferay DXP. You can import user information from an LDAP server into Liferay or export...

Configuring User Import and Export

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Configuring User Import and Export The import/export settings configure mappings between LDAP and Liferay to match users between the two systems. Finding Users in Your LDAP Directory...

LDAP Configuration Reference

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LDAP Configuration Reference Access LDAP configuration settings from the Global Menu (Applications Menu icon): Control Panel → Configuration → Instance Settings → Security → LDAP Control Panel...

Configuring the Anonymous User

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Configuring the Anonymous User Internet users are increasingly and justifiably concerned about how their personal data is processed by the systems they use. Liferay is aware of the need for...

Contributing Custom Content to the Similar Results Widget

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Contributing Custom Content to the Similar Results Widget Subscribers This functionality relies on a Service Provider Interface (SPI) that's bundled with Liferay DXP 7.3+. It's available in...

Getting Started

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Getting Started

Search Overview

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Search Overview Search is a fundamental component of Liferay. Elasticsearch is bundled with Liferay for testing and development purposes. Production environments require Elasticsearch running on a...

What's New in Search for 7.3?

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What's New in Search for 7.3? Elasticsearch Integration Elasticsearch 7 Support Liferay CE 7.3 GA4+, Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1+ Liferay DXP 7.3 comes with out-of-the-box support for Elasticsearch 7. The...

Search

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Search APIs

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Search APIs Generally Available in Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+/Portal 2026.Q1+ You can search with headless APIs using the endpoints at /o/search. These are the primary endpoints: Use the GET /search...

Searching for Content

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Searching for Content All indexed content (a.k.a. assets in Liferay DXP) can be returned as search results. Custom content can also be indexed, so your installation might have additional asset...

What's New in Search for 7.4?

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What's New in Search for 7.4? There are several highlights and new features added to Liferay's search infrastructure for the 7.4 release. New features include those added to the product for Liferay...

Liferay Enterprise Search

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Liferay Enterprise Search Subscription LES Subscription Liferay's Enterprise Search (LES) features significantly upgrade the default search capabilities. With a LES subscription you gain the...

Installing Search Experiences on Liferay 7.3

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Installing Search Experiences on Liferay 7.3 Subscription LES Subscription DXP 7.4 U5+; 7.3 U6+ The Liferay Enterprise Search Experiences app includes a suite of features granting fine-grained...

Collections with Search Blueprints

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Collections with Search Blueprints When you create a search blueprint, you can enable it as a collection provider to display its results. Assets matching the blueprint's query and configuration are...

Managing Elements

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Managing Elements To create new Elements, click Add (Add). See Creating Elements for more details. As of Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+, the title and description fields are localizable. To...

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