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Enabling Publications Available Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient and flexible way for you and your teams to develop, track, and publish changes. When enabled, Publications is...

Using Workflow with Publications

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Using Workflow with Publications 7.4 U44+/GA44+ Publications is integrated with Liferay's Workflow framework, so you can continue to use custom workflows for reviewing content and pages while...

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...

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...

Using the Navigation Menus Application

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Using the Navigation Menus Application Use the Navigation Menus application to create custom menus for site pages and content. With it, you can determine which elements are included in a menu, and...

Navigation Menu Element Types

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Navigation Menu Element Types Navigation Menus have a variety of element types that you can add and arrange in your desired hierarchy. These types include specific pages, Vocabularies, Display...

Managing Page Hierarchies

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Managing Page Hierarchies With Liferay, you can organize pages into hierarchies to achieve the desired structure for your site. This can be done by directly adding child pages to an existing page...

Configuring Friendly URL Redirects

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Configuring Friendly URL Redirects Liferay 7.4+ When you update friendly URLs for pages, blogs, and documents, Liferay automatically stores the old URLs. As long as the old URL remains in the...

Configuring Virtual Hosts Site URLs

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Configuring Virtual Hosts Site URLs A virtual host connects a domain name (e.g., www.helloworld.com) to a site. This can be a full domain or a subdomain (e.g. developers.helloworld.com). You can...

Configuring Your Site's Friendly URL

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Configuring Your Site's Friendly URL Friendly URLs are readable URLs that can helps users quickly access your site. Each URL must be unique and is appended to https://localhost:8080/web (e.g.,...

Setting Up Redirects and 404 Tracking

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Setting Up Redirects and 404 Tracking 7.4 U48+/GA48+ Maintaining URL integrity is important for any site. Liferay's Redirection tool provides a convenient and integrated way to manage HTTP...

Configuring Friendly URL Separators

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Configuring Friendly URL Separators Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ You can customize URL separators to improve URL readability and enhance SEO. For example, web content articles use the...

Configuring XML Sitemaps

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Configuring XML Sitemaps Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ XML sitemaps are XML-formatted documents listing the URLs of a website along with additional metadata (e.g. last update, change...

Tracking 404 URLs

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Tracking 404 URLs With the Redirection application, you can view and manage site requests leading to 404 errors. While enabled, Liferay catalogs each error, so you can assess the cause of the...

Using Pattern Redirects

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Using Pattern Redirects Available 7.4 U48+/GA48+ Pattern redirects use regular expressions to define patterns for multiple source URLs and their replacements. Consequently, they are best used when...

Securing Site Documents Content

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Securing Site Documents Content By default, your Site's Documents and Media files and folders are not visible in the web server directory index, so you can't view them through the browser. To...

Using Alias Redirects

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Using Alias Redirects Alias redirects define absolute source and destination URLs explicitly. Because of their predictability, alias redirects are recommended for most use cases. You can make alias...

Site Content Configurations

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Site Content Configurations Liferay offers a range of tools and settings to help you configure and optimize your site's content: Setting up the asset recycle bin Configuring content rating...

Site Localization

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Site Localization If you are setting up your Liferay installation for the first time, we recommend reviewing Initial Instance Localization first. Configuring Site Languages You can set your...

Site Templates

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Site Templates Liferay provides site templates for designing structures and content that you can use during site creation. Each template includes most standard site applications for adding pages,...

Site Settings UI Reference

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Site Settings UI Reference Starting with Liferay DXP 7.4, the Site Settings application layout is consistent with other configuration areas, such as Instance Settings or System Settings. The Site...

Connecting Liferay DXP to Analytics Cloud

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Connecting Liferay DXP to Analytics Cloud Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Liferay DXP and Analytics Cloud connect via a secure, encrypted token. This token is generated by Analytics Cloud and...

Configuring the Patching Tool

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Configuring the Patching Tool Subscribers The Patching Tool can be adapted to any DXP installation. The tool's auto-discovery option is the easiest way to configure the Patching Tool. If you...

Alternative Asset Tracking Methods

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Alternative Asset Tracking Methods Liferay Analytics Cloud can detect and analyze built-in Liferay DXP assets like blogs, documents and media, forms, and web content throught their respective...

Managing Web Content Articles

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Managing Web Content Articles Once you've added articles to your web content library, you can manage them via the web content UI. To access management actions for an article, click its Actions...

Liferay Workspace

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Liferay Workspace Liferay Workspace is a set of folders and Gradle scripts that represents the Liferay-opinionated way of handling a full development life cycle: Creating projects Building...

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...

Tuning Security Settings

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Tuning Security Settings Here are a list of best practices for tightening and maintaining your Liferay PaaS project's security, including networking practices, data security, and general security...

Liferay Workspace Configuration Reference

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Liferay Workspace Configuration Reference Liferay Workspace has many options you can set. Here's a handy command and properties reference. Running Liferay DXP locally my-project $ blade gw...

Search Blueprints Configuration Reference

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Search Blueprints Configuration Reference The Search Blueprints user interface has a Query Builder for creating Blueprints. Beyond adding Elements and configuring the query settings, there are...

Sorting Results in a Search Blueprint

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Sorting Results in a Search Blueprint Add a sort configuration to search blueprints to control the order of search results: Open the Global Menu (Global Menu), click the Applications tab, and...

Semantic Search

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Semantic Search 7.4 U70+ [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Semantic search evaluates the intent behind a searched phrase....

Search Configuration Reference

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Search Configuration Reference Search in Liferay DXP can be configured in lots of ways. Once you understand the concept of configuration scope, you'll understand where to find a certain...

Search Blueprints Elements Reference

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Search Blueprints Elements Reference Elements are one of the fundamental building blocks of a Search Blueprint. To explore all the available Elements, navigate to the Global Menu (Global) →...

Understanding Search Blueprints

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Understanding Search Blueprints Use Search Blueprints to tailor the search page experience to your users' needs, without deploying any custom code. With Blueprints you can Create context-aware...

Synonym Sets

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Synonym Sets Subscription This feature does not work with Solr. You can add a maximum of 10,000 synonym sets. A Synonym Set is a group of words or phrases with the same meaning. An...

Configuring the Search Results Widget

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Configuring the Search Results Widget Configure the Search Results widget by opening its options menu (Options) and selecting Configuration. The display of Search Results is configured in the...

Custom Filter Examples

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Custom Filter Examples This feature does not work with Solr. The Custom Filter widget is a powerful aid to your search tuning efforts. Without deploying custom code, you can exert control over...

Enabling Search Suggestions

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Enabling Search Suggestions Search terms can be suggested to users when their initial queries can be improved. Spell check settings allow administrators to configure the Search application so that...

Sorting Search Results

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Sorting Search Results Search results displayed in the Search Results widget are ordered by relevance score (as calculated by the search engine) by default. With the Sort widget, users can control...