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Category Facet The Category Facet narrows search results for categorized assets that match the search query keywords. Each matching result's categories are aggregated as facet terms. Example of...

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...

Custom Facet Examples

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Custom Facet Examples The custom facet is a powerful aid to customizing your site's search experience. When the out-of-the-box facets don't meet your requirements, the custom facet fills the gap....

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...

Search Results Widget Template Reference

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Search Results Widget Template Reference While creating a search results widget template, you can access pre-populated variables in the FreeMarker template editor. The variables listed in the...

Handling Missing References in Imports

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Handling Missing References in Imports Liferay DXP 2025.Q3 When importing content or user-related data (such as categories, tags, vocabularies, roles, organizations, accounts, and account groups),...

Upgrading to Jakarta

Upgrading to Jakarta Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ Liferay stepped into the future of enterprise Java when it moved to Jakarta EE starting with the DXP 2025 Q3 and the 2026 Q1 Portal...

Object APIs

Object APIs You can use headless APIs to interface with objects and picklists. Here are resources to help you understand and integrate these APIs to enhance your ability to manage objects.

Using Object Inheritance

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Using Object Inheritance [Release Feature (LPD-34594)](../../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#release-feature-flags) Liferay DXP...

Using a CAPTCHA Client Extension

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Using a CAPTCHA Client Extension Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPD-36464). CAPTCHA challenges are used on websites to verify a human user is...

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 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 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...

CAPTCHA YAML Configuration Reference

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CAPTCHA YAML Configuration Reference You can define a CAPTCHA client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extnesion.yaml file defines a CAPTCHA client extension: ...

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...

Liferay DXP 2025.Q3 Breaking Changes

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Liferay DXP 2025.Q3 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay DXP 2025.Q3. As the...

2025.Q3 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes

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2025.Q3 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes Most new versions of Liferay DXP include changes to the default settings. If you rely on the defaults from your old version, review the changes and...

Configuring service.properties

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Configuring service.properties Service Builder generates a service.properties file in your *-service module's src/main/resources folder. Liferay uses this file's properties to alter your service's...

Connecting Service Builder to an External Database

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Connecting Service Builder to an External Database Service builder creates the necessary tables for the service in the lportal database with all other data used by Liferay. If you want to store the...

Liferay Workspace Configuration Reference

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...

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....

Configuring Liferay in AWS

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Configuring Liferay in AWS Since Liferay installations hosted in AWS use Helm, you must configure and customize Liferay using the Helm CLI. You can write as many .yaml files as you need. To update...

Viewing Metrics from Kubernetes

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Viewing Metrics from Kubernetes It is important to track resource usage in the Kubernetes cluster. To view your resource usage, you must use a collector and an exporter. Before you can view...

Running Liferay DXP in Amazon Web Services

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Running Liferay DXP in Amazon Web Services There are two ways to host Liferay DXP in AWS: Installing Liferay DXP from AWS Marketplace. Installing Liferay DXP using the plain Helm chart. For...

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...

Viewing Metrics with Prometheus

Viewing Metrics with Prometheus The Liferay Helm chart is prepared to set up the Prometheus JMX Exporter project agent out-of-the-box. Set the JMX_AGENT_YAML environment variable to the following...

Viewing Metrics with Glowroot

Viewing Metrics with Glowroot This article describes how to use Glowroot in Liferay installations hosted in AWS. For information on how to set up Glowroot in other circumstances, see Using...

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...

Configuring Externally Managed Services

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Configuring Externally Managed Services Externally managed services are created, configured, and managed outside the Liferay Helm chart. Database Configuring an external database for Liferay in...

Configuring Internally Managed Services

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Configuring Internally Managed Services Internally managed services are configured and managed within the chart. These services are defined using the dependencies property: dependencies: : ...

Single-Page Application (SPA)

Single-Page Application (SPA) Rendering a page from scratch takes a lot of effort from the browser. It must load the HTML markup, the CSS, and any JavaScript, render and style the markup, and...

Integrate Okta with Liferay DXP using OpenID Connect

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Introduction This recipe guides you through the steps to integrate Okta, your Identity Provider (IdP), with your Liferay environment using OpenID Connect. Prerequisites Okta Dev account Liferay DXP environment Administrative...

Designing and Displaying Reusable Navigation Menus

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Introduction This recipe guides you through the basic steps to build a multi-step form. Prerequisites Liferay DXP environment An object definition with fields A user who has access and control to create and manage objects,...

Data Sets are not working after upgrading to 2025.q1.4-lts where the feature is released

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Issue I upgraded from 2024.q4.7 to 2025.q1.4-lts. After the upgrade, we encountered issues with Data Sets. In 2024.q4.7 I was using datasets as beta but as in 2025.q1.4 its released. I have enabled Root Objects and...

Delete commerce orders from the database

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue There is an inconsistency in commerce orders between the Portal and Database. That means there are more number of orders than the number of orders in the Portal. Is there any script that can delete all...

Liferay IDE: Resolving 'Unable to make field private' errors with JDK 21

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Issue I'm encountering java.lang.reflect.InaccessibleObjectException: Unable to make field private ... accessible errors when starting Liferay from the Liferay IDE plugin within the Eclipse IDE with JDK 21....

Block access of com_liferay_login_web_portlet_LoginPortlet

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue There is a security vulnerability found wherein someone can create a page after being able to login through com_liferay_login_web_portlet_LoginPortlet. Therefore, how to block access of...

Unauthorized modification in Open Order Status

legacy Troubleshooting

Issue The user who doesn't have the permission of 'Manage Order' is still able to update the order from an "Open" status to a "Quote Requested" status. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a 'Minium' site. 2. Navigate to...

The package.json and config.js files are accessible via URLs

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Issue Observed potential security vulnerabilities where the package.json and config.js files expose sensitive information like file paths, testing configurations, dependencies with versions, build scripts,...