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Script Examples Here are some examples to help you use scripts in DXP. Most of the examples originated from the Liferay blog post 5 Tips to Improve Usage of the Liferay Script Console. Example 1:...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Configuring External Services
Configuring External Services Liferay provides integration with external services for converting files and generating file previews. Three of these services can be enabled in the Server...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Managing System Resources
Managing System Resources The Server Administration panel's Resources tab contains several features, all related to low-level monitoring and management of the system's resources: FunctionPurpose...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Users and Permissions
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Accounts
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Account Addresses
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Account Management Widget
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Account Groups
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Account Roles
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: ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Account Users
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Channel Defaults Permissions Reference
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Contacts
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 ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Connecting to a User Directory
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Channel Defaults
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Setting Channel Defaults
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Using Workflow with Accounts
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Configuring User Import and Export
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Connecting to an LDAP Directory
Connecting to an LDAP Directory Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers are common user stores for Liferay DXP. You can configure LDAP at the system scope in System Settings or at the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
LDAP Configuration Reference
LDAP Configuration Reference To access LDAP configuration settings, open the Global Menu (Applications Menu icon) and navigate to Control Panel → Configuration → Instance Settings → Security →...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Account Users and Roles APIs
Account Users and Roles APIs You can manage Account Users and Account Roles from the Applications menu, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to create and manage account...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Account Groups API Basics
Account Groups API Basics Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ You can manage account groups from the Applications menu or use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to create and manage account groups. ...
Published Date: Feb 13, 2025 12:50 PM
Developer Guide
Developer Guide
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Adding the UAD Framework
Adding the UAD Framework You can manage and delete user data with Liferay's User Associated Data (UAD) management tool. The tool is available out-of-the-box for many of Liferay's applications (e.g....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Organizations API Basics
Organizations API Basics You can Create and Manage Organizations from the Application menu, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to manage organizations. Adding an...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Accounts API Basics
Accounts API Basics Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ You can manage accounts from the Applications menu or use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to create and manage accounts. Adding an Account ...
Published Date: Feb 12, 2025 1:01 PM
Countries API Basics
Countries API Basics Liferay 7.4 U24+ and GA24+ Use Liferay's Rest APIs to create and manage countries. Adding a Country Then, follow these steps: Download and unzip Countries API Basics. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Postal Address API Basics
Postal Address API Basics Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ Use Liferay's REST APIs to manage postal addresses. Add Postal Address to Account Then, follow these steps: Download and unzip Postal Address...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Regions API Basics
Regions API Basics Liferay 7.4 U24+ and GA24+ Use Liferay's REST APIs to create and manage regions. Adding a Region Then, follow these steps: Download and unzip Regions API Basics. curl...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Roles API Basics
Roles API Basics You can create and manage roles from the Application menu, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to manage roles. Associate a User to a Regular Role Then,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
User Account API Basics
User Account API Basics You can add and manage users from the Control Panel, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. You can call these services to add, edit, delete users. Start with adding a...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:53 PM
User Groups API Basics
User Groups API Basics You can Create and Manage User Groups from the Application menu, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to manage user groups. Adding a User Group ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Configuring the Anonymous User
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Exporting User Data
Exporting User Data One of the General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR) tenets is that Users have a right to data portability. Data portability means that users have the right to receive their...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:53 PM
Enabling GDPR Compliance for Cookies
Enabling GDPR Compliance for Cookies You can ensure GDPR compliance for your cookies using Liferay's configuration interface. Open the Global Menu (Global Menu), and navigate to Control Panel →...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Managing Third-Party Cookies
Managing Third-Party Cookies Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Third-party cookies are generated by domains different from the one a user is currently visiting. These cookies are often used by...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:53 PM
Managing User Data (GDPR)
Managing User Data (GDPR) Liferay's User Associated Data (UAD) framework assists you in meeting two of the General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR) technically challenging requirements: The...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:53 PM
Using Domain-Specific Language Queries
Using Domain-Specific Language Queries Liferay 7.4+ DSL Query is an acronym for Domain-Specific Language Query. The foundation is based upon using a domain-specific language for the...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Implementing an Item Selector
Implementing an Item Selector Item selectors are pop-up dialogs for selecting assets, such as documents, videos, or users. By configuring the item selector's criteria and defining its usage, you...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Service Builder
Service Builder An application without reliable business logic or persistence isn't much of an application at all. Unfortunately, writing your own persistence code often takes a great deal of time....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Business Logic with Service Builder
Business Logic with Service Builder Once you've generated model, persistence, and service code with Service Builder, you can begin adding business logic. Entities generated by Service Builder...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Invoking a Service Locally
Invoking a Service Locally Service Builder services that are deployed to DXP/Portal can be invoked from other classes in the same JVM. These services are local to the classes. Service Builder...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Understanding and Extending Generated Classes
Understanding and Extending Generated Classes Service Builder generates both tables for your entity and model, persistence, and service classes for it. Here you'll examine generated classes for an...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Defining Entity Finder Methods
Defining Entity Finder Methods Finder methods retrieve entity objects from the database based on specified parameters. For each finder defined, Service Builder generates several methods to fetch,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Defining Entity Relationships
Defining Entity Relationships Relationships between database entities or Java objects are necessary for most applications. Take Liferay's Message Boards application as an example. Each Message...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Modifying Database Fields in Development
Modifying Database Fields in Development As you develop an application, you might need to add fields to your database. This is a normal process of iterative development: you get an idea for a new...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Sorting Entity Instances
Sorting Entity Instances Often, you want to retrieve multiple instances of a given entity and list them in a particular order. The service.xml file lets you specify the default order of your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Upgrading Data Schemas
Upgrading Data Schemas When you upgrade Liferay, you might run into incompatibility issues with your custom modules' data schemas. There are three ways you can resolve these issues: You can run...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Advanced Queries
Advanced Queries Service Builder doesn't limit you to elements in service.xml. If simple finders aren't sufficient for getting data out of your application, there are three other ways to make the...
Published Date: Jan 11, 2025 4:12 PM
Using Dynamic Query
Using Dynamic Query Liferay's Dynamic Query API wraps Hibernate's Criteria API. It helps you think in terms of objects and member variables instead of tables and columns. Complex queries can be...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Defining Entities
Defining Entities Entities are the heart and soul of a service. They represent the map between the model objects in Java and your database fields and tables. Service Builder automatically maps your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Global Service Options
Configuring Global Service Options A service's global options apply to all its entities. Here are the options: Dependency Injector Package path Multiversion concurrency control Namespace...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using Custom SQL Queries
Using Custom SQL Queries Service Builder creates finder methods that retrieve entities by their attributes (their column values). When you add a column as a parameter for the finder in your...
Published Date: Sep 6, 2024 3:37 PM
Adding Model Hints
Adding Model Hints Once you've used Service Builder to define model entities, you may want to refine how users enter that data. Model hints specify entity data restrictions and other formatting....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Defining Entity Columns
Defining Entity Columns An entity's columns represent its attributes. These attributes map table fields to Java object fields. Here you'll examine the sample project from Understanding and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code
Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code Service Builder makes it easy to define models and generate model, persistence, and service code for them. You'll experience this by defining a model...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Service Builder Basics
Service Builder Basics Using Service Builder helps you learn it. You'll use it to learn the basics: Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code: Define a basic model, generate code from it,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Multithreading Process
Multithreading Process Liferay DXP 7.4 U10+ or Liferay Portal 7.4 GA14+ Your Upgrade Processes may involve making complex changes to large data sets. If performance is critical, use the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using Upgrade Processes in Earlier Versions
Using Upgrade Processes in Earlier Versions Liferay DXP 7.4 U10/Portal 7.4 GA14 and Below Follow these steps to create an upgrade process for your module: Open your module's bnd.bnd file, and...
Published Date: Dec 3, 2024 3:10 PM
Using Upgrade Processes
Using Upgrade Processes Liferay DXP 7.4 U10+/Portal 7.4 GA14+ An upgrade of your application may require making changes to your database tables. Liferay's upgrade framework makes it easy to make...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Portlet Descriptor to OSGi Service Property Map
Portlet Descriptor to OSGi Service Property Map Here's a map of portlet XML descriptor values to OSGi service properties for publishing OSGi Portlets. The properties centralize and simplify portlet...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM

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