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Understanding Patch Types
Understanding Patch Types Subscribers The Liferay Support Team creates and releases fixes to issues discovered in DXP. The fixes are packaged in ZIP files referred to generally as patches. There...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Uninstalling Patches
Uninstalling Patches Subscribers After you install a patch, you may decide to restore your installation to a previous patch level. Here you'll learn how to Uninstall Patches Revert (uninstall)...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Securing Liferay
Securing Liferay Liferay is built with security in mind. This includes mitigation of common security vulnerabilities and exploits like those described by the OWASP Top 10 and the CWE/SANS Top 25. ...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Authenticating with CAS (Central Authentication Service)
Authenticating with CAS (Central Authentication Service) CAS was deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.2 and removed as of Liferay DXP 7.4. Please use SAML instead. CAS is a widely used open source...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Updating Previous Versions of Liferay
Updating Previous Versions of Liferay Staying current with updates gives you the best security and quality. Security Updates are releases that address the latest security issues immediately. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Database Configuration
Database Configuration By default for demonstration purposes, Liferay DXP/Portal is configured to use an embedded HSQL database. Beyond demonstration purposes, we recommend using a full-featured,...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Database Templates
Database Templates Below are templates (example portal properties and Docker environment variables) for configuring various databases as a built-in data source for Liferay DXP. MariaDB Portal...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Liferay Software Versions
Liferay Software Versions Starting with Liferay 7.4, Liferay adopted a rolling release model for delivering updates and fixes. This means Liferay 7.4 is a long living release with many releases for...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Portal Properties
Portal Properties Configuration options are specified using Portal Properties, sets of name/value pairs read from properties files and Docker environment variables on server startup. Default values...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
System Properties
System Properties Liferay DXP/Portal runs in the application server's JVM. System properties can be passed directly to the JVM as arguments to java in the format -D[name1]=[value1] or can be loaded...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring SAML at the Instance Level
Configuring SAML at the Instance Level Each portal instance can be a SAML provider, either an Identity Provider (IdP) or a Service Provider (SP). Whichever role your DXP instance fills, you can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using Authentication Verifiers
Using Authentication Verifiers Authentication Verifiers authenticate remote invocations of Liferay Portal's API in a centralized and extensible way. They have two main responsibilities: Verify...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Setting Up Liferay
Setting Up Liferay After installing Liferay, configure it to meet your needs. Here are common setup tasks. Setup Tasks Preconfigure the System Activate Liferay (Subscription Required) ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Unicast over TCP
Configuring Unicast over TCP If your network configuration or the geographical distance between cluster nodes prevents you from using UDP Multicast clustering, you can configure TCP Unicast. You...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Alternative Email Configuration Methods
Alternative Email Configuration Methods There are several methods of configuring Liferay DXP to connect to a mail server. The simplest way to get started is to configure mail using through the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth
Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth Liferay DXP 7.4 U79+/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA79+ Connect your Microsoft email service to Liferay with the use of OAuth 2.0 authorization. Note, Microsoft...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Mail
Configuring Mail Liferay DXP/Portal can be configured to use a mail server to send email notifications for a variety of purposes: User registration and password management, Site membership...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Data Removal
Data Removal Available 7.4+ Use the Data Removal tool to erase unnecessary application data, such as expired journal articles and publication previews. To remove data, Open the Global Menu...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Upgrading a Sharded Environment
Upgrading a Sharded Environment Since Liferay DXP 7.0, Liferay removed its own physical partitioning implementation (also known as sharding) in favor of the capabilities provided natively by...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Data Cleanup
Data Cleanup Available 7.3+ When you're done using an obsolete Liferay app or capability, you can remove its data. You can use the Control Panel or a configuration file to do data cleanup. Here's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Database Upgrade Tool Reference
Database Upgrade Tool Reference Before Liferay 7.4 U82/GA82, the db_upgrade_client.sh file was called db_upgrade.sh. Here's an overview of Liferay's upgrade tool. Start the upgrade tool using...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in Liferay DXP 2025.Q2
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in Liferay DXP 2025.Q2 Features moved to Maintenance Mode or marked as Deprecated in Liferay DXP 2025.Q2 appear here. For details about these statuses and their...
Published Date: May 7, 2025 4:42 PM
Using the Database Upgrade Tool
Using the Database Upgrade Tool The Liferay Database Upgrade Tool is a client program for upgrading Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal databases offline. Always back up your data and installation...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Database Pruning for Faster Upgrades
Database Pruning for Faster Upgrades The more data you have the longer your data upgrade takes. Unneeded site data is a common occurrence. Pruning the database of unneeded data improves upgrade...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
2025.Q2 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes
2025.Q2 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...
Published Date: Jun 2, 2025 6:29 PM
Database Upgrade Options
Database Upgrade Options When a release, update, or fix pack has database schema changes, it's helpful to know the options for applying the changes. Here you'll find the database upgrade options...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Upgrading via Auto Upgrade
Upgrading via Auto Upgrade You can upgrade your database automatically by enabling auto upgrade via the portal property before starting up your instance. Always back up your database and existing...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Monitoring Upgrades with MBeans
Monitoring Upgrades with MBeans Liferay DXP 7.4 U76 / Liferay Portal 7.4 GA76 When upgrade upon startup is enabled, the upgrade process can be monitored with MBeans through a JVM management tool...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Liferay Faces Alloy
Liferay Faces Alloy Liferay Faces Alloy is distributed in a .jar file. You can add Liferay Faces Alloy as a dependency to your portlet projects, to use AlloyUI in a way that is consistent with JSF...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 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 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
MVC Render Command
MVC Render Command MVC Render Commands are classes that handle which page to render. They are invoked by MVCPortlet render URLs and requests. If your render logic is simple you can implement all of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Rendering Views with MVC Portlet
Rendering Views with MVC Portlet If you want users to access your portlet's views, you must implement navigation to them. Portlet render URLs help you do this. Here you'll deploy an example...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Invoking Actions with MVC Portlet
Invoking Actions with MVC Portlet A portlet's Action phase applies state changes. You can bind your portlet's action-handling methods to UI components using portlet action URLs. They are...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Tag Libraries
Tag Libraries You have access to a powerful set of taglibs for creating commonly used UI components in your apps, themes, and web content. The following taglibs are covered in this section: AUI:...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Clay Tag Library
Clay Tag Library The Liferay Clay tag library provides a set of tags for creating Clay UI components in your app. AUI taglibs are deprecated as of Liferay 7.1. We recommend that you use Clay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Clay Cards
Clay Cards Cards visually represent data. Use them for images, document libraries, user profiles and more. There are four main types of Cards: Image Cards File Cards User Cards Horizontal...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using a JSP and MVC Portlet
Using a JSP and MVC Portlet An easy way to start developing a web application is to add markup to a JSP file and render it using a portlet Java class. The W3E7 example application demonstrates...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay UI Icon Help
Liferay UI Icon Help The icon help tag lets you communicate additional information to your users in an unobtrusive way. It renders as an iconic question mark that provides more information through...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Remote Applications with Headless APIs
Remote Applications with Headless APIs Available 7.4+ After creating and publishing objects, headless REST APIs are automatically generated. Here you'll see how to integrate these endpoints to...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Configuration Form Renderer
Configuration Form Renderer When you create a configuration interface, a configuration UI is automatically generated. But in some cases you want customize the look and feel of the UI. For example,...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Hiding the Configuration UI
Hiding the Configuration UI Liferay generates a configuration UI automatically after a configuration interface deploys. But you may have certain use cases where you want to hide the UI. For...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Field Options Provider
Field Options Provider You can populate a drop-down list manually in the @Meta.AD annotation of the configuration interface. But you can also populate the option labels and values automatically...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Packaging Client Extensions
Packaging Client Extensions Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay SaaS Liferay PaaS Liferay 7.4 Client extension projects are built as deployable archives called Liferay Universal File Format Archives...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Using Object Data with React Charts
Using Object Data with React Charts Here you'll use Objects, Headless APIs, and custom element remote applications to create a dynamic chart for data dashboards. First, you'll set up a new DXP...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
DDM Form Annotations
DDM Form Annotations The auto-generated configuration interface UI may be too simplistic for some configurations. You can use the Dynamic Data Mapping (DDM) form annotations to customize your...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Message Bus
Message Bus The Message Bus provides a loosely coupled way to exchange messages. A class sending a message invokes the Message Bus to send the message to a destination, while other classes...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Bundling and Installing Resources into Your Theme via Themelets
Bundling and Installing Resources into Your Theme via Themelets Themelets are small, modular pieces of code that you can reuse in multiple themes. Unlike themes themselves, themelets may only...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Upgrading a Theme
Upgrading a Theme Themes developed for previous versions of Liferay DXP must be upgraded in order to be deployed to a new version. The gulp upgrade task updates Liferay version references and theme...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Bundling Independent UI Resources via Theme Contributors
Bundling Independent UI Resources via Theme Contributors Theme contributors are modules that contain CSS and JavaScript resources and apply them to every page. They are independent from specific...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Using a Microservice Client Extension
Using a Microservice Client Extension A microservice client extension is a standalone server process that relies on OAuth 2 for communication with Liferay. The microservice is a resource server and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Using a CSS Client Extension
Using a CSS Client Extension Liferay 7.4+ CSS client extensions introduce new CSS styling to pages. A deployed CSS client extension on a page adds to the page's existing styling, including theme...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Using a JavaScript Client Extension
Using a JavaScript Client Extension Liferay 7.4+ With a JavaScript (JS) client extension, you can run your own JavaScript on any page in Liferay without worrying about dependencies on Liferay code...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Using a Theme Favicon Client Extension
Using a Theme Favicon Client Extension Liferay 7.4+ With a theme favicon client extension, you can override the theme's favicon on the selected page. Start with the sample workspace to build and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Using a Theme Sprite Map Client Extension
Using a Theme Sprite Map Client Extension Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ With a theme sprite map client extension, you can override the default Clay sprite map used for icons on a page. Start...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Search Configuration Reference
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Using Relationship REST APIs
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
How the Bundler Publishes npm Packages
How the Bundler Publishes npm Packages The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and it's planned for future removal. When you deploy an OSGi bundle with the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Using Zapier to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Using Make to Sync Object Data with Google Sheets
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM

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