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Liferay offers a comprehensive toolkit to extend or customize your digital experience. Build applications quickly with low-code/no-code features like Objects, or leverage developer tools like Liferay Workspace and Blade CLI for further customizations.

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Using MVC
Using MVC If you're an experienced developer, this is not the first time you've heard about Model View Controller. If there are so many implementations of MVC frameworks in Java, why did Liferay...
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
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
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:...
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Chart Tag Library
Chart Tag Library Lines, splines, bars, pies and more, the Chart tag Library provides everything you need to model data. Each taglib gives you access to the corresponding Clay component. These...
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Bar Charts
Bar Charts Bar charts contain multiple sets of data. A bar chart models the data in bars. Each data series (created with the addColumns() method) is defined with a new instance of the...
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Gauge Charts
Gauge Charts Gauge charts are percentage-based. A gauge chart shows where percentage-based data falls over a given range. Each data set must be defined as a new instance of the SingleValueColumn...
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Line Charts
Line Charts Line charts contain multiple sets of data. A Line chart displays the data linearly. Each data series (created with the addColumns() method) is defined with a new instance of the ...
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Pie Charts
Pie Charts Pie charts are percentage-based. A pie chart models percentage-based data as individual slices of pie. Each data set must be defined as a new instance of the SingleValueColumn object....
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Predictive Charts
Predictive Charts Predictive charts let you visualize current data along with predicted/forecasted data within a given value range. Predicted/forecasted data is surrounded by a highlighted area of...
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Refreshing Charts to Reflect Real Time Data
Refreshing Charts to Reflect Real Time Data The polling interval property is an optional property for all charts. It specifies the time in milliseconds for the chart's data to refresh. You can use...
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Spline Charts
Spline Charts Spline charts contain multiple sets of data. A spline chart connects points of data with a smooth curve. Each data series (created with the addColumns() method) is defined with a new...
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...
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Clay Buttons
Clay Buttons Buttons come in several types and variations. This tutorial covers the different styles and variations of buttons you can create with the Clay taglibs. Types Primary button: Used for...
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Clay Dropdown Menus and Action Menus
Clay Dropdown Menus and Action Menus You can add dropdown menus to your app via the clay:dropdown-menu and clay:actions-menu taglibs. The Clay taglibs provide several menu variations for you to...
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Clay Form Elements
Clay Form Elements The Liferay Clay tag library provides several tags for creating form elements. An example of each tag is shown below. Checkbox Checkboxes give the user a true or false input. "...
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Clay Alerts
Clay Alerts Clay alerts come in two types: embedded and stripe. Both types, along with several examples of each, are shown below. Embedded Alerts Embedded alerts are usually used inside forms. The...
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Clay Badges
Clay Badges Badges help highlight important information such as notifications or new and unread messages. Badges have circular borders and are only used to specify a number. This covers the...
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Clay Icons
Clay Icons The Liferay Clay taglibs provide several icons that you can use in your apps. Use the clay:icon tag and specify the icon with the symbol attribute: You can include icons in your app...
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Clay Labels and Links
Clay Labels and Links Liferay Clay taglibs provide tags for creating labels and links in your app. Both of these elements are covered below. Labels The Liferay Clay taglibs provide a few different...
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Clay Management Toolbar
Clay Management Toolbar The Management Toolbar gives administrators control over search container results in their apps. It lets you filter, sort, and choose a view type for search results, so you...
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Liferay Portlet Objects For JSPs
Liferay Portlet Objects For JSPs You may have noticed the tag in your JSPs. Similar to the theme:defineObjects tag, when you include this tag in your JSP, you gain access to several variables ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay UI Tag Library
Liferay UI Tag Library The Liferay UI tag library provides tags that implement commonly used UI components. These tags make your markup consistent, responsive, and accessible. You can find a list...
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Liferay UI Icon Lists
Liferay UI Icon Lists An icon list displays icons in a horizontal list, instead of in a pop-up navigation menu like an icon menu. You can see an example of an icon list menu in a message board...
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Liferay UI Icons
Liferay UI Icons The Liferay UI taglibs provide several icons you can include in your apps. To add an icon to your app, use the liferay-ui:icon tag and specify the icon with either the icon,...
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Liferay UI Tabs
Liferay UI Tabs Tabs create dividers that organize content into individual sections. Content can be embedded or included from another JSP. To add tabs to your app, use the tag and specify each...
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Using Liferay Util Body Bottom
Using Liferay Util Body Bottom The body bottom tag is not a self-closing tag. It lets you add additional HTML or scripts to the bottom of the body tag. content placed between the opening and...
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Using Liferay Util Get URL
Using Liferay Util Get URL The get URL tag scrapes the URL provided by the url attribute. If a value is provided for the var attribute, the content from the screen scrape is scoped to that...
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Using Liferay Util Include
Using Liferay Util Include The include tag lets you include other JSP files in your portlet's JSP, theme, or web content. This can increase readability as well as provide separation of concerns for...
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Liferay Util Tag Library
Liferay Util Tag Library The Liferay Util taglib is used to pull other resources into a portlet or theme. You can use it to specify which resources to insert at the bottom or top of the page's...
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Using Liferay Util Body Top
Using Liferay Util Body Top The body top tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the top of the body tag. When something is passed...
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Using Liferay Util Buffer
Using Liferay Util Buffer The buffer tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is saved to a buffer and its output is assigned to the Java...
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Using Liferay Util Dynamic Include
Using Liferay Util Dynamic Include The dynamic include tag lets you specify a point or points in a JSP or theme where a developer can inject additional HTML, resources, or functionality, using the...
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Using Liferay Util HTML Bottom
Using Liferay Util HTML Bottom The HTML bottom tag is not a self-closing tag. Content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the bottom of the tag. When something is passed...
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Using Liferay Util Whitespace Remover
Using Liferay Util Whitespace Remover The whitespace remover tag removes line breaks and tabs from code blocks included between the opening and closing of the tag. Below is an example configuration...
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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...
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Scoping Configurations
Scoping Configurations In Liferay DXP, you can set an application's configuration to different levels of scope: System, Instance, Site, or Portlet. For example, if you create an application to have...
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Listening for Messages
Listening for Messages You can listen for messages sent to any registered Message Bus destination, whether it's built-in to DXP/Portal, defined by third-parties, or created by you. Messages sent to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Tuning Messaging Performance
Tuning Messaging Performance Messaging performance is tuned at the destinations. Performance depends on the destination type, the amount of processing the message listeners require, and the thread...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Servlets
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