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Development and Tooling

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.

For users on PaaS or running Self-Hosted, Liferay also offers tools deploying customizations.

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Portlet Providers
Portlet Providers
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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...
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CSS YAML Configuration Reference
CSS YAML Configuration Reference You can define a CSS client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml file defines a CSS client extension definition: ...
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Theme CSS YAML Configuration Reference
Theme CSS YAML Configuration Reference You can define a theme CSS client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml file defines a theme CSS client...
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Theme Sprite Map YAML Configuration Reference
Theme Sprite Map YAML Configuration Reference You can define a theme sprite map client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml defines a theme sprite...
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JavaScript YAML Configuration Reference
JavaScript YAML Configuration Reference You can define a JavaScript client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml file defines a JavaScript client...
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Using a Theme CSS Client Extension
Using a Theme CSS Client Extension Liferay 7.4+ With a theme CSS client extension, you can override the current theme's CSS files (main.css and clay.css) to change the look and feel of a page....
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Data Sets
Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal 7.4 GA112+ [Beta Feature](../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Data sets are like virtual containers that help...
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Using an Editor Config Contributor Client Extension
Using an Editor Config Contributor Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal 7.4 GA112+ The translation status feature is currently behind a release feature flag (LPS-186870). Read Release...
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Creating Data Sets
Creating Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal 7.4 GA112+ [Beta Feature](../../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Currently, this feature is behind a...
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Data Set Actions
Data Set Actions Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal 7.4 GA112+ [Beta Feature](../../../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) While managing data set, define...
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Data Set Filters
Data Set Filters Liferay DXP 2024.Q1 U112 [Beta Feature](../../../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) While managing data sets, you can define...
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Using Data Set Actions
Using Data Set Actions Liferay DXP 2024.Q1 U112 [Beta Feature](../../../../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Here are some examples for how to use...
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Data Set Visualization Modes
Data Set Visualization Modes Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal 7.4 GA112+ [Beta Feature](../../../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) To customize the data...
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Object Action YAML Configuration Reference
Object Action YAML Configuration Reference You can define an object action client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml defines an object action and...
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Creating a Basic Custom Element
Creating a Basic Custom Element Liferay 7.4+ Custom element client extensions use Liferay's frontend infrastructure to register external, remote applications with the Liferay platform and render...
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Custom Element YAML Configuration Reference
Custom Element YAML Configuration Reference You can define a custom element client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml file defines a custom...
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Object Validation Rule YAML Configuration Reference
Object Validation Rule YAML Configuration Reference To define an Object Validation Rule client extension, add the objectValidationRule type to your client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This...
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Aggregation Fields
Aggregation Fields Liferay 7.4 U47+/GA47+ Aggregation fields perform basic calculations on the entries from a relationship table and display the resulting values. Available aggregation functions...
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Activating and Deactivating Objects
Activating and Deactivating Objects Custom objects are activated when published. While active, you can use the object to create entries via the Liferay UI or dedicated REST APIs. If needed, you can...
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Exporting and Importing Object Definitions
Exporting and Importing Object Definitions Liferay 7.4 U68+/GA68+ You can export and import object definitions as .json files. These files include the definition's complete schema (e.g.,...
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Extending System Objects
Extending System Objects Liferay 7.4 U86+/GA86+ With Liferay Objects, you can extend supported system services. Currently, only these services are integrated with the Objects framework: Account...
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Adding and Managing Custom States
Adding and Managing Custom States Liferay 7.4+ Some use cases may require assigning multiple states to an object entry at the same time. For example, when building an Order application, you may...
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Adding Fields to Objects
Adding Fields to Objects Liferay 7.4 2023.Q4+/GA102+ Fields are data definitions that represent database columns and store different types of values. By default, all objects include these system...
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Encrypted Fields
Encrypted Fields Self-Hosted and Self-Managed Only Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ Liferay provides the encrypted field type for storing sensitive user data. To use encrypted fields, first add an...
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Formula Fields
Formula Fields Liferay 7.4 2023.Q4+/GA102+ Formula fields store read-only values calculated using numeric fields in the object definition. Example use cases include calculating an employee's...
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Using Read-Only Fields
Using Read-Only Fields Some use cases may require data fields to be read-only. For example, data integrity may require some field values to remain immutable, or you may need to prevent unauthorized...
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Designing Object Layouts
Designing Object Layouts Liferay 7.4 U31+/GA31+ Layouts define how fields and relationships appear when creating and editing object entries. Each layout can include multiple tabs containing...
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Auto-Increment Fields
Auto-Increment Fields DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal 7.4 GA112+ Auto-Increment fields are configurable read-only fields for uniquely identifying object entries in a human-readable format. For example, an IT...
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Layouts
Layouts Liferay 7.4+ Object layouts define how fields and relationships appear when creating and editing entries. All published objects include an autogenerated layout with a single tab that lists...
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Organizing Objects with Folders
Organizing Objects with Folders By default, object definitions are grouped in the Uncategorized folder, but you can add object folders to organize data models and manage access to definitions. ...
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Removing Relationships
Removing Relationships Liferay 7.4 U26+/GA26+ You can remove relationships from both draft and published object definitions. Removing a relationship permanently deletes its field from the related...
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Adding Field Validations
Adding Field Validations Liferay 7.4 2023.Q3+/GA92+ Validations set rules for determining valid field entries. Each validation has its own trigger, conditions, and error message, which you can set...
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Using the Objects Model Builder
Using the Objects Model Builder [Liferay 7.4 2023.Q4+/GA102+](#model-builder-availability) For Liferay 7.4 2023.Q4+/GA102+, you must have Object Folder → View permissions to access the Objects...
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Renaming Table Columns
Renaming Table Columns Liferay 7.4 U21+/GA21+ With custom views, you can change and localize the display name for table columns so you can serve your global users and ensure the table's naming...
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Displaying Object Entries with Collections
Displaying Object Entries with Collections Liferay 7.4 U77+/GA77+ When you publish an object definition, Liferay creates a collection provider for it. For site-scoped objects, you can also create...
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Integrating Objects with Third Party Services
Integrating Objects with Third Party Services You can use Liferay Objects with popular data integration tools to create automated tasks for syncing Object data with external services. These tasks...
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Understanding Object Integrations
Understanding Object Integrations Published custom objects are integrated with Liferay's core frameworks, so you can leverage Liferay's features to build unified experiences across the platform....
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Reference
Reference App Builder Deploying WARs (WAB Generator) JARS Excluded from WABs
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Creating the Role Change Request App
Creating the Role Change Request App Subscribers The Role Change Request App starts with the employee submitting a request form. Processing then proceeds to the Current Manager, then to the...
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Tooling
Tooling Liferay provides a variety of developer tools that include standard build scripting, lightweight CLI utilities, and full IDE based on Eclipse. This is to serve all developers, whether...
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Creating the Role Change Request Object
Creating the Role Change Request Object Subscribers Consider a Human Resources application that collects employee requests to change Roles within the software engineering department: the Role...
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JARs Excluded from WABs
JARs Excluded from WABs [Liferay-generated web application bundles (WABs) are stripped of third party JARs that contain packages that Liferay exports already. Deploying the same third party...
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Blade CLI
Blade CLI Blade CLI can be installed through a command line interface or a graphical installer. If you're behind a proxy, once it's installed you can configure it to operate through the proxy....
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Liferay Workspace
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...
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Liferay CLI Tool
Liferay CLI Tool The Liferay CLI tool is deprecated as of Liferay 2024.Q4/7.4 GA129, and it's planned for future removal. The Liferay CLI tool makes it easy to create Angular, JavaScript, React,...
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Bundler Migration Guide
Bundler Migration Guide The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/7.4 GA129, and it's planned for future removal.
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Migrating a liferay-npm-bundler Project from 1.x to 2.x
Migrating a liferay-npm-bundler Project from 1.x to 2.x The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/7.4 GA129, and it's planned for future removal. liferay-npm-bundler 2.x offers...
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Migrating an Angular Project to Use Liferay npm Bundler 2.x
Migrating an Angular Project to Use Liferay npm Bundler 2.x The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/7.4 GA129, and it's planned for future removal. Follow these steps to migrate...
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Migrating a Plain JavaScript, Billboard JS, JQuery, Metal JS, React, or Vue JS Project to Use Liferay npm Bundler 2.x
Migrating a Plain JavaScript, Billboard JS, JQuery, Metal JS, React, or Vue JS Project to Use Liferay npm Bundler 2.x The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/7.4 GA129, and it's...
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How AMD Loader Configuration is Exported
How AMD Loader Configuration is Exported The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/7.4 GA129, and it's planned for future removal. If you don't understand how Liferay AMD Loader...
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How the Bundler Publishes npm Packages
How the Bundler Publishes npm Packages The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/7.4 GA129, and it's planned for future removal. When you deploy an OSGi bundle with the specified...
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How JavaScript Modules are Formatted for AMD
How JavaScript Modules are Formatted for AMD The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/7.4 GA129, and it's planned for future removal. Liferay AMD Loader is based on the AMD...
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Liferay npm Bundler
Liferay npm Bundler The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/7.4 GA129, and it's planned for future removal. The liferay-npm-bundler is a bundler (like Webpack or Browserify) that...
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Poshi Test Automation
Poshi Test Automation Poshi is a test automation framework that is simple, easy to understand, and does not require prior development experience to get started. Poshi tests can be written to...
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Understanding Test Results and Debugging Tests
Understanding Test Results and Debugging Tests Poshi tests are run on the terminal or command line. When a test run is completed there are multiple ways to view the test results and diagnose test...
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Poshi Basics
Poshi Basics New features, improvements, and system upgrades can sometimes introduce unexpected behaviors and bugs. Running suites of automated tests is an advantageous method of identifying issues...
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Paths
Paths A path is an element on a page that a test will interact with. An element can be a button, text field, link, image, paragraph, or just about anything you would need to assert, click, or type...
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Setup
Setup Prerequisites A supported version of Java. Google Chrome. Gradle or Gradle Wrapper 6.6.1 or higher. Setting up the Poshi Standalone Gradle Project Create a new directory, example...
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Poshi Advantages
Poshi Advantages Simplified Syntax To make it easier for less technical testers to read and write test automation, Poshi uses a simplified Groovy-like script syntax. It is less wordy than most...
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