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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.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
Configuring Widget Look and Feel
Configuring Widget Look and Feel Customize your widget's appearance using the Look and Feel Configuration menu when using widget pages. Adjust text styles, background colors, borders, margins,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Setting a Default Widget Template
Setting a Default Widget Template You can change the widget template for individual widgets through their own configuration; however you can also configure a default widget template to apply to all...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Page Settings
Page Settings In Liferay, effective page management is crucial for maintaining an organized and user-friendly site. Page settings go beyond the physical layout and content of your pages to help you...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Configuring Locked Pages
Configuring Locked Pages Liferay DXP 2023.Q3+/Portal GA92+ Liferay locks pages during editing to avoid conflicts when multiple users try to edit the same page. This feature works with content,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Configuring Your Page's Friendly URL
Configuring Your Page's Friendly URL Liferay 7.3+ You can set friendly URLs for each of your site's pages. These URLs make it easy to understand and recall your page's address while providing key...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Other Page Types
Other Page Types Content pages are the most commonly used page type, but there are uses for the other page types. Utility Pages Utility pages are content pages you can apply to system-level pages,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Adding Elements to Content Pages
Adding Elements to Content Pages After creating a content page, you can add widgets and fragments to build the page's content and structure. Navigate to the content page and click Edit (Edit...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Using Widget Pages
Using Widget Pages A widget page is a page with a set layout that allows widgets (applications) to be displayed. Widgets can display content or add interactive and dynamic functionality to the page.
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Managing Content in Content Pages
Managing Content in Content Pages When working on content pages or templates, you can view and manage documents, web content articles, collections, and inline text added to them. To access these...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Using Page Comments
Using Page Comments When building content pages, you and your team can collaborate using Liferay's page comments feature. Comments are enabled out-of-the-box in Liferay DXP 7.3+. Use page comments...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Using Widgets on a Content Page
Using Widgets on a Content Page The widgets section functions like the add menu on a widget page. You can access the full list of available widgets and add them to the page. The main difference is...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Adding Widgets to a Page
Adding Widgets to a Page Widgets are applications. They can be simple and only used to display content, or they can be full-featured collaboration applications, like the Message Boards widget. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Converting Widget Pages to Content Pages
Converting Widget Pages to Content Pages In older versions, widget pages provided exclusive features, such as custom layouts and customizable columns. Many of these exclusive features are available...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Enabling User Personalization of Widget Pages
Enabling User Personalization of Widget Pages Administrators can designate some or all sections (rows and columns of the page layout) of a widget page as customizable for site members. Page...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Using the Iframe Widget
Using the Iframe Widget The Iframe widget creates an iframe that can embed and display a web page. Setting Up the Iframe Widget Create a new page or start editing a content page. Click Add...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Creating Collections
Creating Collections This information applies to Liferay DXP 7.3+. For previous Liferay DXP versions, see Creating Collections for Liferay 7.2 and Earlier Versions. You can create Manual or...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Defining Content Relationships
Defining Content Relationships When creating new content, you can define relationships between assets even if they don't share any tags and aren't in the same category. The Related Assets option...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Displaying Content
Displaying Content You can display content in various ways. The option you choose depends on the type of asset you want to display, how many assets you want to display at once, and how you want...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Additional Content Display Options
Additional Content Display Options In Liferay, displaying content on your site requires flexible tools to enhance how information is presented. From using the Web Content Display widget to managing...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Filtering Collections on a Page
Filtering Collections on a Page To improve the experience for Users viewing Collections on your Site, you can add Page Fragments to filter content in those Collections. For example, you can add a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Styling Widgets with Widget Templates
Styling Widgets with Widget Templates You can use widget templates to customize the appearance and functionality of out-of-the-box widgets, such as the Asset Publisher and Media Gallery widgets. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Using the Web Content Display Widget
Using the Web Content Display Widget After you create a web content article, the quickest way to display it is the web content display widget. Once displayed in a widget, content updates appear...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Collection Providers
Collection Providers Collection providers group items into collections for display on your pages. Several are available out of the box, or you can create them using the Information Framework to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Displaying Collections
Displaying Collections Liferay Portal 7.4 GA6+, DXP 7.3 GA1+ You can display a collection by adding a collection page, or a Collection Display fragment. For more information about these display...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Using the Simulation Panel
Using the Simulation Panel Available Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ You can verify your page's responsiveness by simulating different scenarios. With Liferay, use the Simulation panel to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Manually Migrating from Audience Targeting
Manually Migrating from Audience Targeting Due to the similarities between Audience Targeting user segments and Liferay 7.2+ Segments, most of your configuration is automatically transferred into...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Migrating User Segments
Migrating User Segments A user segment represents a subset of users with a common set of properties. Segmentation in Liferay 7.2+ works similarly to Audience Targeting in previous Liferay DXP...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Publishing Tools
Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. With each tool you can edit sites and content in a working environment...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Publications
Publications Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ You can use Publications to develop, track, and publish changes across your DXP instance. It works by creating a database column to determine which version of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Creating and Managing Publications
Creating and Managing Publications Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ With Publications, users can create instance-scoped blocks of changes. Because each publication is instance-scoped, they can be accessed...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Enabling Publications
Enabling Publications Available Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient and flexible way for you and your teams to develop, track, and publish changes. When enabled, Publications is...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Reverting Changes
Reverting Changes Liferay Publications maintains a history of all published changes. You can use this publishing history to easily create publications that revert earlier changes to production....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Workflow with Publications
Using Workflow with Publications 7.4 U44+/GA44+ Publications is integrated with Liferay's Workflow framework, so you can continue to use custom workflows for reviewing content and pages while...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Comparing Publishing Tools
Comparing Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. Publications is recommended over Staging in nearly all use cases...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Collaborating on Publications
Collaborating on Publications Liferay 7.4+ By default, a publication can only be accessed by its creator. However, publication creators can invite other users to view, edit, and publish their...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Making and Publishing Changes
Making and Publishing Changes Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient way to manage changes to your Liferay instance. With it, you and your team can create and collaborate on blocks of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Publications Permissions
Publications Permissions 7.4+ Publications works with Liferay's permissions framework, so you can assign application and resource permissions to regular roles. You can also assign permissions...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Resolving Conflicts
Resolving Conflicts During the publishing process, Liferay checks for conflicts between your publication and the production environment. Resolving all conflicts is necessary to complete publishing....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Publication Templates
Using Publication Templates Liferay 7.4 U73+/GA73+ To simplify creating publications with shared details and contributors, use publication templates. You can create a list of users to invite and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content
Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content Available 7.4+ By default, only content explicitly included in a publishing process is published to Live. If desired, you can configure your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

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