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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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OAuth 2 Scopes
OAuth 2 Scopes In OAuth 2.0, applications are granted access to limited subsets of user data. These are called scopes (not to be confused with Liferay scopes). You can create them in two ways: ...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
DXP
DXP Welcome to the official documentation for the latest versions of Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal! Liferay DXP is the commercially supported and enterprise ready platform used around the world,...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Installation and Upgrades
Installation and Upgrades
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Installing Liferay
Installing Liferay Liferay runs on an application server. There are three ways to host Liferay: Using a Docker container Using a Liferay Tomcat bundle, on premises On a supported application...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Installing a Liferay-Tomcat Bundle
Installing a Liferay-Tomcat Bundle The Tomcat Bundle includes the Apache Tomcat application server with Liferay DXP/Portal pre-deployed. It's the easiest, fastest way to install Liferay on...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Installing on WebLogic
Installing on WebLogic If you are using WebLogic as your application server, it is highly recommended to install DXP to a WebLogic Managed server. A managed server can start and stop DXP quickly...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Installing on WebSphere
Installing on WebSphere Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 or below Compatibility with IBM WebSphere application server has been removed in 2024.Q2 and later releases. Installing Liferay DXP on...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Installing on JBoss EAP
Installing on JBoss EAP Installing on JBoss EAP requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring JBoss, and deploying DXP on JBoss. You must also configure your database and...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Installing on Tomcat
Installing on Tomcat Using a Liferay-Tomcat bundle or Docker image is the fastest way to get started using Liferay DXP. This article is for users who want to have full control over their Tomcat...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Installing on WildFly
Installing on WildFly Installing on WildFly requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring WildFly, and deploying DXP on WildFly. You must also configure your database and...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Running Liferay for the First Time
Running Liferay for the First Time Once you've installed Liferay DXP/Portal and configured a database for it, it is ready to run. Start the Server Run the startup script bundled with your...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Container Lifecycle and API
Container Lifecycle and API At a high level, the container starts Tomcat with Liferay deployed on it. Additionally, however, the container entry point provides an API for executing these use cases:...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Docker Image Versions
Docker Image Versions Liferay Docker image tags begin with a Liferay software version and end with an image version. [Liferay software version] [image version] For example, Liferay DXP 7.4.13...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Setting Up JNDI on Tomcat
Setting Up JNDI on Tomcat Liferay 7.4+ To set up JNDI resources, you must put the necessary JDBC drivers in the Tomcat lib folder (i.e. tomcat-9.0.56/lib). For example, if you use an Oracle...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
7.2 Breaking Changes
7.2 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay developers or users. We try our best to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
7.3 Breaking Changes
7.3 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay developers or users. We try our best to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
7.4 Breaking Changes
7.4 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay 7.4, starting with the latest quarterly...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Exported Third Party Packages
Exported Third Party Packages Liferay provides over one-hundred third party Java packages at run time. The com.liferay.portal.bootstrap module exports the packages by specifying individual packages...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Process Automation
Process Automation
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Forms
Forms The Forms application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. Migrate your forms to objects and form container fragments to future-proof your solutions. You can use...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Creating and Managing Forms
Creating and Managing Forms The Forms application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. Migrate your forms to objects and form container fragments to future-proof your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Creating Forms
Creating Forms You can create multi-field forms with the Forms application. Only authenticated users with the requisite Process Automation Permissions can create forms. At minimum, they should have...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Exporting and Importing Forms
Exporting and Importing Forms You can export all your forms as a LAR file and then import them into a different Site for reuse. See Exporting/Importing Site Pages and Content to learn about the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Forms Field Types Reference
Forms Field Types Reference The Liferay Forms application contains lots of field types and elements to add to your forms. To discover the available elements, Open the Product Menu (Product Menu)...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Reusing Sets of Form Elements
Reusing Sets of Form Elements Forms often request the same sets of information, such as name, birthday, and address. Rather than adding these fields for every new form, you can group elements as a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Validation and Masking
Validation and Masking Certain Forms fields can be validated (Text, Date, and Numeric fields) and masked (Numeric fields) to ensure User input is valid. Date Fields can be validated beginning in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Data Providers
Data Providers Data providers serve data that can be consumed by the Forms application. The REST Data Provider is included with the Forms application. With it, you can consume data from REST web...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using the REST Data Provider to Populate Form Options
Using the REST Data Provider to Populate Form Options Select from List fields can hold many options. Those options can be supplied automatically by using the JSON web services registered in Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Understanding Form Storage Adapters
Understanding Form Storage Adapters Liferay DXP 7.3 and Liferay DXP 7.2 versions that include the fix for [LPS-97208](https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-97208) (planned for Liferay DXP 7.2 SP3)....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using the Search Location Field
Using the Search Location Field Use a Search Location field so a user can interact with Google's Maps JavaScript API and Google Places API, selecting a location and getting these fields autofilled...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Validation Conditions Reference
Validation Conditions Reference There are several out-of-the-box validation conditions that can be used to validate form responses before they are submitted. Text Field Validation Conditions...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Developer Guide
Developer Guide The Forms application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. Migrate your forms to objects and form container fragments to future-proof your solutions. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Developing a Custom Form Field for Liferay 7.2
Developing a Custom Form Field for Liferay 7.2 React-based custom form fields can be developed for Liferay 7.3 and Liferay 7.4. See Writing Custom Form Field Types to learn how. Liferay 7.2 used a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Writing a Custom Form Field Type
Writing a Custom Form Field Type The Forms application contains many highly configurable field types out-of-the-box. Most use cases are met with one of the existing field types. If your use case...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Dynamic Data Lists
Dynamic Data Lists Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data Lists to Objects as soon...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Creating Data Definitions
Creating Data Definitions Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data Lists to Objects...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Creating Display Templates
Creating Display Templates Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data Lists to Objects...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Getting Started with Dynamic Data Lists
Getting Started with Dynamic Data Lists Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using the Jump to Page Rule
Using the Jump to Page Rule Use a Jump to Page rule to navigate automatically to a specific page in the form based on one or more conditions. This is useful if some pages do not apply to all the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Writing a Custom Data Provider
Writing a Custom Data Provider Liferay Forms fields can be populated using a Data Provider. Out of the box, there's a REST Data Provider that provides a flexible way to consume data from most REST...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM

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