Capability

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.

Check these articles for an introduction:

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
Personalizing Collections
Official Documentation
Personalizing Collections Liferay Portal 7.3 GA6 / DXP 7.3+ By default, any user can see all the collection's content and is part of the Anyone personalized variation. However, you can create a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Personalizing Collections for Liferay 7.2 and Earlier Versions
Official Documentation
Personalizing Collections for Liferay 7.2 and Earlier Versions Personalizing collections tailors content for specific user segments, enhancing user experiences and targeting content effectively. In...
Published Date: Jan 9, 2025 5:24 PM
Using the Accessibility Menu
Official Documentation
Using the Accessibility Menu Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ Most enhancements to accessibility in Liferay are propagated across the entire platform by default, so all your users can benefit...
Published Date: Jun 6, 2024 3:57 PM
Creating and Managing User Segments
Official Documentation
Creating and Managing User Segments Using Segments you can create different groups of users based on a common set of properties, like user Job Title, or user Language. For a list of the properties...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Segmentation
Official Documentation
Segmentation With Liferay's segmentation tools, you can define user groups based on shared characteristics like behavior, location, or profile details. You can use these segments to personalize...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Manually Migrating from Audience Targeting
Official Documentation
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 to Segmentation and Personalization
Official Documentation
Migrating to Segmentation and Personalization Starting with Liferay 7.2, Segmentation and Personalization functionality was integrated into the core product. Users of Audience Targeting must...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Segments Admin Settings
Official Documentation
Segments Admin Settings Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ You can configure Segments behavior at the system or instance level. With these settings, you can enable/disable segmentation, set the interval for...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Segments Editor UI Reference
Official Documentation
Segments Editor UI Reference You can use segments to organize users into different groups with common sets of properties. Follow these steps to access the segments editor UI. Go to Site...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Getting Analytics for User Segments
Official Documentation
Getting Analytics for User Segments Subscribers To use Analytics Cloud with User Segments, you must first connect your DXP data source to Analytics Cloud and enable synchronization of users and...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Migration from Audience Targeting
Official Documentation
Migration from Audience Targeting If you're upgrading from a Liferay version that used Audience Targeting, you must migrate to the built-in Segmentation and Personalization features introduced in...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Migrating User Segments
Official Documentation
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
Segmentation By Geolocation
Official Documentation
Segmentation By Geolocation Liferay DXP 7.4 U44+/GA44+ You can configure Segments by geolocation to display different pages dynamically or content based on the user's country. To display different...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Contributing Custom Content to the Similar Results Widget
Official Documentation
Contributing Custom Content to the Similar Results Widget Subscribers This functionality relies on a Service Provider Interface (SPI) that's bundled with Liferay DXP 7.3+. It's available in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Search
Official Documentation
Search
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Developer Guide
Official Documentation
Developer Guide Contributing Custom Content to the Similar Results Widget Search Queries and Filters Aggregations Model Entity Indexing APIs Search Headless APIs
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Search Overview
Official Documentation
Search Overview Search is a fundamental component of Liferay. Elasticsearch is bundled with Liferay for testing and development purposes. Production environments require Elasticsearch running on a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
What's New in Search for 7.3?
Official Documentation
What's New in Search for 7.3? Elasticsearch Integration Elasticsearch 7 Support Liferay CE 7.3 GA4+, Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1+ Liferay DXP 7.3 comes with out-of-the-box support for Elasticsearch 7. The...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Getting Started
Official Documentation
Getting Started
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Search Queries and Filters
Official Documentation
Search Queries and Filters To get sensible results from the search engine, you must provide a sensible query. Liferay's query APIs are in the portal-search-api module and are used to construct both...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Searching for Content
Official Documentation
Searching for Content All indexed content (a.k.a. assets in Liferay DXP) can be returned as search results. Custom content can also be indexed, so your installation might have additional asset...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
What's New in Search for 7.4?
Official Documentation
What's New in Search for 7.4? There are several highlights and new features added to Liferay's search infrastructure for the 7.4 release. New features include those added to the product for Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Installing and Upgrading a Search Engine
Official Documentation
Installing and Upgrading a Search Engine A search engine is a critical component of your Liferay installation. Creating an Example Cluster can get you started with an Elasticsearch installation,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Advanced Configuration of the Liferay Elasticsearch Connector
Official Documentation
Advanced Configuration of the Liferay Elasticsearch Connector The Elasticsearch connection is configured using a configuration file or via System Settings. The Elasticsearch connector has a lot of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Elasticsearch
Official Documentation
Elasticsearch Elasticsearch is the highly scalable, full-text search engine Liferay uses by default. Elasticsearch is bundled with Liferay for non-production purposes. In production, Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Connecting to Elasticsearch
Official Documentation
Connecting to Elasticsearch After setting up Elasticsearch, connect it to Liferay using the Liferay Connector to Elasticsearch. Connection steps depend on the connector you're configuring. See...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Getting Started with Elasticsearch
Official Documentation
Getting Started with Elasticsearch Compatibility: See the Search Engine Compatibility Matrix for details on the compatible Elasticsearch versions, available Liferay connectors, and required...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Installing Elasticsearch
Official Documentation
Installing Elasticsearch Here's how to install, configure, and start Elasticsearch on-premises. If you have Elasticsearch indexes used for primary data storage (storing data not backed by a...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Elasticsearch Connector Configuration Reference
Official Documentation
Elasticsearch Connector Configuration Reference The configuration information here applies to the latest available (bundled or through Marketplace) version of the Elasticsearch 6 and Elasticsearch...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Exercise: Run Liferay and Elasticsearch Using Docker
Official Documentation
Exercise: Run Liferay and Elasticsearch Using Docker 7.3+ Here you can walk through a minimal Liferay-Elasticsearch setup on your local machine to see how a secure REST Client connection between...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Securing Elasticsearch
Official Documentation
Securing Elasticsearch The very first thing you must do to secure Elasticsearch is enable X-Pack Security. After that you can begin configuring authentication and encrypted communication. ...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Troubleshooting Elasticsearch Installation
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting Elasticsearch Installation Liferay and Elasticsearch are complex systems full of configurations. When connecting them, you can run into difficulty along the way. Included below are...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Troubleshooting Elasticsearch: Common Issues
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting Elasticsearch: Common Issues Listed here are some common issues you may encounter while configuring Elasticsearch and Liferay. Additional connection-specific errors are discussed in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Upgrading Elasticsearch
Official Documentation
Upgrading Elasticsearch Liferay supports Elasticsearch 8. The compatibility matrix provides the latest support details. Solr is in maintenance mode in Liferay 7.4. Elasticsearch 6.x is not...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Backing Up Elasticsearch
Official Documentation
Backing Up Elasticsearch Elasticsearch replicas protect against a node going down, but they won't help you with a catastrophic failure. Only good backup practices can help you then. Backing Up...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Troubleshooting the Elasticsearch Connection
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting the Elasticsearch Connection Listed here are some connection issues you can encounter when configuring the Liferay-Elasticsearch connection, along with the most common solutions to...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Upgrading Search Infrastructure
Official Documentation
Upgrading Search Infrastructure While upgrading Liferay, consider whether an Elasticsearch upgrade is required. The exact steps for upgrading depend on your existing search engine installation and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Upgrading to Elasticsearch 7
Official Documentation
Upgrading to Elasticsearch 7 7.1 and 7.2 Liferay's connection to Elasticsearch 7.17.x servers is deprecated due to the End of Life for Elasticsearch 7.17. Connecting to a deprecated Elasticsearch...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Installing a Search Engine
Official Documentation
Installing a Search Engine A search engine is a critical component of your Liferay installation. Creating an Example Cluster can get you started with the installation, but this guide demonstrates...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Installing OpenSearch
Official Documentation
Installing OpenSearch Subscription Required [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) You can connect OpenSearch with Liferay. For...
Published Date: Nov 28, 2024 3:14 PM