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
Searching and Exporting Audit Events
Official Documentation
Searching and Exporting Audit Events The audit application comes with simple and advanced searching capabilities. To use the simple search, you can enter a search term and click the magnifying...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using a Search Page Template
Official Documentation
Using a Search Page Template The default search page is backed by a Global scope page template. Manually created search pages can use that same template as a baseline. Out-of-the-box, the Search...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Audit Framework
Official Documentation
Audit Framework Liferay's audit framework shows activities relating to users, user groups, organizations, roles, multi-factor authentication, and objects (definitions, fields, actions, layouts,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Audit Event Types Reference
Audit Event Types Reference The EventTypes class lists the different event categories logged by the audit framework. It specifies the action performed on the resource listed in the audit...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Adding Custom Fields
Official Documentation
Adding Custom Fields Custom fields are in maintenance mode. Use Liferay Objects if possible. Many of Liferay's assets and resources can be extended with custom fields. Adding custom fields can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Common Tasks
Official Documentation
Common Tasks Enabling OpenOffice / LibreOffice Configuring Mail Managing Instance Email Notification Templates Setting a Terms of Use Managing User Authentication Configuring Default User...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Configuration Files
Official Documentation
Using Configuration Files System Settings provides a user interface for making system-scoped configuration changes and setting default configurations for other scopes. The same configurations in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Beta Features and Feature Flags
Official Documentation
Beta Features and Feature Flags Feature Flags DXP 7.4 U69+/GA69+ Some features in Liferay are hidden behind feature flags. Using feature flags, you have control over new functionality introduced...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Changing Translations with Language Override
Official Documentation
Changing Translations with Language Override Liferay DXP 7.4 U4/Portal 7.4 GA8. Import/Export and filtering functionality in Liferay DXP 7.4 U17/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA17 Liferay's Language...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuration Files and Factories
Official Documentation
Configuration Files and Factories Using Configuration Files Using Factory Configuration
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Factory Configuration
Official Documentation
Using Factory Configuration Most Liferay DXP System Settings allow just one set of configurations for an entry. To change the configuration, you update the single configuration form, and it applies...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Managing Countries
Official Documentation
Managing Countries Liferay DXP 7.4 U36/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA36 and above Liferay contains a list of available countries as defined by the ISO 3166 Standard, but you can use the Countries...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Security Settings
Official Documentation
Security Settings Enabling Antivirus Scanning for Uploaded Files More coming soon!
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
System Settings
Official Documentation
System Settings You can make System-scoped configurations from Control Panel → Configuration → System Settings. The System Settings application shows configuration sections underneath four...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Virtual Instances
Official Documentation
Virtual Instances Liferay DXP can host multiple portals on one installation. These are called virtual instances. Each virtual instance has completely separate data and configurations. Each is...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Adding a Virtual Instance
Official Documentation
Adding a Virtual Instance Before you do anything in Liferay DXP to add a virtual instance, you must configure its domain name in your network to point to your installed Liferay DXP system. There's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Email Settings
Official Documentation
Email Settings The email configuration is where you configure email notifications at the virtual instance scope. To access these options, Open the Global Menu (Global Menu) and navigate to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Understanding Configuration Scope
Official Documentation
Understanding Configuration Scope Liferay DXP settings are applied at four levels, or scopes: System, Virtual Instance, Site, and Widget. System Settings define the system-wide defaults. For all...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Analytics
Official Documentation
Analytics The Analytics category defines the available analytics systems for the virtual instance. Enter an analytics system or remove one of the two pre-configured options (google and piwik)....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Users in Virtual Instances
Official Documentation
Configuring Users in Virtual Instances You can define the look and feel of the personal menu, the default user associations, and the fields that appear when a new user creates an account. To...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Infrastructure
Official Documentation
Infrastructure The Infrastructure category contains settings related to the export/import, staging, and site template propagation processes. You can also configure the session timeout. To access...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Localization
Official Documentation
Localization To access the Localization settings, Open the Control Panel and navigate to Configuration → Instance Settings, and select the Localization category under the PLATFORM section. Here,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Instance Configuration
Official Documentation
Instance Configuration The Instance Configuration settings define the configuration information for the virtual instance, from its appearance to the Terms of Use your Users agree to the first time...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Data Integration
Official Documentation
Data Integration
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Liferay Talend Components Overview
Official Documentation
Liferay Talend Components Overview Unsupported Liferay Talend Connector is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and is scheduled for removal in a future release. If you use Talend...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Third Party
Official Documentation
Third Party The Third Party category specifies the maps API provider for geolocalized assets. Choose OpenStreetMap or Google Maps as the maps API provider. Configure API provider for mapping...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Redirect URLs
Official Documentation
Redirect URLs Available 7.4+ Your Liferay Instance can be configured to allow redirects to certain URLs or IP addresses. To configure, navigate to Control Panel → Instance Settings → Content and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
User Authentication
Official Documentation
User Authentication The User Authentication settings define how Users can authenticate, the various authentication methods that are required for them, and the screen names and email addresses that...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Installing Liferay Talend Components
Official Documentation
Installing Liferay Talend Components Unsupported Liferay Talend Connector is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and is scheduled for removal in a future release. Liferay's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
File Storage
Official Documentation
File Storage All files uploaded to Liferay DXP are stored in the instance's designated file store. This includes files uploaded using Documents and Media, as well as those uploaded using...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Enabling Antivirus Scanning for Uploaded Files
Official Documentation
Enabling Antivirus Scanning for Uploaded Files DXP 7.3 SP 1+, Portal 7.3 GA7+, and DXP 7.2 FP 9+ This feature is not currently available on Portal 7.2 and earlier versions. You can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
File Store Migration
Official Documentation
File Store Migration Files can be migrated from one file store type to another. Here are some migration scenarios: Migrating from Simple File System Store to Advanced File System Store for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
DBStore
Official Documentation
DBStore DBStore stores files to the DXP database as blobs. DBStore doesn't have the transaction rollback vulnerabilities that the file-based store types (Simple, Advanced, S3) have. DBStore's file...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Google Cloud Storage
Official Documentation
Google Cloud Storage Self-Hosted Only Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3+ and 7.4+ Liferay DXP provides integration with Google's Cloud Storage (GCS) service. With GCS integration, you can seamlessly store and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
IBM Cloud Object Storage
Official Documentation
IBM Cloud Object Storage Self-Hosted Only Liferay DXP implements IBM’s Cloud Object Storage store with the S3 compatibility layer so that it uses the same configuration as the AWS S3 store. Once...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Simple File System Store
Official Documentation
Simple File System Store Simple File System Store is the default file store type. It uses a file system (local or a mounted share) to store files. If Simple File System Store is used in a clustered...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Other File Store Types
Official Documentation
Other File Store Types Simple Fie System Store Amazon S3 Store DBStore IBM Cloud Object Storage Google Cloud Storage Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Service
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Amazon Simple Storage Service
Official Documentation
Amazon Simple Storage Service Self-Hosted Only Amazon's simple storage service (S3) is a cloud-based storage solution that DXP's S3 Store uses to store files seamlessly to the cloud. Once you have...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Service
Official Documentation
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Service Self-Hosted Only 7.4+ and 7.3 FP2+ Microsoft Azure Blob Storage is a cloud-based storage solution that DXP’s Azure Blob Storage Store uses to seamlessly store...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Installing and Managing Apps
Official Documentation
Installing and Managing Apps You can add all kinds of functionality to your DXP installation by purchasing and installing apps. Apps are available in the Liferay Marketplace, and tools such as the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM