Capability

Personalization

Liferay provides powerful out-of-the-box features for building and delivering personalized experiences to users. Personalization features empower you to deliver novel site experiences that differ based on defined user segments, design and execute A/B Tests, and more.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
Customizing Auto-Save Behavior
Official Documentation
Customizing Auto-Save Behavior The Forms application automatically saves the form creation progress as you create a form. By default, a form's draft is auto-saved every minute. To change the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Customizing Form Layouts
Official Documentation
Customizing Form Layouts By default, new elements on your form are added to a new row and occupy the entire width of the form. Form with all elements occupying entire width of form. Sometimes it...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Field Autocompletion
Official Documentation
Field Autocompletion You can configure form field autocompletion in the Forms application: Autocompletion TypeConfigurationField Types ManualType a list of autocompletion optionsText Data...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:49 AM
Customizing the Submit Button
Official Documentation
Customizing the Submit Button Available 7.4+ When a User is finished entering data into a form, they must submit the form. By default a button that says Submit is displayed for this purpose. ...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:49 AM
Exporting and Importing Forms
Official Documentation
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
Reusing Sets of Form Elements
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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
Forms Configuration Reference
Official Documentation
Forms Configuration Reference Here's an overview of all the Forms configurations so you can quickly find a configuration you need. Forms Options You can export and import forms between sites. To...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:49 AM
Forms Field Types Reference
Official Documentation
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
Forms Permissions Reference
Official Documentation
Forms Permissions Reference This article serves as a guide for all permissions associated with the Forms application. Form Widget Permissions Navigate to the site page where the Form widget has...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:49 AM
Providing Help Text and Predefined Values
Official Documentation
Providing Help Text and Predefined Values Form fields can be configured to have help text, placeholder text, and predefined values that assist users in understanding and filling out a form. Help...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:49 AM
Using the Search Location Field
Official Documentation
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
Translating Forms
Official Documentation
Translating Forms Forms can be translated and presented in any language that is currently enabled on the current site. To add a translation: Begin by viewing an existing form (e.g., Guest...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:49 AM
Using Storage Adapters
Official Documentation
Using Storage Adapters When a User adds a form record, Liferay routes the processing of the request through a storage adapter API. The same is true for the other CRUD operations performed on form...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:49 AM
Developer Guide
Official Documentation
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
Writing a Custom Data Provider
Official Documentation
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
Validation Conditions Reference
Official Documentation
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
Writing a Custom Form Field Type
Official Documentation
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
Understanding Form Storage Adapters
Official Documentation
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
Data Providers
Official Documentation
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