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
Custom Element Examples
Official Documentation
Custom Element Examples Here are example elements that use custom fields and nested fields in their contributed query clauses. Using Custom Fields (Expando) in Elements You can add custom fields...
Published Date: Jan 11, 2025 4:54 PM
Creating and Managing Search Blueprints
Official Documentation
Creating and Managing Search Blueprints You can create Search Blueprints from the Global menu's Applications section → Search Experiences. If you already have a Blueprint and want to apply it's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Predefined Element Variables Reference
Official Documentation
Predefined Element Variables Reference In the Element Source editor, place the cursor in the desired location and click the variable in the left hand sidebar to insert it. In the Custom JSON...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Optimizing Search Response Size
Official Documentation
Optimizing Search Response Size In rare cases, an overly large search response can result in ERROR messages from the search engine: ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-335][ElasticsearchIndexSearcher:165]...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Personalizing the Search Experience
Official Documentation
Personalizing the Search Experience One of the premier use cases for Search Blueprints is to personalize Liferay's search results. With a personalized search experience, each user sees results...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Search Blueprints Configuration Reference
Official Documentation
Search Blueprints Configuration Reference The Search Blueprints user interface has a Query Builder for creating Blueprints. Beyond adding Elements and configuring the query settings, there are...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Sorting Results in a Search Blueprint
Official Documentation
Sorting Results in a Search Blueprint Add a sort configuration to search blueprints to control the order of search results: Open the Global Menu (Global Menu), click the Applications tab, and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Using a Search Blueprint on a Search Page
Official Documentation
Using a Search Blueprint on a Search Page By default, a search page does not have a search blueprint associated with it. A blueprint must be applied to a search page to affect the Liferay search...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Installing Search Experiences on Liferay 7.3
Official Documentation
Installing Search Experiences on Liferay 7.3 [LES Subscription](./activating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) DXP 7.4 U5+; 7.3 U6+ The Liferay Enterprise Search Experiences app includes a suite of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Semantic Search
Official Documentation
Semantic Search 7.4 U70+ [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Semantic search evaluates the intent behind a searched phrase....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Search Blueprints Elements Reference
Official Documentation
Search Blueprints Elements Reference Elements are one of the fundamental building blocks of a Search Blueprint. To explore all the available Elements, navigate to the Global Menu (Global) →...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Understanding Search Blueprints
Official Documentation
Understanding Search Blueprints Use Search Blueprints to tailor the search page experience to your users' needs, without deploying any custom code. With Blueprints you can Create context-aware...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Creating a Search Blueprint for Semantic Search
Official Documentation
Creating a Search Blueprint for Semantic Search 7.4 U70+ [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Once a model is selected and the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Setting Up a Text Embedding Provider
Official Documentation
Setting Up a Text Embedding Provider 7.4 U70+ [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) A text embedding provider has two jobs: At...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Search Administration and Tuning
Official Documentation
Search Administration and Tuning Search Administration Panel Overview Reindexing Modes Search Tuning Synonym Sets Result Rankings Troubleshooting Search Search Insights Troubleshooting...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Elasticsearch Indexes Reference
Official Documentation
Elasticsearch Indexes Reference Liferay 7.3 and 7.4 each have a set of indexes created in Elasticsearch. Understanding these indexes and what they do can help you better configure and administer...
Published Date: Jul 29, 2025 8:56 PM
Reindexing Modes
Official Documentation
Reindexing Modes Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ Reindexing is refreshing all or part of the search index that's used for searching, and in some cases displaying, Liferay's content. Execute a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Result Rankings
Official Documentation
Result Rankings Subscribers This feature does not work with Solr. Result Rankings are for changing the list of returned results for specific keywords. With Results Rankings you can Designate...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Search Administration
Official Documentation
Search Administration In Control Panel → Configuration → Search there are three administrative UIs: Connections, Index Actions, and Field Mappings. Connections shows you the search engines your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Synonym Sets
Official Documentation
Synonym Sets Subscription This feature does not work with Solr. You can add a maximum of 10,000 synonym sets. A Synonym Set is a group of words or phrases with the same meaning. An...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM