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
Using Liferay Util HTML Top
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util HTML Top The HTML top tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the tag. When something is passed using this...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using Liferay Util Param
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Using Liferay Util Param The param tag lets you set a parameter for an included JSP page. This configuration requires two JSPs. JSP A, the main view of the app, includes JSP B and sets its...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Liferay UI Tag Library
Official Documentation
Liferay UI Tag Library The Liferay UI tag library provides tags that implement commonly used UI components. These tags make your markup consistent, responsive, and accessible. You can find a list...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay UI Icon Menus
Official Documentation
Liferay UI Icon Menus You can add a pop-up navigation menu to your app with the liferay-ui:icon-menu tag. Icon menus display menu options when needed, storing them away in a collapsed menu when...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay UI Tabs
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Liferay UI Tabs Tabs create dividers that organize content into individual sections. Content can be embedded or included from another JSP. To add tabs to your app, use the tag and specify each...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay Util Tag Library
Official Documentation
Liferay Util Tag Library The Liferay Util taglib is used to pull other resources into a portlet or theme. You can use it to specify which resources to insert at the bottom or top of the page's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Clay Stickers
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Clay Stickers Whereas badges display numbers and labels display short information, stickers are small visual indicators of the content (usually the content type). They can include a small label or...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay UI Icon Help
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Liferay UI Icon Help The icon help tag lets you communicate additional information to your users in an unobtrusive way. It renders as an iconic question mark that provides more information through...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay UI Icon Lists
Official Documentation
Liferay UI Icon Lists An icon list displays icons in a horizontal list, instead of in a pop-up navigation menu like an icon menu. You can see an example of an icon list menu in a message board...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay UI Icons
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Liferay UI Icons The Liferay UI taglibs provide several icons you can include in your apps. To add an icon to your app, use the liferay-ui:icon tag and specify the icon with either the icon,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using Liferay Util Body Bottom
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Using Liferay Util Body Bottom The body bottom tag is not a self-closing tag. It lets you add additional HTML or scripts to the bottom of the body tag. content placed between the opening and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using Liferay Util Body Top
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util Body Top The body top tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the top of the body tag. When something is passed...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using Liferay Util Whitespace Remover
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Using Liferay Util Whitespace Remover The whitespace remover tag removes line breaks and tabs from code blocks included between the opening and closing of the tag. Below is an example configuration...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Creating Service Wrappers
Creating Service Wrappers With Service Wrappers, you can override default service methods to add extra functionality. For example, you may want the value of a field you've added to Liferay's User...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Customizing JSPs with Dynamic Includes
Customizing JSPs with Dynamic Includes The liferay-util:dynamic-include tag is a placeholder into which you can inject content---JavaScript code, HTML, and more. The example project demonstrates...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Customizing Localization
Official Documentation
Customizing Localization Liferay ships with 55 translations, making it ideal for deployments all over the world. Sometimes, however, you must modify a translation or provide a new one. Here you can...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 4:48 PM
Generating Translations Automatically
Official Documentation
Generating Translations Automatically Liferay DXP supports 50 languages out-of-the-box. Each locale has its own language properties file containing keys for its language. When you create an...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Overriding Module Language Translations
Overriding Module Language Translations For Liferay DXP 7.4 U4/Portal 7.4 GA8+, the Language Override tool is the recommended approach. Overriding language translations in specific applications...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Adding a Language
Official Documentation
Adding a Language Liferay ships with over 50 languages out-of-the-box. Translation is complete for many of these languages, and some are still in the translation process. Each language has its own...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Overriding Global Language Translations with Language Properties
Overriding Global Language Translations with Language Properties Liferay DXP/Portal implements headings, labels, and messages for many locales using language translations. You can override these...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Overriding OSGi Services
Overriding OSGi Services Liferay's OSGi container is a dynamic environment in which services can be added, removed, or overridden as needed. This framework registers Liferay components with the...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Using Portlet Filters
Using Portlet Filters Portlet filters intercept requests and responses at the start of each portlet request processing phase so you can add functionality there. This makes them useful for auditing...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Using Servlet Filters
Using Servlet Filters Servlet filters can both pre-process requests as they arrive and post-process responses before they go to the client browser. You can apply functionality to requests and...
Published Date: Oct 18, 2024 4:07 PM
Fundamentals
Official Documentation
Fundamentals Liferay development projects consist primarily of simple .jar files. These contain a few extra configuration files that make them OSGi modules, but they're easily understandable by...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
APIs as OSGi Services
Official Documentation
APIs as OSGi Services After you've learned what a module is and how to deploy one, you can use modules to define APIs and implement them. Liferay APIs are OSGi services, defined by Java interfaces...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Bundle Classloading Flow
Bundle Classloading Flow The OSGi container searches several places for imported classes. It's important to know where it looks and in what order. Liferay DXP's classloading flow for OSGi bundles...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Liferay Classloader Hierarchy
Liferay Classloader Hierarchy All Liferay DXP/Portal applications live in an OSGi container. DXP/Portal is a web application deployed on your application server. Its Module Framework bundles...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Module Life Cycle
Module Life Cycle In OSGi, all components, Java classes, resources, and descriptors are deployed via modules (OSGi bundles). The MANIFEST.MF file describes the module's physical characteristics,...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
OSGi and Modularity
OSGi and Modularity Modularity makes writing software, especially as a team, fun! Here are some benefits to modular development on Liferay: Liferay's runtime framework is lightweight, fast, and...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
UI Architecture
UI Architecture
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Specifying Dependencies
Official Documentation
Specifying Dependencies You must satisfy all dependencies to compile and deploy a module successfully. After you find the dependency artifacts, add them as dependencies in your Gradle build file....
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Deploying WARs (WAB Generator)
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Deploying WARs (WAB Generator) You can create applications as Java EE-style Web Application ARchive (WAR) artifacts or as Java ARchive (JAR) OSGi bundle artifacts. Bean Portlets, PortletMVC4Spring...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
The Benefits of Modularity
The Benefits of Modularity Dictionary.com defines modularity as the use of individually distinct functional units, as in assembling an electronic or mechanical system. The distinct functional units...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Configuring Dependencies
Official Documentation
Configuring Dependencies Liferay provides a container where modules can publish and consume functionality through their Java packages. Modules can leverage packages from other modules or...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Architecture
Official Documentation
Architecture The Liferay DXP/Portal architecture has three parts: Core: Bootstraps DXP and its frameworks. The Core provides a runtime environment for managing services, UI components, and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Finding Artifacts
Official Documentation
Finding Artifacts To use external artifacts in your project, you must configure their dependencies in your build.gradle Gradle script. Before specifying an artifact as a dependency, you must first...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies
Official Documentation
Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies An application can rely on multiple OSGi modules. Resolving their Java package dependencies can be challenging. In a perfect world, every package...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365
Official Documentation
Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365 Before you can use Office 365™ to create and edit Documents and Media files, you must configure DXP to connect with an application...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews
Official Documentation
Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews Documents and Media provides integration with the FFmpeg multimedia framework for generating audio and video file previews. To use this integration, you...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Enabling LibreOffice / OpenOffice Integration
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Enabling LibreOffice / OpenOffice Integration LibreOffice and OpenOffice are open source productivity suites that you can integrate with Liferay. By default Liferay includes PDFBox, which generates...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM