Capability

Platform

Liferay DXP is a robust platform with its own navigation menus, configuration methods, and core features. These core features are foundational to effective system administration, maintenance, notifications, and other core platform functions.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
Configuring Liferay Authentication With PingOne Using SAML
This recipe guides you through the basic steps needed to integrate PingOne, your Identity Provider (IdP), with your Liferay environment using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). PingOne...
Published Date: Aug 2, 2024 2:34 PM
Integrate Azure AD with Liferay DXP Using OpenID Connect
This recipe guides you through the basic steps needed to integrate Azure AD (now known as Microsoft Entra ID), your Identity Provider (IdP), with your Liferay environment using OpenID Connect....
Published Date: Aug 2, 2024 4:36 PM
Integrate Azure AD with Liferay DXP Using SAML
As a general best practice, integrating Liferay DXP with other Identity Providers (IdPs) provides enhanced security and streamlines authentication management. This recipe guides you through the...
Published Date: Aug 5, 2024 5:12 PM
Sending Emails
Official Documentation
Sending Emails You can configure Liferay to send email notifications for different events that happen in your store. For example, you may want to send updates to the order manager or another person...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:47 PM
Configuring the Commerce Notification Queue
Official Documentation
Configuring the Commerce Notification Queue When channel events trigger notifications, Commerce logs them in the channel's Notification Queue tab with the Unsent status. By default, Liferay checks...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:47 PM
Notification Template Variables Reference Guide
Official Documentation
Notification Template Variables Reference Guide When creating notification templates, you can use variables to populate email fields dynamically with data from the triggering event. Notification...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:47 PM
Using Notification Templates
Official Documentation
Using Notification Templates Email notifications are sent automatically to users based on events in the store. To send them, you must first create a Notification Template. Notification templates...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:47 PM
Using Notification Templates for Commerce 2.0 and Earlier Versions
Official Documentation
Using Notification Templates for Commerce 2.0 and Earlier Versions Email notifications are sent automatically to users based on events in the store. To send them, you must first create a...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:47 PM
Configuring Mentions
Official Documentation
Configuring Mentions Mentions are enabled by the Mentions app. By default, the Mentions app is enabled globally. However, this can be enabled or disabled either globally or per site. Configuring...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Notifications and Requests
Official Documentation
Notifications and Requests Notifications and requests keep users informed about important activity, such as mentions, site invitations, or workflow tasks. You can manage how users are notified,...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:46 AM
Managing Notifications and Requests
Official Documentation
Managing Notifications and Requests Users receive notifications and requests if they have subscribed to a blog or message board or are mentioned in a post. They may also be notified if someone sent...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Mentioning Users
Official Documentation
Mentioning Users Mentioning other users in a DXP asset draws their attention to a particular asset (for example, a message boards thread, blog post, or comment) by sending them a site and email...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:46 AM
Marketplace
Official Documentation
Marketplace Liferay Marketplace is a platform where you can find, download, and share apps. It features an updated UI and supports Liferay SaaS. To access Marketplace, visit...
Published Date: Aug 16, 2024 3:45 PM
Become a Publisher
Official Documentation
Become a Publisher To publish apps or solutions on Marketplace, you need a Liferay account with publisher permissions. Becoming a publisher is free, but you must submit a request with relevant...
Published Date: Aug 16, 2024 3:45 PM
Connecting Liferay DXP to Marketplace
Official Documentation
Connecting Liferay DXP to Marketplace Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/GA132+ You can connect Liferay DXP to Marketplace in Instance Settings. With this integration, you can add supported apps from the...
Published Date: Apr 15, 2025 4:54 PM
Liferay Labs
Official Documentation
Liferay Labs Liferay Labs is an innovation hub within Liferay Marketplace dedicated to exploring newer technologies and developing experimental features. It provides a wide range of useful...
Published Date: Jan 7, 2025 4:36 PM
Provisioning Cloud Apps
Official Documentation
Provisioning Cloud Apps You can provision cloud apps to your Liferay instance and start using them immediately. Unlike DXP apps, cloud apps integrate with Liferay SaaS directly and don't require...
Published Date: Feb 11, 2025 12:35 PM
Provisioning DXP Apps
Official Documentation
Provisioning DXP Apps Free apps can be downloaded, deployed to Liferay DXP, and used immediately without deploying a license. Paid apps have trial, developer, or standard licenses based on the...
Published Date: Nov 8, 2024 3:11 PM
Publishing Solutions in Marketplace
Official Documentation
Publishing Solutions in Marketplace The Liferay Marketplace contains business solutions to improve productivity and reduce time to market. Currently, only existing Liferay partners can publish a...
Published Date: Aug 31, 2024 7:45 PM
Publishing Tools
Official Documentation
Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. With each tool you can edit sites and content in a working environment...
Published Date: Aug 3, 2025 11:42 PM
Comparing Publishing Tools
Official Documentation
Comparing Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. Publications is recommended over Staging in nearly all use cases...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Publications
Official Documentation
Publications Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ You can use Publications to develop, track, and publish changes across your DXP instance. It works by creating a database column to determine which version of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Best Practices for Managing Publications
Official Documentation
Best Practices for Managing Publications Efficient publication workflows in Liferay help improve collaboration, reduce errors, and streamline content delivery. Follow these best practices to...
Published Date: Mar 25, 2025 3:57 PM
Collaborating on Publications
Official Documentation
Collaborating on Publications Liferay 7.4+ By default, a publication can only be accessed by its creator. However, publication creators can invite other users to view, edit, and publish their...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Creating and Managing Publications
Official Documentation
Creating and Managing Publications Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ With Publications, users can create instance-scoped blocks of changes. Because each publication is instance-scoped, they can be accessed...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Enabling Publications
Official Documentation
Enabling Publications Available Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient and flexible way for you and your teams to develop, track, and publish changes. When enabled, Publications is...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Making and Publishing Changes
Official Documentation
Making and Publishing Changes Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient way to manage changes to your Liferay instance. With it, you and your team can create and collaborate on blocks of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Reverting Changes
Official Documentation
Reverting Changes Liferay Publications maintains a history of all published changes. You can use this publishing history to easily create publications that revert earlier changes to production....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using the Publications Toolbar
Official Documentation
Using the Publications Toolbar The Publications Toolbar provides essential information for Publications users, including the name of the current publication or Production if working in the...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content
Official Documentation
Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content Available 7.4+ By default, only content explicitly included in a publishing process is published to Live. If desired, you can configure your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Resolving Conflicts
Official Documentation
Resolving Conflicts During the publishing process, Liferay checks for conflicts between your publication and the production environment. Resolving all conflicts is necessary to complete publishing....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Publication Templates
Official Documentation
Using Publication Templates Liferay 7.4 U73+/GA73+ To simplify creating publications with shared details and contributors, use publication templates. You can create a list of users to invite and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Workflow with Publications
Official Documentation
Using Workflow with Publications 7.4 U44+/GA44+ Publications is integrated with Liferay's Workflow framework, so you can continue to use custom workflows for reviewing content and pages while...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Staging
Official Documentation
Staging Liferay's Staging application provides a working environment for making changes to a site or asset library before publishing your changes to your live environment. With it, you can modify...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Local Live Staging
Official Documentation
Configuring Local Live Staging With Local Live staging, both your staging and live environments are hosted on the same Liferay server. When enabled, Liferay DXP creates a local clone of your site...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Page Publishing
Official Documentation
Configuring Page Publishing Staging and publishing settings control how pages and their content are published to Live, optimizing performance and ensuring consistency. These settings determine...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Managing Staging Permissions
Official Documentation
Managing Staging Permissions With Staging, you can manage User permissions that deal directly with Staging and Page versioning. General Staging Permissions Related Site Permissions Individual...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Managing Data and Content Types in Staging
Official Documentation
Managing Data and Content Types in Staging Liferay DXP's Staging tool provides ways to manage available application data and content types both during initial configuration and the publishing...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Page Versioning
Official Documentation
Page Versioning With Page Versioning enabled, you and your team can work in parallel on multiple versions of your site's widget pages. These versions are called variations, which are you create and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Publishing Single Assets and Widgets
Official Documentation
Publishing Single Assets and Widgets You can publish single assets and widgets when needed without going through the entire publishing process. This is much faster than publishing all content at...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Understanding the Publishing Process
Official Documentation
Understanding the Publishing Process Publishing is the process whereby changes made in the Staging environment are transferred to the Live environment. Understanding this process can improve...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Staging in Asset Libraries
Official Documentation
Using Staging in Asset Libraries Staging is supported for Asset Libraries since Liferay DXP 7.4 and 7.3.10 FP1. Liferay's Staging application is a publishing tool for managing changes on DXP. For...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Getting Started
Official Documentation
Getting Started Liferay DXP is a powerful, open source, enterprise-ready platform for building and deploying web applications. However, all of that power and functionality can make it difficult to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
DXP
Official Documentation
DXP Welcome to the official documentation for the latest versions of Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal! Liferay DXP is the commercially supported and enterprise ready platform used around the world,...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Navigating DXP
Official Documentation
Navigating DXP Liferay DXP's out-of-the-box navigation is organized into three major areas: Site Menu, Personal Menu, and Global Menu. Site Menu The DXP Site Menu on the left side of the screen...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
API Builder
Official Documentation
API Builder Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ [Beta Feature](../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) This feature is currently...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Introduction to the Admin Account
Official Documentation
Introduction to the Admin Account The Admin User account is created by default in any new installation of Liferay DXP and has full permissions to modify every facet of a Liferay DXP instance. The...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Building a Sample API Application
Official Documentation
Building a Sample API Application Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) The...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Captcha API Basics
Official Documentation
Captcha API Basics Liferay provides a headless API to retrieve and submit captchas using the SimpleCAPTCHA engine. Using the /captcha endpoint from the API Explorer, you can add captchas in your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
SCIM Resource Type, Service Provider, and Schema Basics
Official Documentation
SCIM Resource Type, Service Provider, and Schema Basics Liferay DXP 2025.Q2+ Liferay provides a headless API to query the SCIM resource types, service providers, and schemas available. Use the...
Published Date: May 27, 2025 3:40 PM
Workflow Definition Link API Basics
Official Documentation
Workflow Definition Link API Basics Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/Portal GA132+ You can manage workflow definition links from the Liferay UI or using Liferay's REST APIs. In Liferay, the Control Panel →...
Published Date: Feb 19, 2025 12:28 PM
SCIM Group API Basics
Official Documentation
SCIM Group API Basics Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Liferay provides a headless API to perform CRUD operations on SCIM groups to keep their information in sync with your company's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
SCIM User API Basics
Official Documentation
SCIM User API Basics Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Liferay provides a headless API to perform CRUD operations on SCIM users to keep their identity information in sync with your company's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Consuming APIs
Official Documentation
Consuming APIs APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, serve as the bridge between different software applications, allowing them to communicate and exchange data. By consuming external APIs,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
API Headers Reference
Official Documentation
API Headers Reference API headers are components of HTTP requests that provide essential information to the server about the client's request and how the server should handle it. You can use API...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Batch Engine API Basics - Exporting Data
Official Documentation
Batch Engine API Basics - Exporting Data Liferay's Headless Batch Engine provides REST APIs to import and export data. Call these services to export data from Liferay. Exporting Data Then,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
API Query Parameters
Official Documentation
API Query Parameters Whether you consume REST APIs or GraphQL APIs, different query parameters are available to help you filter the responses. Fields Parameter Use this parameter to specify and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Batch Engine API Basics - Importing Data
Official Documentation
Batch Engine API Basics - Importing Data Liferay's Headless Batch Engine provides REST APIs to import and export data. Call these services to import data to Liferay. Importing Data Then follow...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Consuming REST Services
Official Documentation
Consuming REST Services Liferay DXP contains REST services for most of its applications. These services are fully OpenAPI compliant. Here, learn how to consume them. This takes only three steps: ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Consuming GraphQL APIs
Official Documentation
Consuming GraphQL APIs Liferay DXP contains GraphQL APIs for most of its applications. Here's how to consume them in three steps: Identify the API you wish to consume. Identify the site...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM