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
Building a Time Off Requester
Building a Time Off Requester Liferay 7.4+ With Liferay Objects, you can build entire applications without writing code or deploying modules. Here, create a Time Off Request application using...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using Object Data with React Charts
Using Object Data with React Charts Here you'll use Objects, Headless APIs, and custom element remote applications to create a dynamic chart for data dashboards. First, you'll set up a new DXP...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Packaging Client Extensions
Packaging Client Extensions Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay SaaS Liferay PaaS Liferay 7.4 Client extension projects are built as deployable archives called Liferay Universal File Format Archives...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Instance Settings YAML Configuration Reference
Instance Settings YAML Configuration Reference You can use an instance settings client extension to configure a wide variety of Liferay configurations. Each configuration is referenced by its PID...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Customizing Liferay's Look and Feel
Customizing Liferay's Look and Feel One of the easiest ways to get started developing on Liferay's platform is to modify its look and feel. You can change everything from its favicon to its entire...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
JavaScript Import Map Entry YAML Configuration Reference
JavaScript Import Map Entry YAML Configuration Reference Usage Details This client-extension.yaml file defines a JavaScript import map entry client extension: assemble: - from: build/static ...
Published Date: Sep 14, 2024 3:48 PM
OAuth Headless Server YAML Configuration Reference
OAuth Headless Server YAML Configuration Reference You can define an OAuth headless server client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml file defines...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
OAuth User Agent YAML Configuration Reference
OAuth User Agent YAML Configuration Reference You can define an OAuth user agent client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml file defines an OAuth...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Language Client Extensions
Language Client Extensions Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/Portal GA132+ A language client extension adds new language keys or overrides existing keys and their translations. For example, you can translate...
Published Date: Feb 12, 2025 12:57 PM
Bundling Resources in a JavaScript Import Map Entry Client Extension
Bundling Resources in a JavaScript Import Map Entry Client Extension Liferay DXP 2023.Q1+/Portal GA92+ JavaScript import map entry client extensions make JavaScript code or resources available to...
Published Date: Sep 14, 2024 3:48 PM
Bundling a Thumbnail Preview into Your Theme
Bundling a Thumbnail Preview into Your Theme A theme's thumbnail is the visual representation of how the theme looks when it is applied to a Site. The thumbnail is shown in the theme selection menu...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Client Extensions UI Reference
Client Extensions UI Reference Liferay's widget client extensions (custom element and iframe) register applications with Liferay, adding them as widgets to site pages. Additionally, you can style...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Themes
Themes Themes customize the default look and feel of your site. You can define the style and visual identity of your brand or label across your whole site. You can use a theme CSS client...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Micro Frontends
Micro Frontends Micro frontends extend the concept of microservices to the frontend side of development. You can build a fully-featured and powerful browser application that uses a microservice...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Bundling and Copying Files from an Existing Theme
Bundling and Copying Files from an Existing Theme By using gulp's kickstart task, you can copy the files from a previously created theme into any theme you choose. This functionality is useful in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Bundling Resources
Bundling Resources
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Bundling and Installing Resources into Your Theme via Themelets
Bundling and Installing Resources into Your Theme via Themelets Themelets are small, modular pieces of code that you can reuse in multiple themes. Unlike themes themselves, themelets may only...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Embedding Widgets Using Templates
Embedding Widgets Using Templates You can embed a widget in your theme to make it available on all pages using the chosen template file. When you are embedding a widget, you will need to reference...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Setting Up an Environment and Creating a Theme
Setting Up an Environment and Creating a Theme Creating a theme is the first step in theme development. Once you have your own theme, you can deploy it to your Liferay DXP instance, and use it for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Bundling Independent UI Resources via Theme Contributors
Bundling Independent UI Resources via Theme Contributors Theme contributors are modules that contain CSS and JavaScript resources and apply them to every page. They are independent from specific...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Upgrading a Theme
Upgrading a Theme Themes developed for previous versions of Liferay DXP must be upgraded in order to be deployed to a new version. The gulp upgrade task updates Liferay version references and theme...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Using a CSS Client Extension
Using a CSS Client Extension Liferay 7.4+ CSS client extensions introduce new CSS styling to pages. A deployed CSS client extension on a page adds to the page's existing styling, including theme...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Using a Frontend Data Set Filter Client Extension
Using a Frontend Data Set Filter Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ Frontend data set filter client extensions define JavaScript functions for creating customizable filter...
Published Date: Jun 6, 2024 3:55 PM
Using a Frontend Data Set Cell Renderer Client Extension
Using a Frontend Data Set Cell Renderer Client Extension Liferay 7.4+ You can use Frontend Data Set (FDS) cell renderer client extensions to customize the display for your data set. Use this type...
Published Date: Aug 15, 2024 3:42 PM
Frontend Data Set Cell Renderer YAML Reference
Frontend Data Set Cell Renderer YAML Reference You can define a Frontend Data Set cell renderer client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details The client-extension.yaml file...
Published Date: Aug 15, 2024 3:42 PM
Using a JavaScript Client Extension
Using a JavaScript Client Extension Liferay 7.4+ With a JavaScript (JS) client extension, you can run your own JavaScript on any page in Liferay without worrying about dependencies on Liferay code...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
CSS YAML Configuration Reference
CSS YAML Configuration Reference You can define a CSS client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml file defines a CSS client extension definition: ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Liferay Enterprise Search
Liferay Enterprise Search A Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) subscription provides access and support for additional search features. Detailed installation and usage instructions are available in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Activating Liferay Enterprise Search
Activating Liferay Enterprise Search Starting with Liferay DXP 7.4, the Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) applications are included out-of-the-box. You can begin using LES right away, then purchase...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Configuring CCR in a Local Follower Data Center
Configuring CCR in a Local Follower Data Center First configure CCR in the remote/leader data center before following the steps below. The local/follower data center holds Liferay DXP cluster...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Configuring CCR: Settings Reference
Configuring CCR: Settings Reference To help with the CCR configuration process, the example configurations from the step-by-step instructions in this guide are collected here. These configuration...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Cross Cluster Replication
Cross Cluster Replication Cross Cluster Replication Configuring an Example Cross Cluster Replication Installation Configuring a Cross Cluster Replication in a Remote Leader Data Center ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Configuring an Example CCR Installation: Replicating Between Data Centers
Configuring an Example CCR Installation: Replicating Between Data Centers Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) Subscribers This example configures Liferay DXP's Cross-Cluster Replication module and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Configuring CCR In a Remote Leader Data Center
Configuring CCR In a Remote Leader Data Center Ensure you have completed the necessary prerequisite steps before following the steps below. This data center holds Liferay DXP cluster nodes with a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Cross-Cluster Replication
Cross-Cluster Replication Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) Subscribers In a classic Liferay DXP/search engine installation, one Liferay DXP cluster talks to one Elasticsearch cluster, sending all...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Monitoring Elasticsearch
Monitoring Elasticsearch [LES Subscription](./activating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) If you have a Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) subscription, you can integrate Elastic's Kibana monitoring UI...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Troubleshooting Cross-Cluster Replication
Troubleshooting Cross-Cluster Replication Known common pitfalls encountered during the CCR setup are covered here, as well as general troubleshooting techniques. For further troubleshooting, look...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Learning to Rank
Learning to Rank Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) Subscribers Search engines like Elasticsearch have well-tuned relevance algorithms, good for general search purposes. LES Learning to Rank...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Search Blueprints
Search Blueprints [LES Subscription](./activating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) DXP 7.4 U5+; 7.3 U6+ With Search Blueprints you can Make minor tweaks to Liferay's default search page behavior ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Collapsing Search Results
Collapsing Search Results Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ You can collapse search results that have identical keyword field values. For example, an internal blog titled Employee of the Month...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:00 PM