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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.

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Liferay Security APIs
Liferay Security APIs You can use headless APIs to interface with important Liferay security features, including CAPTCHA configurations and SCIM. Here are resources to help you understand and...
Published Date: Jun 28, 2025 6:30 PM
Process Automation APIs
Process Automation APIs You can use headless APIs to interface with automation features in Liferay DXP, including workflows. Here are resources to help you understand and integrate these APIs to...
Published Date: Jun 28, 2025 6:30 PM
Understanding Roles and Permissions
Official Documentation
Understanding Roles and Permissions To give users the necessary permissions to perform their intended function within Liferay DXP, you must first associate the set of permissions with a role. ...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
User Groups
Official Documentation
User Groups Creating and Managing User Groups Managing Site Membership and Permissions with User Groups User Group Sites
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Creating and Managing Organizations
Official Documentation
Creating and Managing Organizations If you're not sure what Organizations are or whether you need them, start here. Adding Organizations Click Users and Organizations from Control Panel → Users....
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Organization Sites
Official Documentation
Organization Sites Liferay Organizations enable distributed User management, providing a convenient way to organize and manage instance users and roles to reflect your organizational hierarchy....
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Roles and Permissions
Official Documentation
Roles and Permissions To get things done in Liferay DXP, users must have the proper permissions. Roles join users with permissions. Most administrative work for roles and permissions is done in...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Assigning Users to Roles
Official Documentation
Assigning Users to Roles The location of a role's assignment UI corresponds with the Role's scope. Regular Roles Globally scoped regular roles are available for configuration in the DXP Control...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Default Roles Reference
Official Documentation
Default Roles Reference All roles available in a Liferay DXP installation can be viewed in the Roles administrative application, organized by scope. Navigate there using Control Panel → Users →...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Defining Role Permissions
Official Documentation
Defining Role Permissions Roles collect permissions, so when users are given a role, they inherit all its permissions. If you create a role with permission to access something in the Control...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Managing Site Membership and Permissions with User Groups
Official Documentation
Managing Site Membership and Permissions with User Groups You can use user groups to manage site membership, roles, and permissions. Managing Site Membership with User Groups One of the primary...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
User Group Sites
Official Documentation
User Group Sites With user group sites, you can create pages that are added automatically to each member’s personal site. These pages are organized into two page sets, My Profile (public) and My...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Adding and Managing Users
Official Documentation
Adding and Managing Users Core user management activities include adding, editing, and deleting users. These activities are typically restricted to Administrative users. Adding Users Open the...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Getting Started with Elasticsearch
Official Documentation
Getting Started with Elasticsearch Compatibility: See the Search Engine Compatibility Matrix for details on the compatible Elasticsearch versions, available Liferay connectors, and required...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Installing Elasticsearch
Official Documentation
Installing Elasticsearch Here's how to install, configure, and start Elasticsearch on-premises. If you have Elasticsearch indexes used for primary data storage (storing data not backed by a...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Creating and Managing User Groups
Official Documentation
Creating and Managing User Groups A user group is a list of users created for a specific purpose. User groups can be created across the hierarchical boundaries of organizations. For example, an...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Users
Official Documentation
Users Every person who accesses a Liferay site is considered a user. Unauthenticated users are considered Guest users. Liferay ships out-of-the-box with a default admin user who has complete...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Developer Guide
Official Documentation
Developer Guide Contributing Custom Content to the Similar Results Widget Search Queries and Filters Aggregations Model Entity Indexing APIs Search Headless APIs
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Search Queries and Filters
Official Documentation
Search Queries and Filters To get sensible results from the search engine, you must provide a sensible query. Liferay's query APIs are in the portal-search-api module and are used to construct both...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Troubleshooting the Elasticsearch Connection
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting the Elasticsearch Connection Listed here are some connection issues you can encounter when configuring the Liferay-Elasticsearch connection, along with the most common solutions to...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Configuring a Password Policy
Official Documentation
Configuring a Password Policy Password policies enhance the security of your installation. You can use the default policy that ships with Liferay (modified or as is), or you can create your own...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Connecting Liferay DXP to Analytics Cloud
Connecting Liferay DXP to Analytics Cloud Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Liferay DXP and Analytics Cloud connect via a secure, encrypted token. This token is generated by Analytics Cloud and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Order Management
Order Management Use Liferay's order management capabilities to process orders of multiple types from different channels, set up workflows, create shipments for orders, and more.
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Adding a New Product Data Source for the Product Publisher Widget
Adding a New Product Data Source for the Product Publisher Widget This tutorial shows you how to add a new product data source by implementing the CPDataSource interface. Product data sources...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Implementing a Custom Product Content Renderer
Implementing a Custom Product Content Renderer This tutorial shows you how to add a custom product content renderer by implementing the CPContentRenderer interface. A product content renderer...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Implementing a Custom Low Stock Activity
Implementing a Custom Low Stock Activity Here, learn how to add a custom low stock activity by implementing the CommerceLowStockActivity interface. Low stock activities are actions happen...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Configuring the MuleSoft Connector
Configuring the MuleSoft Connector Liferay's connector to MuleSoft uses OpenAPI 3.0 documents that describe Liferay's APIs. Each OpenAPI document is deployed dynamically in your Liferay instance...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Designing Mule Flows
Designing Mule Flows After configuring the Liferay Connector to MuleSoft, you can start building Mule flows. These operations are available for Liferay's OpenAPI endpoints. Create Records ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Adding a New Product Type
Adding a New Product Type This tutorial shows you how to add a new product type by implementing three interfaces: CPType, ScreenNavigationCategory, and ScreenNavigationEntry. Product types can be...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Salesforce
Salesforce Deprecated in Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 Subscription Liferay DXP 7.4 U35+ The Liferay Connector to Salesforce uses Talend job designs and Liferay's Job Scheduler to import data...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Order Pages
Order Pages Liferay DXP 2024.Q4+/Portal GA129+ [Beta Feature](../../../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) The Classic Site Initializer and the Minium...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:44 AM
Creating Separate Catalog Pages for Individual Product Catalogs
Creating Separate Catalog Pages for Individual Product Catalogs Your storefront can contain products from multiple catalogs. Liferay stores products in catalogs and displays them in your storefront...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:46 PM
Adding a New Discount Rule Type
Adding a New Discount Rule Type You can add a new discount rule type by implementing two interfaces: CommerceDiscountRuleType and CommerceDiscountRuleTypeJSPContributor. Discount rule types define...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Implementing a Custom Checkout Step
Implementing a Custom Checkout Step This tutorial shows you how to add a custom checkout step by implementing the CommerceCheckoutStep interface. A checkout step represents one screen of the...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:44 AM
Implementing a Custom Order Validator
Implementing a Custom Order Validator This tutorial explains how to add a custom order validator by implementing the CommerceOrderValidator interface. An order validator is a class that validates...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:44 AM
Implementing a New Payment Method
Implementing a New Payment Method This tutorial shows you how to add a new payment method by implementing the CommercePaymentMethod interface. Payment methods represent various ways customers can...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:44 AM
Implementing a New Tax Engine
Implementing a New Tax Engine This tutorial shows you how to add a new tax engine by implementing the CommerceTaxEngine interface. A tax engine performs the calculation for taxes when a...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:44 AM
Using Client Extensions
Using Client Extensions Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Using client extensions, you can extend Liferay without using OSGi modules. Deploy them to any Liferay environment, whether you host it...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Using the Checkout Step Client Extension
Using the Checkout Step Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ You can use a client extension to create a new checkout step. This tutorial uses an example client extension from the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Using the Payment Integration Client Extension
Using the Payment Integration Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ You can use a client extension to integrate with a new payment method in Liferay. This client extension from the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Using the Shipping Engine Client Extension
Using the Shipping Engine Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ You can use a client extension to add a new shipping engine to Liferay. This client extension from the sample...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Inventory Management
Inventory Management Commerce 2.1+ Liferay's inventory management tools can support a wide range of commerce use cases, from a single storefront with one warehouse to multiple sales channels with...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Pricing
Pricing Liferay provides a robust pricing system to fine-tune product prices. You can define multiple price entries for a single product SKU and determine which accounts, account groups, and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Using the Minium 4 Theme
Using the Minium 4 Theme Liferay DXP 2024.Q4+/Portal GA129+ To use the CSS styles from Minium 4, you can install the Minium theme from the Liferay Marketplace. This contains a CSS client...
Published Date: Dec 7, 2024 12:07 AM
Using Specifications with Picklists
Using Specifications with Picklists Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA125+ You can now use picklists to define specification values and link them to a specification template to use with products....
Published Date: Aug 7, 2024 3:39 PM
Product Management
Product Management With Liferay's product management capabilities, you can manage multiple product catalogs, create products of different types with multiple SKUs, create and manage product...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Store Management
Store Management Learn how to create and manage channels, configure countries and regions, add shipping and payment methods to your store, and more.
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Channels Reference Guide
Channels Reference Guide The Channels application contains various options to manage and configure your channel. To create a channel, see Managing Channels. General The General tab consists of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Installing Payment Methods From Marketplace
Installing Payment Methods From Marketplace Liferay DXP 2025.Q2+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPD-35941). Read Release Feature Flags for more information. This...
Published Date: Apr 18, 2025 4:10 PM
Sending Emails
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
Portlet Level Configuration
Portlet Level Configuration With the configuration framework, you can set your application's configuration for different levels of scope. Where Instance and Site-scoped configurations use...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Listening for Messages
Listening for Messages You can listen for messages sent to any registered Message Bus destination, whether it's built-in to DXP/Portal, defined by third-parties, or created by you. Messages sent to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using Notification Templates for Commerce 2.0 and Earlier Versions
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
Using Notification Templates
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
Content Dashboard
Content Dashboard Available 7.3+ This feature works only with Elasticsearch. The Content Dashboard is a global application for managing your content. From the Content Dashboard page, content...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Enabling Assets
Enabling Assets Many of Liferay's applications (e.g. Blogs, Documents and Media, Message Boards, etc.) are asset-enabled out of the box. You can publish assets with the Asset Publisher widget or...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 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
Development
Development Liferay's development platform makes developers faster and more efficient by providing a baseline set of features to build upon. Rather than start from scratch, you can start instead...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Including Default Resources in Fragments
Including Default Resources in Fragments You can include images files (e.g. .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, or .png) direct in your fragment sets. Keeping images with your fragments, rather than in other...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Architecture
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

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