Capability

Search

Liferay Search is a fundamental component of Liferay DXP. Search obviously powers search results for your sites, but can also be tailored and configured to do much more! Use Search to build dynamic navigation menus based on categories, boost search results for important content, or use it to present a dynamic content experience for users.

Search features include Full-text Search, Indexing of all content types, Search Pages and Widgets, Search Results, and more.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
Scoping Configurations
Official Documentation
Scoping Configurations In Liferay DXP, you can set an application's configuration to different levels of scope: System, Instance, Site, or Portlet. For example, if you create an application to have...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Dependency Injection
Official Documentation
Dependency Injection
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Creating a New Job Scheduler Task Executor
Official Documentation
Creating a New Job Scheduler Task Executor Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay PaaS Each Job Scheduler Task is created by implementing the DispatchTaskExecutor interface and can execute any logic. While...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Logs
Official Documentation
Logs The OSGi Log Service Extender enables bundles to provide OSGi logging configuration using embedded properties files META-INF/osgi-logging.properties or META-INF/osgi-logging-ext.properties....
Published Date: Dec 3, 2024 3:11 PM
Using Job Scheduler
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Using Job Scheduler Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay PaaS Job Scheduler is a flexible framework built on Liferay's scheduler engine for running and scheduling business logic. This framework uses the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Message Bus
Official Documentation
Message Bus The Message Bus provides a loosely coupled way to exchange messages. A class sending a message invokes the Message Bus to send the message to a destination, while other classes...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Listening for Registration Events
Official Documentation
Listening for Registration Events Liferay DXP 2023.Q3/Portal GA92 and Below The messaging API supports listening for destination and message listener registration events. Here are some reasons to...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Using Direct Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions
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Using Direct Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions Synchronous messaging was removed and is no longer supported for Liferay DXP 7.4 U49/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA49 and above. Direct synchronous...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Using Asynchronous Messaging
Official Documentation
Using Asynchronous Messaging Message Bus's asynchronous option provides fire and forget behavior; send a message and continue processing without waiting for a response. An asynchronous message is...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Tuning Messaging Performance
Official Documentation
Tuning Messaging Performance Messaging performance is tuned at the destinations. Performance depends on the destination type, the amount of processing the message listeners require, and the thread...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Job Scheduler UI Reference
Official Documentation
Job Scheduler UI Reference Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay PaaS Job Scheduler Triggers View, create, and manage Job Scheduler Tasks. The Job Scheduler Triggers tab lists all tasks added to the...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Understanding the Job Scheduler Framework
Official Documentation
Understanding the Job Scheduler Framework Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay PaaS Liferay Job Scheduler is a flexible framework built on top of Liferay's Scheduler Engine. You can use it to add, execute,...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Listening for Messages
Official Documentation
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 Default Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions
Official Documentation
Using Default Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions Synchronous messaging was removed and is no longer supported for Liferay DXP 7.4 U49/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA49 and above. In default...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Portlets
Official Documentation
Portlets Liferay DXP started off as a portal server for Java-based web applications called portlets (see JSR 168, JSR-286, and JSR-362). Portlets process requests and generate responses like any...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Portlet Descriptor to OSGi Service Property Map
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Portlet Descriptor to OSGi Service Property Map Here's a map of portlet XML descriptor values to OSGi service properties for publishing OSGi Portlets. The properties centralize and simplify portlet...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Portlet IDs
Official Documentation
Portlet IDs Below is a listing of the portlet IDs for the default portlets in Liferay DXP. You can use these IDs to embed portlets in your theme's sitemap. Collaboration PortletID...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Portlet 3.0 API Opt In
Official Documentation
Portlet 3.0 API Opt In A portlet must specify version 3.0 to opt in to the Portlet 3.0 API. The 3.0 Portlet API version can be specified in the following ways. Standard Portlet @PortletApplication...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Asset Framework
Official Documentation
Asset Framework The asset framework is behind many of Liferay's most powerful features. It provides tools for displaying and interacting with any type of content and data. For example, if you build...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Servlets
Official Documentation
Servlets
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Data Frameworks
Official Documentation
Data Frameworks
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Enabling Assets
Official Documentation
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
Cache
Official Documentation
Cache
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Data Scopes
Official Documentation
Data Scopes
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Implementing an Item Selector
Official Documentation
Implementing an Item Selector Item selectors are pop-up dialogs for selecting assets, such as documents, videos, or users. By configuring the item selector's criteria and defining its usage, you...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Advanced Queries
Official Documentation
Advanced Queries Service Builder doesn't limit you to elements in service.xml. If simple finders aren't sufficient for getting data out of your application, there are three other ways to make the...
Published Date: Jan 11, 2025 4:12 PM
Using Domain-Specific Language Queries
Using Domain-Specific Language Queries Liferay 7.4+ DSL Query is an acronym for Domain-Specific Language Query. The foundation is based upon using a domain-specific language for the...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Service Builder
Official Documentation
Service Builder An application without reliable business logic or persistence isn't much of an application at all. Unfortunately, writing your own persistence code often takes a great deal of time....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using Custom SQL Queries
Using Custom SQL Queries Service Builder creates finder methods that retrieve entities by their attributes (their column values). When you add a column as a parameter for the finder in your...
Published Date: Sep 6, 2024 3:37 PM
Using Dynamic Query
Using Dynamic Query Liferay's Dynamic Query API wraps Hibernate's Criteria API. It helps you think in terms of objects and member variables instead of tables and columns. Complex queries can be...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Accessing Custom Fields With Expandos
Official Documentation
Accessing Custom Fields With Expandos When you need additional fields in your application, you can always add them in your service model definition and re-run Service Builder. This adds new columns...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Expando
Official Documentation
Expando Accessing Custom Fields with Expando
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Adding Model Hints
Official Documentation
Adding Model Hints Once you've used Service Builder to define model entities, you may want to refine how users enter that data. Model hints specify entity data restrictions and other formatting....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Defining Entities
Official Documentation
Defining Entities Entities are the heart and soul of a service. They represent the map between the model objects in Java and your database fields and tables. Service Builder automatically maps your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Business Logic with Service Builder
Official Documentation
Business Logic with Service Builder Once you've generated model, persistence, and service code with Service Builder, you can begin adding business logic. Entities generated by Service Builder...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Global Service Options
Official Documentation
Configuring Global Service Options A service's global options apply to all its entities. Here are the options: Dependency Injector Package path Multiversion concurrency control Namespace...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Defining Entity Columns
Official Documentation
Defining Entity Columns An entity's columns represent its attributes. These attributes map table fields to Java object fields. Here you'll examine the sample project from Understanding and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Modifying Database Fields in Development
Official Documentation
Modifying Database Fields in Development As you develop an application, you might need to add fields to your database. This is a normal process of iterative development: you get an idea for a new...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Defining Entity Finder Methods
Official Documentation
Defining Entity Finder Methods Finder methods retrieve entity objects from the database based on specified parameters. For each finder defined, Service Builder generates several methods to fetch,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Sorting Entity Instances
Official Documentation
Sorting Entity Instances Often, you want to retrieve multiple instances of a given entity and list them in a particular order. The service.xml file lets you specify the default order of your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM