Capability

Sites

Liferay sites are customizable spaces for building personalized digital experiences. Each site includes applications for creating content, designing pages, and more. With these features, you can bring your custom solutions to life, whether intranets, public sites, customer portals, or e-commerce storefronts. In fact, you can leverage Liferay's multi-site capabilities to create multiple such sites in the same Liferay instance.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
Product API - Creating a Product with Multiple SKUs
Product API - Creating a Product with Multiple SKUs You can create products with multiple active SKUs using the product API or from the Products application. To create such a product, you must...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Specification API Basics
Specification API Basics You can manage product specifications from the Applications menu or with REST APIs. Call the headless-commerce-admin-catalog services to create and manage specifications. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Blog API Basics
Blog API Basics Liferay's REST APIs provide services for adding, modifying, and deleting blog posts and images. Liferay DXP 2024.Q4+/Portal GA129+ The Blogs API now uses External Reference Codes...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Content Management APIs
Content Management APIs You can use headless APIs to interface with most types of content in Liferay, including web content, message boards, and knowledge base articles. Here are resources to help...
Published Date: Jun 28, 2025 6:29 PM
Categories and Vocabulary API Basics
Categories and Vocabulary API Basics Liferay's REST APIs provide services for Liferay's categories and vocabularies functionality. You can create and edit vocabularies with the API. You can also...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Message Boards API Basics
Message Boards API Basics Liferay's Headless Delivery application provides REST services for the Message Boards application. With these services, you can add message board categories, threads, and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Knowledge Base API Basics
Knowledge Base API Basics You can Create Knowledge Base Articles and Manage the Knowledge Base with Liferay's Knowledge Base app, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
Tags API Basics
Tags API Basics Liferay's REST APIs provide services for managing tags (referred to as keywords in Liferay's codebase). You can create, edit, and delete tags using the API. Start with an example of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Web Content API
Web Content API Here is a comprehensive resource for understanding and leveraging Liferay’s Web Content APIs. It supports the integration and management of web content within applications,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Web Content API Basics
Web Content API Basics Using Liferay DXP REST services, you can create and manage structured content on your site. Structured content refers to web content articles that use a web content structure...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Advanced Web Content API
Advanced Web Content API Using the Liferay DXP REST services, you can create and manage your site's structured content. Structured content is web content that uses a web content structure (or...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Managing Web Content Structures and Templates by Using the REST API
Managing Web Content Structures and Templates by Using the REST API Web content structures define the information included in a web content article. Structures facilitate creating and managing web...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Document API Basics
Document API Basics Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST services for Documents and Media that add documents and folders, list their information, modify them, delete them, and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Captcha API Basics
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
Document Types and Metadata Sets API Basics
Document Types and Metadata Sets API Basics Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/Portal GA132+ Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST services for Documents and Media that add document types and...
Published Date: Jan 30, 2025 12:26 PM
SCIM User API Basics
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
Wiki API Basics
Wiki API Basics Liferay's Headless Delivery application provides REST services for the Wiki application. With these services, you can add Wiki nodes and pages, list their information, modify their...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
SCIM Group API Basics
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 Resource Type, Service Provider, and Schema Basics
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
Web Content API Basics Using GraphQL
Web Content API Basics Using GraphQL Use Liferay DXP GraphQL services to manage web content by creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting structured content on your site. Structured content...
Published Date: Nov 19, 2024 3:27 PM
Digital Asset Management APIs
Digital Asset Management APIs You can use headless APIs to interface with Liferay's documents and media. Here are resources to help you understand and integrate these APIs.
Published Date: Jul 3, 2025 8:34 PM
Document Shortcut API Basics
Document Shortcut API Basics Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST services for Documents and Media that add document shortcuts to sites or asset libraries, list their information,...
Published Date: Jul 11, 2024 3:36 PM
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
Workflow Definition Link API Basics
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
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
Search API Basics
Search API Basics [Release Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#release-feature-flags) 7.4 U88+ and GA88+ You can search for content...
Published Date: Sep 7, 2024 3:46 PM
Search APIs
Search APIs You can search with headless APIs using the endpoints at /o/search. Search Headless APIs Availability The first search headless endpoint, /portal-search-rest, was released behind a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Search Suggestions API
Search Suggestions API DXP 7.4 U36+/Portal GA36+ You can return suggestions with the using the /suggestions headless API. This API is used by Liferay's Search Bar Suggestions feature. There are...
Published Date: Sep 7, 2024 3:46 PM
Navigation Menu API Basics
Navigation Menu API Basics Liferay's REST APIs provide services for Liferay's navigation menus. You can create and edit navigation menus with the API. Start by seeing an example of adding a new...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Site APIs
Site APIs Use Liferay’s REST APIs to manage site elements programmatically. This guide introduces the Navigation Menu API and shows how to create, retrieve, update, and delete navigation menus...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Self-Healing
Self-Healing The self-healing functionality of Liferay Cloud detects if a service or application has become unresponsive and automatically initiates procedures to recover the unresponsive service....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Reading Liferay Cloud Service Logs
Reading Liferay Cloud Service Logs Environment logs are crucial for diagnosing and resolving technical issues in a project. Liferay Cloud provides a variety of environment logs that users can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Tuning Security Settings
Tuning Security Settings Here are a list of best practices for tightening and maintaining your Liferay PaaS project's security, including networking practices, data security, and general security...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Shell Access
Shell Access The command-line tools in Liferay Cloud contribute to the developer's workflow by delivering speed, control, traceability, scripting, and automation capabilities. Shell access makes it...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay Cloud Platform Status
Liferay Cloud Platform Status The Liferay Cloud Platform is comprised of multiple systems. Users can view the status of Liferay Cloud Platform systems, incident history, and planned maintenance...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Enabling Glowroot on PaaS
Enabling Glowroot on PaaS Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot is included with Liferay in the /opt/liferay/glowroot folder. If you're running Liferay in a clustered environment, enable...
Published Date: Aug 10, 2024 3:47 PM
Maintenance and Downtime
Maintenance and Downtime Sometimes, big changes in the underlying infrastructure of a project may cause downtime. When planning for these changes, you can enable maintenance mode to redirect...
Published Date: Apr 29, 2025 6:15 PM
Troubleshooting Services
Troubleshooting Services Services are the core of a Liferay Cloud environment. This article covers troubleshooting techniques that can be used to investigate and address issues that may arise with...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Using SSO with Liferay Cloud
Using SSO with Liferay Cloud Customers may use their SAML 2.0 compliant single sign-on Identity Providers to authenticate users with the Liferay Cloud platform. Here is the process to enable this...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Web Application Firewall
Web Application Firewall Liferay Cloud 5.x.x Liferay Cloud includes a web application firewall called ModSecurity. It inspects requests sent to the web server against a predefined set of custom...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Managing Secure Environment Variables with Secrets
Managing Secure Environment Variables with Secrets Secrets allow you to securely store variables for any environment within Liferay Cloud. Whereas any user with permission to view your Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Information Security and Liferay Cloud
Information Security and Liferay Cloud Liferay takes security on the cloud very seriously and has published the following documents on our compliance with the SOC 2 and ISO 27001:2013 standards: ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Updating Services in Liferay PaaS
Updating Services in Liferay PaaS Liferay PaaS provides a robust framework for achieving a highly efficient Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) strategy. With Git and Jenkins...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Build Retention Policy
Build Retention Policy The Liferay Cloud console displays your builds on the Builds page, so you can deploy them to your services whenever needed. However, only the most recent 1,100 builds remain...
Published Date: Jan 30, 2025 12:33 PM
Configuring Persistent File Storage Volumes
Configuring Persistent File Storage Volumes Administrators can configure the volumes for their services in Liferay PaaS depending on their deployment type (Deployment or StatefulSet). Volumes can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Automatically Deploying CI Service Builds
Automatically Deploying CI Service Builds With Liferay PaaS, you can use webhooks to automatically trigger Jenkins builds for changes pushed or merged to your project's Git repository (e.g.,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Deploying Changes via the Liferay Cloud Console
Deploying Changes via the Liferay Cloud Console This tutorial walks through the process of adding a portal property to the Liferay service, triggering a CI build with a pull request, and deploying...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Ignoring Files and Folders
Ignoring Files and Folders Liferay Cloud allows subscribers to determine which files and folders should be ignored before deploying a service. This is done by creating a .lcpignore file and placed...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Deploying Changes via the CLI Tool
Deploying Changes via the CLI Tool With the CLI tool, you can directly deploy local project changes without triggering a Jenkins build or using the Liferay Cloud Console. This tutorial walks...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Restarting Jenkins Stages
Restarting Jenkins Stages The CI service can be configured to preserve Jenkins stashes. You can then use the stashes to restart specific stages in a Jenkins build. Preserving Jenkins Stashes Use...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Commerce
Commerce Use Liferay Commerce to build, manage, and scale online stores for B2B or B2C. Learn how to set up your store, manage products, configure pricing and payments, and handle orders and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Understanding Deployment Strategies
Understanding Deployment Strategies The deployment strategy of a service determines how new versions will be initialized. Liferay PaaS provides two deployment strategies for its services:...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Add-ons and Connectors
Add-ons and Connectors
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Mulesoft
Mulesoft Subscription The Liferay Connector to MuleSoft connects Liferay DXP to other platforms and services in the MuleSoft ecosystem. You can access the connector via Anypoint Studio or Anypoint...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Understanding Deployment Types
Understanding Deployment Types The deployment type of a service determines many different facets of how it functions, including performance, memory usage, and access to files or volumes. Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 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
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
Liferay Commerce Connector to TradeCentric Reference Guide
Liferay Commerce Connector to TradeCentric Reference Guide Subscription There are several configuration terms in TradeCentric (formerly PunchOut2Go). TermDescription Punch out sessionThe set of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Creating Store Content
Creating Store Content Because Liferay puts you in control of your site, building a store has two components: a complete catalog and a series of pages for displaying and selling products. Using an...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:44 AM