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
Creating the Role Change Request Object
Creating the Role Change Request Object Subscribers Consider a Human Resources application that collects employee requests to change Roles within the software engineering department: the Role...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Data Sets
Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). Data sets are like virtual containers that help organize and manage related...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Creating Data Sets
Creating Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). You can create data sets from different resources available through...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Creating a Workflow Powered Application
Creating a Workflow Powered Application Subscribers Workflow Powered Applications require data from multiple stakeholders. These process-driven applications can go through multiple stages before...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Creating the Role Change Request App
Creating the Role Change Request App Subscribers The Role Change Request App starts with the employee submitting a request form. Processing then proceeds to the Current Manager, then to the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Using Camunda Business Processes
Using Camunda Business Processes Liferay 7.4+, and all quarterly releases Liferay's native workflow features are designed for business processes requiring basic review and approval. If your...
Published Date: Jun 4, 2025 6:31 PM
Calling Liferay APIs from Camunda
Calling Liferay APIs from Camunda The Liferay Connector enables calling Liferay APIs from your Camunda tasks. It's a protocol connector built on top of the Camunda HTTP REST connector. Follow...
Published Date: Jun 26, 2025 6:24 PM
Triggering Events in Camunda with Liferay Webhooks
Triggering Events in Camunda with Liferay Webhooks You can send payloads from Liferay's webhook object actions to your Camunda process instances. This enables inbound communication from Liferay to...
Published Date: Jun 26, 2025 6:24 PM
Managing Data Sets
Managing Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). Once you create a data set, you can customize how users see it....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Forms
Forms The Forms application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. Migrate your forms to objects and form container fragments to future-proof your solutions. You can use...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Creating and Managing Forms
Creating and Managing Forms The Forms application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. Migrate your forms to objects and form container fragments to future-proof your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Building Forms with Conditional Fields
Building Forms with Conditional Fields Forms can become dynamic forms where the answer to one question may allow the respondent to skip the next three questions, or require the respondent to answer...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Creating Forms
Creating Forms You can create multi-field forms with the Forms application. Only authenticated users with the requisite permissions can create forms. At minimum, they should have permission to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Customizing Auto-Save Behavior
Customizing Auto-Save Behavior The Forms application automatically saves the form creation progress as you create a form. By default, a form's draft is auto-saved every minute. To change the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Understanding Form Storage Adapters
Understanding Form Storage Adapters Liferay DXP 7.3 and Liferay DXP 7.2 versions that include the fix for [LPS-97208](https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-97208) (planned for Liferay DXP 7.2 SP3)....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Writing a Custom Data Provider
Writing a Custom Data Provider Liferay Forms fields can be populated using a Data Provider. Out of the box, there's a REST Data Provider that provides a flexible way to consume data from most REST...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Writing a Custom Form Field Type
Writing a Custom Form Field Type The Forms application contains many highly configurable field types out-of-the-box. Most use cases are met with one of the existing field types. If your use case...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Creating Data Definitions
Creating Data Definitions Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data Lists to Objects...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Dynamic Data Lists
Dynamic Data Lists Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data Lists to Objects as soon...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Creating Data Lists
Creating Data Lists Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data Lists to Objects as soon...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Creating Display Templates
Creating Display Templates Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data Lists to Objects...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Creating Form Templates
Creating Form Templates Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data Lists to Objects as...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Getting Started with Dynamic Data Lists
Getting Started with Dynamic Data Lists Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Managing Data Definitions
Managing Data Definitions Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data Lists to Objects...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Migrating to Liferay Objects
Migrating to Liferay Objects Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated and scheduled for removal by the end of 2024. To prevent data loss and achieve the same functionality, please migrate your structures...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using Templates to Display Forms and Lists
Using Templates to Display Forms and Lists Dynamic Data Lists is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.3, and is planned for removal in 2024. It is replaced by Objects. Please migrate your Dynamic Data...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Form Rules
Form Rules The Forms application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. Migrate your forms to objects and form container fragments to future-proof your solutions. Forms...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using the Jump to Page Rule
Using the Jump to Page Rule Use a Jump to Page rule to navigate automatically to a specific page in the form based on one or more conditions. This is useful if some pages do not apply to all the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using the Autofill Rule
Using the Autofill Rule The autofill rule filters a form field's options based on pre-configured conditions. If you already have a data provider enabled, the autofill rule is the next step in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using the Enable-Disable Rule
Using the Enable-Disable Rule An enable/disable Rule makes a field editable based on one or more conditions. This is useful for entering optional information or gathering data from only users who...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Example: Using Hidden Fields with Form Rules
Example: Using Hidden Fields with Form Rules Configure Forms fields as hidden in the Advanced configuration tab. Hide fields using the advanced setting. There's a hidden field in this form. It...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using the Calculate Rule
Using the Calculate Rule Users can create Calculate rules that populate a numeric field by calculating its value based on other fields. For example, a Calculate rule can calculate a camp or...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using the Require Rule
Using the Require Rule Use a Require rule to make a field required based on one or more conditions. Require Rules work in association with other Rules, such as the Show Rule. To demonstrate,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using the Show-Hide Rule
Using the Show-Hide Rule Users can use a Show action show a field if a condition is met. Otherwise, this field is hidden. This example uses a camp registration form with two text fields: I am...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Form Reports
Form Reports 7.3, 7.4 Once users begin submitting form entries, you can access a field-by-field report on the form's records: Navigate to the Forms application. In the Product Menu (Product...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Sharing Forms and Managing Submissions
Sharing Forms and Managing Submissions The Forms application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. Migrate your forms to objects and form container fragments to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Configuring Form Notifications
Configuring Form Notifications You can configure the Forms app to send a notification email each time a form entry is submitted. If you have enabled workflow for the form, you may not need to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Kaleo Forms
Kaleo Forms Kaleo Forms is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2023.Q3/Portal GA92. Use business processes for Liferay Objects (i.e., objects, workflow, and form container fragments) instead. Liferay's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Enabling CAPTCHA on Form Submissions
Enabling CAPTCHA on Form Submissions CAPTCHA can be enabled to deter automated form submissions. To enable CAPTCHA: Click the form's Options (Options) and select Settings. Navigate to the Form...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Managing Form Entries
Managing Form Entries Once users begin submitting form entries, you can access the form entry data through the UI or export the data to a different file format for further analysis and review. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Redirecting Users on Form Submission
Redirecting Users on Form Submission By default, when a user submits a form response, they are directed to a success page. This behavior can be configured to instead redirect a user to a specific...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Sharing Forms
Sharing Forms There are two ways to share a form: Placing the Form widget on a site page and configuring the widget to display the particular form. This allows the form to be seen and submitted...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using Forms with a Workflow
Using Forms with a Workflow The Forms application is integrated with the Workflow application and therefore users can activate a workflow process for a form. This means that before a form's entry...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using Forms to Poll Users
Using Forms to Poll Users The Forms application is in maintenance mode as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. Migrate your forms to objects and form container fragments to future-proof your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Notifications API Basics
Notifications API Basics Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST and GraphQL services for subscribing to or unsubscribing from notifications for platform events across several default...
Published Date: Oct 4, 2024 4:10 PM
Configuring Personal Notifications
Configuring Personal Notifications Liferay provides integrated notification tools, so you can ensure users are alerted to platform events. Users can customize which notifications they receive by...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Notifications
Notifications Liferay provides integrated notification tools to alert users to platform events. For Liferay DXP, this includes email and website notifications for the following default...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Creating Notification Templates
Creating Notification Templates Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ With Notification Templates, you can design automated email and user notifications for Liferay services. Each template identifies...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using the Notification Queue
Using the Notification Queue Liferay 7.4 U75+/GA75+ Liferay provides the Notification Queue application for reviewing email notifications triggered by an object action. You can verify the status...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Objects
Objects Liferay 7.4+ With Liferay Objects, you can build and deliver applications without having to write code or deploy modules. Each application built with Objects is integrated with Liferay's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Creating and Managing Objects
Creating and Managing Objects Liferay 7.4+ Liferay Objects provides a convenient UI for creating custom applications that meet your business needs without writing code. You can also use Objects to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Actions
Actions Object actions define custom business logic that you can run manually or automatically for object entry events. Examples include delivering entry event data to a webhook URL, sending email...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Activating and Deactivating Objects
Activating and Deactivating Objects Custom objects are activated when published. While active, you can use the object to create entries via the Liferay UI or dedicated REST APIs. If needed, you can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Creating Objects
Creating Objects Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ Liferay Objects provides development capabilities in the Liferay UI. Using Objects, you can build fully integrated Liferay applications without...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Defining Object Actions
Defining Object Actions Liferay 7.4 U60+/GA60+ Object actions define operations that you can run manually or automatically for object entry events. To add an action, Open the Global Menu (...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Deleting Objects
Deleting Objects Liferay 7.4 U26+/GA26+ You can delete draft and published object definitions. Deleting a definition removes its associated data, including the stored entries for published...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Exporting and Importing Object Definitions
Exporting and Importing Object Definitions Liferay 7.4 U68+/GA68+ You can export and import object definitions as .json files. These files include the definition's complete schema (e.g.,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Auditing Object Events
Auditing Object Events Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ You can use Liferay's audit framework to track events for custom object definitions and their entries. To track entry events, you must enable entry...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Using Manual Actions
Using Manual Actions Liferay 7.4 U60+/GA60+ When you use the standalone trigger for object actions, the actions become manual instead of automatic. Trigger these actions using these methods: ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Understanding Action Types
Understanding Action Types Liferay 7.4 U60+/GA60+ Actions define custom operations triggered by object entry events. Liferay provides these action types: TypeDescription NotificationSend email or...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM