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.

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Deployment Approach
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Definitions
Definitions There are four types of definitions: Individuals: attributes of individuals accessing your site Events: default and custom actions that happen on your site Event Attributes:...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Managing Workspaces
Managing Workspaces You can view and change your workspace settings from the settings page. Navigate to Settings → Workspace Settings → Workspace. Workspace Name: The name of your analytics...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Managing Users
Managing Users If you are the workspace Owner or have been assigned the Admin permission, you can invite and manage users. Here's how to bring up the User Management page: Click on Settings in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Scoping Sites and Individuals Using Properties
Scoping Sites and Individuals Using Properties A Property allows you to define and associate a label to a single or multiple sites. This allows you to aggregate the analytics data for all...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Content Page Personalization
Content Page Personalization You can tailor your Content Page to different groups of users, providing each group a personalized experience, rather than a generic one. You can also leverage Content...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Creating and Managing Experiences
Creating and Managing Experiences Liferay 7.4+, 7.3 FP1+, and 7.2 FP11+ You can customize your content page for different groups of users using Experiences. See Content Page Personalization to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Personalizing Collections for Liferay 7.2 and Earlier Versions
Personalizing Collections for Liferay 7.2 and Earlier Versions Personalizing collections tailors content for specific user segments, enhancing user experiences and targeting content effectively. In...
Published Date: Jan 9, 2025 5:24 PM
Experiences
Experiences Use experience personalization to tailor content pages and collections to different audiences. You can show customized layouts, content, and collection items based on user segments. ...
Published Date: Jun 24, 2025 6:19 PM
Tracking Usage
Tracking Usage Analytics Cloud plans are limited by the total amount of individuals and page views synced from data sources. When either limit is exceeded, Analytics Cloud users are prompted to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Enabling Automated Live Chat Systems
Enabling Automated Live Chat Systems Liferay 7.4+ Liferay now offers integration with several live support chat platforms. Enabling this integration adds a chat window to sites on your Liferay...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Personalizing Collections
Personalizing Collections Liferay Portal 7.3 GA6 / DXP 7.3+ By default, any user can see all the collection's content and is part of the Anyone personalized variation. However, you can create a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Using the Accessibility Menu
Using the Accessibility Menu Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ Most enhancements to accessibility in Liferay are propagated across the entire platform by default, so all your users can benefit...
Published Date: Jun 6, 2024 3:57 PM
Creating and Managing User Segments
Creating and Managing User Segments Using Segments you can create different groups of users based on a common set of properties, like user Job Title, or user Language. For a list of the properties...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Segmentation
Segmentation With Liferay's segmentation tools, you can define user groups based on shared characteristics like behavior, location, or profile details. You can use these segments to personalize...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Getting Analytics for User Segments
Getting Analytics for User Segments Subscribers To use Analytics Cloud with User Segments, you must first connect your DXP data source to Analytics Cloud and enable synchronization of users and...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Segmentation By Geolocation
Segmentation By Geolocation Liferay DXP 7.4 U44+/GA44+ You can configure Segments by geolocation to display different pages dynamically or content based on the user's country. To display different...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Segments Editor UI Reference
Segments Editor UI Reference You can use segments to organize users into different groups with common sets of properties. Follow these steps to access the segments editor UI. Go to Site...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Migrating User Segments
Migrating User Segments A user segment represents a subset of users with a common set of properties. Segmentation in Liferay 7.2+ works similarly to Audience Targeting in previous Liferay DXP...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Segments Admin Settings
Segments Admin Settings Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ You can configure Segments behavior at the system or instance level. With these settings, you can enable/disable segmentation, set the interval for...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Search
Search
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Developer Guide
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
Manually Migrating from Audience Targeting
Manually Migrating from Audience Targeting Due to the similarities between Audience Targeting user segments and Liferay 7.2+ Segments, most of your configuration is automatically transferred into...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Migrating to Segmentation and Personalization
Migrating to Segmentation and Personalization Starting with Liferay 7.2, Segmentation and Personalization functionality was integrated into the core product. Users of Audience Targeting must...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Migration from Audience Targeting
Migration from Audience Targeting If you're upgrading from a Liferay version that used Audience Targeting, you must migrate to the built-in Segmentation and Personalization features introduced in...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Getting Started
Getting Started
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Search Queries and Filters
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
Contributing Custom Content to the Similar Results Widget
Contributing Custom Content to the Similar Results Widget Subscribers This functionality relies on a Service Provider Interface (SPI) that's bundled with Liferay DXP 7.3+. It's available in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Searching for Content
Searching for Content All indexed content (a.k.a. assets in Liferay DXP) can be returned as search results. Custom content can also be indexed, so your installation might have additional asset...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Search Overview
Search Overview Search is a fundamental component of Liferay. Elasticsearch is bundled with Liferay for testing and development purposes. Production environments require Elasticsearch running on a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
What's New in Search for 7.4?
What's New in Search for 7.4? There are several highlights and new features added to Liferay's search infrastructure for the 7.4 release. New features include those added to the product for Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
What's New in Search for 7.3?
What's New in Search for 7.3? Elasticsearch Integration Elasticsearch 7 Support Availability: Liferay CE 7.3 GA4+, Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1+ Liferay DXP 7.3 comes with out-of-the-box support for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Installing and Upgrading a Search Engine
Installing and Upgrading a Search Engine A search engine is a critical component of your Liferay installation. Creating an Example Cluster can get you started with an Elasticsearch installation,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch Elasticsearch is the highly scalable, full-text search engine Liferay uses by default. Elasticsearch is bundled with Liferay for non-production purposes. In production, Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Elasticsearch Connector Configuration Reference
Elasticsearch Connector Configuration Reference The configuration information here applies to the latest available (bundled or through Marketplace) version of the Elasticsearch 6 and Elasticsearch...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Advanced Configuration of the Liferay Elasticsearch Connector
Advanced Configuration of the Liferay Elasticsearch Connector The Elasticsearch connection is configured using a configuration file or via System Settings. The Elasticsearch connector has a lot of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Connecting to Elasticsearch
Connecting to Elasticsearch After setting up Elasticsearch, connect it to Liferay using the Liferay Connector to Elasticsearch. Connection steps depend on the connector you're configuring. See...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Getting Started with Elasticsearch
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
Exercise: Run Liferay and Elasticsearch Using Docker
Exercise: Run Liferay and Elasticsearch Using Docker 7.3+ Here you can walk through a minimal Liferay-Elasticsearch setup on your local machine to see how a secure REST Client connection between...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Troubleshooting Elasticsearch Installation
Troubleshooting Elasticsearch Installation Liferay and Elasticsearch are complex systems full of configurations. When connecting them, you can run into difficulty along the way. Included below are...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Troubleshooting the Elasticsearch Connection
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
Installing Elasticsearch
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
Securing Elasticsearch
Securing Elasticsearch The very first thing you must do to secure Elasticsearch is enable X-Pack Security. After that you can begin configuring authentication and encrypted communication. ...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Troubleshooting Elasticsearch: Common Issues
Troubleshooting Elasticsearch: Common Issues Listed here are some common issues you may encounter while configuring Elasticsearch and Liferay. Additional connection-specific errors are discussed in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Upgrading Elasticsearch
Upgrading Elasticsearch Liferay supports Elasticsearch 8. The compatibility matrix provides the latest support details. Solr is in maintenance mode in Liferay 7.4. Elasticsearch 6.x is not...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Upgrading to Elasticsearch 7
Upgrading to Elasticsearch 7 7.1 and 7.2 Liferay's connection to Elasticsearch 7.17.x servers is deprecated due to the End of Life for Elasticsearch 7.17. Connecting to a deprecated Elasticsearch...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Backing Up Elasticsearch
Backing Up Elasticsearch Elasticsearch replicas protect against a node going down, but they won't help you with a catastrophic failure. Only good backup practices can help you then. Backing Up...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Upgrading Search Infrastructure
Upgrading Search Infrastructure While upgrading Liferay, consider whether an Elasticsearch upgrade is required. The exact steps for upgrading depend on your existing search engine installation and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Upgrading to Elasticsearch 8
Upgrading to Elasticsearch 8 7.4 U81+, 7.3 U31+ Elasticsearch 8 is supported and recommended for the latest Liferay DXP Quarterly and Portal GA release out of the box. For specific version...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Installing OpenSearch
Installing OpenSearch Subscription Required [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) You can connect OpenSearch with Liferay. For...
Published Date: Nov 28, 2024 3:14 PM
OpenSearch Connector Configuration Reference
OpenSearch Connector Configuration Reference Subscription Required [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Configure Liferay's...
Published Date: Nov 28, 2024 3:14 PM
Solr
Solr Solr is in maintenance mode in Liferay 7.4. Solr Limitations Installing Solr
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Using the Sidecar or Embedded Elasticsearch
Using the Sidecar or Embedded Elasticsearch Sidecar and embedded Elasticsearch are not suitable for production. When using an app server different other than Tomcat, set up a standalone...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:51 AM
Installing a Search Engine
Installing a Search Engine A search engine is a critical component of your Liferay installation. Creating an Example Cluster can get you started with the installation, but this guide demonstrates...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Installing Solr
Installing Solr 7.2-7.3 (CE, DXP); 7.4 DXP U60+ Solr is a popular enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene. It's reliable, scalable, and fault tolerant. Read more about it here. Solr is...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
OpenSearch
OpenSearch Subscription Required [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Elasticsearch is Liferay's native search engine. Beginning...
Published Date: Nov 28, 2024 3:14 PM
Solr Limitations
Solr Limitations Liferay's Solr implementation has limitations. Some Liferay features and APIs cannot be used when you choose Solr as the search engine. Install Elasticsearch for the best...
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
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
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