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 an LES Add-On Subscription to receive support. Start by contacting a Liferay sales representative or visit https://www.liferay.com/contact-sales.

LES is enabled by default and requires no additional installation steps. However, a LES add-on subscription must be purchased to receive official Liferay Support and additional benefits. Maintenance and updates to LES applications are delivered through Fix Pack and Service Pack releases. If you do not have a subscription to LES, access can be disabled completely by following these steps described below.

Note

LES Search Experiences was added to the DXP bundle in Liferay DXP 7.4 Update 5. Search Experiences are coming for Liferay DXP 7.3 via the Customer Portal as an add-on application.

Local Bundle: Deactivating LES

LES applications are enabled by default in all Liferay DXP 7.4+ bundles. If you don’t have a subscription and the accompanying license to use LES, deactivate it by setting the enterprise.product.enterprise.search.enabled portal property to false:

enterprise.product.enterprise.search.enabled=false

Docker: Deactivating LES

LES applications are enabled by default in all Liferay DXP 7.4+ Docker images. If you don’t have a subscription and the accompanying license to use LES, deactivate it in one of two ways:

1. If using properties files to configure the container, deactivate it by setting the enterprise.product.enterprise.search.enabled portal property to false:

   enterprise.product.enterprise.search.enabled=false
   

2. To instead override the portal property in an environment variable, set

   LIFERAY_ENTERPRISE_PERIOD_PRODUCT_PERIOD_ENTERPRISE_PERIOD_SEARCH_PERIOD_ENABLED=false
   

See Configuring Containers for more information.