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Liferay offers a comprehensive toolkit to extend or customize your digital experience. Build applications quickly with low-code/no-code features like Objects, or leverage developer tools like Liferay Workspace and Blade CLI for further customizations.

For users on PaaS or running Self-Hosted, Liferay also offers tools deploying customizations.

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Adding Filters to Views
Adding Filters to Views Liferay 7.4 U49+/GA49+ When designing a custom view, you can determine which fields appear as filter facets. Also, you can set default filters that apply automatically to...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Using System Objects with Custom Objects
Using System Objects with Custom Objects :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: Accessing Accounts Data from Custom Objects :link:...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Validations
Validations Liferay 7.4+ Object validations set rules for determining valid field inputs. You can define validations with Groovy scripts, Liferay expressions, or a specified Composite Key...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Designing Object Views
Designing Object Views Liferay 7.4+ Views define how entries appear in an object's application page. Though each published object has an autogenerated view, you can create your own. Design custom...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Deploying Object Widgets to Sites
Deploying Object Widgets to Sites Liferay 7.4+ When an Object is published, Liferay automatically generates a dedicated widget you can deploy to Site Pages. This includes both Site-scoped and...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Renaming Table Columns
Renaming Table Columns Liferay 7.4 U21+/GA21+ With custom views, you can change and localize the display name for table columns so you can serve your global users and ensure the table's naming...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Views
Views Views define how entries appear in an object's application page. All published objects include an autogenerated table that displays all field columns alphabetically. However, you can design...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Managing Data from External Systems
Managing Data from External Systems [Beta Feature](../../../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Liferay Objects provides low-code capabilities for...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Setting a Default Sorting
Setting a Default Sorting Liferay 7.4 U18+/GA18+ With custom views, you can set a default sorting for tables. Follow these steps: Begin editing the desired view and go to the Default Sort tab. ...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Integrating Objects with Third Party Services
Integrating Objects with Third Party Services You can use Liferay Objects with popular data integration tools to create automated tasks for syncing Object data with external services. These tasks...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Using Objects with Salesforce
Using Objects with Salesforce [Beta Feature](../../../../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) With Liferay, you can create objects that integrate with...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Displaying Object Entries with Collection Providers
Displaying Object Entries with Collection Providers Liferay 7.4 U77+/GA77+ When you publish an object definition, Liferay creates a collection provider for it. You can use this provider with the...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Objects Application Permissions
Objects Application Permissions Liferay 7.4 2023.Q4+/GA102+ The Objects application is integrated with the permissions framework, so you can assign application and resource permissions to user...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Understanding Object Integrations
Understanding Object Integrations Published custom objects are integrated with Liferay's core frameworks, so you can leverage Liferay's features to build unified experiences across the platform....
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 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: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 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: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
App Builder
App Builder Available: Liferay CE/DXP 7.3 (deprecated and removed in 7.4) App Builder is a low-code application development solution for Liferay DXP. Build a data model, define the application's...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
JARs Excluded from WABs
JARs Excluded from WABs [Liferay-generated web application bundles (WABs) are stripped of third party JARs that contain packages that Liferay exports already. Deploying the same third party...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Tooling
Tooling Liferay's developer tools run the gamut from standard build scripting, to lightweight CLI utilities, and all the way to a full-blown IDE based on Eclipse. This is to serve all developers,...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Reference
Reference App Builder Deploying WARs (WAB Generator) JARS Excluded from WABs
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Creating a Standard Application
Creating a Standard Application To create applications based on a custom object takes four steps: create the object, create at least one form view, create at least one table view, and deploy the...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Deploying WARs (WAB Generator)
Deploying WARs (WAB Generator) You can create applications as Java EE-style Web Application ARchive (WAR) artifacts or as Java ARchive (JAR) OSGi bundle artifacts. Bean Portlets, PortletMVC4Spring...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
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: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Blade CLI
Blade CLI :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: Installing and Updating Blade CLI :link: ./blade-cli/installing-and-updating-blade-cli.md ::: ::: Generating Projects With Blade CLI :link:...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Liferay Frontend Management Bar
Liferay Frontend Management Bar The Management Bar gives administrators control over search container results. It lets you filter, sort, and choose a display style for search results, so you can...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Liferay Portlet Objects For JSPs
Liferay Portlet Objects For JSPs You may have noticed the tag in your JSPs. Similar to the theme:defineObjects tag, when you include this tag in your JSP, you gain access to several variables ...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Disabling All or Portions of the Management Bar
Disabling All or Portions of the Management Bar When there are no search results to display, you should disable all the Management Bar's buttons, except the sidenav toggler button. You can disable...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Liferay Theme Objects For JSPs
Liferay Theme Objects For JSPs When you include the tag in your JSP, you gain access to several Liferay theme objects via variables. These objects are described in the table below: ...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Clay Progress Bars
Clay Progress Bars You can add progress bars to your app with the clay:progressbar tag. These indicate the completion percentage of a task and come in three status styles: default (blue), warning...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Liferay Frontend Tag Library
Liferay Frontend Tag Library The Liferay Frontend tag library provides a set of tags for creating common frontend UI components in your app. To use the Frontend taglib in you apps, add the...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Using a JSP and MVC Portlet
Using a JSP and MVC Portlet An easy way to start developing a web application is to add markup to a JSP file and render it using a portlet Java class. The W3E7 example application demonstrates...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
PortletMVC4Spring Annotations
PortletMVC4Spring Annotations PortletMVC4Spring provides several annotations for mapping requests to controller classes and controller methods. @RenderMapping Annotation Examples The following...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Reference
Reference PortletMVC4Spring integrates Spring, the Spring Web Framework, and the MVC design pattern with portlet development. As such, it uses configuration files from each of these areas and...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Using Spring
Using Spring PortletMVC4Spring is a way to develop portlets using the Spring Framework and the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. While the Spring Framework supports developing servlet-based web...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Instance Settings YAML Configuration Reference
Instance Settings YAML Configuration Reference You can use an instance settings client extension to configure a wide variety of Liferay configurations. Each configuration is referenced by its PID...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Working with Client Extensions
Working with Client Extensions Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay SaaS Liferay PaaS Liferay 7.4 Using client extensions, you can extend Liferay without deploying OSGi modules. Just like traditional...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Remote Applications with Headless APIs
Remote Applications with Headless APIs Available 7.4+ After creating and publishing objects, headless REST APIs are automatically generated. Here you'll see how to integrate these endpoints to...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
React Component Utilities Reference
React Component Utilities Reference Several useful tools are available to help you build high-performance components and applications in Liferay DXP using React: frontend-js-react-web module ...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Developing a JavaScript Application
Developing a JavaScript Application :file: ../landingpage_template.html :file: developing-a-javascript-application/landing.html
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:55 PM
Portlet Level Configuration
Portlet Level Configuration With the configuration framework, you can set your application's configuration for different levels of scope. Where Instance and Site-scoped configurations use...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM

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