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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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Removing Relationships
Removing Relationships Liferay 7.4 U26+/GA26+ You can remove relationships from both draft and published object definitions. Removing a relationship permanently deletes its field from the related...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Relationships
Relationships Liferay 7.4 U47+/GA47+ Relationships add fields and tables to object definitions for relating their entries with one another. This provides access to entry data in different...
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
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
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
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
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
Testcases
Testcases A testcase file in Poshi is a collection of test scenarios grouped in blocks of code called test blocks. The three main test blocks: setUp, test, and tearDown, are made up of multiple...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Macros
Macros A macro is a set of functions that perform a task. Macros are where locators (paths) and functions are brought together to script interactions that a user performs on the system being...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Paths
Paths A path is an element on a page that a test will interact with. An element can be a button, text field, link, image, paragraph, or just about anything you would need to assert, click, or type...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Using Poshi Resources
Using Poshi Resources Once the Poshi resources jar file is loaded onto your Poshi project, you are now able to use Liferay's commonly used functions, paths, and macros. To distinguish between files...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Reference
Reference Node Version Information
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4
Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4 As of Liferay DXP 7.4 GA1, the Bootstrap 3 compatibility layer is removed from the built-in packages in Liferay frontend applications. If...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Node Version Information
Node Version Information Liferay DXP uses Node (and NPM) for many different frontend components. Specifically, the Liferay Theme Generator and Liferay's JavaScript application tools require the use...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Using Variables
Using Variables Though not a Poshi layer, variables are a large part of Poshi tests. Variables, like in other programming languages, are used to store data which can be referenced and reused in...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Poshi Resources
Poshi Resources To give Poshi test writers easy access to commonly used functions or other files, Poshi resources were created to store existing Poshi files as dependencies that can be loaded apart...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Architecture
Architecture The Liferay DXP/Portal architecture has three parts: Core: Bootstraps DXP and its frameworks. The Core provides a runtime environment for managing services, UI components, and...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Liferay Internals
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Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Contributing to Liferay Development
Contributing to Liferay Development Fixing a Bug or Contributing a New Feature Building Liferay Source Organizing the Source
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Extending Liferay
Extending Liferay Liferay DXP/Portal is highly customizable. Its modular architecture contains components you can extend and override dynamically using APIs.
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
APIs as OSGi Services
APIs as OSGi Services After you've learned what a module is and how to deploy one, you can use modules to define APIs and implement them. Liferay APIs are OSGi services, defined by Java interfaces...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Fundamentals
Fundamentals Liferay development projects consist primarily of simple .jar files. These contain a few extra configuration files that make them OSGi modules, but they're easily understandable by...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies
Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies An application can rely on multiple OSGi modules. Resolving their Java package dependencies can be challenging. In a perfect world, every package...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Specifying Dependencies
Specifying Dependencies You must satisfy all dependencies to compile and deploy a module successfully. After you find the dependency artifacts, add them as dependencies in your Gradle build file....
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Using the Gogo Shell
Using the Gogo Shell The Gogo shell provides a way to interact with the module framework. Among other things, you can Dynamically install/uninstall bundles (modules) Examine package...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Configuring Dependencies
Configuring Dependencies Liferay provides a container where modules can publish and consume functionality through their Java packages. Modules can leverage packages from other modules or...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:57 PM
Using a Theme Sprite Map Client Extension
Using a Theme Sprite Map Client Extension Liferay 7.4+ With a theme sprite map client extension, you can override the default Clay sprite map used for icons on a page. Start with the sample...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Using an Editor Config Contributor Client Extension
Using an Editor Config Contributor Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal 7.4 GA112+ The translation status feature is currently behind a release feature flag (LPS-186870). Read Release...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Using a Theme CSS Client Extension
Using a Theme CSS Client Extension Liferay 7.4+ With a theme CSS client extension, you can override the current theme's CSS files (main.css and clay.css) to change the look and feel of a page....
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Using a Theme Favicon Client Extension
Using a Theme Favicon Client Extension Liferay 7.4+ With a theme favicon client extension, you can override the theme's favicon on the selected page. Start with the sample workspace to build and...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Theme Favicon YAML Configuration Reference
Theme Favicon YAML Configuration Reference You can define a theme favicon client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml file defines a theme favicon...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Creating a Basic Custom Element
Creating a Basic Custom Element Liferay 7.4+ Custom element client extensions use Liferay's frontend infrastructure to register external, remote applications with the Liferay platform and render...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Using Routes with Custom Elements
Using Routes with Custom Elements Liferay 7.4+ Custom element client extensions use Liferay's frontend infrastructure to register external applications with the Liferay platform and render them as...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Custom Element YAML Configuration Reference
Custom Element YAML Configuration Reference You can define a custom element client extension with a client-extension.yaml file. Usage Details This client-extension.yaml file defines a custom...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Integrating External Applications
Integrating External Applications Custom Element and IFrame client extensions register applications with Liferay and render them as widgets on site pages. When you create one of these frontend...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Importing/Exporting Data
Importing/Exporting Data Liferay Self-Hosted Liferay SaaS Liferay PaaS Liferay 7.4 If you want to import or export data from Liferay, you use batch client extensions. They work with Liferay's...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 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: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM
Extending System Objects
Extending System Objects Liferay 7.4 U86+/GA86+ With Liferay Objects, you can extend supported system services. Currently, only these services are integrated with the Objects framework: Account...
Published Date: Apr 26, 2024 8:56 PM

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