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Personalizing the Search Experience One of the premier use cases for Search Blueprints is to personalize Liferay's search results. With a personalized search experience, each user sees results...

Configuring CCR In a Remote Leader Data Center

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Configuring CCR In a Remote Leader Data Center Ensure you have completed the necessary prerequisite steps before following the steps below. This data center holds Liferay DXP cluster nodes with a...

Solr Limitations

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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...

Collapsing Search Results

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Collapsing Search Results Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ You can collapse search results that have identical keyword field values. For example, an internal blog titled Employee of the Month...

Creating Elements

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Creating Elements There are a lot of system Elements that ship with Search Blueprints. If none of the system Elements meets your needs, there are many ways to create your own Search Blueprints...

Monitoring Elasticsearch

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Monitoring Elasticsearch [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) If you have a Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) subscription, you can integrate Elastic's Kibana monitoring...

Using the Sidecar or Embedded Elasticsearch

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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...

Learning to Rank

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Learning to Rank Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) Subscribers Search engines like Elasticsearch have well-tuned relevance algorithms, good for general search purposes. LES Learning to Rank...

Installing a Search Engine

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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...

Liferay Enterprise Search

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Liferay Enterprise Search Liferay's Enterprise Search (LES) features significantly upgrade the default search capabilities. With a LES subscription you gain the following benefits: Search...

Predefined Element Variables Reference

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Predefined Element Variables Reference In the Element Source editor, place the cursor in the desired location and click the variable in the left hand sidebar to insert it. In the Custom JSON...

Search Blueprints Configuration Reference

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Search Blueprints Configuration Reference The Search Blueprints user interface has a Query Builder for creating Blueprints. Beyond adding Elements and configuring the query settings, there are...

Custom Filter Examples

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Custom Filter Examples This feature does not work with Solr. The Custom Filter widget is a powerful aid to your search tuning efforts. Without deploying custom code, you can exert control over...

Sorting Search Results

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Sorting Search Results Search results displayed in the Search Results widget are ordered by relevance score (as calculated by the search engine) by default. With the Sort widget, users can control...

Adding a Virtual Instance

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Adding a Virtual Instance Before you do anything in Liferay DXP to add a virtual instance, you must configure its domain name in your network to point to your installed Liferay DXP system. There's...

Semantic Search

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Semantic Search 7.4 U70+ [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Semantic search evaluates the intent behind a searched phrase....

Enabling Search Suggestions

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Enabling Search Suggestions Search terms can be suggested to users when their initial queries can be improved. Spell check settings allow administrators to configure the Search application so that...

Using the Custom Filter Widget

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Using the Custom Filter Widget This feature does not work with Solr. With Custom Filters, you can contribute queries to the main search query, filtering search results to control what's returned...

Search Configuration Reference

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Search Configuration Reference Search in Liferay DXP can be configured in lots of ways. Once you understand the concept of configuration scope, you'll understand where to find a certain...

Changing Translations with Language Override

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Changing Translations with Language Override Liferay DXP 7.4 U4/Portal 7.4 GA8. Import/Export and filtering functionality in Liferay DXP 7.4 U17/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA17 Liferay's Language...

Using the REST Data Provider to Populate Form Options

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Using the REST Data Provider to Populate Form Options Select from List fields can hold many options. Those options can be supplied automatically by using the JSON web services registered in Liferay...

Data Set Filters

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Data Set Filters Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). While managing data sets, you can define pre-applied filters to be used...

Tracking Events

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Tracking Events You can track events for analysis by adding JavaScript code to your Liferay DXP site pages. Your code interacts with Analytic Cloud's APIs to capture what users are doing on your...

Data Set Visualization Modes

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Data Set Visualization Modes Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). To customize the data display in your data set, use the...

Designing Object Views

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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...

Authorizing Account Access with OAuth2

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Authorizing Account Access with OAuth2 Once you have an application registered, you can start authorizing users. To do that, you must construct the URL to the authorization server (Liferay DXP)....

Managing Workflows

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Managing Workflows With the workflow framework, Users manage asset publication in custom-built workflow processes. Users with permission to access workflow process definitions in the Control Panel...

Triggering Events in Camunda with Liferay Webhooks

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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...

Personalization

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Personalization Liferay DXP provides powerful tools out-of-the-box for understanding and delivering personalized experiences to users. For example, you can use data from Liferay's Analytics Cloud...

Troubleshooting Analytics Cloud Activation

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Troubleshooting Analytics Cloud Activation There are a few steps that must be performed in order to begin using Analytics Cloud. If these steps have not yet been performed, you may encounter an...

What's New in Search for 7.3?

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What's New in Search for 7.3? Elasticsearch Integration Elasticsearch 7 Support Liferay CE 7.3 GA4+, Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1+ Liferay DXP 7.3 comes with out-of-the-box support for Elasticsearch 7. The...

Advanced Configuration of the Liferay Elasticsearch Connector

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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...

Securing Elasticsearch

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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. ...

Searching for Content

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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...

Managing Properties

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Managing Properties After creating a property it can be managed and modified from the Workspace Settings section of Analytics Cloud. Navigate to Settings → Workspace Settings → Properties. ...

Search Queries and Filters

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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...

Installing and Upgrading a Search Engine

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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,...

Upgrading to Elasticsearch 8

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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...

Search Blueprints Elements Reference

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Search Blueprints Elements Reference Elements are one of the fundamental building blocks of a Search Blueprint. To explore all the available Elements, navigate to the Global Menu (Global) →...

Understanding Search Blueprints

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Understanding Search Blueprints Use Search Blueprints to tailor the search page experience to your users' needs, without deploying any custom code. With Blueprints you can Create context-aware...