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Configuring Locked Pages Liferay DXP 2023.Q3+/Portal GA92+ Liferay locks pages during editing to avoid conflicts when multiple users try to edit the same page. This feature works with content,...

Using a Widget Template Example

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Using a Widget Template Example Widget Templates are great tools for customizing how widgets look and feel on your site. This example shows changing the default configuration of the Media Gallery...

Configuring Asset Publisher Subscriptions

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Configuring Asset Publisher Subscriptions The Asset Publisher supports two kinds of subscriptions: email subscriptions and RSS feed subscriptions. Email Subscriptions Users can subscribe to the...

Configuring Content Rating Type

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Configuring Content Rating Type Ratings can be represented by different types of icons/labels (like, stacked stars, stars, and thumbs ups). You can configure these rating types for the following...

Securing Site Documents Content

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Securing Site Documents Content By default, your Site's Documents and Media files and folders are not visible in the web server directory index, so you can't view them through the browser. To...

Using Pattern Redirects

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Using Pattern Redirects Available 7.4 U48+/GA48+ Pattern redirects use regular expressions to define patterns for multiple source URLs and their replacements. Consequently, they are best used when...

Configuring the Asset Recycle Bin for Sites

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Configuring the Asset Recycle Bin for Sites The recycle bin stores content and assets that have been flagged for deletion, before they are permanently removed from the system. This functionality...

Converting Widget Pages to Content Pages

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Converting Widget Pages to Content Pages In older versions, widget pages provided exclusive features, such as custom layouts and customizable columns. Many of these exclusive features are available...

Managing Content Sharing Across Sites

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Managing Content Sharing Across Sites You can allow Liferay DXP child Sites to display content from parent Sites. This content includes Web Content Structures Web Content Templates Document...

Setting Default Permissions

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Setting Default Permissions Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA125+ You can define a set of default permissions for Liferay content pages. The default permissions setting is available at both instance...

Site Settings UI Reference

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Site Settings UI Reference Starting with Liferay DXP 7.4, the Site Settings application layout is consistent with other configuration areas, such as Instance Settings or System Settings. The Site...

Creating Product Display Pages

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Creating Product Display Pages With Liferay Commerce, you can link individual store products with site pages to create dedicated display pages for each product. Quickly design layouts using...

2026.Q1 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes

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2026.Q1 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes Most new versions of Liferay DXP include changes to the default settings. If you rely on the defaults from your old version, review the changes and...

Liferay DXP 2026.Q1 Breaking Changes

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Liferay DXP 2026.Q1 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay DXP 2026.Q1. As the...

Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code

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Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code Service Builder makes it easy to define models and generate model, persistence, and service code for them. You'll experience this by defining a model...

Creating an OAuth2 Application

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Creating an OAuth2 Application When you have an application that can use OAuth 2.0 for authorization, you must register that application so Liferay can recognize it. Open the Global Menu...

Configuring SAML at the Instance Level

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Configuring SAML at the Instance Level Subscription Each portal instance can be a SAML provider, either an Identity Provider (IdP) or a Service Provider (SP). Whichever role your DXP instance...

Advanced Settings Reference

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Advanced Settings Reference Available 7.4 U37+/GA37+ All Liferay's default fragments include advanced settings except for the Collection Display fragment. Advanced settings can add custom CSS to a...

SAML Authentication Process Overview

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SAML Authentication Process Overview Subscription Both the IdP and the SP can initiate the Single Sign On process, and the SSO flow is different depending on each one. Regardless of how it's...

Setting Service Access Policies

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Setting Service Access Policies Service Access Policies define what services or service methods can be invoked remotely. You can apply many of them at once to produce a combined effect. They are...

Configuring User Import and Export

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Configuring User Import and Export The import/export settings configure mappings between LDAP and Liferay to match users between the two systems. Finding Users in Your LDAP Directory...

Connecting to an LDAP Directory

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Connecting to an LDAP Directory Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers are common user stores for Liferay DXP. Configure LDAP at the system scope in System Settings or at the instance...

LDAP Configuration Reference

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LDAP Configuration Reference Access LDAP configuration settings from the Global Menu (Applications Menu icon): Control Panel → Configuration → Instance Settings → Security → LDAP Control Panel...

Liferay Catalogs

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Liferay Catalogs Liferay Catalogs categorize applications in Marketplace. There are three catalogs developed and maintained by Liferay. Liferay Inc. Liferay Labs Liferay Community You can...

Configuring Global Service Options

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Configuring Global Service Options A service's global options apply to all its entities. Here are the options: Dependency Injector Package path Multiversion concurrency control Namespace...

Understanding and Extending Generated Classes

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Understanding and Extending Generated Classes Service Builder generates both tables for your entity and model, persistence, and service classes for it. Here you'll examine generated classes for an...

Remote Applications with Headless APIs

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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...

SAML Admin

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SAML Admin Subscription The SAML Admin panel is the best place to configure your SAML instance. Use it instead of Instance Settings to streamline your SAML administration experience. Starting...

Page Settings UI Reference

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Page Settings UI Reference You can configure individual pages to meet your needs. All changes made in this way are scoped to the selected page. To configure a specific page, open the Site Menu...

Default Fragments Reference

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Default Fragments Reference Liferay provides many out-of-the-box fragments, so you can start building your solution immediately. To view available fragments, begin editing a content page or page...

Frontend Token Definitions

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Frontend Token Definitions Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ The visual rules of style books consist of options grouped into categories. For example, in the Buttons category there can be an option called...

Designing and Displaying Reusable Navigation Menus

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Navigation menus for a site are typically tied strictly to a site's page hierarchy and structure. The Navigation Menus feature in Liferay is powerful because it enables you to create navigation menus that are...

How to Access Nested Freemarker FieldSets in DXP 7.4+

Issue After upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.4+, FreeMarker templates appear to access fields within existing web content structures using different syntax than newly created web content structures. For example, older...

Can't save web content article because the Submit for Publication button is disabled

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Issue I'm unable to edit web content and submit it for publication. The Submit button for Publication button is greyed out and the existing web content is in "Pending" status. Reproduction Steps: Set a workflow for web...

How to Completely Delete a Portlet and Its Associated Data

Issue When a custom portlet is deprecated,it often remains in hundreds of pages across Liferay instances. Manually removing each instance and cleaning up the associated database entries is impractical. A method...

How to Resolve Jenkins Build "Content is not allowed in prolog" Errors

Issue When creating Liferay PaaS Jenkins builds, you may experience CI/CD pipeline build failures with errors relating to unresolved Gradle dependencies. For example: > Task...

How to add a certificate in Cacerts file in PaaS

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Issue What is the best way to add a new certificate for the Cacerts file to trust the response of a consumed API in Liferay Cloud (PaaS)? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution To ensure your security settings...

Troubleshooting 'Portlet is temporarily unavailable' Errors Caused by JSESSIONID in URLs

Issue When navigating our site, a ;jsessionid parameter is intermittently appended to the page URL. When this happens, portlets on the page fail to render, displaying a Portlet is temporarily unavailable error....

Avoiding Empty File Uploads in Documents and Media

Issue When uploading a file in Documents and Media, a form refresh (e.g., by changing the Document Type or triggering a metadata validation error) causes the selected file to be cleared from the input field. Despite the file no longer being attached, the form...

How to View Previous Publication Dates for Web Content

Issue When editing a web content article that has a publication date set in the past, the Schedule Publication dialog appears with an empty date field. This behavior occurs for both newly created content scheduled for...

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