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Events Descriptions Below are the various events that can be analyzed in the events analysis tool. Blog Clicked This is when a user clicks on an element within the blogs application. See Blogs...

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 Control and Privacy

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Data Control and Privacy Analytics Cloud provides administrative tools for managing individual data and privacy. Use these tools to assist you in meeting General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...

Upgrading Search Infrastructure

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Upgrading Search Infrastructure While upgrading Liferay, consider whether an Elasticsearch upgrade is required. The exact steps for upgrading depend on your existing search engine installation and...

Installing Solr

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Installing Solr 7.2-7.3 (CE, DXP); 7.4 DXP U60+ Solr is a popular enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene. It's reliable, scalable, and fault tolerant. Read more about it here. Solr is...

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...

Configuring an Example CCR Installation: Replicating Between Data Centers

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Configuring an Example CCR Installation: Replicating Between Data Centers Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) Subscribers This example configures Liferay DXP's Cross-Cluster Replication module and...

Cross-Cluster Replication

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Cross-Cluster Replication Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) Subscribers In a classic Liferay DXP/search engine installation, one Liferay DXP cluster talks to one Elasticsearch cluster, sending all...

Deactivating Liferay Enterprise Search

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Deactivating Liferay Enterprise Search Starting with Liferay DXP 7.4 and in all quarterly releases, the Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) features are included out-of-the-box. You can begin using LES...

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...

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...

Search Blueprints

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Search Blueprints [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) DXP 7.4 U5+; 7.3 U6+ With Search Blueprints you can Make minor tweaks to Liferay's default search page behavior...

Installing Search Experiences on Liferay 7.3

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Installing Search Experiences on Liferay 7.3 [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) DXP 7.4 U5+; 7.3 U6+ The Liferay Enterprise Search Experiences app includes a suite of...

Search Bar Suggestions Blueprints

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Search Bar Suggestions Blueprints Subscription 7.4 U36+ and GA36+ Search Bar Suggestions uses the regular search bar query by default. Liferay Enterprise Search users can influence or override the...

Using the Search Results Widget

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Using the Search Results Widget Search results should be easy to navigate, sort, and filter. Give your users an optimal search experience by understanding the default search experience and the many...

Configuring Frontend Resource Caching (CSS)

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Configuring Frontend Resource Caching (CSS) Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+ When you access a page on your site, the page's load time depends on how it retrieves frontend resources, such as JavaScript or...

Virtual Instances

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Virtual Instances Liferay DXP can host multiple portals on one installation. These are called virtual instances. Each virtual instance has completely separate data and configurations. Each is...

JAX-RS

JAX-RS JAX-RS web services work in Liferay modules the same way they work outside of Liferay, though you must register the class in the OSGi framework. To learn how to create these applications,...

Integration

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Integration

Service Builder

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Service Builder An application without reliable business logic or persistence isn't much of an application at all. Unfortunately, writing your own persistence code often takes a great deal of time....

Fields

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Fields Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ Object fields are data definitions that represent database columns and store different types of values. All objects include default system fields, but you...

Adding Fields to Objects

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Adding Fields to Objects Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ Fields are data definitions that represent database columns and store different types of values. By default, all objects include these...

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...

Adding Field Validations

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Adding Field Validations Liferay DXP 2023.Q3+/Portal GA92+ Validations set rules for determining valid field entries. Each validation has its own trigger, conditions, and error message, which you...

Using a Style Book to Standardize Site Appearance

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Using a Style Book to Standardize Site Appearance Available 7.3+ A site's Style Book provides visual rules for applying a consistent experience across its pages. Style books determine various...

Extending Liferay

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Extending Liferay Liferay DXP/Portal is highly customizable. Its modular architecture contains components you can extend and override dynamically using APIs.

Managing Data Sets

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Managing Data Sets Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPS-164563). Once you create a data set, you can customize how users see it....

Waiting for Life Cycle Events

Waiting for Life Cycle Events Liferay registers life cycle events like portal and portlet initialization into the OSGi service registry. Your OSGi classes can listen for these service registrations...

Configuring Mail

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Configuring Mail Liferay can be configured to use a mail server to send email notifications for a variety of purposes: user registration, password management, site membership notifications, content...

Troubleshooting Upgrades

Troubleshooting Upgrades Liferay has many out-of-the-box tools and features to identify and solve issues that may arise when performing an upgrade. To troubleshoot, you can upgrade modules...

Using Display Page Templates

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Using Display Page Templates Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ Display page templates define structures for displaying content at a dedicated URL. When you create or upload content items, Liferay generates...

Creating and Managing Display Page Templates

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Creating and Managing Display Page Templates Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ Display page templates define structures for displaying content at a dedicated friendly URL. See Using Display Page Templates...

Configuring Default Email Senders

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Configuring Default Email Senders By default, emails sent by Liferay DXP use the name and email address of the default admin user. This behavior can be configured for each of the different email...

Preparing for an Upgrade

Preparing for an Upgrade Preparation and planning may be of little consequence for small, casual installations but is mandatory for large enterprise-level installations. Create a Back Up Always...

Post-Upgrade Considerations

Post-Upgrade Considerations After upgrading the database, you should configure Liferay for production again and check up on feature changes that might affect your Liferay instance. Re-enable...

Data Cleanup

Data Cleanup Before database upgrades, Liferay executes data cleanup processes to repair databases with obsolete data. This lightens the load of the upgrade tool, improving performance and reducing...

Database Pruning for Faster Upgrades

Database Pruning for Faster Upgrades The more data you have the longer your data upgrade takes. Unneeded site data is a common occurrence. Pruning the database of unneeded data improves upgrade...

Content Management System

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Content Management System Liferay’s content management system includes tools for creating, organizing, and managing content across your sites. These include Web Content, Tags and Categories, Asset...

Managing Space and Default Permissions

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Managing Space and Default Permissions [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+ Currently,...

Managing Spaces

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Managing Spaces [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+ Currently, this feature is behind...