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Adding Blog Entries Blog entries are scoped to sites. By default, only authenticated users can create blog entries. See the Blogs Permissions Reference for more information. You can create a blog...

Aggregating Blogs

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Aggregating Blogs The Blogs Aggregator widget publishes blogs entries from multiple blog sources. The Blogs Aggregator widget shows multiple blogs. To configure the widget, Start editing the...

Blog Permissions Reference

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Blog Permissions Reference Here's a list of all permissions associated with the Blogs application. To configure the permissions for the Blogs widget see Setting Widget Permissions. Blog Entry...

Configuring the Blogs App

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Configuring the Blogs App You can control how the app behaves for all blogs in your site. Open the Site Menu (Site Menu) and navigate to Content and Data → Blogs Click Options (Options icon)...

Highlighting Recent Bloggers

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Highlighting Recent Bloggers You can use the Recent Bloggers widget to highlight the work of your most recent blog authors. This widget lists each recent author's name, profile picture, and number...

Getting Started with Blogs

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Getting Started with Blogs The blogs application's editor has a complete set of WYSIWYG controls that appear when and where you need them. You can also switch to source mode to edit your content's...

Exporting Assets List To a Spreadsheet

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Exporting Assets List To a Spreadsheet The Content Dashboard can export a spreadsheet (.xls file) of content related metadata for further analysis. To export the asset list to a spreadsheet, ...

Documents and Media

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Documents and Media The Documents and Media application stores and manages files in your Liferay instance. This includes files uploaded directly to Documents and Media, as well as those uploaded in...

Creating Video Shortcut Providers

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Creating Video Shortcut Providers Liferay DXP 7.4+ By default, Liferay's external video shortcuts support YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Twitch. However, you can extend this feature to support...

Document API Basics

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Document API Basics Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST services for Documents and Media that add documents and folders, list their information, modify them, delete them, and...

Document Shortcut API Basics

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Document Shortcut API Basics Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST services for Documents and Media that add document shortcuts to sites or asset libraries, list their information,...

Managing Blog Entries

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Managing Blog Entries Bloggers and blog administrators manage blog entries using the Blogs application in the Site Administration menu. To access this app, open the Product Menu (Product Menu) and...

Content Dashboard

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Content Dashboard Available 7.3+ This feature works only with Elasticsearch. The Content Dashboard is a global application for managing your content. From the Content Dashboard page, content...

Developer Guide

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Developer Guide This guide provides comprehensive information and references to help you effectively use the Document API, understand adaptive media modules, and create video shortcut providers.

Adaptive Media Modules Reference

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Adaptive Media Modules Reference Adaptive Media's Modules Some modules in the Adaptive Media app are mandatory and must be enabled for Adaptive Media to function, while others can be disabled. The...

Configuring Caching for Documents and Media

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Configuring Caching for Documents and Media Liferay 7.3 U23+, Liferay 7.4 U21+, GA21+ By default, Documents and Media files are not cached by browsers or servers. This is because file visibility...

Enabling LibreOffice / OpenOffice Integration

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Enabling LibreOffice / OpenOffice Integration LibreOffice and OpenOffice are open source productivity suites that you can integrate with Liferay. By default Liferay includes PDFBox, which generates...

DevOps

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DevOps :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: Local Integrations Configuring Documents and Media Previews Enabling Antivirus Scanning for Uploaded Files Configuring Cache Control for Documents and Media...

Configuring Documents and Media Previews

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Configuring Documents and Media Previews Liferay 7.4 U84+/GA84+ By default, Liferay uses PDFBox to generate previews for files added to the document library. This is because PDFBox is the only...

Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365

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Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365 Liferay DXP integrates with Microsoft Office 365™ so you can create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations stored in...

Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews

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Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews Documents and Media provides integration with the FFmpeg multimedia framework for generating audio and video file previews. To use this integration, you...

Enabling Optimization of Animated GIFs

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Enabling Optimization of Animated GIFs To scale animated GIFs, Adaptive Media uses an external tool called Gifsicle. If Gifsicle isn't installed and image/gif is included as a supported MIME type,...

Google Drive Integration

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Google Drive Integration Integrate Google Drive with Liferay DXP to create, edit, and manage Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides directly from Documents and Media. This integration provides two main...

Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Google Drive

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Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Google Drive Liferay DXP provides integration with Google Drive so you can create and edit Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides via the Documents and Media...

Enabling Links to Google Drive Documents

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Enabling Links to Google Drive Documents Liferay supports Google Drive in Documents and Media. When enabled, you can create shortcuts to your Google Drive files that enable you to view and manage...

Setting Storage Quotas for Documents and Media

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Setting Storage Quotas for Documents and Media You can define storage quotas in Documents and Media by enabling the data.limit.dl.storage.max.size portal property. Once you define a value for this...

SharePoint Integration

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SharePoint Integration Integrate SharePoint with Liferay DXP for managing SharePoint libraries within Documents and Media. Create and manage repositories that mount SharePoint libraries, and...

Installing Apps and Other Artifacts to Containers

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Installing Apps and Other Artifacts to Containers Applications and other artifacts (such as DXP activation keys) are installed to DXP Docker containers via the container's /mnt/liferay/deploy...

Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Docker

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Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Docker The Liferay Docker container has tools for maintenance and troubleshooting out-of-the-box. You can set various environment variables to modify settings...

Upgrading to a New Docker Image

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Upgrading to a New Docker Image As new Liferay versions are released as Docker images, you can upgrade to them. Upgrading Liferay describes the process. Always back up your data and installation...

Using Liferay Docker Images

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Using Liferay Docker Images Docker Hub hosts Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal Docker images, bundled with Tomcat on Linux. The Liferay Docker Hub pages provide image details and tags for the...

Licensing DXP in Docker

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Licensing DXP in Docker If you're using a DXP trial license that's expiring or you have a new license (activation key) you must install, you can replace your container's existing license. Here's...

Patching DXP in Docker

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Patching DXP in Docker Liferay patches fix DXP issues and the Patching Tool applies the patches. On Docker Hub, Liferay provides images pre-populated with each new Fix Pack, Security Fix Pack, and...

Providing Files to the Container

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Providing Files to the Container The Liferay container uses the files you provide to execute the following use cases: Configure Liferay with .properties Files and .config files Configure Tomcat...

Running Scripts in Containers

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Running Scripts in Containers If there's more that you want to do in the Liferay container beyond setting up Tomcat and Liferay files, deploying arifacts, and applying patches, you can use scripts....

Maintaining a Liferay Installation

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Maintaining a Liferay Installation Starting with Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3+ and 7.4 GA1+, Liferay adopted a new release model for delivering updates and fixes. This new approach is referred to as Bundle...

Backing Up

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Backing Up Once you have your DXP installation running, you should implement a comprehensive backup plan that accounts for unforeseen events. Backup copies are also valuable for testing updates...

Maintaining Clustered Installations

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Maintaining Clustered Installations Setting up your Liferay DXP installation to function in a cluster provides performance and scalability improvements, but also requires additional consideration...

Blue-Green Deployments

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Blue-Green Deployments Blue-green is a deployment technique in which you duplicate your production environment (the blue environment) and modify the duplicate (the green environment) with software...

Performing Rolling Restarts

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Performing Rolling Restarts The rolling restart cluster maintenance process involves shutting down and updating nodes one at a time (while the other nodes are running) until they're all updated....

Applying a Hotfix

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Applying a Hotfix Subscribers A Hotfix is a fix or collection of fixes delivered between Updates (or between Fix Packs for versions before DXP 7.3 SP3) to address a customer's confirmed critical...

Patching Liferay

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Patching Liferay Liferay DXP uses Bundle Releases for its latest releases. Please see Updating Liferay if you are applying an Update. All Hotfixes are patches. If you're applying a Hotfix,...

Advanced Patching for DXP 7.2

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Advanced Patching for DXP 7.2 Here are the DXP 7.2 advanced patching topics: Using Slim Bundles demonstrates conserving disk space by using DXP fix pack bundles that don't include Patch Files. ...

Custom Code and Patch Compatibility

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Custom Code and Patch Compatibility Subscribers If you deploy code that customizes or patches your DXP 7.2 installation, you must maintain its compatibility with all patches you're using. The...

Slimming Down Patched Installations

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Slimming Down Patched Installations Subscribers In Liferay DXP 7.2, patch information is retained in Patch Files in the installation by default. This facilitates restoring DXP to a previous patch...

Using Slim Bundles

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Using Slim Bundles Subscribers Liferay DXP 7.2 Fix Packs and Service Packs are also released bundled with the Tomcat application server. They are available as traditional bundles and Slim Bundles....

Installing Patches in Earlier Versions

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Installing Patches in Earlier Versions Subscribers The Patching Tool applies Fix Packs (including Security Fix Packs and Service Packs) for versions prior to Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3. It also applies...

Configuring the Patching Tool

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Configuring the Patching Tool Subscribers The Patching Tool can be adapted to any DXP installation. The tool's auto-discovery option is the easiest way to configure the Patching Tool. If you...

Getting Patch Information

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Getting Patch Information Subscribers You can see patch information at a glance, which helps maintain your installation and get help from Liferay Support. The Patching Tool's info command lists...

Updating Liferay

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Updating Liferay Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3+/Portal 7.4 GA1+ Update your Liferay installation with Bundle Releases. The latest features, security releases, as well as library updates are all delivered...

Accessing DXP Patch Code

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Accessing DXP Patch Code Subscribers Liferay DXP Fix Pack and Hotfix source code is available in a private GitHub repository called liferay-dxp. The source code facilitates identifying and...

Installing the Patching Tool

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Installing the Patching Tool Subscribers The Patching Tool is easy to install and update. Installation Download the Patching Tool from the Customer Portal. For DXP 7.3+, download the latest...

Uninstalling Patches

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Uninstalling Patches Subscribers After you install a patch, you may decide to restore your installation to a previous patch level. Here you'll learn how to Uninstall Patches Revert (uninstall)...

Updating Previous Versions of Liferay

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Updating Previous Versions of Liferay Staying current with updates gives you the best security and quality. Security Updates are releases that address the latest security issues immediately. ...

Liferay Home

Liferay Home Liferay Home is the folder from which Liferay DXP/Portal launches applications, reads and applies configurations, loads JAR files, generates logs, and more. Liferay Home's location...

Liferay's Default Cookies Reference

Liferay's Default Cookies Reference Strictly Necessary Cookies Cookie NamePurposeDuration COOKIE_SUPPORTStores the user's preference (true/false) to store cookies in the browser.365 Days...

System Properties

System Properties Liferay DXP/Portal runs in the application server's JVM. System properties can be passed directly to the JVM as arguments to java in the format -D[name1]=[value1] or can be loaded...

Reference

Reference When installing Liferay, you must take into consideration the specifics of your environment. These topics help you integrate Liferay into your existing environment and aid in...

Database Configuration

Database Configuration By default for demonstration purposes, Liferay DXP/Portal is configured to use an embedded HSQL database. Beyond demonstration purposes, we recommend using a full-featured,...

Database Templates

Database Templates Below are templates (example portal properties and Docker environment variables) for configuring various databases as a built-in data source for Liferay DXP. MariaDB Portal...

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