Liferay DXP 7.4

Features Overview

Table of Contents

Foundation � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 1

Integration and Interoperability � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 1

Platform Services � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 2

Identity Management and Access Control � � � � � � � � 5

Experiences � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 8

Content Management � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 8

Experience Management � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 16

Segmentation and Personalization � � � � � � � � � � � � 19

Multichannel Support � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 21

Operations � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 23

Liferay Objects � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 23

Forms � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 24

Workow and Business Productivity � � � � � � � � � � � 28

Digital Asset Management � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 29

Collaboration and Social � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 32

Developer Tools � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 34

Search � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 36

Analytics � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 38

Cloud and Infrastructure � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 39

What’s Next � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 40

Foundation

Successful digital businesses require platforms that are built on solid, reliable IT� Liferay DXP delivers

features like modular architecture, a powerful search engine and advanced tools for testing and upgrades�

Integration and Interoperability

Transform the way your business is run by using a platform can evolve alongside your strategy� Liferay’s

incredibly exible architecture empowers businesses to bring systems and data together on one platform�

Integration Framework Liferay DXP is a central presentation layer platform for integrating content

and services from back end or legacy applications� Liferay DXP supports

multiple methods to integrate, including SOAP, REST, GraphQL, RSS, as well as

proprietary APIs�

Frameworks Support Support for popular JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Vue�js, React

and modern JavaScript workows are included out-of-the-box (OOTB)� Java

frameworks such as JSF, SpringMVC, Vaadin are supported�

Custom Fields Administrators can customize, edit, add and change user attributes (name,

company, date or any other information that needs to be tracked or logged by

your system) directly from Liferay, without needing to modify their database�

This support extends to Pages, Web Content, Blogs Entries, Documents and

its folders, images and its folders, Segments, bookmarks and its folders,

forum messages, calendar events and wiki pages� Liferay also oers a

framework so that developers can leverage this functionality in their custom

applications to support custom elds for their own entities�

Modularity Liferay provides a highly modular architecture that allows for greater extensibility,

stability and exibility� Developers can enjoy an elegant development model based

on OSGi standards� Modularity leads to many benets such as:

• Greater exibility including the ability to remove unused modules�

• Faster implementation of new features with users getting new modules as

they’re ready rather than at the next GA release from Liferay�

• Reduced complexity with greater stability since updates and bug xes are

delivered independently and routinely�

• Quicker deployment since modules can be installed, uninstalled, started or

updated all while running Liferay DXP�

Remote Apps Developers can easily register remote JS Apps which can interact with Liferay

services & styling� Once registered each Remote App can be deployed via an

automatically generated widget and can be congured to be rendered within

an iFrame in the widget, or as a Web Component, which is rendered via

custom HTML Elements within the widget�

Click-to-Chat Liferay includes out-of-the-box integration to 10 popular Click-to-Chat

providers� Administrators congure Click-to-Chat by providing the

appropriate Provider ID / API key details� If needed, dierent providers can

be congured for each site and/or virtual instance� A subscription is required

from a provider to use this feature - check the providers’ documentation for

details

DocuSign Liferay includes out-of-the-box integration to DocuSign to support the use of

Electronic Signature processes� A subscription to DocuSign is required to use

this feature�

Platform Services

Liferay DXP gives businesses the ability to manage backend systems through powerful administration

interface tools along with a exible, modular architecture that enables agile growth with user needs�

Key functionality includes site administration, identity management, search and more�

Multitenancy and

Virtual Hosting

Multiple virtual instances serving dierent groups of users with dierent

domains can be administered in a single instance of Liferay DXP, leading to cost

savings and operational eciency for your organization� Enterprises have the

ability to organize users by business-dened categories such as departments,

geographies or oces, as well as by cross-departmental teams and workgroups�

Each organization and site can inherit or dene its own permissions and

administer user, group and role management for the various applications it

chooses to include� A single instance can be used to create many websites

quickly to create hosted websites within one Liferay deployment and each clone

can have its own unique URL, custom theme and design� For example, a single

deployment could host www�companyA�com and www�companyB�com with

completely dierent themes, pages and applications�

High Availability

and Scalability

Maximize uptime while updating your clustered environment with rolling

restarts, support for blue-green deployment and cloud deployment through

Liferay DXP Cloud�

REST APIs Out-of-the-box APIs allow connections to assets, cache, comments, data handlers,

le storage, geolocation, membership policies, message bus, permissions,

recycle bin, scheduler, scripting, search, upgrade and workow�

Headless APIs Liferay’s new Headless API families, which are OpenAPI compliant and

provide GraphQL Endpoints, oer greater exibility over traditional REST APIs�

Additionally a far greater array of Liferay functionality is exposed, allowing for

not just content retrieval but full CRUD operations� The API Explorer UI fully

documents all Endpoints and allows APIs to be tested� New Page APIs provide

access to Pages, in-line content in Fragments, Experiences, and new User APIs

provide CRUD access to Users, Roles, Organizations, Accounts, User Groups, and

to congure permissions

Search Administration Easily manage and control indexing and other search engine features�

Simplied UI Liferay DXP simplies the user experience of internal, external and channel

websites —notably those that allow users to login for personalized services or

views and those that require a workow approval process to update content

and integrate or aggregate multiple existing services� Liferay DXP provides a

presentation layer for integrating all enterprise systems into a single easy-to-

use interface for end users�

Quick Conguration A fast, responsive interface makes Liferay DXP extremely easy and enjoyable to

use for everyone in your organization� Typically time-consuming tasks such as

altering a page layout, adding new applications and content and changing the look

and feel can all be done in a couple of clicks without ever refreshing the page�

Product Menu Administrators and registered users have access to administrative and

personal applications from the Product Menu, leaving the screen real estate

available for site navigation and page design�

Site Menu Administrators and registered users have access to administrative functions

for the currently selected site, from the pop-out Site Menu on the le-hand

side of the screen�

Global Menu The global menu provides a centralized location for all system-wide

administration functions, and Application administration� Provided as a

mega-menu, this provides a clean separation of Site Administration (accessed

through the Product Menu) and other administration functions�

Applications Bar All the tools for managing the current page are now in a bar at the top of the

screen - for example: Editing the page, Conguring it, adding content and

applications and so on� Options vary per release and for Widget and Content

Pages�

Personal Menu The Personal Menu provides access for the current user to perform actions

such as changing Sites, managing their Prole, monitoring Notications, and

signing out�

Site Administration Users can create and manage sites and their respective audiences� Each site

gets its own set of pages, content management system, shared calendar and

permissions� Users belonging to multiple communities can easily navigate

between sites� Site settings allow site administrators to change the look and feel

with one click, manage site pages, insert JavaScript and metadata, set friendly

URLs, and more�

One-click page and site creation are possible: web structures and templates

allow common web layouts to be predened and saved for future web pages�

With one-click page creation, users can create a new page and immediately

begin adding content to the page layout, allowing web pages to be set up

within minutes without any developer support required� Users can also create

Sites with sets of predened pages congured to their needs� These site

templates can be dynamic, allowing all changes to the parent template to be

inherited by associated children sites�

Auditing To help administrators monitor user activity, Liferay DXP provides an Auditing

feature which allows administrators to track and manage user activity within the

platform� Optionally Audit information can be included in system logs alongside

error and warning messages to enable Administrators to determine which

request or instance the audit output belongs to�

Clustering and

Performance

Monitoring

Liferay DXP supports clustering at any combination of tiers (presentation,

service, business logic and database), advanced caching and performance

monitoring support (JMX, Java proling and more)�

Single Page Applications Users experience faster loading and greater performance on the Liferay

platform through Single Page Applications, a technology that provides

dynamic and responsive web experiences by taking only the parts of a page

that need to be loaded rather than reloading the entire page� This can be

achieved in Liferay DXP through Senna�js, a SPA engine�

Development Standards

and Technologies

AJAX, iCalendar, Microformat, JSR-362 (Portlet 3�0), JSR-371 (MVC1�0), JSR-344

(JSF 2�2), Spring 3�0, CMIS 1�0/1�1, Hibernate collection of projects, OSGi Core

6�0 and SAML 2�0�

Gogo Shell Interact with and manage Liferay DXP’s module framework through a built-in

Gogo shell interface�

Identity Management and Access Control

Liferay DXP gives businesses the ability to connect backend systems through integration along with a

flexible, modular architecture that enables agile growth with user needs� Key functionality includes

site administration, identity management, search and more�

Security Liferay DXP is thoroughly tested for security issues through White Hat Security,

a leading provider of application risk assessment and management services�

This independent third-party security audit means that Liferay DXP has

successfully undergone rigorous testing based on the most widely accepted and

comprehensive methods, and that the platform meets customer requirements

for addressing security issues in an eective and proactive manner� In addition,

Liferay DXP is developed according to secure coding best practices and

guidelines such as the OWASP Top 10 and the CWE/SANS Top 25� Our continuous

security testing process includes regular security code reviews, penetration

testing by ethical hacking rms, continuous white and black box security

scans from third-party rms and continuous vulnerability monitoring of

third-party libraries included in Liferay DXP� Whenever new potential security

vulnerabilities are found by Liferay’s security team, customers are notied and

provided with a security update or x pack�

Identity Management Liferay DXP supports LDAP and provides sign-on (SSO) integration capabilities

through the OpenID Connect and SAML 2�0 standards to connect with solutions

and services like OpenAM, PingFederate, Google, PingOne, Okta, MS Azure AD,

Oracle Identity Cloud� The SAML 2�0 connector also allows Liferay DXP to act as a

SAML 2�0 Identity Provider server to authenticate all applications integrated�

Token Based SSO is also supported for integrating other kinds of SSO solutions,

for example: SiteMinder, Kerberos etc, through cookie/request/header or session

parameters�

Access Control The CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) system settings provide a way to

congure CORS headers for Liferay services�

OAuth 2 is the de facto standard for access delegation, for providing

authorization between systems� OAuth 2 allows your application to access

protected data inside your platform�

Registered OAuth 2�0 Applications can be congured as Trusted Applications,

allow users to have their device remembered, and have all device

authorizations removed with a single click�

Multi-factor

Authentication

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an architectural approach to accessing

resources sequentially through multiple authentication veriers� Liferay

includes support for email-based one-time passwords, time-based one-time

passwords and APIs to enable the development of custom factors� Support

is also provided for FIDO 2�0 hardware-based authentication devices such as

Fingerprint readers, Cameras, and dedicated FIDO 2�0 security keys�

Service Access Policies Dene which services or service methods can be invoked remotely with an

additional layer of web service security�

User Management Create and manage users, organizations, user groups, roles and password policies�

View all of the live portal sessions of your users�

Data Protection Data protection tools in Liferay DXP help companies address GDPR and

other privacy regulations and maintain control over how their platform

manages user data� Companies can erase a user’s personal data and export

a user’s personal data in a machine-readable format upon request� For data

erasure, administrators can review content that potentially contains personal

information and edit or delete as needed through a simple interface� Both tools

include APIs for third-party apps to implement this feature or override the

default behavior for out-of-the-box apps� The management dashboard allows

for simplied bulk deletion, anonymization, ltering and scoping abilities for

greater context in personal data review� Administrators are informed of which

applications will automatically delete or anonymize data during the auto-

anonymization process�

Experiences

Liferay DXP is designed to support personalized experiences across digital touchpoints including web,

mobile and connected devices� Features around business productivity also help companies create useful

experiences for employees and partners, making the platform a solid foundation for almost any project�

Create consistent, personalized experiences quickly and easily�

Content Management

Content management features provide support for creating and managing structured web content and

digital assets for developers and business users, including a modern UI, content authoring, geolocation,

staging tools and others�

Liferay CMS The main interface for Liferay’s integrated web publishing system allows

users to create, edit and publish content as well as take advantage of reusable

Web Content templates and structures� These structures and templates enable

users to quickly build pages and websites while maintaining a common look

and feel across an entire site� It also allows for one-click changes in layout and

one-click creation of full pages� There is a built-in workow, article versioning,

search and metadata�

Structured Content Manage and create dierent content data models to make your use-case

specic content management system a reality� Uses a consistent forms-

builder experience shared across Forms, Web Content, and Documents�

Display Page Templates Create Display Page Templates and assign these by default, or manually,

to dierent types of content� Display Page Templates provide a default

presentation for all content assigned to them, including a friendly URL,

allowing them to be displayed without needing to create a page for each

content item� Additionally Display Page Templates can be created for

Categories to provide enhanced support for content-heavy sites and

applications�

Content Metadata Assign metadata to Web Content such as Display, Expire and Review

dates, assign Friendly URLs for use with Display Page Templates, assign

Categories and/or Tags, set default Templates and Display Page Templates,

and so on�

Information Templates Create Freemarker-based templates for Web Content, Documents, Blogs,

Categories, and Assets� Templates can be mapped to Fragments to support

sophisticated and consistent presentation of information�

Content Previews Easily preview created content within an associated display page, within a

page before publication in a fragment and in dra form within a Widget page�

WYSIWYG Editor The default editor for Liferay is based on CKEditor� The editor aims to

improve the experience when creating new content in Liferay DXP� It includes

the ability to preview source written in HTML as it is being typed live, which

makes it simple to add new content using only the source code�

Web Content Dis Web content can be compared when the content is being processed through a

workow� This makes it easier for the content approver to review the changes

before approving them�

Collections Create, edit and manage collections of content in “sets” for display in the

Collection Display fragment, via Collection Pages or through the Asset

Publisher widget� Congured collections can be reused as required�

Info Framework Info Framework facilitates building composable and extensible applications to

retrieve, process or display information (not just content)� One feature enables

developers to create Collection Providers to generate lists of items for display

and rendering purposes which can be used in Asset Publisher� Another usage

is to allow mapping any item to the Content Display Fragment� Also supports

Field mapping in the page editor, automatic form generation for Web Content

Translation and display of items in the Collection Display Fragment�

Collection Providers Built using the Info Framework, Collection Providers are provided for Highest

Rated Content, Most Viewed Content, Related Assets and Recent Content�

Developers can add pre-ltering options to their Collection Providers to enable

the same collection to be used multiple times� Page authors can congure

the collection using the supplied ltering options� Collection Providers are

automatically created for any Liferay Object (see page 22)

Related Items Collection

Providers

A special type of Collection Provider which is available when an item or

collection is already displayed - for example Related Assets for an item on a

Display Page can now be displayed in a Collection Display Fragment�

Web Content

Prioritization

Create a ranking of assets for publishing�

Web Content Display Publishes any piece of web content created within Liferay to a page� Web

Content Display allows the same content article to be published any number of

times, optionally using dierent display templates, across pages and sites�

Asset Publisher Allows users to specify assets that are related to the asset they are creating� For

example, when creating a new web content, users can specify that the content

is related to a document, blog post, forum post or any other asset� When

someone views that content, the related assets are also shown so the user can

look for more information�

Similar Results When viewing an asset like a blog or document, the Similar Results widget

shows a list of relevant assets based on the similarity of specied elds like

title or content�

Tag Cloud Displays a cloud of tags from some set of assets in a site�

Dynamic Tagging Search can be used to look inside content published within the platform, but

occasionally it is not enough to help users nd their desired content� Dynamic

Tagging is available in Liferay, allowing content creators to dene keywords

associated with their content� Users can add keyword tags to web content,

documents, message boards and more, simplifying search and enabling

powerful features like the Asset Publisher�

Modern UI Liferay supports modern UI frameworks and Single Page Applications (SPAs)�

Users experience faster loading and greater performance on the Liferay

platform through SPAs, a technology that provides dynamic and responsive

web experiences by taking only the parts of a page that need to be loaded

rather than reloading the entire page� This can be achieved in Liferay DXP

through Senna�js, a SPA engine�

Support for third-party UI frameworks include Twitter Bootstrap, JQuery,

ReactJS, AngularJS, Vaadin and more�

Enterprise DAM Manage documents, video, audio, images and other media types in a unied

repository� Allow groups to store, tag, lock and search for assets, use them

on site pages or download them for use oine� For more information about

digital asset management, please refer to page 29�

Auto-Tagging Leverages third-party machine learning services to provide personalized

experiences and improve the ndability of assets by automatically adding tags

to images and documents upon upload�

Features include:

• Image Auto-Tagging: Tag providers available for images are TensorFlow,

Google Cloud Vision and Microso Cognitive�

• Web Content/Document Auto-Tagging: Tag providers are OpenNLP and

Google Natural Language�

• Auto-Tagging API: Tag any asset with any service, for your use case by

leveraging an API built for extending auto-tagging functionality�

Search Search for documents, video, audio, images and other media types based on

le names, tags, metadata and the le’s text content�

Content Dashboard &

Content Audit Tool

Streamline the content audit process and minimize the eort of nding gaps in

company’s content strategy execution� Content Dashboard is a one-stop-place

where content authors will be able to access all Web Contents and Documents,

not only for a given site, but for all the sites and asset libraries in a Liferay

instance� It includes the Content Audit Tool to make it easier for content teams

to run content audits�

Taxonomies Create taxonomies through the use of tags, vocabulary and categories

to classify and organize content within Liferay DXP� Foster systematic

categorization with out-of-the-box Global Vocabularies� Tag web content,

documents, message board threads and more to dynamically share content

with other users� Faceted search leverages tags to allow users to lter results

by specic criteria across the platform�

Foster systematic categorization with out-of-the-box Global Vocabularies�

Internal vocabularies and categories are not displayed to end-users but are

used for administration purposes within to categorize content for the Content

Audit tool�

Role Based Content

Delivery

Liferay DXP allows for multiple user types to access a single URL and access

a unique page view depending on the user’s role, group, organization or

personal preferences� Administrator controlled and user customized, Liferay

DXP provides a central platform for determining enterprise content policy,

including who can edit and publish content, les, communities, les and

applications�

Site Content Sharing Gives you the capability to share various content pieces between child and

parent sites� As the administrator of a child site, you are able to use all of the

structures, templates, categories, application display templates and more from

any of your parent sites that allows for it�

Site Map Displays a structured directory of links to all pages� The Site Map can be used

to navigate directly to any page on the site� It can be congured to display the

entire site or a sub-section of pages� This site map is automatically generated

and the hierarchy can be changed with drag-and-drop allowing administrators

to quickly rearrange pages within the site�

Breadcrumbs Displays a trail of “parent” pages for the current page� The Breadcrumb app

can be placed on public pages as a navigational aid when using Liferay to

publish websites�

Navigation Allows for dynamic generation of navigation� Displays and sorts site content

based on page structure, tags and categories� Nine Application Display Styles

can be used to enhance your navigation’s look�

File Selector A modern UI for le selection leverages Liferay’s core navigation, search and

ltering capabilities� It displays a breadcrumb of documents, images, and

other les, with pagination implemented to accommodate folders with long

lists of les and assets� In Liferay DXP, the File Selector has been updated with

a new UI that makes use of the Documents and Media navigation and search

capabilities� The le selector allows users to perform advanced operations

such as allowing creating folders from the le selector to better organize

content or ll the metadata of the les uploaded�

Recycle Bin All deleted content goes in a Recycle Bin that allows recovery in case of

accidental deletion� The Recycle Bin supports full search as well as browsing

within deleted folders�

Nested Layouts Nested page layouts are possible through simple drag and drop�

Multi-language Support International or multilingual organizations get out of the box support for

languages� Users can toggle between dierent language settings with just one

click� You can also easily add other languages� Right to le language support is

fully functional out of the box without the need to install a separate app�

Localization Create localized versions of Sites, Content Pages and Web Content for specic

regions� Email notications can also be localized� Export/Import translations

for Web Content and Content Pages using the industry standard XLIFF as well

as using a dedicated translation experience with integration with workow

so it is possible to delegate this process to external agencies or freelancers�

Accelerate the automatic translation of web contents and content pages using

integration with Google Translate� Marketers can determine which hreang

tags should be generated to ensure that only pages fully translated into a given

language have an equivalent hreang tag generated�

Web Content Folders

Workow

Give users the ability to subscribe to specic folders and content types and

now also provides the ability to set up separate workow processes per folder

and content types� Web Content Folders now also have the ability to restrict

specic web content structures to a specic folder�

Staging Liferay allows multiple teams to work on several variations of a site

simultaneously and schedule publication dates for each� For example, three

dierent teams can work on sites for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas

and schedule their variation to publish at dierent times� Enhanced staging

includes automatic versioning with history, undo support at the site and page

level, and preview based on scheduled publications�

Within the online editor, pages from a live site can be edited and previewed

without aecting what is seen on the public site, and then scheduled for

future publishing� Users can use this same method to edit individual pages,

entire communities or full websites� Liferay also allows users to “roll-back” to

previous versions of pages, sites or communities�

Staging also supports the creation of custom export congurations in

order to export Site pages, and allows the Staging process to be restarted

using a previous conguration, saving Administrators the time needed to

recreate a prior conguration� Staging also supports publication beyond two

environments to support a greater variety of requirements�

Publications Use Publications to develop, track and publish instance-wide changes across

Liferay DXP� Teams of users can create any number of publications which

will track changes made while in Edit mode� When working on a publication,

users can Review Changes, assign Permissions, Publish the changes

immediately or schedule publication, and if needed Delete it entirely� When

publishing conicts can be automatically resolved, where possible, or may

require manual resolution, and any publication can be reverted due to the

tool maintaining a history of all published changes� Users can invite other

teammates to join their publication, and can collaborate by adding comments�

Export / Import /

Publication Lifecycle

Event Listeners

Developers can write code pieces very easily to react to certain events during

an export or import process� They can use this to facilitate logging or auditing

or kicking o tasks aer a certain event has happened�

Widget Templates Widget Templates are a way to dene how built-in and custom applications

display content and data� Site administrators and web designers can create,

edit and share templates directly in Liferay, signicantly reducing the time

to develop and deploy customizations� You can change the look of individual

apps without customizing the plugin� These templates allow you to fully

customize the look and feel of an application without using a theme or hook,

which require deployment and typically have to be upgraded between Liferay

versions� In Liferay DXP, you have the ability to customize the RSS, Language,

Wiki, Asset Publisher, Navigation and Breadcrumb apps and more�

Search Applications Search Bar, Search Results and the Search Facet widgets allow for exibility in

page construction and bookmarkable pages� All of the Search Widgets support

the use of Widget Templates to enable the creation of customized Search pages�

Asset Libraries Organize Web Content, Documents, Vocabularies and Categories in dedicated

libraries to reuse that content across dierent sites and have better-isolated

control� Connect the asset libraries only to the sites where it is needed to

provide access so that content authors can use the assets while creating a page,

writing a blog post, and so on�

Content Performance

Analytics

Integration with Liferay Analytics Cloud provides on-page reports that

help users understand the content engagement level through metrics like

the number of views and reads, as well as insights about the main trac

acquisition channels and keywords�

Experience Management

Empower any member of your team to build and customize web pages in order to deliver enhanced digital

experiences that are tailored to your users’ needs� Additionally, leverage analytics for insights on how to

improve these experiences�

Themes Themes customize the default look and feel of your Site� They allow you to

dene the style and visual identity of your brand or label across your whole

Site� Developers can create custom Themes for maximum exibility�

Style Books Non-developer users can customise the look and feel of Themes by creating

Style Books� Themes, including the Classic Theme provided out-of-the-

box, can expose Tokens to allow style elements to be modied through the

UI� Items such as Colors, Spacing, Typography, Buttons, and so on, can be

modied

Fragments Fragments are predesigned, reusable components featuring congurable

styling options that are used to quickly build new pages� Fragments use

inline editing to change text and images and can incorporate Liferay DXP

applications for advanced functionality� Fragments can be congured to

be updated to all pages when updated thanks to an automatic propagation

mechanism� Fragments can be congured to be displayed or hidden from

specic viewports to enable optimal UX for dierent devices�

Fragment Editor Easily drag-and-drop from OOTB element/component sets to create fragments

or composition of fragments�

Fragments Toolkit CLI tool allows front-end developers to code fragments in their own code

editors and upload without the need to redeploy�

Widgets (Portlets) Reusable, drag-and-drop and congurable widgets can be used by any

business users�

Widget Library Liferay DXP provides a generous selection of OOTB widgets for dierent

business needs that can be easily added to the page�

Liferay JS Bundle

Toolkit

A JS widget creator allows non-java developers to easily create frontend apps

using the latest libraries through the CLI tool�

Content Pages Use Content Pages to create pages for structured, unstructured content, and

widgets using a drag-and-drop interface� Use page fragments and content

mapping to dene how dierent types of structured web content are displayed

on a page� Use the Viewport navigation to view and dene the responsive

behaviour of the page for mobile devices using styling options for layouts, and

spacing�

Collection Pages Use Collection Pages to group pages built with a Display Page Template� It will

facilitate the administration of the pages resulting from a collection of content

and their associated Display Page Template�

Page Editor The Page Editor allows business users to visually lay out page designs and save

them as reusable templates, in context of how it will appear on the live site�

Within this interface, users can search through collections and add fragments

to the template� Marketers can then customize content and images with a few

clicks�

Widget Pages The traditional method of creating pages through adding and conguring

applications (widgets) to a page layout of columns and rows is available

through Widget Pages� Depending on what the administrator allows, users

can customize widget pages by adding, removing, positioning content or

application attributes (e�g�, zip code for weather application)� These pages can

be made public (published as a website with a unique friendly URL) or kept

private�

Display Page Templates Create a common template for structured web content without touching code�

Use page fragments to implement the design of the page and map content

sections to the web content with a few clicks� When a piece of web content is

published with a display page template, it will automatically be given its own

page with a unique URL, replacing the default content in the template with the

newly added web content�

Master Pages Create custom Master page layouts that can propagate to pages�

Page Templates Create page layouts with content, sections, widgets� These types of pages are

aimed at being used as Example pages or Starter pages� Page Templates can be

built from scratch or inherit the design from a selected Master Page�

Navigation Menus Menus are decoupled from page navigation in Liferay, giving business users

the freedom to create custom menus for sections of the site or remove menus

when desired such as on marketing landing pages� A drag-and-drop interface

allows you to manage menu hierarchies and save dierent menu sets� Users

can add Pages, URLs, Display Pages, and Sub-Menus as items in any Navigation

Menu�

Mega Menu Mega menus, and other sophisticated menu capabilities can be easily

implemented, without the need to write any code, using the Dropdown

fragment, which provides a dropzone into which any other fragment or widget

can be deployed

Search Engine

Optimization (SEO)

Liferay DXP optimizes updates to site map information and other metadata

so that new pages are searchable by external search engines� SPA technology

provides dynamic page loading without hurting SEO�

The redirections management application allows admins to create

redirections, through the UI, to help with page rearrangements or direct users

to the desired page� Admins can utilize the list of 404 errors to create new

redirects before search engines penalize the sites or users start complaining

about not nding what they were looking for�

The OpenGraph support allows tailoring marketers messaging when sharing

pages on social platforms� For marketers and content authors,

valuable metrics on search engine trac and best performing keywords by

region are provided in the display page context� Marketers can also map

multiple elds to each SEO and OpenGraph meta tag which are populated

dynamically when a page is rendered�

Page Analytics Integration with Liferay Analytics Cloud helps you visualize a page list and

understand performance through an aggregate view�

Page Audit Page audit allows marketers and page builders to make a quick check of the

page’s compliance with best practices in terms of accessibility, search engine

metadata and SEO, to ensure it is optimized for search engine indexing and

visibility� It is displayed on a side panel in the view mode of the page� The

feature is enabled OOTB but needs a free API Key from Google to be run�

Segmentation and Personalization

In order to facilitate deeper personalization of digital experiences, Liferay DXP provides features for

role-based content delivery, audience targeting and segmentation�

Experiences Create dierent variations of a single site page and easily personalize anything

on a page for dierent audience segments through the page editor�

Segmentation Create audience segments based on user behavior (e�g�, page visited, device,

last login date), user attributes (e�g�, country, gender, language), social media

proles or custom elds� Target specic audiences for personalization for

delivering prescriptive customer journeys (e�g�, promoting products to a

specic vertical or showing oers to a subset of customers)� Now in Liferay

CE/DXP 7�3, you can reuse existing segments and combine them with complex

rules to create new audiences� In DXP, this allows marketers to mix DXP and

Analytics Cloud segments to create new and more powerful criteria�

Functionalities include:

• Creating complex rules to segment your visitors�

• Targeting unauthenticated visitors based on cookies, device, URL,

geolocation and locale�

• Executing use case-specic segmentation rules�

• Allowing advanced segmentation rules to have consistent functionality

with the segmentation rules provided in Analytics Cloud� Segments will be

available at the root level along with Users, Organizations, Roles and User

Groups�

• Managing and moving segments to dierent scopes�

• Segmenting users based on prole and organization elds�

• Combine existing DXP and Analytics Cloud segments with complex rules to

create new and more exible segmentation criteria�

Optimization Measure the interaction of targeted user segments with your chosen

content to optimize content delivery� This functionality is available through

Liferay Analytics Cloud�

Role-Based

Content Delivery

The Liferay platform allows multiple user types to access a single URL

and a unique page view depending on the user’s role, group, organization

or personal preferences� Administrator-controlled and user-customized,

Liferay DXP provides a central platform for determining enterprise content

policy, including who can edit and publish content, les, communities and

applications�

Widget Page

Customization

An administrator can allow users to customize pages without affecting

other users or site members� Users can customize pages by adding,

removing, positioning content or application attributes� These pages can

be made public (published as a website with a unique friendly URL) or kept

private�

Content

Recommendations

Automated personalization of content based on a user’s past behavior

and interest-based content recommendations�

Collections Personalize collections for reuse across multiple pages� Easily manage

segmentation targeting for collection lists�

Multichannel Support

Liferay DXP provides multichannel delivery and support for the ability to oer great experiences across

various channels, devices and touchpoints� REST APIs provide further ability to integrate other methods of

delivery and support a range of applications and other systems�

Headless CMS A new generation of REST and GraphQL APIs helps developers consume content

from any channel they need including mobile apps, chatbots or wearables� Front-

end developers are free to create a presentation layer using the technologies they

commonly use (Angular, React, NodeJS, etc�), leveraging on their experience while

keeping all the functionality that Liferay provides such as user management,

content repository, documents and media, forms and blogs�

Additionally, Liferay provides a toolkit that helps developers to create their own

APIs, for example, for exposing services from back end or legacy applications�

Mobile Experience Suite Feature and framework for dening dierent platform behavior based on

device type with a built-in set of device denitions for most mobile device

platforms (iOS, Android, etc�) and an optional device detection database for

purchase�

Mobile Device Rules Feature and framework for dening dierent platform behavior based on device

type with a built-in set of device denitions for most mobile device platforms

(iOS, Android, etc�) and an optional device detection database for purchase�

Responsive Design Liferay DXP’s CSS framework is responsively designed to work with browsers

on all platforms from mobile to tablet to desktop�

Mobile Device Preview Preview your content on a variety of predetermined or custom screen sizes�

Adaptive Media Adaptive Media is an application in Liferay that dynamically adjusts images

to best t the screen size of the device being used� It also oers deep control

over how images are loaded and displayed, allowing companies to address

performance issues across a wide variety of devices and varying network

speeds between users and countries� Liferay will automatically present

the most appropriately sized image based on the viewport width for images

displayed in Content and Display pages, including background images� This

can be overridden by authors if required�

Liferay Push Liferay Push exposes a framework that lets developers send push notications

from the Liferay platform to native Android and iOS apps� Note that Push is

deprecated in Liferay DXP 7�4�

Liferay Mobile SDK The Liferay Mobile SDK is a framework for building native mobile apps that

integrate with your dierent Liferay DXP instances and their portlets�

Operations

Streamline common business processes and gather information from your users with out-of-the-box

features for creating forms and workows�

Liferay Objects

Liferay Objects Model data through the interface with no need of custom code, create

customized entities that are seamless with native ones� Users can scope the

data to be only accessed by the context that it should, dening where it will

be deployed and displayed� Model the data by adding elds and dening its

layouts to be used to add data�

Objects relationships Users are now able to relate entities by creating object relationships�

Adapting to the context of the use case, dene one-to-many or many-to-many

relationships between objects entries and dene how they are displayed in the

custom layouts�

Layouts Users are able to create customized layouts for their applications, in that way,

they can provide for their customers a unique experience of adding data�

Actions Create actions that will be triggered by specic events as, when adding,

updating and deleting entries� In that way, automate your process and avoid

human mistakes�

Picklists Dene a predened list of options to use while modeling data in Liferay

Objects� Users can manage lists and use it across multiple dierent objects, in

that way, they can guarantee consistency and avoid mistakes while modeling

their data�

Gather data inside of the

user context

In order to provide users the ability to gather more accurate data from their

customers and employees, Liferay Objects is also integrated with Liferay

Forms, using the established capabilities of Forms to gather more accurate

data and adding to pages through Forms Widgets�

Display data to create

experiences with

Liferay Objects

By publishing an Object, they are also integrated with the Info Framework,

allowing users to create experiences with its application data� Besides being

able to display specic entries in pages, a Collection Provider will also be

automatically created for each object, allowing users to create full exible

experiences using Fragments�

Objects APIs By creating a custom object, DXP automatically generates a new Rest API

with a set of end points� This provides a full headless experience with no code

necessary to create the APIs�

Objects integration with

DXP native frameworks

In order to provide the seamless experience with native capabilities from

the portal, Liferay Objects is fully integrated with DXP’s frameworks, being

integrated with Workow, headless, permissions, Blueprints, Search, Forms,

Fragments, Assets, and Info Framework�

Forms

Design and build personalized forms to replace complex paper applications�

Forms Design, publish and manage forms with a simple-to-use drag-and-drop

interface� Instead of making users ll up a long and tiring form, break it down,

improve the experience and take advantage of the multiple pages� Share with

your target audience a form URL published into a standalone page� Assign your

form to a workow so it will follow a process suited to your business aer user

submission� Allow users and administrators to create multiple choice polls that

keep track of responses� Ultimately, customize your forms to show or hide elds,

only asking relevant questions to the users�

Form Rules Create personalized forms with conditional rules using the Form Rules feature�

Conditional rules allow users to introduce dynamic behavior in forms and

allow personalization of the questions or elds to show/require based on how

users respond on your forms� A predened set of form rules allows for quick

customizations to users’ form elds, including: setting a required eld, enabling

elds/options, autoll selects, show and hide, jump to a page, calculations,

conditional success pages and an API to create and execute customized rules for

your form needs, for forms created programmatically� Dene validation logic for

a specic form eld by creating custom messages for form validation errors� This

helps improve the completion rate of your forms�

Multi-Language

Support for Forms

Add a translation for each form eld when building forms� Similar to creating

translations for web content, the ability to add translations for form elds allows

for better support globally, where common things like names, surnames and

address formats vary between countries�

Fields and Properties Field types included in the default form elds including text, le upload, numeric,

password, grid, boolean and search location elds� The ability to create form eld

sets, by grouping elds together and repeating that group of elds help speed up

the creation of long forms where repeated inputs may be necessary� Fields can

be hidden to support use cases where data needs to be dened by administrators

but not modied by form submitters� Conrmation options can be added for text

elds, Masks can be created for numeric elds, Validation is available for many

eld types, including Dates� An API also allows users to create new customized

eld types, with a provided Blade template and documentation�

Forms Structure Structuring your forms is easy with the drag-and-drop interface� Users can

easily layout their form elds on a page and better design their form layouts

through the intuitive interface� Users can also congure a URL for redirects

aer a form submission and standalone forms can have URLs independent of

the default site navigation�

Validation Users can dene validation logic for a specic form eld by creating custom

messages for form validation errors, which can help improve the completion

rate of your forms�

Field Library Liferay DXP comes with a default predened library of form elds, as well as

capabilities that help you build a library of elds so that users can easily begin

building forms they need by reusing preset elds� The set can be arranged

once and deployed across a variety of situations for the business�

Data Provider

Integration

Integrate external web services using a Data Provider to apply to elds and

benet from live data� You can pre-populate elds with data from external

services and import and export Data Provider denitions�

Entries Management Liferay DXP provides functionality for improving the end user experience

upon form completion� End users can receive email notications aer a

form entry and export entries into dierent formats: CSV, XML, and XLS�

Entries have workow integration provided, so that they can also go through

a workow process aer submission�

Form Entries

Data Storage

Save the data you gather with your forms� Use our StorageAdapter API to give

more exibility to your data management and store the data inside Liferay

Database or externally depending on the use case�

Data Engine APIs Data engine APIs to help IT build more flexible business applications�

These APIs can be used to execute CRUD operations on data definitions and

make it possible for developers to quickly assemble business applications

that can scale with flexibility�

Forms Reports with

Analytics Cloud

Forms reports detail the number of views, submissions, failed submissions,

abandonment and completion time, user information and device usage�

Forms Reports A built-in summary report of the answers received in forms, allowing users to

not only see the data collected, but also have an overall analysis of answers of

each eld according to the eld type�

GDPR Coverage Because web forms are among the most common interfaces for collecting

user-provided data, there needs to be a GUI and development tools to design

forms that comply with GDPR requirements� Doing so means implementing 2

Data Protection Features within Forms�

• Data Erasure (AKA Right to be Forgotten)

Administrators can review Form’s entries that potentially contain personal

information and edit, anonymize or delete as needed through a simple

interface�

• Data Export (AKA Right to Data Portability)

Administrators can export a user’s personal data submitted through Forms

before going through the erasure process�

Workflow and Business Productivity

Workow and reporting features give users more ways to simplify processes and provide access to information�

Workow Framework Liferay DXP allows you to incorporate workow into any of your own custom

applications by leveraging Liferay’s workow APIs� This provides a better

end user experience, saves your development team a lot of eort by reusing

Liferay’s workow administration tools and provides seamless integration with

all supported workow engines�

Reports Business intelligence and reporting tool showing activity and history of

various applications in the platform (e�g�, documents downloaded by groups,

statistics on message board threads, most active users)� It can also make use of

the JasperReports application�

Workow Workow allows a user to dene any number of simple to complex business

processes/workows, deploy them and manage them through a web interface�

These processes have knowledge of users, groups and roles� A graphical

workow designer gives you a point and click interface to create workows� It

can be used in conjunction with Kaleo Forms or standalone to create workow

denitions without having to write XML�

Dynamic Data Lists A Dynamic Data List is a user-dened collection of records, similar to a

spreadsheet� Users can create custom lists of information that can be published

as workow-enabled forms� These forms can be shared dynamically with other

users to capture information such as an RSVP, tasks tracking and managing issues�

Dynamic Data List record sets also include versioning for records�

User-Driven Workow

and Approval

Not only is there an embedded workow for content, Liferay DXP also allows

users to create their own workow and dene the number of approval paths

based on their own unique business requirements and operational needs�

For example, administrators can implement an approval process for new

document uploads before they appear in the Document Library�

Workow Metrics Gain insight into how long certain workflow events take to complete,

with options to filter by Workflow Version� Users can create SLAs to set

deadlines on a workflow process’s events� Once defined, Workflow Reports

can measure compliance with SLAs to help users better understand the

throughput performance of processes in a given timeframe and better

optimize these processes� Reports can be sorted by Item Subject, Created

Date, Created By, Due Date, Assignee�

Accounts Accounts empowers both sides of the B2B space by providing companies

a central entity from which to conduct business on Liferay DXP� Accounts

provides a digital construct to model and manage the personnel and their

respective roles, manage business-critical information (such as Tax ID,

Addresses), and ultimately facilitate stellar service experiences through

enablement of the various interactions between these businesses�

Digital Asset Management

Manage and publish any asset on one central system to not only enable your employees or customers to

easily collaborate and share documents and media, but also reduce the amount of time spent searching for

those assets�

Documents Features around document and media management oer administrators more

control over how assets are stored, shared and accessed� Additionally, Liferay

DXP can integrate with repositories such as SharePoint, Google Drive and

Alfresco�

Documents and Media Unied document repository that houses documents, video, audio, images and

other media types from one place� It can be leveraged across an enterprise,

within a specic group, or for a single individual as a web repository�

• Enterprise-wide repositories allow groups to store assets, tag them, lock

them, search for and leverage them in web pages or download them for

use oine� It provides a clean and attractive display to nd and browse all

images, video and other media assets� Other features include:

• Check in/check out, metadata and versioning� Document le formats may

be converted at the time of upload� Items saved are displayed through the

Display app and Document and Media Display app�

• Multiple-le upload allows users to upload and store a document in one

le format while making it available for download in other formats (i�e�, a

�doc le can be available for download as a PDF with Liferay providing the

conversion at download time)�

• Create shortcuts to videos stored in dierent video streaming services

(Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook and Twitch) to easily create content in the portal

and embed them, categorizing and tagging them to help users search for

them�

• Set expiry dates on Documents to ensure that licensed content is only

presented while the license is valid� Document Titles and Filenames are

independent to provide greater storage and display exibility

• Create Document Types and author Documents using a consistent forms-

builder experience shared across Forms, Web Content, and Documents�

Bulk Management Manage digital assets and les at scale with an improved tool for bulk

management of tags, categories and le operations like deletion, moving les, etc�

Google Drive Plugin Lets users create shortcuts to Google Drive les in their Documents and Media

repositories� These documents can be viewed and managed from Documents

and Media� Once deployed, you can congure this app from the Control Panel�

CMIS Integration Integrate back oce systems in order to surface assets to customers or add

social and other metadata� Mount and browse SharePoint, Documentum,

Alfresco and other CMIS-compliant repositories within Liferay DXP�

Document Types and

Metadata Sets

Administrators can create their own custom metadata sets and document

types into language familiar to users� For example, nancial reports,

surveillance videos, and so on can be dened in a way that makes sense for the

business functions of the content (e�g�, author, reporting period, etc�)�

Online Document Editing Use the Google Docs editor to allow activities related to creating and editing

documents via portal�

Oce 365™ Integration Create and edit Oce 365 documents, presentations and spreadsheets stored

in Liferay DXP� This feature takes advantage of Liferay’s existing permissions

system, versioning and sharing capabilities�

Document Previews and

Preview Generation

Provide a preview of the document (including images, videos, audio clips)

to easily identify the content of the document� Automatically generate a full

document preview in Liferay DXP�

P2P Document

Sharing/Asset Sharing

Allows sharing documents and media assets with registered users to increase

collaboration for instances where multiple users need to work on a single asset�

(Documents and Media)

Search for documents, video, audio, images and other media types based on

le names, tags, metadata and the le’s text content�

File Types Liferay DXP has the capability to support any le type from Oce documents,

images, through to audio and video les�

Versioning and

Automatic Versioning

Policies

Liferay DXP versions documents and increments them as you make changes,

enabling you to rollback and view the version history� Introduces intelligent/

denable versioning to enrich historical and auditing context of a document’s

lifecycle�

Media Selector Easily upload or select les with the built-in media selector� This feature is also

highly extensible so that new sources of media (e�g�, Google, Flickr, YouTube)

can be added to any application�

Inline Image Editor Allows for simple image editing directly from within Liferay, eliminating the

need for an external tool while creating content� Resize or crop any image

uploaded to Documents and Media from within blogs or any other application

that uses an item selector� The image editor has been designed in a way to

make it easy to customize and allows for developers to create and deploy tools

that modify images�

Collaboration and Social

Collaboration in Liferay DXP is supported with applications for blogs and social networking, as well as

a solid set of tools for forums, message boards and other functionalities� Connect people and systems

together on a modern interface focused on getting work done�

Collaboration Collaboration in Liferay DXP is supported with applications for blogs, forums,

message boards and other functionalities� Social networking features such as

an activity wall, friends list, @ mentions, activity tracker and social activity

are also available to further support collaboration activities� Easily bookmark

contents in the platform and share them to a group of users all available for

download through the Liferay Marketplace�

Knowledge Base

(and associated apps)

Allows users to add and categorize content in the form of articles� Content can

be added directly through the web or imported from external sources with

category-based navigation� This helps users easily nd answers to questions

they may have� Knowledge Base includes several apps:

• Knowledge Base Display

• Knowledge Base Article

• Knowledge Base Search

• Knowledge Base Section

Search and Tagging Tag web content, documents, message board threads and more to dynamically

share important or interesting content with other users� Users can then search

for relevant information through faceted search, allowing one to lter results

by specic criteria within specic apps, communities, the entire platform and

even external integrated applications�

Invitations Allows users to invite others to join a specied site and sends a notication�

Page Comments Allows users to leave comments on any user page�

Page Ratings Allows users to leave ratings on any user page�

Page Flags Allows users to report inappropriate content on a page�

Blog Liferay DXP’s blog widget provides a modern WYSIWYG editor (AlloyEditor)

designed to create entries quickly and a modern card design for displaying

blogs� The inline image editor also allows for easy image editing directly within

Liferay DXP� You can drag-and-drop images right into the blog text� If you want

to add format to some text, just select it and a modern toolbar will oer the

format options� Additional features include friendly URL creation, estimated

reading time, unsubscribe from emails, publication date, RSS support, threaded

user and guest comments, tags and labels, social bookmarking links, email

notications of blog replies and an entry rating system� You can also add videos

inline while writing a new entry from popular services such as YouTube, Vimeo,

Facebook Video and Twitch�

Blogs Aggregator Grabs blog entries from the entire portal or by specic organizations�

Recent Bloggers Dynamically displays a list of recent bloggers�

Forums/Message Boards A full-featured forums solution with threaded views, categories, RSS capability,

avatars, drag-and-drop le attachments, drag-and-drop image additions,

section renaming, category and thread grouping, notication management,

previews, dynamic list of recent posts and forum statistics� Message Boards

work with Liferay’s ne-grained permissions to give detailed levels of control

to administrators and users�

Questions Allow users to have a dedicated place for questions and answers where they

can look for answers to the problems they are facing or help others� It takes full

advantage of the GraphQL APIs and the message boards infrastructure�

Users can group the questions on dierent topics, ask any question they have, vote

the answers, mark the most valuable answer so others can check it easily, etc�

Wiki

(and associated apps)

A straightforward Wiki solution with versioning capabilities, categories,

Creole, HTML, or plain text modes, WYSIWYG editing, drag-and-drop support

for page creation, page history and reversion and permissions�

Calendar A community-based calendar with task lists that allows users to create,

manage and search for events� Events can be shared across communities and

event reminders can be set up to alert users of upcoming events by email,

notications or SMS� You can also create and manage company resources

through the calendar�

RSS These allow users to get dynamically updated digests of critical news topics,

blogs and other publications� Users can congure the order of topics displayed

and how many articles are shown per provider�

Alerts and

Announcements

Oers a free form text area that can display and update new information quickly�

You can target announcements to readers by group or role�

Developer Tools

Liferay gives you control over maintaining and extending your Liferay DXP instance with developer tools

for building, managing and controlling Liferay projects with convenience and added simplicity�

Front-End Toolkits A set of tooling that Liferay created to help developers use NPM in their projects so

that they can deploy them to Liferay DXP and see everything working seamlessly

with little eort� These toolkits help developers create, update and maintain

themes built on Liferay DXP as well as help produce an OSGi bundle containing

the needed NPM dependencies so that it can be run when deployed to Liferay

DXP�

Front-End Unit Testing Unit testing is a crucial part of the development cycle that ensures that

code is functioning properly� Liferay has made this a priority in Liferay DXP

throughout the product�

IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Integration with IntelliJ IDEA that can be congured for use with Liferay DXP

development�

Liferay Marketplace Developers can sell, share and download themes, integration plugins and

entire applications built on Liferay DXP in Liferay Marketplace�

Liferay Workspace Liferay Workspace is a highly structured environment for modular development�

Import Workspace projects into any IDE with built-in Maven or Gradle support,

eliminating the need to only use Eclipse for development�

Blade CLI Liferay development projects can be completely controlled from the

command-line using Blade CLI� Blade CLI performs development tasks such as

creating new projects, installing Liferay Servers and more�

Upgrade Tool A revamped Upgrade Tool simplies the upgrade process from previous

versions of Liferay� The standalone tool lets system administrators restart

failed upgrades, reducing the time spent troubleshooting�

Lexicon and Clay Lexicon is a design language created to provide a common framework

for building interfaces within the Liferay product ecosystem� Lexicon is a

guide to provide a satisfactory and unied experience to its users� Clay, the

web implementation of Lexicon, is based on Bootstrap and designed to be

extensible�

REST API Builder Similar to the service builder, this tool accelerates development by generating

scaolding needed to develop business logic for custom REST and GraphQL APIs�

Developer Studio An all-in-one, integrated development environment for building apps and

modules� Developer Studio makes it easy to use project creation wizards to

create modular projects based on Maven, Gradle and bndtools� It also includes

tools for aiding in Liferay DXP upgrades and includes a migration tool to help

migrate plugins to the next version�

Recapture time users spend looking for information with powerful out-of-the-box search capabilities�

Liferay

Enterprise Search

(optional add-on)

Liferay Enterprise Search is an add-on subscription that provides end-to-end

support for Liferay DXP and Elasticsearch, as well as additional modules for

integration with Liferay DXP� Users can monitor their search cluster health,

replicate search clusters, levearing ML-driven relevance tuning, and more�

LES capabilities are bundled with Liferay DXP and active for all customers to

preview without a subscription� Customers will require an active LES subscription

to obtain support for these features�

Search Experiences

Search Experiences (part of Liferay Enterprise Search) allows users to build

sophisticated search query algorithms using a visual query builder to dene

Blueprints which can be applied to any search results page�

Elasticsearch

integration

Elasticsearch, the market-leading search engine for modern web applications,

is the default search engine in Liferay DXP and provides powerful search

monitoring, tuning and scaling capabilities�

X-Pack Security

integration

Liferay DXP can establish secure connections to Elasticsearch using X-Pack Security�

Multi-Tier Search

A platform with web content, documents, images, wikis, blogs and other user-

created content becomes a massive repository of data� Search becomes a vital

aspect for users of the system since it is essential that users can nd the content

they need when they want it� Liferay’s search also allows users to search across

all assets within the platform to which they currently have access, while also

restricting them from assets in which they do not� This multi-tier search capability

ensures that users have access to only open content or content available to them

based on their roles and membership in various communities�

Faceted Search

Liferay provides users an ecient way to instantly rene search results by drilling

down with specic constraints that match the user’s search criteria� For example, a

retail site built on Liferay would allow you to search for merchandise by inputting

various combinations of criteria, such as color, size and price�

Filter/Sort

Users can lter and sort search results within the UI�

Customizable

Search Widgets

Liferay provides a palette of widgets which can be used together to build

sophisticated search experiences - including Search Bar, Search Results, Sort,

Category Facet, Folder Facet, Modified Facet, User Facet and more� Most of

these widgets can have their UI customized through the use of Freemarker

Widget templates�

Multi-Language

Search across all languages for Web Content for multi-language sites and portal

instances�

Search Admin Tools

Handle administration tasks like monitoring the health of the Elasticsearch cluster,

reindex search indices, and view eld mappings� The execution scope of Index

Actions can be limited to selected Instances�

Search Tuning

Tools

Liferay DXP allows granular search tuning via the Synonyms and Result Rankings

applications� Synonyms sets allow dening terms with equivalent meaning� Result

Rankings allow explicitly pinning or hiding specic results for a particular search

query�

Low-Level Search

APIs

Leverage improved search APIs to interact with either Elasticsearch� Developers

can call the search engine without writing or using models or indexers and allows

access to every aggregator and query type of Elasticsearch�

Analytics

Enhance your digital marketing strategies with powerful analytics that will provide key insights into

your customers� See Liferay Analytics Cloud for more information�

Workow Process

Analytics

Create due date denitions for workow processes and for workow tasks�

Liferay DXP provides analytics for all instances of open and in progress

processes in real time allowing for easy identication of operational

bottlenecks and insight to optimize eciency�

Customer Prole

Analytics

Pull customer data from multiple sources to create in-depth analytics and a

single view to create known users� Visualize customer data, build dynamic

segments and analyze segments and individuals� Integration with Salesforce

allows for enhanced customer proles through tracked user and account

behavior on your digital touchpoints�

Page Analytics Measure page performance through page data visualizations in an aggregated

view� Track behavior and understand page performance with touchpoint

charts, bounce rate metrics and time on page� Track interactions on your

custom solution developed with DXP using simple tags�

Trac and

Path Analytics

Display trac types, lter and visualize paths for easy source identication�

Display assets and lter interactions on each asset by touchpoint�

Asset Analytics Track and visualize engagement levels for assets and web content through an

aggregate view� Asset-specic reports detail use case-specic insight about

usage, views and engagement� Liferay DXP 7�3 includes engagement and SEO

metrics in the very context of the display pages�

Event Analytics Track any interactions on your digital experiences using a custom tracking

code and visualize these events in a exible analysis report to gain deep

insights of your users’ behaviors�

A/B Testing Content creators can use A/B testing to create and customize tests to evaluate

which elements on Content Pages perform better and edit content accordingly�

Liferay DXP’s A/B tests leverage Bayesian statistics to identify the probable

values of li for a variant, allowing your business to make more informed

decisions� Native integration with Liferay Analytics Cloud allows for data

collected for the running test to determine a winning variant� Learn More ›

Cloud and Infrastructure

Simplify infrastructure management and reduce IT spending so that you can focus on what matters in

your business�

Cloud Deployment

(Liferay DXP Cloud)

Liferay DXP can be deployed quickly and managed in the cloud with Liferay DXP

Cloud, an enterprise PaaS oering available with a separate subscription� Liferay

DXP Cloud takes care of many infrastructure needs to free up IT resources to

focus on building the new applications and features that bring value to the

business�

See Liferay DXP Cloud for more information�

Cloud Support

On-premise and hosted cloud congurations are also supported by Liferay

with multiple hosting and managed hosting providers available today

including AWS EC2, Azure and more�

See Liferay Global Services for more information�

High Availability

and Scalability

The Liferay platform has been tested to support tens of thousands of

simultaneous virtual users as an infrastructure portal and in collaboration

use cases on a single application server� It has also been deployed in large

installations with millions of active users in the most demanding environments�

Liferay DXP is highly scalable - for example, it has been certied to work

seamlessly with data grid products for massive scalable data caches�

Additionally, customers can feel secure in deploying Liferay to cloud-based

environments—many users have deployed the platform to private clouds

built on top of VMWare, Xen and KVM technologies and to public cloud

infrastructures like Amazon EC2�

What’s Next

Learn more about how Liferay can help your business take the next step in your digital strategy�

Request a demo from one of our team members at liferay�com/request-a-demo�

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Liferay makes soware that helps companies create digital

experiences on web, mobile and connected devices. Our platform is

open source, which makes it more reliable, innovative and secure.

We try to leave a positive mark on the world through business

and technology. Hundreds of organizations in nancial services,

healthcare, government, insurance, retail, manufacturing and

multiple other industries use Liferay. Visit us at liferay.com.