Liferay DXP 7.4 Datasheet
Liferay DXP 7.4 Datasheet
Digital Experience
Platform 7.4
Datasheet
Liferay Digital Experience
Platform 7.4
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.4 is software that both technical
and non-technical users can leverage to deliver, optimize, and scale digital
experiences rapidly across different channels for customers, employees,
or partners. Built on a highly flexible architecture with portal, CMS, and B2B
commerce capabilities, Liferay DXP 7.4 comes with enhanced functionality and
exciting improvements that make it even easier to meet the needs of today’s
digital-first business teams.
For a full features list, please read the Liferay DXP 7.4 Features Overview.
Key Benefits
Empower Digital Experiences
Empower practitioners to more easily build rich digital experiences.
Improvements to the site building capabilities, like fragments and the content
authoring experience, allow for greater flexibility to meet a variety of digital
marketing needs. Enable business users to compose digital experiences using
low or no-code capabilities. New low-code capabilities in Liferay DXP 7.4 make
it easy to create powerful business applications, pages, and experiences that
traditionally have required costly development.
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Optimize Digital Experiences with Data Driven Insight
Reduce the cost and effort needed to launch and maintain digital experiences
with Liferay’s out-of-the-box features. Improved tooling and new custom
tracking in Liferay DXP 7.4 extends existing capabilities to support capturing
interaction analytics on almost anything, making it even easier to understand
what can be optimized.
Organic Innovation
Liferay DXP is developed completely in-house, rather than through acquiring
third-party solutions. Rely upon a comprehensive platform with a full suite of
features that was designed from the start to work well together as the foundation
for your digital strategy.
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Feature Highlights
Segmentation, Personalization, and Optimization
Meet customer demands for meaningful and seamless experiences across
touchpoints with robust segmentation and personalization tools. Continually
improve these experiences with content and user insights provided by Liferay
Analytics Cloud.
Enhanced Segmentation: Easily personalize anything on a page for different
segments. Liferay DXP provides improved segmentation which includes a rule
builder that can accommodate complex rules, session rules to target visitors
based on cookies, device, or URL, and extension points for use case-specific
segmentation rules. In addition, integrate advanced segmentation rules provided
in Analytics Cloud. It is possible to reuse existing segments and combine them
with complex rules to target new audiences. In DXP, this allows marketers to mix
DXP and Analytics Cloud segments to create new and more powerful criteria.
Personalized Experiences: Once segments are defined, practitioners can create
any number of Experiences for each page, with each Experience mapped to a user
segment. Each page Experience can offer an entirely different set of content,
fragments, widgets etc., to meet the specific needs of the target audience.
Content Recommendations: Automate personalization of content based on a
user’s past behavior powered by Liferay Analytics Cloud integration, such as
behavior-based and interest-based recommendations.
Personalized Collections: Define content that can be reused through site pages
and across different channels. Easily execute personalized variations to display
different content depending on segmentation.
Analytics and Insights: Deliver the right content to the right audience with insights
about your pages, content and users from Liferay Analytics Cloud. The latest
version of Liferay DXP includes engagement and SEO metrics in the very context
of the display pages.
A/B Testing: To identify the most successful variant of content or pages,
A/B Tests can be created. Users are randomly directed to one of the variants,
with their behavior - clicking on a clickable element or tracking the bounce rate -
monitored in Analytics Cloud. Once the test is complete, the winning variant can
be set as the default page presentation.
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Search Engine Optimization: Marketers can map multiple metadata fields to
each SEO and Open Graph meta tag to ensure that the desired information is
indexed by Search Engines and reflected in Social Networking.
Page Audit: Liferay provides out-of-the-box integration with Google PageSpeed
Insights to enable marketers and site builders to easily identify failing SEO
elements and accessibility issues.
Search Experiences: Search Blueprints, a feature of the new Search
Experiences application, enables search administrators to tweak Liferay’s
default search behaviour to build completely custom search algorithms using a
no-code visual query builder. Each Blueprint consists of one or more elements
which can boost results, hide results, and more, in addition to the creation of
personalized search results.
Content Management
Leverage content management tuned for enterprise teams, with tools to better
manage and deploy content to any digital channel.
Decoupled CMS: Because content management is detached from the front-end
with an API, users can publish content across multiple channels freely without
needing new front-end templates everytime. Developers can leverage the freedom
of a headless system while business users still have the comfort of traditional
content management tools.
Structured Content: Manage and create different content models as needed,
to make sure your case-specific content management becomes a reality. This also
includes an improved content authoring interface, and streamlined structured
content authoring - both of which are based on the same builder used for Forms
and Document Types. Structures provide easy visibility to web content usages
and reusable collections. Web content authors also have the ability to preview
content before it’s published, at any stage in the workflow and can also preview
with any desired template or within a specific page.
Auto-tagging: Liferay DXP enables content teams to work more efficiently by
automatically adding tags to images, web content, and documents upon upload
through a machine learning service for improved search.
Content Dashboard: Streamline the content audit process and minimize the effort
of finding gaps in your company’s content strategy execution. Content Dashboard
is a one-stop-place where content authors can access all Web Contents and
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Documents, not only for a given site, but for all the sites and asset libraries in a
Liferay instance. Content Dashboard includes the Content Audit Tool to make it
easier for content teams to run content audits.
Content Performance: Integration with Liferay Analytics Cloud provides on-page
reports for all page types, that help users understand the content engagement
level through metrics like the number of views and reads, as well as insights
about the main traffic acquisition channels and keywords.
Content Promotion: Liferay DXP provides a variety of tools for content to be
workflowed, staged, and deployed to production as required by your business
use case.
Display Pages: For content-heavy sites, Display Pages provide a simple, but powerful
approach to enable the automatic creation of a page for each Web Content,
Document, Blog, and Category. Each asset obtains a friendly URL which, when
accessed, displays the asset in a predefined Display Page Template ensuring
consistent look and feel across all like assets.
Collections: Manually or dynamically define groups of information items,
which can be displayed easily through Collections Pages, in the Collection
Display fragment, and through Asset Publisher. Predefined and custom
Collection Providers and Related Item Collection Providers provide pre-set but
configurable collections like Most Viewed Assets, Related Assets, and so on.
Information Templates: Use freemarker-based scripts to ensure uniform
presentation of information for Web Contents, Documents, Blogs, Categories,
and Assets. Templates can render an entire item, or as little as an individual field,
and can easily be mapped to Fragments when designing pages.
Automated Translation: Web Contents and Pages can be automatically
translated using out of the box integration to ML-based Translation Services like
Google Translate.
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Asset Libraries: Asset Libraries allow the creation of distinct collections of
Assets (Web Content, Documents etc.) to support sharing across multiple sites,
as well as task-based content and asset management - for example collections of
assets for a specific campaign.
Experience Management
Build and customize digital experiences that are tailored for your users’ needs
easily with the following capabilities on Liferay DXP.
Fragments: Easily and quickly build new pages with designed, reusable components.
Fragments use in-line editing to change text and images and map to content
fields and templates, and can be tailored for, or even hidden from, specific
display viewports. Page authors can save their own Composed Fragments from
any deployed collection of fragments, while Developers can create custom
fragments composed of HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
In-Context Creation: Drag and drop to create page layouts with content,
fragments, and widgets. Business users can even define complex custom page
layouts with Master Pages. In addition, map content to individual sections with
information templates. Integration with Analytics Cloud also helps provide
insight into users, referrals, and engagement.
Widgets: Empower business users to drag and drop from a generous collection
of out-of-the-box widgets for different business needs that can be easily added
to any page, including a JavaScript widget creator that can easily build front-end
apps using the latest libraries through a CLI tool.
Site Navigation: Create any number of flexible menus from Pages, URLs,
Submenus, and Display Pages, then incorporate these easily into pages using
the Menu Display, or even construct mega menus using the Dropdown fragment.
Multichannel Support
From storefront to mobile to IoT, reach customers wherever they are with
multichannel experiences that can adapt to your channels and target segments
with ease.
Headless APIs: Give front-end developers headless freedom from back-end
conventions and structures. Developers can now focus on building great
experiences and do it simultaneously alongside content teams using content
delivery, management, and participation APIs built on the OpenAPI and
GraphQL standards.
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Adaptive Media: Liferay DXP dynamically adjusts images to best fit the screen size
and network speed of each device, addressing experience and performance issues
for all page types and for Products.
Mobile Support: Rapidly develop native and hybrid apps, create mobile experiences
and define mobile device rules using Liferay DXP as a mobile back end.
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users to gather data for the object. Each Object auto- generates a Collection
Provider to enable the results to be presented by mapping objects to Fragments
and Pages. Each Object also auto- generates REST APIs to enable full CRUD
interaction from multiple channels.
Form Creation and Rules: Design forms for everything from business process
automation to replacing complex paper applications. Create personalized forms
with conditional rules, which allows users to introduce dynamic behavior in forms.
Forms Reports & Analytics: Leverage a built-in summary report of the answers
received in a Form, allowing users to not only see the data collected, but also
have an overall analysis of answers of each field according to the field type.
Use Liferay Analytics Cloud to understand form effectiveness - with metrics
on completion, abandonment rate, and form completion progress.
Data Engine APIs: Use data engine APIs to help build flexible business applications.
Execute CRUD operations on data definitions to quickly assemble business
applications that can scale with flexibility.
Organization and User-Driven Workflows: Define any number of simple to
complex business processes or workflows, leveraging users, groups, and roles
defined in Liferay DXP with a graphical workflow designer. In addition to these
organization-wide workflows, users can create individual workflows based on
their own requirements.
Workflow 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,
and 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.
See a complete list of features on page 10.
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Liferay DXP’s Modular Core
Liferay DXP leverages a modular core, with benefits that include:
Standards Based Customization: Less reliance on underlying app server
technology makes it easier to create applications and extensions that now follow
an OSGi based approach.
Incremental Release Cycles: New features and bug fixes can be released on an
as-needed basis, eliminating the need to wait for major version releases.
Reliable Deployment: Deploying modules is now independent of underlying app
server technology, leading to fewer deployment issues and fewer server restarts.
Modern Development: Leverage modules that are smaller and more concise
than legacy portlet plugins. Rest assured since Liferay uses industry-based
development standards such as OpenAPI, Portlet 3.0, etc.
Dynamic Dependency Resolution: Modules have built-in dependency resolution,
which makes it easier to determine what dependencies the application needs to
run and minimizes severe consequences from conflicts during deployment.
Authentication: Be assured that only appropriately authenticated users are
accessing the system with both a native user repository as well as support for
key security standards and frameworks like SAML, OpenID Connect, LDAP, etc.
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is supported out of the box, including email-
based one-time-password (OTP), time-based OTP, custom factors, and support
for FIDO 2.0 hardware devices.
Authorisation: Liferay’s granular roles and permissions capabilities ensure that
authenticated users can only access information they have permissions for,
whether they are accessing through the UI or via APIs. Support for OAuth 2.0
allows authorization across systems and devices.
BROWSERS
JS
Native Remote ReactJS AngularJS Other JS IoT
Apps Apps Frameworks Computer Mobile Kiosk
SERVICES
API APPLICATIONS
Liferay Objects
Caching
Auditing AUTHORIZATION
Workflow
Authentication
Analytics PLATFORM SERVICES
Message Bus
Scheduling
Other Services PERSISTENCE SEARCH INTEGRATION ADAPTERS
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Deployment Compatibility
Operating Systems Public and Private Clouds Application Servers Databases
Alpine Linux Liferay DXP is deployable JBoss EAP DB2
CentOS to the cloud and virtualized Tomcat MariaDB
environments.
Debian WebSphere MySQL
IBM AIX Wildfly Oracle
Oracle Linux PostgreSQL
Oracle Solaris SQL Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE
Ubuntu
Windows Server
Contact [email protected] for the latest list of supported configurations and versions.
Key Components
Analytics and Optimization
Insights
Page analytics Content Performance CSV Data Sources A/B testing
Path analytics Analytics Dynamic segments Custom Events
Asset analytics Customer Profiles User Identity Services
Salesforce Integration
To see how Liferay Analytics Cloud further supports DXP see: liferay.com/products/analytics-cloud.
Cloud Capability
Application Management Development Lifecycle Performance and Monitoring
Log management Continuous Integration Availability Usage (CPU, memory
Shell access Continuous Deployment HTTP/2 and data transfer)
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Governance Security
Access control Private network
Secrets Public/private access
Team activities HTTPS
Database with encryption
at rest
VPN connection
To see how Liferay DXP Cloud further supports DXP see: liferay.com/products/dxp-cloud.
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Content Management
Headless CMS Site Content Sharing, Digital Asset Management Theming and Layout
Headless REST and Publishing, Optimization (DAM) JCSS framework: Twitter
GraphQL APIs Dynamic and static site Multi-repository support Bootstrap
Content Creation templates Customizable document HTML 5.0 compliant
WYSIWYG Text Editor Drag and drop site maps types Style Books
FreeMarker Templates: Web Sitemap protocol support Metadata per document Responsive mobile
Content, Documents, Blogs, Friendly page URLs type
Adaptive Media
Assets, Categories Remote server staging and CMIS support
Master Pages
Global content sharing scheduling Check in/check out
between sites Multiple page layout
Multiple site variations/ Content previews templates
Content sharing in site versions Live preview
hierarchy Enterprise File Sync
Collaborative change-based Automatic content and Sharing
Reusable Collections publications versioning WebDAV
Predefined and Custom Recycle bin Bulk tag management
Collection Providers Integration
User customizable pages Image and content ML-based
Related Items Collection Google Docs integration
Content performance auto-tagging
Providers analytics Microsoft Office©
Online document editing integration
Content sharing with Content Audit Tool with Google Docs and Office
Asset Libraries 365 Office 365 integration
SEO and accessibility
Automatic ML-based page audit with Google Peer-to-peer document and
Content and Page PageSpeed Insights asset sharing
Translation
URL Redirections Document Types, Metadata
XLIFF 1.2 / 2.0 export & management Sets, Display Pages
import
OpenGraph support Preview Generation
Versioning
Media Selector
YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook,
Twitch video embedding
Experience Management
Experiences Widgets Pages Navigation Menus
Fragment library Drag-and-drop interface Personalized experiences Auto-generated Page
Fragment Editor Widget library per segment Hierarchy
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Forms, Workflow and Business Process Automation
Liferay Objects Forms form fields Dynamic Data Lists
object creation form creation Paragraph Boolean
No-code object builder Autocomplete Text field Color
Add fields to define data Multi-page forms Select from list Date
model Configured success page Single selection Decimal
Specify object relationships Field Groups Date Documents and Media
Determine deployment Hidden fields Multiple selection Geolocation
location
Repeatable fields Grid HTML
Create customized layouts
Confirmation fields Numeric Integer
Create actions triggered
by Create, Update, Delete Field masking Upload Link to page
events Duplicate fields / field Color Number
Map Forms to Objects to groups Image Radio
gather data Clone forms Rich Text Select
Display data using Autosave Boolean Text
Collections, Fragments, Import/export data provider
Display Pages Search Location Text box
definitions
Access object using auto- conditional rules Web content
Localization
generated Object APIs Require Localization
CAPTCHA enablement
Integrated with Workflow, Enable Workflow
Permissions, Search, Forms, User authentication
Autofill Define workflows per
Assets, Info Framework, Translations/multi-language document type and folder
Fragments support Show/hide
Jump to page Versioning and reversion
object relationships Data provider integration
Calculation Drafts
Define relationships to Reports with Liferay
Custom or Native Objects Analytics Cloud Belong to Localization
One to Many Page Reordering API for customized rules Duplicate workflows
Many to Many form management Data Engine APIs Preview revisions
object fields Shareable form URLs Data Definitions User notifications
Big Decimal Redirect after form Data Layouts Model workflows with a
submission graphical interface or by
Boolean Data Records writing XML definitions
Date Workflow integration Data Record Collections Workflow Metrics
Double Email notification Taglib Overview of Pending Items
Integer Versioning Fieldsets by SLA Status
Long Element sets Search Data Records Workload by Assignee
Picklist Validation Search Data Layouts Workflow by Step
String Data storage Version Attributes Overview of Completed
Form Reports Scope Data Definitions Items by SLA Status
Localizable Data Records Completion Throughput
Nest fields Assignee Performance
Step Performance
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Accounts
Support B2B activities on Account Metadata Associate with Users, Create Account Groups,
Liferay DXP Tax IDs Organizations Roles
Business, Guest, People Billing and Shipping
accounts addresses
Multichannel Support
Headless Mobile Support Platform Support Adaptive Media
Headless APIs Mobile device rules iOS Control image resolution
REST APIs Previews within browser Android and size per device
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Name Last Sign In Date individual attributes session attributes
Organization Local Date Additional Name Geolocation
Parent Organization Referrer URL Address Referrer
Region Additional Segmentation ClassPK Date & Time
Tag Rules (Analytics Cloud) Contact ID URL
Type events Create Date interests
session attributes Downloaded Documents & Email Generated through usage
Media
Browser Gender Personalization
Submitted Form
Cookies User ID Define unique page
Viewed Form Experiences for each
Device Brand
Viewed Page Segment
Device Model
Commented on Blog Content recommendations
Device Screen Resolution (powered by Analytics
Height Viewed Blog
Cloud)
Device Screen Resolution Viewed Documents & Media
Personalized reusable
Width Viewed Web Content Collections
Language
Platform Services
Performance and Other Standards/ Admin Workflow Other Back-End APIs
Scalability Technologies Batch Engine Asset
Clustering at any AJAX Bulk Cache
combination of tiers JSR-362 (Portlet 3.0)
(presentation, service, Content Delivery Comments
business logic and database) JSR-344 (JSF 2.2) Data Engine Data handlers
Advanced caching (e.g., Spring 3.0 Form File storage
Ehcache) CMIS 1.0/1.1 Object Admin Membership policies
Performance monitoring Hibernate collection of Portal Instances Message bus
support (JMX, Java profiling projects
and more) Segments Permissions
OSGi Core 6.0
Single page applications Workflow Metrics Ratings
Headless REST APIs
Simplified UI GraphQL Endpoint Recycle bin
Admin Content
Multitenancy Custom Objects (family per Scheduler
Admin List Type object)
Dynamic virtual hosting Scripting
Admin Tagonomy
Upgrade
Admin User
Workflow
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Search
Search Tools
Elasticsearch integration Faceted search Search Tuning: Result Search Experiences
Site search - Content, Pages, Filter/sort Rankings Blueprints
Assets, Info Items Multi-language search Search Tuning: Synonyms Low-level search APIs
External Index search Search administration tools Search Widget Templates
Multi-tier search (Freemarker)
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What’s Next
Get Started With Liferay University
Liferay offers free access to Liferay University to active Liferay DXP
subscribers. Equip your entire team with self-paced lessons and courses
so that they can learn how to use Liferay anytime, anywhere on their
own schedule. Gain access to courses for content managers, back-end
and front-end developers and system administrators.
Learn more at university.liferay.com
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