Standardized Side Panel Component in Clay React Platform
The newSide Panel (also known as Info Panel) is a reusable Clay React component that provides a consistent, accessible, and responsive sliding panel for use across Liferay applications. It supports common use cases such as content editing, navigation, and contextual information display.
Key benefits:
We established a uniform look and feel across all instances of the Side Panel, reducing cognitive load and improving usability and also ensured compliance with accessibility standards (e.g. keyboard navigation, ARIA roles), enabling inclusive design by default.
Reduces redundant implementations and streamlines maintenance by offering a centralised, reusable component.
Reinforces design consistency and reusability across the product ecosystem.
The addition of new translations and locales ensures that users in Myanmar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ireland and Serbia can interact with the platform in their preferred languages or regional variation.
Key benefits:
Tailors the user experience for specific markets and regions, improving relevance and usability
We made the platform more inclusive by expanding language and locale options.
The Accessibility Checker Component is being deprecated as part of our effort to improve accessibility tooling and simplify our component library. After evaluating its usage and overlap with other accessibility solutions in Liferay, we found it to be redundant and we stopped using it long time ago.
Blueprint Collection Provider Extended Type and Subtype Support Search
By displaying the blueprint's results in a Collection Display fragment (available since DXP 7.4 U88 as Beta), you can leverage search to return your assets dynamically, and reap the benefits of the fragments toolbox to lay out the page.
Enhanced Type Support
Now, the Blueprint Collection Provider supports asset types (like structured web content and Objects) allowing to map specific item fields beyond the the basic information fields (i.e., asset entry fields) in fragments, depending on the Searchable Types settings of your blueprint.
When selecting Web Content Article as Searchable Types, the subtype selector becomes available
Selecting an available Web Content Structure (Subtype) as Searchable Types in a blueprint
Web Content Article with a specific Web Content Structure selected as subtype in a blueprint
Mapping a Web Content Structure field from a Blueprint Collection Provider with a specific return type in a fragment
Web Content Article with no subtype restriction selected as Searchable Type in a Blueprint
Mapping Web Content Article field from a Blueprint Collection Provider with a specific return type in a fragment
Document with a specific subtype (Document Type) is selected as Searchable Types in a blueprint
Mapping Document Type fields from a Blueprint Collection Provider with a specific return type in a fragment
Object type selected as Searchable Types in a blueprint
Mapping Object fields from a Blueprint Collection Provider with specific return type in a fragment
Message Boards Message selected as Searchable Types in a blueprint
Mapping basic information fields from a Blueprint Collection Provider with return type Asset in a fragment
Opt-in Collection Provider
Configure if a collection provider should be published when creating a new blueprint, or later via the Configuration tab or through the action menu in the table view in Blueprints.
Enabling a blueprint as a Collection Provider on creation
Enabling/disabling a blueprint as a Collection Provider via Configuration later
Enable blueprint as a collection provide via the action menu in the Blueprints admin
Benefits
Access and map type specific item fields fields in fragments for an extend range of types including Web Content Article and structures, Documents and Document Types and Objects.
Limit searches to specific subtypes via Query Settings in Blueprints
Liferay Self-Hosted deployments can update their Elastic stack to this version. For Liferay PaaS projects a new Elasticsearch image will be provided under Liferay Cloud’s Docker Hub account.
Liferay Tomcat Bundles and Docker Images ship with Elasticsearch 8.18 as the sidecar search engine.
Benefits
The Elasticsearch server runtime included in Liferay DXP Tomcat Bundles and Docker Images (aka. Sidecar Elasticsearch, located under [Liferay-Home]/elasticsearch-sidecar) is provided as a convenience for local development and testing only. It is neither suitable nor supported for production.