• Administration
  • Installation and Upgrading (Installation)
    • Requirements
      • Java Versioning
    • Quick Start Guide
    • Installing from Release
    • WAR Installation
      • Deploy as a WAR in Tomcat
      • Deploy as a WAR in Wildfly 17
      • Deploy as a WAR in JBoss EAP 6.4
    • Upgrading (Upgrading dotCMS)
      • Upgrading dotCMS - Cloud (Upgrading dotCMS - Cloud)
      • Upgrading dotCMS - Self Hosted (Upgrading dotCMS - Self Hosted)
    • Amazon AWS
      • Basic AWS Installation
      • Docker / dotCMS on Amazon's Linux (Docker / dotCMS on Amazon's Linux)
      • Example AWS Deployments
      • Amazon ElastiCache Installation
    • Docker
      • Getting Started with dotCMS in Docker Containers
      • Docker Configuration Options (Docker Image Configuration Options)
        • Supporting Images used in Examples (Supporting Images Used in Examples)
      • Examples (Docker Examples)
      • Example Implementations (Docker-Compose Examples)
      • Performance Considerations (Docker Performance Considerations)
      • Restore Dataset Using Docker
      • How to Modify Java KeyStore in Docker (How to Modify Java KeyStore in Docker)
    • Helpful Tools for Installation
      • Creating a Self Contained SSL PEM file
  • Configuration
    • dotCMS System Architecture
    • Directory Layout
      • Asset Storage
      • Per Instance Data
      • System Velocity Files
    • Docker Configuration Options (Docker Image Configuration Options)
      • Supporting Images used in Examples (Supporting Images Used in Examples)
    • Database Configuration
    • Configuration Properties
    • File Configuration
    • Mail Configuration
    • Cluster Setup
      • Auto-Clustering Configuration
      • Manual Cluster Configuration
      • Cluster Status
      • Cluster Transport Configuration
    • Running as a Service
      • Run as a Service In Linux
      • Run as a Windows Service
    • CDN Considerations
    • URL Rewrite Rules
  • Platform Management (Administering the dotCMS Platform)
    • Branding & Basic Information
    • License Management
    • User Management
      • Login
        • Login Protected Pages
        • Authentication Using JWT
        • SAML Authentication
          • Azure (SAML with Azure)
          • Google GSuite (SAML with Google GSuite)
          • Okta (SAML with Okta)
      • Editing Users
      • Add a User
      • User Permissions Tab
      • Changing User Passwords
      • User Password Security Configuration
      • User Email Validation Configuration
      • Deactivating a User Account
      • Deleting a User
      • Searching for Users
      • Additional Information
    • Permissions
      • Assigning Users to a Role
      • Assigning Permissions
      • Role Permissions
      • Object Permissions
        • Content Permissions
        • Content Type Permissions
        • Category Permissions
        • Template Permissions
        • User Permissions
        • Site Permissions
        • Folder Permissions
        • File Permissions
        • Page Permissions
        • Menu Link Permissions
        • Container Permissions
      • Permission Inheritance
      • Roles and Tools
      • Adding Roles
      • Custom Tool Groups
      • Locking Roles
      • System Roles
        • CMS Administrator
        • CMS Anonymous
        • CMS Owner
        • Current User
        • LDAP User
        • LoggedIn Site User
        • Login As
        • Scripting User
        • Legacy System Roles
      • Push Publishing Permissions
    • Multi-Site Management
      • Add/Copy Sites
      • Deactivate/Delete Sites
      • Site Permissions
      • Site Variables
      • Custom Homepage/Error Pages
      • Dashboard (Dashboard with Embedded Analytics)
    • Apps Integrations
      • dotCDN
    • Maintenance
      • Flushing Caches
      • Managing Site Indexes with ElasticSearch
      • Reindexing Content
      • Drop Old Asset Versions
      • Delete Contentlets
      • Deleting Menu Files
      • Fix Assets Inconsistencies
      • Search and Replace Utility
      • Velocity Logging
      • Log File Viewing
      • System Info
      • Threads
      • Logged Users
      • Scheduled Jobs and the Scheduler Tool
        • Running Jobs from Wget or Command Line
      • Backup and Restore
        • Database Backup
        • How to Restore a dotCMS Instance
  • Performance Tuning
    • Troubleshooting Performance
    • Memory Configuration
    • Cache Configuration
      • Cache Chaining
      • Cache Tuning
      • Hazelcast Cache Provider
      • Caffeine Cache Provider
      • H22 Cache Provider
      • Redis Cache Provider
      • Timed Memory Cache Provider
      • Test Cache Provider
    • Logging Configuration
      • Log File Locations
      • Special Logging Configurations
    • System Events
    • Load Balancing
  • Security and Privacy
    • Privacy Policy
    • GDPR and CCPA Compliance Support
    • Known Security Issues
    • Responsible Disclosure Policy
    • Privacy Best Practices
    • Login and Session Security
      • SSL: Secure Backend Login
      • SSL: Configure dotCMS to Run SSL
      • LDAP Configuration
        • Active Directory Error Codes
      • Single Sign On Integration with CAS
    • Cookie Use
    • XSS Prevention
• Platform (Platform & Features)
  • Content Types & Content
    • Content Repository
    • Base Content Types
    • Content Type Fields
      • Standard Field Types
      • Field Properties
      • Re-ordering Fields
      • Validation Expressions
      • Binary Field
      • Category Field
      • Custom Field
      • Key/Value Field
      • Site or Folder Field
      • Tag Field
      • The WYSIWYG Field
        • WYSIWYG Accessibility Checker
    • Creating a Content Type
    • Creating a Page Content Type
    • Content Type Permissions
    • Widgets
      • Widget Content Type
      • Simple Widget VS Widget Type
      • Adding a Widget Content Type
      • Fixed Fields in a Widget Type
      • Adding Fields to a Widget Content Type
      • Calling Remote Widgets
      • Creating a Simple Widget
    • Files and Images
      • Displaying Image Content Fields (Displaying Images with Binary & Image Fields)
      • Metadata Extraction & Indexing
    • Taxonomies and Tags
      • Tagging
        • Setting A Tag Repository on a Site
        • Adding and Editing Tags in the Tag Repository
        • Deleting Tags
        • View Global Tags
        • Importing Tags
        • Exporting Tags
      • Categories
        • Adding New Categories
        • Categorizing Content
        • Deleting Categories
        • Importing Categories
        • Category Permissions
      • Relationships
        • Migrating Legacy Relationships
        • Push Publishing Migrated Relationships
  • Templating (Templating)
    • Templates
      • Designing a Template with a Theme
      • Advanced Templates
      • Searching for a Template
    • Themes
      • Creating a new Theme
      • Creating the template.vtl
    • Containers
      • Adding a Container
      • Displaying Content in a Container
      • File Based Containers
      • Container Permissions
    • Menus and Navigation (Navigation: Menus, Crumbtrails, and Sitemap)
      • Menu Links
        • Adding a Menu Link
        • Searching for Menu Links
        • Menu Link Permissions
      • Navigation (NavTool Viewtool)
      • XML Sitemap
    • Sass/CSS Compiler
  • Features
    • Vanity URLs & URL Rewriting
    • Search & Query
      • Elasticsearch (Elasticsearch and Content Indexing)
        • Content Search Syntax
        • ES Search Tool
        • Search Within All Content Fields Using "Catchall"
        • How Content is Mapped to Elasticsearch
        • Aggregations (Elasticsearch Aggregations)
        • Custom REST Client (Custom Elasticsearch REST Client)
      • Site Search
    • URL Maps (Slugs) (Slugs & URL Maps: SEO Friendly URLs)
      • Using URL Mapped Content
    • Multilingual Content (Multilingual Sites and Content)
      • Multilingual Site Considerations and Set Up
      • Configuring Languages
        • Adding and Editing Languages
        • Default Language Fall-Through Configuration
        • Global Language Variables
        • Default Language & Language Properties (The Default Language and System Language Properties)
        • Pulling Multilingual Content
        • Multi-Site Language Configuration
        • Multilingual Static Endpoints
      • Contributing Multilingual Content
        • Content (Multilingual)
        • Importing Multilingual Content
        • Files (Multilingual)
        • Pages (Multilingual)
        • Pushing Multilingual Content
      • Building Multilingual Sites
        • Widgets (Multilingual)
        • Forms (Multilingual)
        • Navigation (Multilingual)
        • URL Maps (Multilingual)
    • Workflows
      • Managing Workflows
      • Assigning a Workflow Scheme to a Content Type
      • Using a Workflow Scheme when Editing or Creating Content
      • Custom Actions (Custom Workflow Actions)
      • Workflow Sub-actions
        • Link Checker Sub-action
        • Multiple Approval Sub-Actions
        • Push Publishing Workflow Actions
        • Send an Email Sub-action
        • Translate Content Sub-action
        • Twitter Status Update Sub-action
        • Velocity Script (Velocity Script Subaction)
      • Schedule-Enabled Workflow
      • Workflow Tasks
        • Filtering Tasks
        • Managing Tasks
        • Modifying Tasks
    • Personalization
      • Rules
        • Conditions
          • Condition Types
        • Actions
          • Set Redirect Requests (Set Redirect Requests Action)
          • Set Response Header (Set Response Header Action)
          • Set Session Attribute (Set Session Attribute Action)
          • Add Tags to Visitor (Add Tags to Visitor Action)
          • Set Persona (Set Persona Action)
          • Set Request Attribute (Set Request Attribute Action)
        • Managing Rules
        • Managing Conditions
        • Managing Actions
        • Rule Permissions
        • Accessing Rules from Velocity Code
      • Visitors
      • Personas
      • Pull Personalized Content (Pull Personalized Content [dotcontent.pullPersonalized])
    • Form Builder
      • Form Validation
      • Form Creation
  • Push Publishing
    • What to Know Before Push Publishing
    • Dynamic and Static Publishing
    • Best Practices and Troubleshooting (Push Publishing Best Practices and Troubleshooting)
    • Push Publishing Endpoints
    • Push Publishing Filters
    • Bundles
    • The Publishing Queue
      • Publishing Status
    • Push Publishing Dependencies
    • Implementing Static Publishing
      • Static Publishing Best Practices
      • Static Push Publishing Plugin
      • Multilingual Static Endpoints
    • Push Publishing Content
      • Sites and Folders (Pushing Sites and Folders)
      • Pages (Pushing Pages)
      • Menu Links (Pushing Menu Links)
      • Vanity URLs (Pushing Vanity URLs)
      • Content Types (Pushing Content Types)
      • Pushing Categories
      • Languages (Pushing Languages)
      • Users (Pushing Users)
      • OSGI Dynamic Plugins (Pushing Dynamic Plugins)
    • Pushing from Content Search
    • Push Publishing Permissions
    • Push Publish Listeners
    • Troubleshooting (Troubleshooting Push Publishing)
• Authoring Content
  • First Steps
    • Logging into dotCMS
    • Begin Contributing Content
    • Tips on Adding Images
  • Content
    • Searching for Content
    • Adding and Editing Content
    • Content States
    • Pessimistic Content Check-in / Checkout
    • Importing Content
      • Importing Related Content
      • Importing Multilingual Content
    • Multilingual Content
    • Content References
    • Relating Content
    • Exporting Content
    • Setting Publish and Expire Dates for Content
    • Content Versions
    • Restoring Webpage or Content Versions
  • Pages
    • Page Viewing Modes
      • Preview Mode
      • Edit Mode
      • Live Mode
    • Adding a Page
    • Deleting a Page
    • Searching for a Page
    • Adding a Custom Page
    • Page Advanced Properties
    • Adding New Content to a Page
    • Reusing Content on a Page
    • Creating a Homepage
    • Adding Widgets to Pages
    • Adding Rules to Pages
    • Workflow Tasks on Pages
  • Folders & Files
    • File Assets and dotAssets
    • Files are Content
    • Site Browser
    • Metadata (File Metadata)
    • File Permissions
    • Adding Files
    • Adding a Folder
    • Deleting a Folder
    • Folder Permissions
    • Image Editor
    • WebDAV (Upload and Edit via Webdav)
  • Events Calendar
    • Backend Calendar
      • Calendar Views
      • Adding an Event
      • Editing Events
      • Filtering Events (Filtering Events on the Back-end Calendar)
  • Time Machine
    • Time Machine Snapshots
    • Future Time Machine Snapshots
    • Browsing Time Machine Snapshots
    • Time Machine Snapshot Files
  • Link Checker
    • Check Links During Content Submission
• Development (Developing & APIs)
  • APIs
    • REST APIs
      • Content (Content API)
        • Retrieval and Querying (Content API Retrieval and Querying)
        • Elasticsearch Query Examples
        • Saving Content - Workflows (Save Content with Workflows)
        • CRUD Example
        • Saving Content - Legacy (Save Content Using the REST API)
        • JSONP Support
        • Example: Content POST (Save Content - Legacy)
        • Example: File POST (Content API - POSTing Files)
      • All End Points (REST API Endpoints)
      • Content Types (Content Type API)
        • Create Content Types of Each Base Type
        • Fields (Fields - Content Type API)
        • Field Variables (Field Variables - Content Type API)
      • Elasticsearch (Elasticsearch REST API)
      • Elasticsearch Indexes (RESTful API to Manage Indexes)
      • Image Resizing and Processing
      • Language Properties (Language Properties REST API)
      • Navigation (Navigation REST API)
      • Pages & Layouts (Page API (Layout as a Service))
      • Push Publishing & Bundles (Remote Publishing / Bundle API)
      • Roles (Role REST API)
      • Rules (Rules REST API)
        • Managing Rules via REST
        • Rule Conditions (Conditions REST API)
        • Rule Actions (Actions REST API)
      • Site Search Indexes (Site Search Index REST API)
      • Widgets (Widget API)
        • Calling Remote Widgets
      • Workflows (Workflow REST API)
      • Index Policy (REST API Index Policy)
      • Example: Workflow, Content Type and Content (Example: Workflow, Content Type and Content via REST)
      • All APIs (Generated)
    • Authentication (REST API Authentication)
      • Preview vs. Live
    • GraphQL
    • Command Line (CLI)
    • Scripting API
    • Webhooks
    • Error Codes (Error Codes: REST API)
    • CORS Header Configuration
  • Velocity Scripting
    • Why Velocity?
    • Content & Widgets (Content & Widgets in Velocity)
      • Pulling and Displaying Content (Pulling and Displaying Content   [$dotcontent.pull])
        • Pull Related Content (Pull and Display Related Content)
        • Pull with Pagination (Paginated Pull and Display of Contents   [$dotcontent.pullPerPage])
        • Load Content by Id or Inode (Load Individual Content from Identifier or Inode   [$dotcontent.find])
      • Content Object in Velocity
      • Page Content in Velocity
      • Editing Pulled Content
      • Common Content Pulls
        • Retrieve Selected Inode
        • Display Tags on Content
        • Pulling Categories
        • Pull Calendar Events (Pull Calendar Events   [$calendar.find])
        • Display Site Properties (Display Properties of the Current Site)
        • Display Content Type Information (Display Content Type Information in a Content Pull)
        • Generate Content From Email
      • Sorting Content Pulls by Score
    • Commonly Used Tools (Commonly Used Velocity Tools)
      • Strings (Strings in Velocity)
        • Encrypt
        • Decrypt
        • String Replace / Regex
      • Dates (Dates in Velocity)
        • Adding Days and Comparing Dates
        • Display Friendly Date Interval
        • Velocity Date and Calendar Tools
      • Request, Response and Session
      • Redirects, Rewrites, and Forwards
      • Tag-Based Caching (Block Cache)
      • Visitor Geolocation
      • Useful Methods (Useful Velocity Methods)
      • Integration Tools (Velocity Integration Tools)
        • Include of a .vtl or .html file
        • Executing a SQL Query
    • Built-in Variables & Reserved Words
    • URL Parameters
    • Viewtools (Velocity Viewtools)
      • Deprecated Viewtools
        • Errors (Errors Viewtool)
        • FormTool
        • Iteration (Mill (Iterator) Viewtool)
        • StringsWebAPI
        • StructuresWebAPI
        • TagsWebAPI
        • TextFormatter Viewtool
        • UtilHTML
        • Wiki Markup (dotWiki Viewtool)
      • Logger (Logger Viewtool)
      • Alternator (Alternator Viewtool)
      • Toolbox.xml
      • Calendar (Calendar Viewtool)
      • Categories (Categories Viewtool)
      • CAS Sign-on (CASTool Viewtool)
      • Content Properties (Contents Viewtool)
      • Cookies (CookieTool Viewtool)
      • Encryption and Decryption (Crypt Viewtool)
      • Dates and Times (Date Viewtool)
      • Content (Dotcontent Viewtool)
      • Elasticsearch (Elasticsearch Viewtool)
      • EscapeTool Class
      • MathTool
      • FolderWebAPI
      • ImportTool
      • JSON (JSON Viewtool)
      • TextTool
      • ListTool
      • LoopTool
      • Mailer (Mailer Viewtool)
      • Markdown (Markdown Viewtool)
        • Markdown Syntax
      • Navigation (NavTool Viewtool)
      • NumberTool
      • ParserTool Class
      • Persona (Persona Viewtool)
      • PluginWebAPI
      • RenderTool
      • SiteSearch (SiteSearch Viewtool)
      • Sorter (Sorter Viewtool)
      • User Agent (User Agent Viewtool)
      • Users (CMSUser Viewtool)
      • UtilMethods
      • VelocityWebUtil
      • WebsiteWebAPI
      • XML (XMLTool)
      • XSLTTool
      • XssTool
    • Custom Viewtool Example
    • Velocity Best Practices
    • Velocity Debugging Files
    • Velocity User's Guide
    • Velocity Developer's Guide
  • Java Plugins & OSGI (Java Development)
    • Setting up the IDE
      • Developing from Release - Remote Debug
      • Developing from Source
      • Developing from Source - Remote Debug
    • OSGI / Dynamic Plugins
      • Developing an OSGi Plugin
      • Exports, Fragments, and Extras (OSGI Plugin Exported Packages, Fragments, and Extras)
      • OSGI Plugin Examples
        • Spring Controller Plugin
        • Add Rewrite Rule Plugin
        • Content Hook / ContentAPI Interceptor Plugin
        • XSS Prevention
        • Custom Admin Portlet Plugin
        • Custom Velocity Viewtool Plugin
        • Custom Workflow Action Plugin
        • Fragment/Exported Packages Plugin
        • OAuth Authentication Plugin
        • OSGi Services Plugin
        • Override a dotCMS Class Plugin
        • Actionlet - Rules plugin
        • Conditionlet - Rules plugin
        • Scheduled Quartz Job Plugin
        • Spring Libraries Plugin
        • Static Push Publishing Plugin
        • Third Party Jars and Libraries Plugin
      • OSGI (Dynamic) Plugin Logging
    • Static Plugins
      • What Can Static Plugins Do?
      • Getting Started with Static Plugins
      • ROOT folder in Plugins
      • Building and Deploying Plugins
      • Plugin Directory Structure
      • Creating a Plugin
      • Deploying Static Plugins
      • Creating Portlets
      • Servlets and Filters
      • Creating a Custom Deployer
      • Plugin Naming Conventions
      • Pluggable Authentication
      • Deploying a Custom Starter Site
    • dotCMS Code Base
      • Data Model
      • Java API
        • Java Thread Dumps
      • Contributing Code
      • Directed Development
      • Testing
        • Functional Tests
        • Integration Tests
        • Unit Tests
  • CI/CD
    • Scripting WebDAV
  • Javadocs (Java API)
• API Reference
• API Reference
• Product Versions
  • Current Releases (Current Releases)
  • ChangeLogs
    • Previous ChangeLogs
  • Previous Releases
  • Older Documentation
• Help and Support
  • Release & Support Lifecycle
  • LTS Releases (Long-Term Supported (LTS) Releases)
  • Guides & Tutorials
    • dotCMS Guided Tour (A Guided Tour of dotCMS)
      • Adding a Container
      • Designing a Template with a Theme
      • Adding a Page
      • Creating a Simple Widget
      • Include of a .vtl or .html file
      • WebDAV (Upload and Edit via Webdav)
      • Advanced Templates
    • Planning Your Content Architecture
    • Build XML/RSS from Content
    • Configure Google Analytics
    • How to Build a Forum
    • How to Build a Wiki
    • Creating an Atom Feed
    • Displaying content from an external Atom feed
  • User Forum (User Forum)
  • Codeshare (The dotCMS Codeshare Site)
  • On Demand Training (Free On-Demand Training Videos)
  • Demo Site (The dotCMS Demo Site)

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