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HCL Digital Experience Product Documentation
Welcome to the product documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Find information about how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend solutions.
HCL Digital Experience 8.5
Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 8.5 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
Online Help
This Online Help is made available in the HCL Digital Experience Help Center for quick references on how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Digital Experience.
Online Help topics
Online Help includes HCL Digital Experience information that is available from the product user interface. Online Help for both administrative and content author roles are also available. Help for the Configuration Wizard is also included.
User assistance for administrators
As an administrator, you can manage access to resources in the website, deploy new applications, and more.
Working with feeds
Syndicated Feed Portlet enables you to integrate, view, and manage RSS and ATOM feeds from your portal pages. You can organize the feeds into new and existing feed categories and extensively customize the presentation style for these feeds.
Customizing the appearance
You can select and customize the presentation style for your feeds.
Customizing the presentation style
You can customize the Channel and Headlines presentation styles for your portlet instance.
Customizing the Channel style
Customize the Channel presentation style to further suit your requirements.

HCL Digital Experience Product Documentation
Welcome to the product documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Find information about how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend solutions.
- HCL Digital Experience 9.5
- HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy Content]
- HCL Digital Experience 9.0
  Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 9.0 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
- HCL Digital Experience 8.5
  Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 8.5 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
  - Overview
    HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager) empowers you to create, manage, and deliver engaging omnichannel digital experiences to virtually all audiences with responsive content, targeted offers, seamlessly integrated applications, and consistent branding across channels (web, mobile. and hybrid mobile/web applications and more).
  - Roadmaps to deploy your system
    Review the roadmaps to understand the common deployment, configuration, migration, and integration patterns.
  - Roadmaps to create your website
    Review the roadmaps to understand how to create your website.
  - Online Help
    This Online Help is made available in the HCL Digital Experience Help Center for quick references on how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Digital Experience.
    - Online Help topics
      Online Help includes HCL Digital Experience information that is available from the product user interface. Online Help for both administrative and content author roles are also available. Help for the Configuration Wizard is also included.
      - User assistance for content authors
        Create an exceptional experience for site visitors. Integrate compelling digital content into your website or intranet by using lightweight content management tools. Edit content and integrate digital assets inline and then publish changes efficiently.
      - User assistance for administrators
        As an administrator, you can manage access to resources in the website, deploy new applications, and more.
        Welcome to your Digital Experience
        Learn about the many capabilities that are available for delivering an exceptional Digital Experience to site visitors. The enhanced content authoring experience means you can invest less time developing custom authoring environments. The flexible framework means you can integrate applications and content into your website and still retain a cohesive user experience.
        Site development with Site Builder
        Site Builder uses a set of wizards to guide users through the creation of Site Builder templates, and the creation of sites and sections by using those templates.
        Applications for Administrators
        Set up the application area for your site users.
        Administration Portlets
        Administration portlets are only visible to users with adequate access. Members of the wpsadmins group can access Administration. Visitors to your website will not see the administration link.
        Search Center
        The portal search engine helps your site visitors to find information easily. Visitors can search HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager sources, along with additional internal and external web search sources that you make available to them. To help your visitors manage searching different information sources, define search collections and scopes.
        Tag Center
        You can use the tag center to search for resources tagged with specific tags.
        Working with feeds
        Syndicated Feed Portlet enables you to integrate, view, and manage RSS and ATOM feeds from your portal pages. You can organize the feeds into new and existing feed categories and extensively customize the presentation style for these feeds.
        Viewing feeds
        Every feed or channel comprises a number of articles. With appropriate permissions, you can add and select the feeds that you want to view and customize the way the articles of the selected feeds are displayed in the HCL Syndicated Feed Portlet.
        Working with feed subscriptions
        You can add, rename, delete, and view details of your feed subscriptions in the HCL Syndicated Feed Portlet. Additionally, you can move your feeds either within the same or to another feed category.
        Working with feed categories
        Feed categories enable you to group and organize your feed subscriptions. You can add new feed categories and rename, delete, and nest the existing feed categories.
        Customizing the appearance
        You can select and customize the presentation style for your feeds.
        Selecting a presentation style
        To view articles from a single feed subscription, choose the Channel presentation style. To view articles from multiple feeds, choose the Headlines presentation style.
        Customizing the presentation style
        You can customize the Channel and Headlines presentation styles for your portlet instance.
        Customizing the Channel style
        Customize the Channel presentation style to further suit your requirements.
        Customizing the Headlines style
        Customize the Headlines presentation style to further suit your requirements.
        Importing and exporting feeds
        You can import multiple feeds into HCL Syndicated Feed Portlet by using an appropriate Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) URL. Similarly, you can export feeds from HCL Syndicated Feed Portlet to an OPML compliant xml file.
        Configuring the cache settings
        Enable caching for Syndicated Feed Portlet to enhance performance and ensure an enriched user experience. You can enable servlet caching for the user interface of HCL Syndicated Feed Portlet and the WebSphere dynamic cache for the feed data.
        Configuring permissions
        If you are an Administrator or have access to the configure mode of the HCL Syndicated Feed Portlet, you can grant or revoke a non-admin user’s permissions to customize feed subscriptions and appearance of the feeds in the HCL Syndicated Feed Portlet.
      - Directory structure
        The topic shows the naming conventions that are used to denote the location of files on the servers and the types of resources you can find in those directories.
      - Configuration Wizard
        You installed your HCL Digital Experience software. Now let the Configuration Wizard guide you through configuring your system. To begin, select a configuration option and provide basic input about your environment. Based on this information, the Configuration Wizard provides you with examples, recommended values, customized instructions, and scripts that you can run.
  - Installing
    HCL Digital Experience provides flexible deployment options that range from proof-of-concept where you can examine and test functionality to a highly available and scalable production environment. Review the planning information to learn more about hardware and software requirements, high availability, scalability, supported topologies, and much more. Select your operating system and then select the installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.
  - Configuring
    Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
  - Backup and restore
    Backup and recovery of data files and databases is an essential operation for any business system, particularly for data and applications that run in production environments. Create and follow a plan for backing up and recovering data on all tiers of your HCL Digital Experience deployment. IBM Installation Manager must also be included in backup and recovery planning. If you back up the HCL Portal file structure and then install a fix pack, your HCL Digital Experience and IBM Installation Manager become out of sync after you restore the HCL Portal file system. This condition is not recoverable.
  - Migrating
    Successful migration requires significant planning and preparation, understanding the tools that are involved, and careful execution of the appropriate steps in the order provided.
  - Integrating
    Integrate HCL Digital Experience with software such as HCL Sametime to enable your users to collaborate more easily. You can also use the unified task list portlet to integrate HCL with your backend business process software, such as IBM Process Server.
  - Administering
    Use the administration tools that are provided with the portal to do various day-to-day administration tasks. There are two methods for editing portal setup: using the administration portlets or the XML configuration interface. The administration portlets are a convenient way to make real-time updates to the portal's configuration. While the XML configuration interface is suited to more advanced administration, including batch processing of updates.
  - Securing
    Security tasks include setting up property extension databases and custom user repositories, configuring and activating SSL, and configuring authentication. In addition, tasks such as activating Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and NIST SP800-131a security modules and configuring external security managers such as Security Access Manager might be required to secure your portal environment.
  - Monitoring
    HCL Portal includes tools and features to help you monitor the portal site.
  - Setting up a website
    Setting up a website includes, creating pages, adding navigation, setting up search, and adding content to the site. Themes are used to customize the portal's look-and-feel. Out-of-the-box templates and the site wizard can help you set up your portal site faster. You can add wikis and blogs to your site and let users tag and rate content on your site.
  - Staging to production
    During portal solution development, the solution is initially developed, tested, and refined on one server or a limited number of servers. The solution is deployed later on live systems, referred to as the production environment. The process of moving the solution from the development environment to the production environment is called staging.
  - Developing
    This section includes developer documentation on extending applications and development assets for HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager.
  - Troubleshooting
    This section helps you resolve problems, use diagnostic tools and tracing to capture HCL Digital Experience system errors.
  - Reference
    View information that can help you use the Digital Experience Help Center including directory conventions, terms of use, trademarks, a glossary, and more.
  - Glossary
    This glossary includes terms and definitions for HCL Digital Experience.
  - Content Template Catalog 4.4
    The Content Template (CTC) is a set of templates that accelerate the process of building a website.

Customizing the Channel style | HCL Digital Experience

Customize the Channel presentation style to further suit your requirements.

About this task

To customize the Channel presentation style for your portlet instance:

Procedure

From the portlet menu, select Personalize, Edit Shared Settings, or Configure. The General tab is selected, by default.
Click the Appearance tab.
In case the Channel presentation style isn't your current, default presentation style, click the General link and select Channel as the presentation style.
Click the Channel link.
In case you want to modify any of the default settings associated with this presentation style as shown on this page, select the Override appearance defaults check box.
Specify appropriate values for the settings, as per their description.
- Show toolbar: Enable this option to display a toolbar in the view mode that enables you to add, delete, and reorder feeds and feed categories without going to the Personalize, Edit Shared Settings, or Configure mode.
- Show Channel title bar: Enable this option to display a channel bar at the beginning of every feed. The channel bar displays the name of the feed category along with the name of the feed.
- Show date published: Enable this option to display the date of publishing for a feed article.
- Show author: Enable this option to display the author for a feed article.
- Article content style: Specify whether the content of a feed article is displayed expanded, collapsed, or not shown at all.
- Window title style: Specify the portlet window title to be the same as the default portlet title, the title of the first selected feed, or a custom title.
- Amount of space between articles (pixels): Specify the spacing (in pixels) between the articles in a feed. The default value is 10.
- Number of headlines per channel: Specify the number of articles to be displayed per channel or feed. The default value is 5.
Click Save.
On the Subscriptions page, click Done.