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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 for HCL Digital Experience
This online help is made available in the HCL Help Center for quick references on how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Digital Experience.
Online Help
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.
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.
Portal settings
Manage site settings.
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.
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 for HCL Digital Experience
This online help is made available in the HCL Help Center for quick references on how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Digital Experience.
Online Help
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
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.
Portal user interface
Add pages to build your site, and customize its visual identity.
Portlet management
Manage the portlets and Web services that the site uses.
Access
Control who has access to the site.
Portal settings
Manage site settings.
Managing global settings
Define the settings for your portal server. These settings include the default portal language, the first page displayed when a user logs in, the option to set a URL for the Find feature, and what will be displayed when a user is not authorized to view a portlet.
Managing custom unique names
The portal uses object IDs to identify portal resources unambiguously even between different portals. They consist of an extended alphanumeric string that might be difficult to remember. Portal administrators can use
Manage Custom Unique Names
to assign
unique names
, or human readable names, to portal resources. They can select names that can be easily remembered.
Managing markup languages
You can use Manage Markups to define the types of markup languages to be supported by the portal.
Managing client devices
You can define the types of devices that can be used to access the portal. Devices can include Web browsers on a personal computer, wireless phones, personal digital assistants, and other types. To optimize the data that the portal sends to the client and to handle the limitations and deviations of each individual client browser, the portal server maintains information about all supported client devices in a client registry.
Importing an XML configuration file
Use this portlet to import an XML configuration file from your local or network drive into a portal.
Managing Portal content
Learn more about managing libraries, cleaning up data, and setting up search. As an administrator you need to periodically assist content managers with library maintenance, such as disabling or deleting a library.
Manage Search
You can customize the way the portal search is administered to meet your users need from the Manage Search portlet. The Manage Search portlet provides access to search related resources such as the Search Services, Search Collections, Search Scopes, and custom links. You can use these resources to search for content more effectively. You can view and manage the resources from the Manage Search portlet.
Manage Search
Use the Manage Search portlet to administer portal search.
Portal analysis
Gather data about the site.
Managing virtual portals
The
Manage Virtual Portals
portlet enables you to deploy additional portals on an existing infrastructure. With virtual portals, you can use a single portal installation to deploy multiple portals with different URLs, anonymous pages, user groups, and themes and skins.
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.
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
Help Center
including directory conventions, terms of use, trademarks, a glossary, and more.
Content Template Catalog 4.4
The Content Template (CTC) is a set of templates that accelerate the process of building a website.
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 9.5
Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain and use Version 9.5 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
Portal settings
Manage site settings.