What's new in CF19? | HCL Digital Experience
Combined Cumulative Fix (CF19) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience.
This HCL Digital Experience 9.5 CF19 release includes new WCM REST APIs, Web Developer Toolkit, updated releases of Content Composer, Digital Asset Management and Experience API, Hybrid deployment support, Progressive Web Application delivery, Google Analytics integration, Mobile Preview, DXClient and DXConnect tooling supporting CICD release processes, new HCL Digital Experience ‘How To’ videos and more.
Go to the HCL Software Support Site for the list of software fixes. Product software can be accessed from the HCL Software Licensing Portal. Go to this Step-by-step guide to downloading DX products and accessing Customer Support for more information.
Web Developer Toolkit
The Web Developer toolkit for HCL Digital Experience provides the ability to sync themes, content and script portlets (also known as Script Applications). It is available on the HCL Digital Experience Github repository.
See Web Developer Toolkit for details.
Hybrid Deployment
The HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Hybrid deployment and topics deliver capability to deploy and manage HCL Digital Experience 9.5 core Portal Server and Web Content Manager services on premises, and connect to cloud native components Digital Asset Management, Content Composer, Experience API and related services in a production environment.
See the Hybrid Deployment topic for more information.
Progressive Web Application support
Develop support that adds native mobile application experience and performance to your web site using browser-based functionality.
See the Progressive Web Application topic for more information.
Google Analytics integration
Learn how to set up integration of Digital Experience sites with Google Analytics and view the resulting web analytics tracking to assess the effectiveness of your DX site pages with end user audiences.
See the Integrate Google Analytics with HCL Digital Experience topic for more information.
Mobile Preview
Use the Mobile Preview simulator to view the presentation of Digital Experience site page components on select mobile devices.
See the Mobile Preview topic for more information.
DXClient and DXConnect tooling supporting CICD release processes
HCL Digital Experience CF19 and higher includes a DXClient toolset, and DX Connect servlet that provides developers and administrators with an approach to deploy changes or improvements to the HCL Digital Experience platform,and automate processes in the development and delivery process.
See the DXClient and DXConnect tooling supporting CICD release processes topic for more information.
New Digital Experience REST APIs
- Web content image renditions interactions REST API
- Web Content Library Locale Query
- Workflow Comments API
- Using XML Access to export and import Digital Asset Management assets
- Web Content Manager Syndication REST APIs
- Process Now and Remove Workflow REST APIs
- Web Content Manager References REST API
- Web Content Text Search REST API
- Digital Experience Core Configuration REST API
- Web Content Manager Lock/Unlock API
- Create or update an Option Selection Element
- Search Component Results Display
New HCL Digital Experience ‘How To’ Videos
- Remote Search Service
- Transfer HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container default database to IBM DB2
- Create a web content library
- Virtual portals
- Backup and restore
- Configuration Wizard
- Combined Cumulative Fix Install
- Rich text editor toolbar configuration options
- Data collection and symptom analysis
- HCL Digital Experience Combined Cumulative Fix (CF) Installation
- How to manage syndicators and subscribers
- Deploy HCL Digital Experience 9.5 to Red Hat OpenShift
- Deploy Digital Asset Management, Content Composer and Experience API to Red Hat OpenShift
- Configure the OpenLDAP container image to the HCL DX 9.5 Container Deployment