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HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
Practitioner Studio
Practitioner Studio is a newly designed user experience for HCL Digital Experience. Please see the following pages to understand how the new navigation is organized.
Site templates
Site templates are configured and managed using Site Builder. If you choose not to enable Practitioner Studio, you can still manage Site Templates using the Application navigation menu in the toolbar.
Site Builder
Site Builder is an application that you can use to create site templates or section templates for use with HCL Digital Experience.
Installing and removing Site Builder
Site Builder is installed as part of HCL Digital Experience 8.5 CF08 and later installations. See this Content Template Catalog documentation for more information.

HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
- Overview
  HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints, such as web, mobile, hybrid mobile/web applications, and more.
- Supported migration paths
  Migration is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Supported installation and upgrade paths
  Installation and upgrade is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Getting the software
  New and existing users need to register at the HCL Software License Portal and download their entitled HCL Digital Experience package(s).
- Creating your website
  Review the following topics to understand how to create your website using the latest HCL Digital Experience.
- Installing HCL Digital Experience
  Review the planning information on HCL Digital Experience, then select your operating system and 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 HCL Digital Experience to do various day-to-day administration tasks.
- 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.
- Docker and Containerization
  Find topic information about Docker and Containerization for HCL Digital Experience.
- Practitioner Studio
  Practitioner Studio is a newly designed user experience for HCL Digital Experience. Please see the following pages to understand how the new navigation is organized.
  - Working with Practitioner Studio
    Learn how to enable, configure and disable Practitioner Studio on the latest version of HCL Digital Experience.
  - Web content
    Learn more about managing libraries, creating, editing or cleaning up data, and setting up syndication for HCL Digital Experience web content management.
  - Site templates
    Site templates are configured and managed using Site Builder. If you choose not to enable Practitioner Studio, you can still manage Site Templates using the Application navigation menu in the toolbar.
    - Site Builder
      Site Builder is an application that you can use to create site templates or section templates for use with HCL Digital Experience.
      - Site Builder overview
        Learn more about Site Builder and how to create site and section templates for your HCL Digital Experience using this application.
      - Installing and removing Site Builder
        Site Builder is installed as part of HCL Digital Experience 8.5 CF08 and later installations. See this Content Template Catalog documentation for more information.
        Remove a previous version of Site Builder
        To remove the Site Builder application from the HCL Digital Experience Portal server, run ConfigEngine batch or script files to uninstall the application, then remove its .paa folder and web content library.
        Restoring the original Site Builder Template library
        Restoring the Site Builder Template library to its original state deletes all changes that are made to templates after Site Builder was installed.
      - Deploying Site Builder
        Deploy Site Builder by setting content creator or administrator access to determine who can use Site Builder and which tools they can use.
      - Site development with Site Builder
        Site Builder uses a set of wizards to guide HCL Digital Experience users in creating and customizing a site using Site Builder templates.
      - Exporting Site Builder templates to other servers
        Site Builder administrators can export published Site Builder templates to other HCL Digital Experience Portal servers that run Site Builder.
      - Troubleshooting issues with Site Builder
        Find solutions to problems when you use Site Builder in the latest version of HCL Digital Experience.
  - Themes
    Learn how to use the Theme Manager portlet and the Theme Optimization Analyzer in creating and developing theme web content.
  - Personalization
    Learn how to configure your HCL Digital Experience portal site as an Administrator.
  - Portal administration
    Use the Portal administration portlets that are provided with HCL Digital Experience to do various day-to-day administration tasks.
  - Registration/Edit my profile
    Managing Registration/Edit my Profile is one of the available Administrator-related features in the Practitioner Studio interface.
- HCL Experience API
  This shows developers how to provision, configure, and use the HCL Experience API with the HCL Digital Experience 9.5 platform.
- HCL Content Composer
  The HCL Content Composer delivers simplified processes for creating and managing Digital Experience site content.
- HCL Digital Asset Management
  HCL Digital Asset Management (DAM) adds a central platform to store and include rich media assets in Digital Experience site content to present engaging, consistently branded experiences across digital channels.
- The Woodburn Studio demo site
  The Woodburn Studio is a website that demonstrates the use of some of the popular HCL Digital Experience features.
- Reference
  View information that can help you use our product documentation including terms of use, trademarks, and more.

Installing and removing Site Builder | HCL Digital Experience

Site Builder is installed as part of HCL Digital Experience 8.5 CF08 and later installations. See this Content Template Catalog documentation for more information.

About this task

The Content Template Catalog (CTC) is a set of Web Content Manager assets that accelerate the process of building a website. These assets include a set of Site Builder ready page templates.

Note: In some environments like Red Hat OpenShift, the Config engine is locked and the portal application archive (PAA) install to the virtual portal cannot happen.

The following workarounds may be applied:

Increase the dojo.xhr time-out
In the SystemOut.log, find the entire failed install-paa command. Run that command from the command line after the failure.
- Documentation resource: Dojo and HCL Digital Experience
- Documentation resource: AJAX and Dojo

Refer to the following documentation for removing and restoring Site Builder.