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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.
Social rendering
HCL Digital Experience page editors can use social rendering to feature social data that is hosted on a remote HCL Connections server in the context of portal pages.
Customizing view definitions for portal site visitors
You can customize social rendering view definitions in a number of ways. For example, you can determine the social data that is shown and the visual appearance of the data. You customize social rendering by working with the social list definition authoring template. For custom view definitions, you can also create your own authoring templates.
Customizing the visual design of your view definitions
You can customize the visual appearance of the markup that your social rendering view definitions generate. The markup generation is controlled by the appearance component that your individual list view definition content items reference.
Customizing the markup generation
You create the visual designs for your social rendering view definitions by using social rendering appearance components. Social rendering appearance components are implemented as HCL Web Content Manager Personalization components. Personalization components that you use with social rendering must wrap a Digital Data Connector (DDC) for HCL Portal selection rule.
Digital Data Connector profiles for social rendering
Starting with Version 8.5, HCL Digital Experience includes a set of Digital Data Connector (DDC) for HCL Portal profiles. You can use them with the social rendering DDC plug-in that is identified by the extension ID ibm.portal.ddc.sr.
OpenSearch support profile
The OpenSearch support profile provides access to information that is defined in the OpenSearch specification. The OpenSearch specification is commonly used in the Atom feed format.

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.
  - Website building blocks
    Unless you are familiar with the HCL Digital Experience and HCL Web Content Manager website model, review the building blocks. Building blocks are the different parts that make up the website framework, such as pages, navigation, themes, content, content libraries, and more.
  - Creating reusable assets
    Use reusable assets to store or generate content that is used in more than one place in your website.
  - Building the website
    Building a website includes creating libraries, pages, and web content. You also create links and navigation to your content, and assign access to different types of users, such as editors and viewers.
  - Authoring tools
    There are multiple ways to create and manage content including using the site toolbar, inline editing, and the authoring portlet.
  - Preparing for content authors
    Before content authors can create content you must prepare your site to be ready for content creation, including preparing the site toolbar, enabling inline editing, and creating templates.
  - Developing and managing content
    Use these tools and processes to develop and manage your website.
  - Delivering web content
    The type of delivery method you use to deliver web content to your viewers depend on the type of content that is being delivered, and the type of viewers your website is intended for.
  - Vanity URLs
    You can associate vanity URLs with portal pages and labels. Vanity URLs are short URLs that people can easily remember. They are shorter than full HCL Portal URLs. They are sometimes also called marketing URLs. You can publish vanity URLs for marketing campaigns through different channels, such as email or print. This way, you can use vanity URLs to direct customers to a specific portal page or content item. Interested site visitors who want to view your campaign can then remember or copy the short vanity URL and type it into the browser address field.
  - Social rendering
    HCL Digital Experience page editors can use social rendering to feature social data that is hosted on a remote HCL Connections server in the context of portal pages.
    - Roadmap: How to work with social rendering
      Before you can use social rendering in your HCL Digital Experience, you need to set up HCL Connections integration. After you do that, your users can start working with the default view definitions that social rendering provides. You might want to configure and customize the social data that is rendered on your portal pages for your site visitors. In this case, you can configure and administer social rendering as required for your portal. You can also customize the view definitions, or create your own custom appearance components.
    - Working with lists of social objects
      You can design lists of social objects in different ways that are related to their content, visual design, and other characteristics. You can also use the HCL Digital Experience Tag Cloud portlet in combination with your lists of social objects, so that your site visitors can navigate social data based on tags. These tasks are usually done by page editors.
    - Configuring global settings for social rendering
      You can apply some global configuration settings to social rendering. These global settings apply to all social lists in your HCL Portal.
    - Administering social lists
      You can administer several aspects of social lists. For example, you can add your own social lists to the content shelf, or you can tune the social object caches for performance.
    - Customizing view definitions for portal site visitors
      You can customize social rendering view definitions in a number of ways. For example, you can determine the social data that is shown and the visual appearance of the data. You customize social rendering by working with the social list definition authoring template. For custom view definitions, you can also create your own authoring templates.
      - Customizing social list definitions by using inline editing
        You can customize your list view definitions by defining the following settings in inline editing mode. List view definitions are represented by content items of the social list definition authoring template. This customization is normally done by a web designer or a page editor.
      - Customizing forum topic details view definitions by using inline editing
        You can customize your forum topics details view definitions by defining the following settings in inline editing mode. Forum topic details are represented by content items of the forum topic details authoring template. This customization is normally done by a web designer or a page editor.
      - Request attributes for changing search queries dynamically
        The definitions of your list views are represented by content items of the Social List Definition authoring template. You can override specific elements of such list view definitions by using the request attributes that are described here. To work with request attributes in your web content, use the RequestAttribute rendering plug-in. Changing a list view definition by using request attributes is a way to modify the content of your lists dynamically, for example based on user input.
      - Customizing the visual design of your view definitions
        You can customize the visual appearance of the markup that your social rendering view definitions generate. The markup generation is controlled by the appearance component that your individual list view definition content items reference.
        Customizing the markup generation
        You create the visual designs for your social rendering view definitions by using social rendering appearance components. Social rendering appearance components are implemented as HCL Web Content Manager Personalization components. Personalization components that you use with social rendering must wrap a Digital Data Connector (DDC) for HCL Portal selection rule.
        Digital Data Connector profiles for social rendering
        Starting with Version 8.5, HCL Digital Experience includes a set of Digital Data Connector (DDC) for HCL Portal profiles. You can use them with the social rendering DDC plug-in that is identified by the extension ID ibm.portal.ddc.sr.
        Blog-related profiles
        These profiles provide access to HCL Connections blog-related feed data for blogs, blogs details, blog posts, and blog post comments.
        Communities and community members profiles
        These profiles provide access to HCL Connections community and community members feed data.
        Forum-related profiles
        These profiles provide access to HCL Connections forum-related feed data for forums, forum topics, and forum topic replies profiles.
        Profiles and profiles connections profiles
        These profiles provide access to HCL Connections profile related feed data.
        Social objects profile
        The social objects profile provides access to HCL Connections social objects feed data.
        Tags profile
        The tags profile provides access to the HCL Connections tags facet that is served by the connections search service.
        Wiki-related profiles
        These profiles provide access to wiki-related feed data for wiki pages, wiki page comments, and wiki page attachments.
        Common profile
        The common profile provides general aspects that are available in various feeds that are served by HCL Connections. You can use the common profile when you create your own custom profiles.
        Modifier support profile
        The modifier support profile provides general modifier aspects. These modifier aspects are available in various feeds that are served by HCL Connections. You can reuse them when you create your own profiles.
        Tag support profile
        The tag support profile provides access to a list of tags that is associated with the social objects served by HCL Connections feed data.
        OpenSearch support profile
        The OpenSearch support profile provides access to information that is defined in the OpenSearch specification. The OpenSearch specification is commonly used in the Atom feed format.
        Using the business card
        You can integrate the business card and online status in a list of social objects by using live text micro format.
        Customizing the CSS styles of social lists
        The lists of social objects rely on the availability of several CSS class definitions in the wp_social_rendering_85 theme module.
      - Creating custom authoring templates for list definitions
        Social rendering provides you a set of view definitions that you can use to add social data to your portal pages. These list view definition content items are created from the social list definition HCL Web Content Manager authoring template. You can create your own custom list view definitions by creating new content items from this authoring template. To customize social rendering even further, you can also create your own authoring templates to extend the data set that makes up your list view definitions.
      - Implementing interactions with social objects
        Site designers can implement design components that support interactions between the user and the social data. For example, a user can post a new reply to a forum topic or delete a previous reply.
    - Adding widgets to a community
      As an owner of an HCL Connections community, you can define the set of widgets that are available in the community. For this purpose, you use the Customize option in HCL Connections. For example, you might choose to add the Blog widget to a specific community. This way, community owners have control over the set of services available in the communities they own.
    - Extending social lists by using the digital data connector
      The social rendering feature in HCL Digital Experience 8.5 is implemented as an Digital Data Connector (DDC) for HCL Portal plug-in.
  - Setting up marketing campaigns
    Use these tools and features to setup marketing campaigns for your website.
  - HCL Web Content Manager Multilingual Solution
    The HCL Web Content Manager Multilingual Solution is a set of tools that are used to manage translated versions of localized and regionalized websites.
  - Syndicated Feed Portlet
    The Syndicated Feed Portlet for HCL Digital Experience offers enhanced feed subscription and presentation capabilities.
- 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.
- 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.

OpenSearch support profile | HCL Digital Experience

The OpenSearch support profile provides access to information that is defined in the OpenSearch specification. The OpenSearch specification is commonly used in the Atom feed format.

Specifically, this profile supports list properties that are required to make paging possible. Paging becomes necessary if the backend service does not return all available data records in a single feed and provides links for retrieving the next page of data records.

The OpenSearch support profile declares the following attribute names:

Total Number of Items
totalNumberOfItems: This list property specifies the total number of items that were found for this search.
Requested Number of Items
requestedNumberOfItems: This list property specifies the requested number of items for this search.
Start Index
startIndex: This list property specifies the start index for the paged list of items.
Raw first URL
rawFirstLink: This list property specifies the HCL Connections URL of the first page of items that were found for this search.
Raw next URL
rawNextLink: This list property specifies the HCL Connections URL of the next page of items that were found for this search.
Raw previous URL
rawPreviousLink: This list property specifies the HCL Connections URL of the previous page of items that were found for this search.
Raw last URL
rawLastLink: This list property specifies the HCL Connections URL of the last page of items that are found for this search.
Is truncated
isTruncated: If the list that represents a search result is truncated, this list property returns the string true. Otherwise, it returns false.