What's new with CF08 | HCL Digital Experience

Version 8.5.0.0 CF07 and earlier documentation

Site Manager

Site Manager combines the hierarchy of pages and content items in your site with editing options that content authors can find in the context menu of a page or content item. Experience documentation that is enhanced with animation as you learn about Site Manager.

Note: Refresh the page to play the animation.

• Documentation resource: Exploring site toolbar and Site Manager
• Documentation resource: Customizing Site Manager

New roadmap for setting up the site for content authors

Learn how to start from a design wire frame and end with a new landing page template. Check the roadmap section in future documentation updates for more details on how to develop pieces of the design wire frame. Currently, the roadmaps focus on access control, concepts, and basics of creating a page template.

• Documentation resource: Roadmap: Setting up the site for the content author

Site Builder

Site Builder is an application that you can use to create site templates or section templates for use with older versions of the product.

• Documentation resource: Site Builder

Page mappings with multilingual sites

For portal sites, you can choose to have portal page mappings added automatically as new translations are created.

• Documentation resource: Configuring a multilingual system
• Documentation resource: Creating more multilingual sites
• Documentation resource: Update notification extension

New configuration option for search engine optimization in the Configuration Wizard

Shorten your portal site URL for search engine optimization benefits by modifying the context root and removing navigational state information.

• Documentation resource: Changing the site URL after an installation

Use WebSphere® Application Server Trust association Interceptor (TAI)

Use the SAML TAI provided for the WAS to authenticate to your Portal Server v8.5. You can now also combine this login with existing portal features like transient user support and WSSubject group reuse for AC, as discussed in the detailed documentation.

• Documentation resource: Integrating with IBM WebSphere Application Server TAI authentication

Create managed segments to target content

Create managed segments in your web content library so that you can target content to specific segments of users.

• Documentation resource: Creating segments that display in the Add Segments dialog

Customize the Add Segments view

Customize the Add Segments view so that you see only segments, only managed segments, or both segments and managed segments.

• Documentation resource: Enabling and disabling segments in the Add Segments view

New Theme Manager and Simple Theme

Create and customize a new theme from a template in minutes by using the new Theme Manager. You can also use the new Simple Theme template, which features fluid, responsive design.

• Documentation resource: Theme Manager
• Documentation resource: Simple Theme

The Page Components palette

In CF08, the Content palette was renamed to Page Components palette.