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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.
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.
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.
Extensions for multilingual sites
The multilingual solution uses a set of extensions that can be used with existing features to author, manage, and publish your multilingual websites.
Publishing synchronization extension
This extension uses projects to ensure that the base item and any draft localized items are published at the same time.

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 9.5
- HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy Content]
- 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 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
    This Online Help is made available in the HCL Digital Experience Help Center for quick references on how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Digital Experience.
  - 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.
    - 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.
    - 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.
      - Framework for multilingual site management
        The framework covers a data model for storing multilingual sites, processes for managing multilingual sites, and a model for delivering multilingual sites to site visitors.
      - Overview of a multilingual site
        A multilingual site consists of content that is localized to support multiple audiences with different languages. Your multilingual site consists of a set of localized and regionalized subsites, including a single base site.
      - Multilingual deployment, installation, and configuration
        Before you use the multilingual solution, you must deploy, install and configure the multilingual solution extensions, and the also update and configure your system.
      - How to use the multilingual solution
        The multilingual solution is used to author, manage, and publish multilingual content.
      - Extensions for multilingual sites
        The multilingual solution uses a set of extensions that can be used with existing features to author, manage, and publish your multilingual websites.
        Installing the multilingual extensions
        The multilingual solution consists of a set of extensions to Web Content Manager that can be used to manage the authoring, workflow, and configuration of your multilingual system.
        Edit-time navigation creation extension
        This extension provides a way to change between localizations of the same item and to create new items in localized libraries.
        Optimizing the performance of the extensions
        How to optimize your system for best performance of the multilingual solution.
        Update notification extension
        This extension uses the settings in the workflow synchronization section of the multilingual configuration file to automate the creation of localized items.
        Publishing synchronization extension
        This extension uses projects to ensure that the base item and any draft localized items are published at the same time.
        Expiry synchronization extension
        This extension ensures that the base item and any published localized items are expired at the same time.
        Deletion synchronization extension
        This extension ensures that the base item and any draft localized items are deleted at the same time.
        Servlet render-time navigation extension
        This extension provides navigation between equivalent published content in different locales from within a presentation template at rendering time.
        Portlet Render-time navigation extensions
        This extension enables the Web Content Viewer to become locale aware and thus automatically switch to an equivalent object based on the current user's locale.
        Domain locale redirection extension
        This extension provides a redirection from the main domain to another locale based on the locale settings of the current user.
        Library copy portlet extension
        This extension is used as part of setting up a new locale by copying an existing library, and assigning it a new name and locale.
        Uninstalling the multilingual solution extensions
        The following steps are required to uninstall the multilingual solution extensions. These must be run on every server on non-clustered systems, or on the primary cluster node.
      - How to export and import WCM library content using DXClient
        The HCL Multilingual Solution (MLS) export and import capability allows you to support translation of the content of a library by exporting it into a format supported by a translation service and importing the translated content back into HCL Digital Experience using the DXClient tool.
    - 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.
  - 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 Digital Experience Help Center including directory conventions, terms of use, trademarks, a glossary, and more.
  - Glossary
    This glossary includes terms and definitions for HCL Digital Experience.
  - Content Template Catalog 4.4
    The Content Template (CTC) is a set of templates that accelerate the process of building a website.

Publishing synchronization extension | HCL Digital Experience Multilingual Solution

This extension uses projects to ensure that the base item and any draft localized items are published at the same time.

To use the project synchronized publishing extension, set syncPublish.useProjects=true in the multilingual configuration file.

Note: Individual workflows can be excluded from using synchronized publishing by specifying their name in the SyncPublish.workflowsToExcludeFromSyncProjectPublishing setting in the multilingual configuration file.

Note: The syncPublish.useProjects and SyncPublish.workflowsToExcludeFromSyncProjectPublishing settings must be the same across all associated multilingual configuration files.

How it works

When an item enters a publish workflow stage the following things happen:

If any draft localized copies of the current item are not in the pending publish state, then nothing happens.
If all draft localized copies of the current item are in the pending publish state, then the current item and its copies are moved to the next workflow stage and a notification sent to relevant locale owners.