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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 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.
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.
Search
You use Portal Search to search for text that is displayed in websites that are created by HCL Web Content Manager.
Language and region support in Portal Search
Depending on your portal environment and your users, you might want to make multilingual content available and searchable in your portal.
Region support and multi-regional sites
Global companies might choose to publish content, and offer products or services specifically for certain regions. While today a language can be detected, there is no technical solution available to detect a region.

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.
  - Overview
    HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences per user.
  - Supported migration paths
    Migration is supported between equivalent offerings. Starting with CF17, additional migration options are supported for HCL Portal server and HCL Web Content Manager offerings.
  - Getting the software
    New and existing users need to sign up or register at HCL Software and download their HCL Digital Experience package.
  - 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.
  - Migrating to WebSphere Application Server V9.0
    If you are installing HCL Digital Experience Version 9.0, migrate your IBM WebSphere Application Server to Version 9.0.
  - 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.
    - Configuration Wizard
      Use the Configuration Wizard to set up stand-alone servers and new deployments, create clusters, migrate and update to new versions, and add new capabilities to existing deployments.
    - Setting up a stand-alone server
      Use the Configuration Wizard to set up a stand-alone server. A stand-alone server is useful for different environments, such as a content authoring environment, test environment, and more.
    - Setting up a cluster
      Use the Configuration Wizard to set up either a dynamic or static horizontal cluster.
    - Tune your environment
      Tuning the servers is important to the performance of your environment. By default, HCL Digital Experience is not tuned for a production environment. Therefore, to ensure optimal performance review and complete the steps in the HCL Digital Experience Tuning Guide. If a tuning guide is not available for the current release, use the tuning guide from the previous product version.
    - Web servers
      HCL Digital Experience uses the internal HTTP transport within IBM WebSphere Application Server to handle requests. However, because WebSphere Application Server also supports the use of an external web server, you can access HCL Portal from your web server. You can use a local web server on the same server as HCL Portal or you can use a remote web server on a different server. A remote web server is typical for a production environment or other high-traffic configuration and is also typically placed in DMZ outside a firewall to protect portal ports.
    - HCL Portal
      First, finish your HCL Digital Experience deployment with the Configuration Wizard. Then, you can configure your environment further. For example, you can tune your servers to improve performance. You can change the default context root.
    - Database Management Systems
      Configure the connection between HCL Digital Experience and your database management system. The Database Transfer configuration option in the Configuration Wizard assigns users and permissions, creates databases, obtains support for database collation, and transfers your database.
    - User registry
      User information is stored in your user registry. You can enable LDAP referrals, configure HCL Digital Experience to use dynamic groups, update your user registry, or delete your user registry configurations.
    - Search
      You use Portal Search to search for text that is displayed in websites that are created by HCL Web Content Manager.
      - Searching pages
        By selecting a search type in Manage Pages, you can quickly locate and work with pages, labels, or URLs.
      - Searching for tagged content
        Users can search the tag space by using the browser search box.
      - Planning and preparing for Portal Search
        Learn about some planning considerations and first steps that you need to apply before working with Portal Search.
      - Indexing web content
        To search for web content, your content must first be indexed by the HCL Portal search engine. When the content is indexed, you can run searches by using the search center or by using a search component. If you search for documents in the HCL Portal search center, be aware that you see search results for published documents only. Unpublished pending changes in a project are not included in the results.
      - Configuring Web Content Manager search options
        You can edit the following search options to manage how the search service works with Web Content Manager search forms
      - Configuring Search Center to search for web content
        You can use the Search Center to search for web content by adding a web content search collection to the Search Center.
      - Language and region support in Portal Search
        Depending on your portal environment and your users, you might want to make multilingual content available and searchable in your portal.
        Configuring search for multilingual sites
        By default, the Search Center uses the preferred language of the user to analyze search terms and to refine the search results. Search results in different languages are not displayed. You can enable users to search for terms in a language other than their preferred language.
        Language support and multilingual sites
        Internet search engines usually take care of language support in terms of language determination and language specific processing.
        Region support and multi-regional sites
        Global companies might choose to publish content, and offer products or services specifically for certain regions. While today a language can be detected, there is no technical solution available to detect a region.
        Enabling region identification in HCL Digital Experience
        You can use geographic targeting tools to associate a URL pattern with a specific region. However not all URL patterns are typically supported.
      - Crawling web content with search seedlists
        Portal Search supports the use of seedlists to make crawling websites and their metadata more efficient and to provide content owners fine-grained control over how content and metadata are crawled. You can configure the portal to use seedlist support when crawling content generated with HCL Web Content Manager.
      - Searching your local portal
        View information on setting up your local portal for your users to search.
      - Configuring your portal site for search by internet search engines
        You can enable your portal site for search by using search services such as Google or Yahoo! Search on your portal site by external search services works for public portal pages only, that is, for pages that users can access without a user ID and password.
      - Enabling anonymous users to search public pages of your portal
        You can enable anonymous users (sometimes also called unauthenticated users) to search public pages of your portal by using the portal Search Center portlet. Search by anonymous users works only on public pages of your portal, as the users are not logged in to your portal.
      - Configuring your custom portal themes to include the search box
        Enable your portal users to use the Portal Search box and Search portlet in your own custom theme.
      - Redirecting search requests from a custom search form to the Search Center
        If you plan to develop a custom search form, you might want to redirect search requests issued by the search form to the Search Center.
      - Remote search service
        You can configure the search portlets for local operation, or you can configure them for remote search service. Depending on your configuration, remote search service might have performance benefits by offloading and balancing system load.
      - Configuring search in a cluster
        HCL Digital Experience provides two distinct search capabilities. You can use both types of search capabilities in a clustered environment.
      - Configuring search in a portal farm
        HCL Digital Experience provides two distinct search capabilities. You can use both types of search capabilities in a portal farm environment.
      - Configuring search collections for a virtual portal
        Configuring JCR search collections for a virtual portal might require additional administration, depending on how you set up the virtual portal.
  - Reference
    View information that can help you use, including directory conventions, terms of use, trademarks, a glossary, and more.
- 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.

Region support and multi-regional sites

Global companies might choose to publish content, and offer products or services specifically for certain regions. While today a language can be detected, there is no technical solution available to detect a region.

In this context you need to distinguish between the various regions; in this context the term 'region' is sometimes used synonymous with 'country'.

As was described for language identification in the topic about language support by Portal Search, Internet search engines also find that location or region specific metadata is not reliable enough to use it for region detection. Consequently crawlers expect the URL to carry region specific information. The most obvious is that the top-level domain name carries the country code and thereby the region information. For example, a domain name such as XYZ-Co.fr or XYZ-Co.co.jp strongly indicates that the company resides or operates either in France or Japan.

If top-level domain names are used, no further action is required to allow region identification of that website. However, for more generic domain names such as .com or .eu, additional steps are required for enablement. In such cases you need to encode the region information in the URL, and pair it with tools provided by Internet search engines, such as Google Webmaster Tools for Geographic Targeting.