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HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
Administering
Use the administration tools that are provided with the HCL Digital Experience to do various day-to-day administration tasks.
Tagging and rating
Get an overview of the administrative tasks related to tagging and rating.
How tagging and rating works in the portal
Use these topics for general administrative information about tagging and rating in the portal.
Normalizing tags
The portal provides several options for normalizing tags. Normalization is a process of transforming a text fragment, such as a tag, into another, more generic representation. This bundles different spellings or grammatical versions of the same lexical word that users might use as tags, for example color, Color, COLOR, colour, colors, colored.

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.
  - Roadmap: Syndication
    Syndication is the tool that is used to replicate data from a web content library on one server to a web content library on another server. The relationship between a syndicator and a subscriber can be either a one-way or two-way relationship.
  - Portal administration tools
    Learn about the different tools that you can use to administer your portal.
  - Web content administration tools
    HCL Web Content Manager includes tasks and tools to help maintain your content management system. For example, use the member fixer task to resolve renamed or deleted users and user groups. Use the workflow checker and updater tools to modify workflow security settings, reschedule pending actions, and add workflow to items. Web Content Manager also includes tools to assist with library and item management, and item and version history management.
  - Starting and stopping servers
    Various installation and configuration tasks require you to start and stop IBM WebSphere Application Server and the HCL Digital Experience application servers, deployment managers, and node agents.
  - Users and groups
    HCL Digital Experience offers you centralized administration of users and user groups, allowing you to better define users and manage user access rights. Users can register and manage their own account information, or an administrator can provision and manage users. Group memberships can be used to give the required permissions to access an object or perform a request.
  - Managing portlets, portlet applications, and iWidgets
    You must do some preparatory tasks before you make your portlets, portlet applications, or iWidgets available to your users by putting them on portal pages. This preparatory task includes installing, deploying, and configuring portlets, applications, and iWidgets.
  - Administering managed pages
    You can run advanced administration tasks for managed pages, such as generating URLs for projects or working with projects by using scripts, or working with vanity URLs.
  - Manage pages portlets
    Use Manage Pages to create, edit, activate, order, and delete pages and external web pages and labels.
  - Managing theme capabilities
    You can administer the theme module framework. This includes deploying resources that can be cached, configuring capability filters, and disabling the automatic prerequisite loading feature.
  - Managing community pages
    Community associations associate a portal page with a community in HCL Connections.
  - Managing your cluster
    After installing and configuring your clustered environment, you will need to manage the different parts of your cluster to ensure a highly available production environment.
  - Managing your site
    Earlier versions of HCL Digital Experience provided the Resource Manager portlet for performing site management. With Version 8.0 of HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager, this site management functionality has been replaced by the new functionality for managing pages.
  - Tagging and rating
    Get an overview of the administrative tasks related to tagging and rating.
    - Introduction to tagging and rating
      Tagging and rating are features that support collaboration and interaction between users when using Web content.
    - What is new in tagging and rating
      With HCL Portal Version 9.5, the tag and rating widgets have been replaced by new enhanced versions of these widgets.
    - How tagging and rating works in the portal
      Use these topics for general administrative information about tagging and rating in the portal.
      - How public and private tags and ratings work in the portal
        Users can choose between applying a tag or rating as a private or public tag or rating.
      - Tagging and rating with anonymous users
        Anonymous users of the portal can tag and rate portal content, if an administrator adds the anonymous user to the appropriate roles on the virtual resources as described in the topic about Security for tagging and rating.
      - Grouping tags and ratings via resource categorization
        Users apply tags and ratings to resources. Users can tag and rate all resources that can be uniquely identified.
      - Normalizing tags
        The portal provides several options for normalizing tags. Normalization is a process of transforming a text fragment, such as a tag, into another, more generic representation. This bundles different spellings or grammatical versions of the same lexical word that users might use as tags, for example color, Color, COLOR, colour, colors, colored.
      - Type-ahead feature for the deprecated tag widget
        The tag widget from earlier HCL Portal versions provided a type-ahead feature. With the latest version of HCL Portal, that tag widget is deprecated. The type-ahead feature makes it easier for users to find suitable tags. Type-ahead supports users when they work with tags. For example, when users apply tags using the tag widget, or when they search for tags, for example by using the open search functionality, type-ahead provides users suggestions for tags that other users have applied already before. Type-ahead can also help reduce the number of variants of tags.
      - Filtering content for tagging
        You can use filtering mechanisms to control which terms users can use and which terms they cannot use as tags. The portal provides both a blacklist and a whitelist filter.
    - The tagging and rating user interface
      Learn about the user interface that HCL Digital Experience provides for users to work with tags and rating.
    - Tagging and rating for static pages
      Tagging or rating for static pages works only with the dialog widgets of earlier portal versions.
    - Enabling your own custom content for tagging and rating
      Enabling your own custom content for tagging and rating works only with the dialog widgets of earlier portal versions.
    - Federating tags
      HCL Portal allows the federation of remote tagging systems, such as HCL Connections.
    - Configuration reference for tagging and rating
      Developers can customize the tagging and rating user interfaces. The parameter reference lists and explains all available configuration parameters and their values. The topic about CSS provides information about how to change the design of the user interfaces.
    - Security for tagging and rating
      For administering which users can tag and rate content, the portal provides virtual resources for tagging and rating and roles on these virtual resources.
    - Using the XML configuration interface to administer tags and ratings
      You can use the XML configuration interface to manage tagging and rating in the portal. For example, you can move tagspaces and ratings between portal versions or for staging purposes.
    - Hints and tips for tagging and rating
      Learn about some hints and tips that apply to tagging and rating. Some hints and tips might help developers and portal administrators, others might help portal users.
  - Using WebDAV with HCL Portal
    HCL Digital Experience provides a Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) implementation that individual services can use by plugging into. WebDAV is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allows you to collaborate on editing and managing files on remote Web servers.
  - Virtual portals
    View information on how you can scope your HCL Portal to have multiple virtual portals.
  - Language support
    To reach as many users as possible, HCL Digital Experience supports different languages for different locations. For instance, a large, international corporation might address users in different countries or regions through multilingual Web sites. In this context the portal can concurrently serve portal views to large numbers of users, each in the user's preferred language.
  - WSRP services
    By using the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) standard. HCL Digital Experience can provide portlets, applications, and content as WSRP services.
  - Browser behavior and scenarios
    Browser behavior for the back button, bookmarks and history affect user interaction and cause unexpected results.
- 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.
- 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.

Normalizing tags | HCL Digital Experience

The portal provides several options for normalizing tags. Normalization is a process of transforming a text fragment, such as a tag, into another, more generic representation. This bundles different spellings or grammatical versions of the same lexical word that users might use as tags, for example color, Color, COLOR, colour, colors, colored.

The standard normalization algorithm provided by the portal removes all diacritical marks from all letters of words. This documentation refers to the diacritic free morphological variation of a word as the normalized form of the word.

This is important when you consider which tags you want to be aggregated together when they are displayed as part of a tag widget, or, even more important, part of a tag cloud.

You can control the normalization behavior by various configuration parameters. To configure normalization behavior, go to Resources > Resource Environment > Resource Environment > Providers > WP CPConfigurationService > Custom Properties. You configure normalization by using the following parameter in the portal CP Configuration Service resource environment provider in the WebSphere® Integrated Solutions Console:

normalization.displayNormalizedName = (false): This parameter defines whether the normalized tag names are displayed (exposed) in the tag cloud. The default value for this parameter is false.; com.ibm.wps.cp.tagging.normalization.displayNormalizedNames = false
normalization.typeAhead = (normalized): This parameter defines the tag names that the type ahead for tag creation mechanism displays to the user. Valid values are normalized and unnormalized. The default value for this parameter is normalized.
Note: The type-ahead feature works only with the dialog tag widget of the default tagging user interface of portal versions earlier than V 8.5. With HCL Portal V 8.5, the tag and rating widgets of earlier portal versions are deprecated.