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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 9.5 [Legacy content]
Container-only features
Learn about features available for your container platform deployments.
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]
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).
Uninstall Digital Experience - Traditional deployment
Uninstalling the Digital Experience software is a multiple-step process and the method you use is dependent upon your configuration. Removing HCL Portal in a single-server configuration is different from removing HCL Portal from a cluster. Manual uninstallation instructions are provided for a single-server configuration in case of an error situation.
Creating your website
Review the following topics to understand how to create your website using the latest HCL Digital Experience.
Digital Experience on non-containerized platforms
Learn how to deploy HCL Digital Experience as a non-containerized application and optimize web content and applications to deliver differentiated, personalized experiences for your customers.
Digital Experience on containerized platforms
Learn how to deploy HCL Digital Experience as a cloud-native platform and optimize business-critical digital experiences for your customers.
Digital Experience application deployment
This section outlines features and functionality delivered as part of continuous integration and continuous delivery for HCL Digital Experience.
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.
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.
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.
Container-only features
Learn about features available for your container platform deployments.
Design Studio (Beta)
Design Studio (Beta) enables content managers and designers to build and style digital properties quickly without coding.
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.
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.
The Woodburn Studio demo site
The Woodburn Studio is a website that demonstrates the use of some of the popular HCL Digital Experience features.
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 our product documentation including terms of use, trademarks, and more.
Glossary
This glossary includes terms and definitions for HCL Digital Experience.
HCL Digital Experience 9.0
HCL Digital Experience 8.5
Container-only features
Learn about features available for your container platform deployments.
Design Studio (Beta) | HCL Digital Experience
Design Studio (Beta) enables content managers and designers to build and style digital properties quickly without coding.
HCL Content Composer | HCL Digital Experience
The HCL Content Composer delivers simplified processes for creating and managing Digital Experience site content.
HCL Digital Asset Management | HCL Digital Experience
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.
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