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HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
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.
Web content
Learn more about managing libraries, creating, editing or cleaning up data, and setting up syndication for HCL Digital Experience web content management.
Authoring portlet
Learn how to customize web content for your HCL Digital Experience using the authoring portlet.

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.
- 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.
  - Working with Practitioner Studio
    Learn how to enable, configure and disable Practitioner Studio on the latest version of HCL Digital Experience.
  - Web content
    Learn more about managing libraries, creating, editing or cleaning up data, and setting up syndication for HCL Digital Experience web content management.
    - Authoring portlet
      Learn how to customize web content for your HCL Digital Experience using the authoring portlet.
      - Custom portal pages for authoring
        You can create a new HCL Digital Experience portal page to act as the home page of your authoring system.
      - Authoring system access strategies
        The roles that you assign each library on your authoring system determines what views and features in an authoring portlet are accessible to your users.
      - Custom authoring interfaces
        You can use the Web Content Manager API and remote action parameters to create customized authoring interfaces specifically for your content creators.
    - Previewing content on web content pages
      When working with content in the authoring portlet, you can preview content items in a portal environment as part of a web content page.
    - Managing web content libraries
      As an administrator you need to periodically assist content managers with library maintenance, such as disabling or deleting a library.
    - How to manage syndicators and subscribers
    - Web content feed management
      To access a feed you created on your source server, you must create a feed configuration.
  - Site templates
    Site templates are configured and managed using Site Builder. If you choose not to enable Practitioner Studio, you can still manage Site Templates using the Application navigation menu in the toolbar.
  - Themes
    Learn how to use the Theme Manager portlet and the Theme Optimization Analyzer in creating and developing theme web content.
  - Personalization
    Learn how to configure your HCL Digital Experience portal site as an Administrator.
  - Portal administration
    Use the Portal administration portlets that are provided with HCL Digital Experience to do various day-to-day administration tasks.
  - Registration/Edit my profile
    Managing Registration/Edit my Profile is one of the available Administrator-related features in the Practitioner Studio interface.
- 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.

Authoring portlet | HCL Digital Experience

Learn how to customize web content for your HCL Digital Experience using the authoring portlet.

Overview

The authoring portlet is another interface that can be used by content authors, site administrators, and site developers. From the authoring portlet, content authors use forms, called authoring templates, to add content to the website. You can use to customize the Web Content Manager user interface to simplify the content authoring process for your content creators.