The HCL Web Content Integrator is a solution for integrating externally managed web
content with HCL Portal. By using standard content syndication feed technologies based on RSS
2.0, the Web Content Integrator provides a loosely coupled mechanism for transferring published
content and metadata to the portal after they are approved in the source system. When the
content and metadata are transferred to the portal, it is possible to use the built-in content
management features of Web Content Manager to secure, personalize, and display the content to
users.
To use the
Web Content Integrator you
must:
- Create a feed on your source system by using the Web Content Integrator feed format specification.
- Configure HCL Portal to
consume the feed.
Feed format specification
RSS, or Really Simple
Syndication, is an XML-based format that is widely used for syndicating
content from sources such as websites and blogs to readers who are
subscribed to the feeds. The input to the Web Content Integrator is a content feed
that complies with the RSS 2.0 format. The core feed format is relatively
simple, with only a limited number of elements that need to be specified
for each item in the feed. However, the RSS 2.0 specification allows
the base format to be extended by using XML namespaces to support
extra functions. To enable a deeper level of control over how items
are created in Web Content Manager,
an RSS extension is defined which contains elements that map to many
of the attributes of the Web Content Manager object model.