Site Building
HCL DX enables you to combine applications, content and assets into websites. You can leverage personalization and role based access control to ensure that your users received an experience that is tailored to their needs and to your organization's security policies.
Site Building and Editing
HCL DX provides a flexible set of tools for building and managing websites on the platform. Multiple sites can be hosted on a single deployment, differentiated by either host name or path. Applications, Content and Assets can be shared between those sites.
The Site Toolbar and Site Manager provide quick access to common content author tools as well as a complete view the site’s navigation. Without leaving the context of the website, content authors can create and modify pages and content items, create vanity URLs for promotions, auto-retrieve and adjust SEO tags, and much more. Using the Site Toolbar, content authors and site designers use drag and drop simplicity to design, preview and publish multichannel digital experience sites.
From within the Site Manager, easy access is provided to a customization shelf that contains applications and content that can be added to the page, as well as access to configuration options. The same interface provides access to workflow and project capabilities.
In-line editor capabilities provide content targeting services for site designers and marketing managers to point and click to select target segments for digital site delivery. For example, based on site user mobile device, geo-location, search terms used, interaction patterns, and more, to better engage audiences with relevant and timely information for improved results.
Lastly, our Site Builder tool allows users to create site templates that can be used to accelerate the creation of new sites. This tools walks business users through the process of creating and defining their digital site properties, enabling them to quickly create new sites and add sections using predefined site and section templates.
Branding and Customization
The branding of the site and the customizations available in Site Manager can be completely controlled by your team. A flexible framework allows for developers to create custom branding, page templates, content layout templates and custom extensions via the creation of custom "themes".
The supplied theme template makes it fast and easy to modify the theme through WebDAV, allowing developers to update the theme from their familiar tools and using commonly available HTML5 and CSS3 skills. The theme is build on a modular architecture, and site designers can create themes using different module extensions to contribute to different areas of the page.
HCL DX allows site designers to define profiles to control which modules get loaded. This enables flexibility and performance, and at runtime the platform automatically combines modules to minimize download sizes and optimize performance.
The platform’s included Theme Optimization Analyzer can create validation reports to analyze theme and theme components for known issues and reports the number of errors, warnings and informational messages. It also provides guidance to resolve any errors that occur.
Mobile Access
The platform provides mobile enabled themes, giving site designers out of box support to deliver mobile ready, responsive sites.
HCL DX has built-in device detection capability designed to recognize the mobile device and adapt to layout presentation requirements to render optimally. The device classes included with the product define common properties for the device of a mobile client and can be updated as need. Device detection works with the modular theme framework to dynamically ensure that only relevant theme modules are delivered to mobile devices, optimizing download size.
Mobile preview is built in and provides a real time preview of HCL DX sites on a variety of mobile devices.