Personalization terms

The concepts and principles for working with Portal Personalization require an understanding of terminology.

1. Resources, resource instances, and resource collections
   Before you can personalize HCL Digital Experience resources, you need to understanding the terms for portal objects stored in the content repository.
2. User resources
   Your site visitors want to quickly access content that meets their needs and interests, which are stored as properties in the user profile data store.
3. Content resources
   Web content resources consist of data that is formatted and displayed on Web pages. Examples include articles, statistics and educational materials.
4. Attribute Based Administration
   Attribute based administration provides a facility to customize the layout of a page for individual authenticated users by using rules to show or hide pages or portlets.
5. Rules
   Rules are used to define how your Web site interacts with individual and groups of Web site visitors.
6. Content spots
   Learn what a content spot is, why it is used and how to personalize content spot for a rule on a Web page.
7. Rule spot mappings
   For a rule to be used on your Web site, it must be mapped to an existing content spot.
8. Campaigns
   Campaigns are a means of organizing and implementing sets of personalization behavior.
9. Application object
   An application object is a java object existing at a known location in the request context.
10. Request Context
    The Request Context is the interface used to access various attributes for rules.
11. Query framework
    The query framework is an object representation of a query.