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HCL Digital Experience provides an array of features that provides a seamless experience in developing your business sites. These features are agnostic to the deployment methods, hence can work smoothly irrespective of whether your application is deployed on-premises as containerized and non-containerized, on Kubernetes, or on hybrid environments.

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.

  • Building Sites
    Setting up a website includes creating pages, adding navigation, setting up search, and adding content to the site.
  • Blueprint
    Blueprint is a design system aimed at accelerating the implementation of new sites in the HCL DX platform.
  • Mobile
    The HCL Digital Experience platform presents mobile-enabled services support that enables you to deliver consistent, personalized cross-channel experiences quickly.
  • Manage site settings
    Site toolbar and site manager provide quick access to common content author tools as well as a complete view of your site's navigation. Without leaving the context of your website, content authors can create and modify pages and content items, create vanity URLs for promotions, and much more.
  • Nex Haven
    Nex Haven is a website for a fictional company of smart home products that demonstrates the Blueprint design system.
  • 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.
  • Search
    Use the search feature to search for text that is displayed in websites that are created by HCL Web Content Manager and additional web sources integrated to your Digital Experience platform.
  • Search V2
    Search V2 replaces the existing Search feature in HCL Digital Experience (DX). This feature introduces a new search interface along with a new backend service that utilizes OpenSearch to provide a seamless search experience.
  • Search V2 Authoring
    Search V2 Authoring aims to replace the existing Authoring Search feature in HCL Digital Experience (DX). This feature introduces a new search interface along with a new backend service that utilizes OpenSearch to provide a seamless search experience.
  • Site Analytics
    Website analytics applications can be used to track user interactions with online channels. Web analytics integration with digital sites enables content authors, marketers and site managers to view and optimize the effectiveness of DX sites with target audiences and drive continuous improvements to the user experience.
  • Site Builder
    Site Builder is an application that you can use to create site templates or section templates for use with HCL Digital Experience.
  • Social Rendering
    HCL Digital Experience page editors can use social rendering to feature social data that is hosted on a remote HCL Connections server in the context of portal pages.
  • Tagging and Rating
    Tagging and rating feature supports collaboration and interaction between users when using Web content.
  • Themes and Skins
    You can create themes using modules to contribute to separate areas of pages to provide flexibility, enhance the user experience, and maximize performance. To optimize themes on your website, use the theme optimization module framework. The framework separates feature-specific logic and capabilities from the theme code.
  • Virtual Portal
    Virtual portals can be of benefit if you want to serve multiple user groups by separate virtual portals for different purposes, but still want to keep your environment simple and limited to a single HCL HCL Digital Experience (DX) installation. Virtual portals allow a large extent of scoping and separating portal resources, user groups, and administration.

HCLSoftware U learning materials

For an introduction and a demo on how to use the Site Manager for beginners, go to Site Manager. To try it out yourself, refer to Site Manager Lab and corresponding Site Manager Lab Resources.

For an introduction and a demo on how to use the Site Manager for intermediate users, go to Site Manager. To try it out yourself, refer to Site Manager Lab and corresponding Site Manager Lab Resources.

For an introduction and a demo on how to use projects, go to Project. To try it out yourself, refer to Project Lab and corresponding Project Lab Resources.

For an introduction and a demo on how to use Site Builder, go to Site Builder. To try it out yourself, refer to Site Builder Lab and corresponding Site Builder Lab Resources.

For an introduction and demo on how to develop an HCL DX theme, go to Theme Development for Developers (Beginners). You can try it out using the Theme Development Lab and corresponding Theme Development Lab Resources.

To learn how to further develop WebDAV-based DX themes, go to Theme Development for Developers (Intermediate). You can try it out using the Theme Development Lab and corresponding Theme Development Lab Resources.