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Personalization terms

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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Content resources
    Web content resources consist of data that is formatted and displayed on Web pages. Examples include articles, statistics and educational materials.
  • 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.
  • Rules
    Rules are used to define how your Web site interacts with individual and groups of Web site visitors.
  • 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.
  • Rule spot mappings
    For a rule to be used on your Web site, it must be mapped to an existing content spot.
  • Campaigns
    Campaigns are a means of organizing and implementing sets of personalization behavior.
  • Application object
    An application object is a java object existing at a known location in the request context.
  • Request Context
    The Request Context is the interface used to access various attributes for rules.
  • Query framework
    The query framework is an object representation of a query.