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Projects

Projects are used to change a set of items on your site and ensure that they are published together at the same time. A new project has a default workflow that allows content to be reviewed and approved before it is published.

  • Project review state
    If you select at least one approver for a project, the project must be submitted for review before it can be published.
  • Project States
    When you use a project, the project progresses through a series of states.
  • Ways to publish a project
    Publishing a project refreshes the live website with your changes.
  • Project Publishing
    An outline of the process of publishing a project.
  • Drafts and projects
    You can create, update, and approve pages in a draft state, without affecting the published site. When you work with pages, you can edit pages as drafts, manage drafts with approval workflow, and then syndicate to publish changes.
  • Scope of edits
    When you edit pages in a project, you use workflow for approving changes before you publish them until they are approved. If you edit pages without selecting a project, your changes are published immediately.
  • Project Validation
    An outline of the validation process.
  • Projects and syndication
    Projects are included in syndication, the method that is used by HCL Web Content Manager to replicate data from a web content library on a syndicator server to a web content library on a subscriber server. Although projects are syndicated with other items in a library that is being syndicated, you cannot use the subscriber copy of the project to update or publish your project. Work with projects on the syndicator server only.
  • Projects and custom workflow actions
    Each workflow stage contains default actions, but you can also create custom workflow actions by creating a custom workflow plug-in.

  • Prohibiting a page from creating outside of a WCM project using page templates Learn how to prohibit a page from being created outside a WCM project using page templates.

  • Best practices for projects
    Use these tips and guidelines to develop and publish projects more effectively.

HCLSoftware U learning materials

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.

To learn more details on how to develop with HCL Digital Experience (DX) Web Content, go to the Web Content Development lesson in the HCL Digital Experience for Developers (Intermediate) course. You can try it out using the Web Content Development Lab and corresponding Web Content Development Lab Resources.