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Key Features and Benefits
HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update and CF 218 (All Versions)
- Site Manager - Resizable navigation panel – Site designers can now customize the size of the side toolbar
- Digital Asset Management - - Uploading bulk assets with drag-and-drop. Site designers and authors can speed asset upload and referential integrity with new ease of use capability to drag and drop multiple files and folders to the DAM repository, while preserving the hierarchy of nested folders.
- Web Content Manager REST API v2 - New Component APIS supporting Authoring Tools and Library list functions giving developers greater customization flexibility are now available in the Swagger Explorer
- HCL DX Content Adapter for WCM V2 – Developers can apply new flexibility to deliver custom solutions with HCL Volt Foundry connectors and services by using the DX Content Adapter with Foundry pre-defined request and response schemas.
- DX Search- Best practices guidance topics Configuring DX Search and Improving Search Quality are now available in the DX Help Center
Digital Experience 9.5 Version
- Web Content Manager - New filters for user and groups search – Content Managers can now filter items owned and authored by users and groups when generating a report or for search and update functions
HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update and CF 218 (K8s deployments)
Digital Experience 9.5 Container Version
- DX K8s Deployments User session tracking and reporting – Administrators can refine capacity planning with new ability to configure user session tracking, view and export the number of sessions used in specified time periods.
- DX K8s Deployments – New “Blue – Green” HA Deployment guidance – Administrators can leverage the latest best practices High Availability recommendations for existing or new deployments.
HCL DX Content Adapter is published in the Volt MX Marketplace - Custom Data Adapters are used in HCL Volt MX Foundry to integrate external services. These adapters act as reusable services with a defined set of operations. With this new DX Content Adapter, you can access the DX Experience APIs easily and can create services in HCL Volt MX Foundry with predefined request and response schemas https://marketplace.hclvoltmx.com/items/hcl-dx-content-adapter
Digital Experience Early Access Program
HCL DX Early Access Program. The goal of the HCL Digital Experience Early Access Program is for the community of participants to conduct review and testing of new components introduced for use with the HCL Digital Experience 9.5 software. Milestone 2 updates the Open Liberty portlet container. Benefits of this portlet container based on Open Liberty include:
- Use of later JDK and J2EE levels
- Faster start and performance
- Applications that are easier to write, can leverage open software, and work well for cloud native deployments
To get started, refer to the Early Access section of the HCL Digital Experience Help Center. for an overview and architecture, pre-requisites, how to download the software, and Q&A discussion forum with HCL DX team leads, and testing guidance in non-production DX environments
Learn more and view the latest features in action (less than 6 minutes)! with the Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update & CF 218 Education Module in the Digital Experience, What’s New course section of the HCL Software U.
HCL Digital Experience Kubernetes Accelerator - New offering
- HCL Digital Experience Accelerator provides best practices services to help customers get deployed quickly with the DX 9.5 Cloud Native features. This offering includes an assessment of the current DX environment and desired end state including target K8s platform. The assessment report details a customized migration approach, identified risks, migration strategies, and target platform sizing recommendations. Also included are 3 days of training and enablement, and 80 hours of mentoring and technical guidance during the DX migration and Cloud Native K8s deployment.
Contact HCL for more information and to get started: HCL Digital Experience Accelerator and Upgrades
How to Upgrade to DX 9.5 - November 2023. Dive into the upgrade process with us, get specific advice, technical insight, and upgrade paths for your multiple scenarios and business needs. Access the virtual session & Q&A here
Visit the HCL Digital Experience YouTube channel which is continuously updated with video demos that show new features and capabilities: HCL Digital Experience - YouTube
The HCL DX Aha Ideas Portal is open for you to submit your priority DX requirements at https://www.hcl-software.com/resources/submit-idea