XperienCentral can be used in two different modes: XperienCentral, the base product containing the full set of licensed components and featuring a WYSIWYG rich text editor in the Workspace, and XperienCentral Headless which contains a subset of the full set of licensed components as well as a rich text editor that does not show you a representation of what content items look like when presented on a website frontend.
In XperienCentral, design templates are used to merge the design of a website with the content. The elements on a page, for example, are styled by presentations and are visible as HTML blocks. In XperienCentral Headless, this merging of design and HTML is not performed. Instead, content is delivered in JSON format and no direct styling is performed. To produce the JSON for headless a headless presentation, you must install a special plugin named "headless-integration". This plugin also contains page and element design templates that produce JSON to allow the content to be accessed by external applications. The following presentations are available in this plugin:
- Headless Page
- Headless Download element
- Headless Image element
- Headless Content Overview
- Headless Modular Content Element
- Headless Page Overview element
- Headless Table Element
To support canvas text, ensure that the page and elements on the page use the JSON presentation.
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Installing the XperienCentral Headless Presentation
To install the XperienCentral Headless presentation, follow these step2:
- Navigate to Configuration > Plugins.
- Click [Browse].
- Navigate to the folder containing the Headless presentation (headless-integration.zip).
- Select the archive and then click [Open].
- Click [Apply].
- Refresh XperienCentral Headless in your browser.