You can easily preview how a content item appears on the website frontend. While in principle the XperienCentral Editor presents a WYSIWYG view of your content and you are pretty much seeing it as it really is while editing it, the preview function shows you the whole picture of the content item without any sign of the Workspace or other parts of the XperienCentral backend. The preview functionality of XperienCentral works for both published and planned versions of content items. Furthermore, you can make the preview of an unpublished content item temporarily available to a non-XperienCentral user, that is, someone who does not have permission to log in to the backend of your XperienCentral deployment.
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Previewing a Published Content Item
To preview a published content item, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the content item.
- While viewing the content item, expand the Sidebar containing the Properties widget.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Current password | Your current password (masked). You can do nothing further in this field. |
| New Password | To change your password, type a new password in this field. For security reasons, you must create a strong password. XperienCentral enforces a strong password which adheres to one or a combination of the following characteristics:
In addition to the enforced rules specified above, a strong password also adheres to the following:
When you type your new password into the field, the "Password Strength" field will indicate the strength of your password using different colors. The following colors are used to indicate the password's strength:
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| Retype new password | Type your new password in this field in order to verify that it matches what you typed in the "New Password" field. |
| Use XperienCentral time zone | Use the time zone that the XperienCentral server uses for timestamps. |
| Use my own time zone | Select your own time zone. The timestamps that appear for you in XperienCentral will be based on the difference between the time zone that the server on which XperienCentral is installed and running and the time zone you have selected. |
Edit language | Specifies the language to use for the XperienCentral GUI. If you select a different GUI language, you must log out and log back in in order for the change to take effect. This setting is not synchronized with the language version of the website that you are viewing/editing. To select the language version of the website that you want to view/edit, use the Language Widget. |
| Start XperienCentral on page | Defines your personal startup page. Click [Search] to select a page. If no page is selected, the home page will be the startup page. |
After making any changes, click [Apply].
Previewing an Unpublished Content Item
Main Editors, Application Managers, and Developers can display announcements in the login screen of XperienCentral. The announcement displays for all users of the XperienCentral deployment. To add an announcement, enter the text in the "Announcement" field. When you have finished, click [Apply].
The following is an example of an announcement:
