Experience Definition Features

An experience definition defines a user experience, such as branding style, navigation, and the default home for a user when they log in or when they are in that particular experience definition. The experience definition controls the following:

Whether or not to enable features that let users personalize their own pages, join communities, and browse the Knowledge Directory.
The default headers and footers and the navigation scheme. The headers and footers can be overridden at the community level.

Users are directed to a particular experience definition in two ways (in the following order):

If they satisfy a rule you create in the Experience Rules Manager
If they are stored in a folder that is associated with the experience definition

If neither of the above conditions are met, users experience the default experience definition created at installation.

If you want to have different user experiences for different audiences of unauthenticated users, you might want to create several guest users and assign them different experience definitions. For an example, see the Guest User section of the About Users topic.

You can perform the following actions on this page:

Specify administrative folders you want to associate with this experience definition:

To associate an existing folder, click Add Folder.
To create a new folder, click Create Folder.

Users in the associated folder will see this experience definition only if no other experience rules apply.

When an administrative folder has been associated with an experience definition, the icon representing the folder changes to .

Tip: You might want to store all of the resources needed by a particular audience of users in the same folder in which you store those users. By securing the folder appropriately and applying experience definition settings to it you can create completely separate and discreet user experiences for each audience of users.

To include My Pages in this experience definition, in the Enable column, select My Pages.

You can add mandatory portlets to the users' My Pages. You can also select which portlets initially display on the users’ My Pages using default profiles. For more information on making portlets mandatory, see Security (Portlets). For more information on default profiles, see the Default Profiles section of the About Users topic.
To set the user's first My Page as the home page, in the Home column, select My Pages.

Note: The home page displays when a user logs in or clicks My Home in the portal banner.
To include communities in this experience definition, in the Enable column, select Communities.

Note: Users with appropriate privileges can create communities as well as view them. To learn about communities, see My Communities.
To set a community as the home page, in the Home column, select My Pages, then do one of the following:

To choose a home community from existing communities, click Choose Home Community. Users viewing this experience definition must have at least Read access to the community you choose, or they will receive an error after logging in. As the creator of the experience definition, you might have different access than the users viewing this experience definition.
To create a new home community, click Create Home Community.

To include the Directory in this experience definition, in the Enable column, select Knowledge Directory. This allows users to access portal documents in the folders to which they have access.
To set a Directory folder as the home page, in the Home column, select Knowledge Directory, then do one of the following:

To choose a home folder from existing folders, click Choose Home Folder. Users viewing this experience definition must have at least Read access to the folder you choose, or they will receive an error after logging in. As the creator of the experience definition, you might have different access than the users viewing this experience definition.
To create a new home folder, click Create Home Folder.

By default, objects specified as related to a Directory folder display to users viewing that folder. To hide a type of related object, clear the associated check box under Include these Knowledge Directory Features. For information on relating objects to a folder, see Related Resources.

Notes:

If you do not enable a feature on this page, it may still be available to experience definition users if they search for it, provided they have access rights to that feature.
Only one user experience (My Page, Community, or Knowledge Directory) can be set as the default.

To display the page associated with this help topic:

Click Administration.
Open the Experience Definition Editor:

To create a new experience definition:

Open an administrative folder.
In the Create Object menu, click Experience Definition.

To edit an existing experience definition:

Navigate to the experience definition you want to edit.
Click the experience definition name.