What's new and changed in SDL Web Experience Optimization 8
- Product renaming
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The product was renamed from SDL SmartTarget to SDL Web Experience Optimization.
- Compatibility with SDL Tridion Sites
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SDL Web Experience Optimization 8 is a compatibility release that makes the product compatible with version 8, Cumulative Update 1 applied, of SDL Tridion Sites (previously SDL Tridion), and makes full use of the two important architectural changes introduced with that release: management of the publishing framework in Topology Manager, and a new RESTful, service-based setup for Content Delivery.
- Regions now managed through Region trigger, not in configuration file
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SDL Web Experience Optimization 8 removes the
Regionssection from the Experience Optimization configuration file, smarttarget_conf.xml, in which it was introduced in SDL SmartTarget 2014. Instead, a Region trigger is automatically created in the Fredhopper trigger types, if not present already. - Publication-independent excluding of Schema Fields
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As of SDL Web 8, in the Experience Optimization configuration, you identify the Schemas whose fields you want to exclude by their Schema ID (say, 255) rather than by their Schema Content Manager URI (say,
tcm:3-255-8). This enables you to exclude the Schema in all Publications in one go, when previously, you would need to explicitly createSchemasections for all URIs.To this end, the
Schemaelement in smarttarget_conf.xml now has anIdattribute instead of aUriattribute. (The oldUriattribute remains supported for backward compatibility reasons, but SDL recommends that existing users migrate to the new attribute.