SDL Digital Experience Accelerator features
A list of the features included in DXA.
| Feature | Implementation |
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| Web Application | Web Application uses an ASP.NET MVC 5 architecture (and DD4T-based Content Provider) and requires a database as its Content Data Store. |
| BluePrint | The default BluePrint structure is linear and consists of 3 Publications. You can implement your own BluePrint. |
| Security Model | Three Roles are defined: Site Manager, Editor and Developer. |
| Templating | Templating is implemented on the Content Delivery side using ASP.NET Razor Views. Some (.NET) Content Manager based template building blocks are used to publish navigation, configuration and resource data assets and the HTML design assets. |
| HTML design | The HTML design combines the Bootstrap framework with a number of third-party plugins and can be customized/extended on a number of levels. |
| Responsive design | The Example Site is responsive both client-side and server-side, the design changes adapts to the device from which it is viewed. |
| Navigation and sitemap |
The organization of Structure Groups and Pages in the Publication is exposed in the following Web site items:
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| Example Site content | The contents of the site consist of "lorem ipsum" dummy content combined with royalty-free stock images. |
| Image resizing | A single high resolution version of each image is managed and published from the Content Manager. This is resized by the web application to fit the design of the content element where it is displayed, and the display properties of the client device. |
| Multi-language support | The Web site is set up to support multiple languages. Content Manager elements (Schema and template names and so on.) are all in English only. |
| Experience Manager | The majority of pages and content are fully editable in Experience Manager, and the Example Site contains a set of page types to create new content. |
| Site Features | The web application includes:
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| Integration | The Web site allows the following integrations:
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