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List of Capabilities

The Discovery Service can expose Capabilities: Content Delivery features that run as microservices and can be accessed through the Discovery Endpoint. You configure these Capabilities in the Storage Layer configuration file of the Discovery Service. SDL Web has a number of Capabilities of its own, some core Capabilities, others optional. As for add-on products, consult the documentation for the specific add-on to learn the name and URL of its Capability or Capabilities. Capabilities can have properties and/or service targets.

Core Capabilities

Capability nameAssociated feature
ContentServiceCapabilityContent Service or Session-enabled Content Service
DeployerCapabilityContent Deployer
PreviewWebServiceCapabilityPreview Service
TokenServiceCapabilitySecure Token Service
WebCapabilityNone, general Capability

For the Content Deployer Capability, configure the encoding property to specify, as a string, the encoding on the target machine(s) to which users publish. For example, UTF-8.

If the Content Deployer Capability has multiple destinations, you can configure the multiple service endpoints as a URL in a Urls subsection. If it has a single destination, you configure the destination in the Url attribute.

Optional Capabilities

Only configure these Capabilities if you have installed the corresponding Server Roles as a microservice.

Capability nameAssociated feature
AudienceManagerCapabilityAudience Manager
AudienceManagerSynchronizationCapabilityAudience Manager Contact Synchronization
ContextServiceCapabilityContext Expression Extension
ContextualImageDeliveryCapabilityContextual Image Delivery
UGCCommunityServiceCapabilityUGC Community Service
UGCModerationServiceCapabilityUGC Moderation Service
For a number of these Capabilities, configure the service endpoints as a target in a Targets subsection:
CapabilityName of Targets subsection
AudienceManagerCapabilityAudienceManagerTargets
AudienceManagerSynchronizationCapabilityAudienceManagerSynchronizationTargets
UGCCommunityServiceCapabilityCommunityTargets
UGCModerationServiceCapabilityModerationTargets