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Software components installed by the Content Manager installer

A list of software components that you can install using the Content Manager installer. By default, the Content Manager installer installs core Content Manager software components, but not nonessential features or legacy features.

Core software components

By default, the installer installs only the SDL Web Content Manager server-side application, which contains the following:
Software componentDescription
Publisher Service

A module that publishes all content from SDL Web Content Manager.

Batch Processor Service

A scalable service for processing multiple items in batch.

Search Indexing Service

A module that indexes content from SDL Web Content Manager.

Workflow Agent Service

A module that executes scripts defined in SDL Web Content Manager workflow processes.

Interfaces
Various user interfaces to SDL Web Content Manager:
  • IISHost: a module that is required for the Core Service, a Web service used for integration of your external application with the Content Manager core.

  • Visio Workflow Server: a server-side module that lets you define workflow processes using SDL Web Workflow Designer.

  • WebDAV Server: a module that lets you access SDL Web Content Manager from any WebDAV-compliant client application or operating system.

  • Monitoring Agent Web Service: a module that provides monitoring of SDL Web Services.

  • Template Builder: an interface for assembling Template Building Blocks together into a Compound Template. Template belongs to the Templating feature.

Monitoring Server

A module that lets you monitor SDL Web Services.

Templating

A Modular Templating Framework that enables you to create C#, .NET assembly, and Dreamweaver Template Building Blocks (TBBs). A TBB performs a modular task.

Search Host Service

A module supporting the outscaling of the Search Index Server so that you can set up a Search Host Master Server for indexing (and optionally search) and any number of SDL Web Search Host Slave Servers, only for search.

User interfaces
Various interfaces to SDL Web Content Manager:
  • Content Manager UI core: core components for browser-based user interfaces.

  • Content Manager Explorer: the browser-based content management interface. You can choose to install or not install its Documentation separately.

  • Experience Manager: the browser-based content authoring interface, which breaks down into:
    • Experience Manager core: core components

    • Experience Manager GUI: user interface components

    • Device Preview: a feature to preview and edit content in Experience Manager as it is displayed in a handheld device such as a mobile, smartphone, or tablet

    • Safeguard: a feature to analyze a Web page in Experience Manager to ensure consistency with branding and standards guidelines

External Content Library

A module for exposing multimedia contained in an external system in SDL Web so that you can use the media in SDL Web-driven Web sites.

Context Expressions

A feature for defining Target Groups by context expressions supplied by integration with SDL CMA, and publishing them to a Presentation Server.

Topology Manager

Topology Manager forms the bridge between the Content Manager and Content Delivery environments. By decoupling the two environments, it becomes easy to swap out environments on either side, and to separate concerns by specific roles in your organization.

Experience Optimization

Experience Optimization integrates SDL Web with SDL Fredhopper so that you can create and manage targeted content for SDL Web-driven Web sites.

Nonessential software components

In addition, you can select the following nonessential features. Note that some of these require their own database and are therefore best installed separately:
Audience Manager
A module for gathering information about Contacts and audiences such as interests, preferences and characteristic. This features breaks down into:
Software componentDescription
Audience Manager Web serviceUsed for importing and exporting Contacts to and from an external system.
Mailer serviceA feature to send out the mailings to the SMTP Gateway server(s).
GUI ExtensionsAdds Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail to the Content Manager Explorer.
Synchronization serviceSynchronizes Contact information and Segments between the Audience Manager database and the Subscription database on the presentation side.
User Generated Content

A module that allows visitors to your Web site to rate your content and leave comments and then manage these ratings and comments.

Translation Manager
A module that allows you to send content stored in the Content Manager of SDL Web for translation to a translation management system. This features breaks down into:
Software componentDescription
CME Translation Manager ExtensionsAdds Translation Manager to the Content Manager Explorer.
Translation Manager ServiceSynchronizes data (translation jobs and items in translations jobs) between the translation management system and Content Manager.

Legacy software components

Finally, the following are legacy features, which you should only install if you are installing on a new machine, but upgrading from an earlier version that uses the legacy feature you select. Legacy features are only selectable in the installer if you run the installer from the command line with LEGACY_VISIBLE=TRUE. The following legacy features exist:
Content Manager Legacy Feature

General software to support old implementations of SDL Web.

SpellChecker

A now-deprecated feature to check the spelling of the textual content of your content items in several languages.

Outbound E-mail
A module for managing e-mail campaigns (Mailings and Distribution Lists). This module breaks down into:
Software componentDescription
Modular Templating SupportPredefined Template Building Blocks that you can use to develop Compound Templates used when sending Mailings.
Script ExtensionA feature to create Page Templates or Component Templates using VBScript or Jscript (supported for backwards compatibility)
Queue Triggered Mailings serviceA feature to handle triggered mailings.
Bounce Processor serviceA feature to keep track of bounced e-mails and to update the mailing statistics by periodically polling a preconfigured POP3 or IMAP mailbox account for bounced e-mails.
Collect Tracking Data serviceA feature to retrieve tracking information from the Tracking database on the presentation side.
Business Connector

Deprecated software to connect to the Content Manager from a third-party application.

Tools & Development (includes Legacy Event System Source Code)

Tools and sample code for developing deprecated features.