Documentation updates

On this page, you can find a summary of changes made to the Xperience by Kentico documentation.

This list of updates is not directly related to product updates or the introduction of new features (for those, refer to the product Changelog) but rather to the documentation itself: newly created pages, significant changes to existing pages, overhauls of specific sections of the documentation, etc.

December 12, 2024

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the December 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

November 29, 2024

• UPDATED – an overall update of our deployment and hosting-related materials. All mentions of application deployment and hosting outside of Kentico’s SaaS offering are now referred to as private cloud hosting.

November 14, 2024

• ADDED Security advisories – reports about security vulnerabilities affecting Xperience by Kentico.
• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the November 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

October 31, 2024

• ADDED Architecture – new category of guides written for project managers, solution architects, and development team leads.
• ADDED Xperience implementation handbook – new series of guides for project managers and development team leads, focused on high-level considerations for each phase of Xperience development.
• UPDATED Migrate from Kentico Xperience 13 – high-level guides about the migration process from Kentico Xperience 13 to Xperience by Kentico were moved under the new Architecture category.
• UPDATED Content modeling – auxiliary guides about content modeling were moved under the new Architecture category.

October 17, 2024

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the October 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

October 10, 2024

• ADDED Deploy to your private cloud – a how-to guide for developers that goes over a simple, CLI-based deployment processes for hosting your Xperience by Kentico site in Azure Web Apps and IIS.

October 3, 2024

• ADDED Design headless content – new page explaining how to model content for headless channels.
• Migration guides:
  • ADDED Plan your strategy for migrating features – a conceptual guide for developers and tech lead roles, that breaks down migration from Kentico Xperience 13 to Xperience by Kentico by feature.
  • ADDED Prep for migration and transfer data – a new guide for developers discussing how to prepare for a migration and move data from Kentico Xperience 13 to Xperience by Kentico.
  • ADDED Migrate your code and adapt your project – a new guide for developers covering how to migrate code that relates to various Kentico Xperience 13 features and utilize new features from Xperience by Kentico.

September 26, 2024

• ADDED Migration overview – a new training guide providing a high-level overview of the migration process from Kentico 13 to Xperience by Kentico.

September 19, 2024

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the September 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.
• ADDED Filter content with taxonomies and reusable field schemas – a new guide for developers about implementing content filtering with taxonomies and reusable field schemas.

September 12, 2024

• ADDED Administration domain configuration – a new page with best practices on using a dedicated domain to access the Xperience administration.

September 5, 2024

• ADDED Work with reusable field schemas – a new guide for developers about handling content with reusable field schemas in code.

August 29, 2024

• ADDED SaaS configuration – a new documentation page about the configuration of your Xperience applications for deployment to the SaaS environment.

August 22, 2024

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the August 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.
• ADDED Work with taxonomies – a new guide about how to work with taxonomy trees and tags, or how to translate the tags to different languages on Kbank demo site.
• ADDED Developer learning map – first iteration of a map that guides developers through learning Xperience by Kentico.

August 15, 2024

• UPDATED Developer kickstart – updated to follow our recommended practices.
• ADDED Taxonomies – a new guide explains taxonomies to business users.
• ADDED SaaS overview – a new page providing an overview of the Xperience by Kentico SaaS offering.

August 8, 2024

• ADDED Differences between SaaS and private cloud solutions – a new page highlighting the key differences in the approaches used when developing, configuring and deploying projects for SaaS and private cloud.

August 1, 2024

• ADDED New workflow guide – a new guide about using workflows to optimize and align the content approval process with strategic business goals.

July 25, 2024

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the July 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.
• ADDED Two new guides about custom modules – two guides for developers explaining how to work with custom global and channel-specific settings defined using a custom module.
• ADDED New multilingual setup guide – a new guide diving deeper into the theory of languages and the setup of multilingual content.

July 19, 2024

• ADDED Create a basic module to hold custom settings guide – a new guide for developers explaining how to utilize a custom module to implement custom global key-value-based settings that users with sufficient permissions can edit in the Xperience administration.

• ADDED Add channel-specific configuration to a module guide – a new developer guide covering the process of creating channel-specific configurations in the admin UI, with a multi-layered hierarchy of UI pages.

July 11, 2024

• UPDATED Digital marketing guide – reorganized into modules and split into separate pages for each guide.
• UPDATED Customize system providers – updated to include information about implementing info object-specific validation. See Info object validation

July 4, 2024

• ADDED Migration Toolkit – a new page that provides an overview of all tools for migrating data to Xperience by Kentico from older versions or external systems.
• ADDED Add a custom field to the Contact profile guide – a new customization guide showing how to extend contacts with custom fields, and display these fields in the contact management UI.

June 27, 2024

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the June 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

May 16, 2024

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the May 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

April 18, 2024

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the April 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

April 11, 2024

• ADDED Two new guides added to content modeling – guides for developers, business analysts, or solution architects, explaining how to:
  • think about composing a page through Page Builder
  • enable editors with the correct set of Page Builder components
  • model sections with appropriate properties to fit the team’s experience
• ADDED New video about working with sections – shows editors how to work with Page Builder sections.

April 4, 2024

• ADDED Set up custom workflow notifications – new example showing how developers can implement notifications about workflow transitions for various types of content.
• ADDED Two new guides added to the Page Builder series – guides covering the development of widgets:
  • Build a simple call-to-action widget
  • Define an advanced widget

March 28, 2024

• ADDED Quickstart guide series about page builder – five new guides for developers, explaining how to:
  • think about applying Page builder in Xperience by Kentico projects
  • add custom dropdown provider for administration components
  • create and work with versatile templates
  • create and work with flexible sections

March 21, 2024

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the March 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

March 14, 2024

• UPDATED The Pages section in the documentation was renamed to Website content.

March 5, 2024

• UPDATED Customize system providers was updated with information about the IInfoProvider<TInfo> customization pattern.

February 22, 2024

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the February 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

January 25, 2024

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the January 2024 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

January 24, 2024

• ADDED Use abstraction and enterprise-level architecture in Xperience projects – new developer guide discussing abstraction and clean architecture, and how to implement these patterns in Xperience projects.
• UPDATED The Content modeling guide has been updated to include information on how to model email content.

December 14, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the December 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

November 16, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the November 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

October 12, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the October 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.
  • UPDATED Macro-related documentation was consolidated and moved under the Macro expressions chapter.

September 26, 2023

• UPDATED Content modeling guide has been updated to include information about reusable content relevant for the current version.

September 7, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the September 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

August 10, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the August 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

July 13, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the July 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

June 15, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the June 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

May 18, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the May 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

May 4, 2023

• UPDATED Rich text editor plugins – Updated the best practices for creating and registering custom plugins for the Froala rich text editor.

April 20, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the April 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

March 27, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the March 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

March 10, 2023

• ADDED Administration interface UI tests – new page that covers writing E2E UI tests for the administration interface.

March 5, 2023

• ADDED Example - Color selector UI form component – new page with an example UI form component implementation.

February 23, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the January 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.
• UPDATED API documentation – Added a new API section to the documentation, containing general API-related pages. Most of the pages were moved from the Customization section.

February 2, 2023

• UPDATED Object type configuration – page was updated with a new section describing hash table caching configuration for object types.

January 26, 2023

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the January 2023 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

December 9, 2022

• UPDATED Deploying to the SaaS environment – documentation structure and terminology update. A new page, Manage SaaS deployments, contains the procedures from the Xperience Portal page related to the SaaS deployment. The latter now contains Xperience Portal administration procedures only.

November 7, 2022

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the November 2022 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

October 18, 2022

• ADDED Example - Offices management application – a new page that contains step-by-step instructions on how to implement a custom admin UI application using the customization framework and custom object types.

October 6, 2022

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the October 2022 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.
  • UPDATED “Page types” were renamed to “Content types” throughout the documentation.

September 23, 2022

• UPDATED Azure Blob storage – the page discussing Azure Blob storage file system providers and their use in mapping parts of the file system to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage was updated with information related to Xperience cloud deployments. A requirement when developing projects for Xperience Cloud is to map folders with binary data to the blob to ensure persistence. Cloud-ready project templates provide basic support for such mapping as well as more advanced mapping options, both now detailed on this page.

September 9, 2022

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the September 2022 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.

September 1, 2022

• ADDED Business tutorial – added exercises that allow the readers to try the functionality covered by the tutorial.

August 26, 2022

• UPDATED Upgrade from Kentico Xperience 13 – update to include an architecture comparison of the Xperience products and information about the Migration Toolkit.
• UPDATED Editing components in Xperience by Kentico – update of the migration information related to selectors to also include Form Builder components.

August 12, 2022

• ADDED Refresh release – overall update of the documentation corresponding with the August 2022 Refresh release. See the Changelog for details.
• ADDED Business tutorial – an introduction into Xperience by Kentico from the business user’s point of view.

August 7, 2022

• ADDED Model website navigation – best practices for creating website navigation menus in Xperience.

August 3, 2022

• UPDATED Licenses – overall update of the licensing documentation to reflect the current status. The Licenses page merges the former Site licenses and Licensing for Xperience applications pages, and was moved from Website channel management under Installation.

August 2, 2022

• ADDED Administration interface basics – an introduction to working with the Xperience administration interface.

July 1, 2022

The initial documentation release for the Xperience by Kentico adopters program.