Personalizing Site Experience
Liferay DXP comes out of the box with powerful tools to understand and deliver personalized experiences. The first step to delivering a personalized experience is to start with collecting, or segmenting your users. User Segments are dynamically assigned Collections. Instead of manually assigning Users to the Collection, Users are assigned to Segments based on shared attributes or behaviors (see Personalizing Collections for more information).
Segmentation
Using the Segment Builder, you can group similar Users by user profile attributes, behavior, Site Role, and more.
See Creating and Managing a Segment to get started.
User Segments can also be used to assign Roles. See Assigning Roles to User Segments for more information.
Tracking Behavior of User Segments with Liferay Analytics Cloud
Supercharge your Segments by integrating your Liferay DXP instance with Liferay Analytics Cloud. Analytics Cloud integrates DXP with Salesforce(tm) and other data sources to provide even more ways to understand your user base.
Integration with Analytics Cloud provides in-depth, machine-learning powered, data analytics capabilities to help you understand user behavior and engagement for every page of your DXP Site. Analytics Cloud enables you to see user behavior and interaction with both standard and targeted content. See Getting Analytics for User Segments for more information.
Personalization
Once you’ve created User Segments, you can begin tailoring Site experiences specific to a User Segment. Content Page Personalization and Content Set Personalization are two methods you can use to deliver personalized user experiences.
Content Pages
Content Page Personalization dynamically changes the page layout and content based on who is viewing the page. You can create Experiences for any Content Page which provide different text, images, widgets, and even different layouts based on the User Segment criteria of the User viewing the page. See Content Page Personalization for more information.
Collections
Collections organize and display content. Collections Personalization provides a selection of Collections based on User Segments. This means the Content Set that appears in a given context is determined by the User Segment criteria. For example, you could use a Collections to show “featured” articles at the top of a page. Then you could create User Segments containing users who should receive more specialized content, rather than the default. Those Segments would then see content personalized to their interest rather than the default. See Personalizing Collections for more information.
Collections are named Content Sets in Liferay DXP 7.2.
Previewing User Experiences
You can preview the different experiences that users can have on a page by clicking the Simulation button (
) at the top of the page and selecting a User Segment from the Segments selection to preview the page as a member of that User Segment.
Viewing the perspective of a User Segment previews any personalizations for Content Pages or Content Sets for that User Segment.
