How to display web contents for segmented users and for all users in a single Asset Publisher

Issue

• Sometimes it is required to display web contents for segmented users and, at the same time, display web contents for all users (segmented or not).
• For example, we may want to show different web contents for users belonging to different areas such as cities, departments, etc. and, at the same time, we want to show public web contents to all users, such as regional news, corporate communications, etc.
• How can we achieve it? Can we do it in a single Asset Publisher?

Environment

• Liferay DXP 7.3

Resolution

• We can do it using Segments, one Collection and one Asset Publisher.
• This is an example of how to do it:
  1. Create user segments (Seg1, Seg2, etc), according to your needs.
  2. Create a Dynamic Collecion Coll1:
  3. In the Coll1 collection, configure:
     • For Anyone:
       
       • Item type: Web Content Article.
       • Item subtype: Basic Web Content.
       • Add a filter: Contains All of the following Tags > For everyone
       • Press Save.
  4. Add a Personalized Variation for each segment created (Seg1, Seg2, etc) in the Coll1 collection.
     • For each Variation, configure:
       • Item type: Web Content Article.
       • Item subtype: Basic Web Content.
       • Add a filter: Contains Any of the following Tags: For everyone For Seg1.
         The second tag, For Seg1, must be set according to the segment in which each variation has been created:
         • For Segment Variation Seg1, set For Seg1 tag.
         • For segment Variation Seg2, set For Seg2 tag.
         • Etc...
       • Press Save.
  5. Create the web content as follows:
     • Content to be shown to all users:
       Add only the For everyone tag.
     • Content to be shown only to a segment of users:
       Add the tag that corresponds to the user segment, For Seg1 or For Seg2, etc (only one), to each web content.
  6. Add an Asset Publisher to a page and configure:
     • Asset selection: Collection > Coll1.

Additional Information

• Segmentation
• Collections and collection pages