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Welcome our new app: the Content Dashboard
Hi, Liferay!
I want to introduce you to the new Content Dashboard that we added back in the 7.3 GA4 release. We’ve kept working on it ‘til the very end of the GA6 and it’s grown up a lot!! Also last week at the dev/24 we had the opportunity to see how some members of the Community (thanks @Sébastien Le Marchand) are already extending its capabilities, so we can’t be happier. Be sure that we will keep working on some of the proposed improvements!
In the meantime, we are keen to hear your feedback and want to encourage you to try Content Dashboard out and tell us what you think!
The Content Dashboard is a new global application that helps users to manage their content. It aims to be a one-stop-place where content authors and marketers will be able to access all the contents generated by them or other users, not only for a given site, but for all the sites in a Liferay instance. It includes also a tool for auditing web content categorized under global vocabularies, and cool metrics on content performance.
We thought of the content dashboard for covering mainly three use cases:
That’s why:
By now the Content Dashboard includes only web content, but as we extend asset analytics capabilities, also documents and media might be featured.
The all-content view in the main section is a table with relevant information on each of the featured web contents, such as title, author or subtype, among others. As we’ve said earlier, it is possible to search by title, filter by multiple fields and order by title and modified date.
Depending on the permissions of the user, it is also allowed to perform different actions with the web content in each row of the table, such as viewing, editing, or getting the content’s full details on a side panel.
The Content Audit Tool in the top section contains a graph that calculates the number of existing assets for each combination of categories in the featured global vocabularies (we’ve also made some changes there… Please check this video for further information). The graph can be configured so users can select which vocabularies to display and audit the content they need.
A Content audit is the way that content teams have to assess their content strategy execution. They run content audits on a regular basis and review all content generated according to the topic, audience and funnel stage at which it is targeted. This way they’re able to spot gaps, identify areas of interest and learn from the best performing content.
With our Content Audit Tool, content teams are able to run content audits whenever they need to.
To see contents represented in the graph, the first thing to be done is to add some categories to the OOTB Global Vocabularies, and then assign them to the web contents. You can also create your own Global Vocabularies or edit the existing ones, but be aware that just Global Vocabularies can be selected on the graph configuration.
Once you have the web content with Global categories assigned to it, the graph will show by default the Audience and Stage categories. It can be changed at any moment by clicking on Configuration on the top right of the page. Also, you can change the vocabulary displayed in each of the axes by ordering the selected vocabularies. You can watch this video to learn more.
This way content teams can run quantitative content audits in order to understand how many contents they have for each one of their defined audiences, stages, or topics (or whichever vocabularies they’ve created to categorize their contents) and assess their content strategy execution to fill in gaps or search for areas of improvement.
But the other part of content audits is evaluating the performance of contents. Ideally it is done by groups of assets - be it by category, asset type or author. We didn’t get so far for the 7.3, but we did include content performance metrics in the Content Dashboard. The new Content Performance Panel showing in display pages is also accessible from here by clicking on the Metrics option on those web contents with an associated display page. DXP has to be connected and synced to AC in order to see the metrics.
You can access the content dashboard through Applications Menu > Applications tab.
Thanks for all the work to Tango Team, Echo Team, Lima Team, Angelo Youn and Miriam Manso!