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XperienCentral can be used in two different modes: XperienCentral Traditional, the base product containing the full set of licensed components and featuring a WYSIWYG rich text editor in the Workspace, and XperienCentral Headless which contains a subset of the full set of licensed components as well as a rich text editor that does not show you a representation of what content items look like when presented on a website frontend.

In XperienCentral, design templates are used to merge the design of a website with the content. The elements on a page, for example, are styled by presentations and are visible as HTML blocks. In XperienCentral Headless, this merging of design and HTML is not performed. Instead, content is delivered in JSON format and no direct styling is performed. To produce the JSON for headless format a headless presentation is provided, you must install a special plugin  named "headlessHeadless-integrationIntegration Presentation". This plugin also contains page and element design templates that produce JSON to allow the content to be accessed by external applications. The following presentations are available in this plugin:

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To install the XperienCentral Headless presentation, follow these step2steps:

  1. Navigate to Configuration > Plugins.
  2. Click [Browse].
  3. Navigate to the folder containing the Headless presentation (headless-integration.zip or the wmaheadlesspresentation zip).
  4. Select the archive and then click [Open].
  5. Click [Apply].
  6. Refresh XperienCentral Headless in your browser.