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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 format a headless presentation is provided, you You must install a special plugin plugin named "Headless-Integration Presentation". This plugin 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 support canvas text, ensure that the page and elements on the page use the JSON presentation.
When a an XperienCentral Headless only platform is purchased, a special license file is used. The Headless presentation plugin is not bound to a XperienCentral mode , - it can also be used on a with an XperienCentral Traditional installation and is not XperienCentral Headless only licensed.
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