This article covers a Bloomreach Experience Manager version 13. There's an updated version available that covers our most recent release.

Open UI Page Tools

This feature is available since version 13.0.0

It is possible to extend the UI of Bloomreach Experience Manager with extra tools for pages in the Channel Manager. Such a page tool is implemented as an Open UI extension. Tools are shown in the right side panel of the Channel Manager inside an iframe. A JavaScript library is available that can be used for communication between the Channel Manager and the page tool.

A page tool can, for example, show extra information about the page that is visible in the Channel Manager.

Read more on how to configure a page tool and how to develop a page tool, and follow the Develop a Custom Page Tool tutorial.

By default page tools are available to users in the webmaster group.

When at least one page tool is configured, a new menu item appears in the Channel Manager: