Publisher’s Dashboard is a new fully-featured user interface for content syndication. It provides many useful widgets and dashboards that help you to:
Provide insights into the syndication process
Review the current status of syndicated entities
Confirm site health information
Grant access to Content Hub Service logs
Install Content Hub 3.0 in your Drupal application’s composer.json.
Remove the current acquia_contenthub pinning from your Drupal site’s composer.json.
Add the following line to the require
section in composer.json:
composer require drupal/acquia_contenthub:^3.0
Clear the Drupal cache.
Enable acquia_contenthub_dashboard on the publisher or subscriber site.
The publisher site has access to all the features whereas the subscriber site has access only to the Content page on Publisher’s Dashboard.
Configure relevant roles and permissions to use Publisher’s Dashboard.
The system displays a new menu item named Acquia ContentHub Dashboard in the top menu, leading you to Publisher’s Dashboard.
Publisher’s Dashboard includes the following components:
This user interface provides information about syndication metrics, site health, average response times, and logs.
This widget displays all the sites that are connected to a particular Content Hub subscription account. For example, the following is the health status of four sites connected to Content Hub:
Three sites are online and healthy
One site is registered but not in use
You can hover over any of the sites to view the Content Hub module version and Drupal version installed on the site, and check if they are outdated.
This widget displays the average time elapsed for all the APIs in the Content Hub service for a given period.
This widget displays the recent seven event logs in the centralized logs repository to provide information about the activities occurring in the Content Hub service.
This page displays the content exported from the publisher site to Content Hub. It also provides options to filter and import the content. By default, this page displays the content in List View. However, you can also view the content in Card View by clicking the Card View icon in the top right of the page.
The Content page provides options to dynamically filter the content, save cloud filters, assign webhooks to cloud filters, and manage saved filters.
To filter the content, use any of the following filters based on your requirement:
To filter the content by entity type, click TYPE.
To filter the content by bundle, click BUNDLE.
To filter the content by publisher site’s source, click SOURCE.
By default, the current publisher site is preselected.
To filter the content by last updated date, click LAST UPDATED.
To sort the content by title, type the content title in the text search box.
Filter the content by using filters.
Click the Save icon.
Click Save As New Filter.
In the Save Filter As dialog box:
In Name, enter a name for the filter.
(Optional) To assign webhooks to the filter for automatic syndication, select the Enable Automatic Syndication checkbox and select one or more webhooks in Assign to Site(s).
Next time, an entity matching this filter criteria will automatically be added to the import queue of the selected sites.
Click Save Filter.
Click the Saved Filters drop-down menu.
Click any of the saved filters.
The system displays the content according to the filter criteria.
Edit the filter based on your requirement:
To change the filter criteria, add or remove any filters.
To edit the site assignment for the filter, click Edit Site Assignment and make the required changes in Assign to Site(s).
To delete the filter, click the Delete icon.
The Content page also provides an option to manually import the content to the subscriber sites.
Select the checkbox for one or more entities that you want to import.
Click Import to Site.
The system displays the Import Content to Sites dialog box.
In Import to Site(s), select the currently available subscriber site webhooks.
Click Import.
This page displays the following information about each site connected to Content Hub:
Source URL of the site
Content Hub module version installed on the site
Drupal version installed on the site
Whether the site has a valid SSL certificate
The last time the site connected to Content Hub
Similar to the Content page, this page also provides options to:
Sort and filter the sites
Search a site with its source url
Change from List View to Card View
This page displays the logs of activities occurring in the Content Hub service for this subscription. This centralized log service creates logs for any activities such as:
Creation of filters
Export of entities from the publisher site
Import of entities into subscriber sites
Indexing of entities
Creation or deletion of webhooks
These logs help to easily access the activity and troubleshoot any errors. This page shows the logs from the last 30 days. You can sort and filter logs by type, description, severity, and date/time. This page acts as a self-service tool to find information about errors that arise in your Content Hub subscription.