Enhanced Content Testing and Whatfix Player Extension

Overview

The introduction of Whatfix Player Extension and enhanced environment mapping greatly simplifies content testing and extension management. You have greater control over what content you want to preview and in which application environment. By introducing an extension that consolidates multiple previous extensions along with preview functionalities, we are simplifying the testing landscape. This ensures that the testing process is simple and easy to adopt while streamlining processes and reduce reliance on IT administrators for extension deployment.

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The enhanced application environment configuration and Whatfix Player Extension are beta features and available only for Browser Extension mode of delivery. To enable these features, contact support@whatfix.com.

Configure Application Environment

Whatfix offers env configuration setup that allows you to define application environments using a variety of application attributes such as URLs, CSS Selectors, Window variables and more. ensuring accurate env resolution and preventing conflicts that are frequent in multi application deployments.

It also offers the capability to map CLM stages to the environments that dictates the content display rules for environments.

Enterprise organizations often need consistent workflows to test updates across various environments. By enhancing our environment configuration mechanism on the Whatfix dashboard, you can now map application attributes to content stages with precision. This configuration ensures accurate resolution of environments and avoids conflicts caused by overlapping definitions.

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For multi-ENT organizations, resolution varies by delivery method.

For more information, refer to How to configure environments and map stages?

Whatfix Player Extension

Whatfix introduces Player Extension which consolidates the capabilities of preview, dev extension and production extension into a single super extension.

Play extension consumes the application env configuration data and displays content as per the CLM stage mapping defined in the environment thereby satisfying the needs of both testers (preview non production content) and end users (view production content)

Whatfix Studio's preview mode experience has changed. Preview mode will now provide an option to override the CLM stage mapping as defined in the application env configurations to facilitate testing on applications that do not have lower environments.

How to use Preview mode to test content?

Once you have Unified Play Extension installed, use the Whatfix Preview mode to review and see how your content and widgets appear on your application or website.

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When you select the content stage that you want to preview on Studio, Whatfix overrides the environment configuration that is setup in the Whatfix Guidance Dashboard.

Use the following steps to use preview mode on Whatfix Studio:

1. Log in to your application and then launch Whatfix Studio.
   
   

2. Click Preview Mode.
   
   

3. Expand the Select stages dropdown.
   

4. Select the stages option that you want to preview content in.
   

5. Click Continue.
   

6. Refresh your browser to preview content.