Environmental DXP badges

I recently released my first Optimizely add-on in a while, that was based on some client feedback on the Optimizely DXP – they wanted to be able to push content from preproduction to production due to their workflow involving content creation taking place in the non-live environment.

Whilst working to make the UI for that tool as clean and helpful as I could - chiseling all the corners and gilding all the lilies, etc. - I ended up putting in a little UI mechanism to allow editors and administrators to see what environment they are in.

Just a little badge, that makes it clear where you are so that you know where your content is coming from...

Having put it into the content transfer tool, I then came across this…

https://feedback.optimizely.com/forums/966081-cms-paas-content-management-system/suggestions/50995978-ui-change-to-distinguish-prod-from-preprod-and-int

…and thought it might actually be nice to also give people who don’t want to copy content between DXP environments the same UI niceties to help them know which environment they’re working in - so it's now standalone, removed from content transfer tool, and working in CMS 12 and 13.

It's mega simple and also completely configurable on a per environment basis, so you're not stuck with integration, preproduction and production if your pipeline uses different terminology - TEST, UAT, LIVE, etc.

You can nuget it over at https://nuget.optimizely.com/packages/mp.dxpenvironmentindicator/ if you're interested.