Adobe Experience Manager

How to Restore AEM Instances using Journal Log in Adobe Experience Manager? by Blog - NextRow Abstract As an AEM developer, we try multiple things in our local instance and there is a high chance of instances getting corrupted once in a while. Ever wondered how easy it is to restore AEM instances using the journal log? If not, then this blog is for you. This blog describes how to restore our AEM instance to a specific time using the Journal log. The default configuration of the journal theoretically allows for an unlimited number of rotated log-files. Due to some older issues in Oak or some inconsistencies in the repository, a segment can go missing and repository might be inconsistent. Steps to Implement the Journal Log in AEM Usually the journal log file is located under /crx-quickstart/repository/segmentstore and the entries in the journal log have epoch timestamp (Unix timestamp ex: 1592560809149, 1592560959133). 1. Stop the AEM instance. 2. Open the journal log file and copy t

Creating AEM Delta Content Packages using Groovy Script by Blog - NextRow Abstract In today’s world, most of the developers try to find the delta content manually in AEM by checking the timestamp of pages and assets and add these paths in the filers of AEM package. Though its not an incorrect way, but there are high chances of missing some pages or assets doing so. So, we have curated this article to help AEM developers find the pages and assets that has been created/modified during specific given time frame and automates the package creation process. The AEM Groovy Console provides an interface for running Groovy scripts in Adobe Experience Manager. Scripts can be created and executed to manipulate content in the JCR, call OSGi services, or execute adhoc code using the AEM, Sling, or JCR APIs without any interruptions to AEM instance. If you have ever come across a situation where in you need to create delta content packages in AEM instances, then this blog is for you. We are going

A Comprehensive Guide on how to Create Vanity URL in AEM by Blog - NextRow Abstract VANITY URLs IN AEM It’s important to have a short and meaningful URL structure for easy readability and SEO optimization. As an author or a developer, it would be confusing to generate vanity URLs in AEM. In this article, we would be seeing steps to generate vanity URLs. Before we proceed on how to generate vanity URLs, lets first try to understand what Vanity URL is. What is Vanity URL? In simple terms, Vanity URL is a meaningful short form of the long URL. Example: Long URL: https://www.nextrow.com/adobe-experience-manager/aem-implementation-consulting Vanity URL: https://www.nextrow.com/aem-implementation-consulting What are the Advantages of using Vanity URLs? Following are the 4 benefits of using Vanity URLs: 1. Easy to remember and pronounce. 2. Improves SEO: When vanity URLs are used appropriately, it can be a good marketing gold. Choose vanity URLs that compliments your existing marketing

How to Implement Search Components in AEM? by Blog - NextRow Abstract Search is one of the key features for any website. Implementing an efficient search component on a website can considerably improve the experience of visitors. For AEM-powered sites, using Out-of-the-box (OOTB) search component without creating any new indexes has been a challenge. Our main goal here is to leverage OOTB search component and customize it to perform full-text search to enable users to search any word, number, or a sentence including the special characters in AEM website pages as well as DAM Assets. Search functionality shall be customized to different document types including Microsoft office documents and PDFs. How to Implement Search Component in AEM? Following are the 4 steps we consider implementing search component in AEM: We need to overlay the search component from core/wcm/components/search/v1/search Create custom search servlet which uses QueryBuilder API to do full-text search for pages a

Hi, I have a requirement to fetch all the dropdown fields along with associated values from metadata schema in below formatDropdown Name                     Option text                  Option ValueCiti                                               New York                     ny                                                Boston                       bostonGender                                               Male

Adobe Experience Manager Sites Basics Learn how to create rich and engaging customer experiences in Adobe Experience Manager in this 5-part webinar series. We will start with the building blocks of content authoring while introducing you to the fundamental concepts and operations. This will include site admin features and the basics of handling digital assets within AEM. In the later part of the series, discover features that can help you save time and be more efficient by re-using the content and delivering it across channels.           All Sessions: 10:00 am - 11:00 am (PDT) (see schedule below for your local time)   8/18 - Author Beautiful Web Experiences Fast8/25 - Never waste time finding content again9/01 - Manage ever-changing content easily9/08 - Content for ANYWHERE: Making omnichannel experiences a reality9/15 - Go Global with Adobe Experience Manager   Register: https://aemskillbuilder-sites.experienceleague.adobeevents.com

AEM 6550 - Find the Asset Reference in S3 Data Store by Sreekanth Choudry Nalabotu Abstract For debugging purposes if you need the asset S3 unique id for locating it in Cloud Data Store... 1) Install the Package 2) Pass the asset path to script eg. http://localhost:4502/apps/eaem-get-s3-reference/content.html/content/dam/sreek-local/sreek_KBYG_Reservations_Video_V10.mov 3) Using AWS Tools (Cmdlets) for Windows PowerShell locate the blob (stored in flat structure....) Set-AWSCredential -AccessKey MY_S3_ACCESS_KEY -SecretKey MY_LONG_S3_SECRET_KEY -StoreAs experience-aem-profile Set-AWSCredential -ProfileName experience-aem-profile Get-S3Bucket -BucketName experience-aem-bucket Get-S3Object -BucketName experience-aem-bucket -Key c086d8a58a2787f99ef6dffb6fab8c1f2f501604bac16c1eff4c767cd77294fd 4) The script in /apps/eaem-get-s3-reference/eaem-get-s3-reference.jsp to get the S3 reference... <%@ page import="org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils" %> <%@ page import="com.day.c

Detecting Page Zoom In/Out with Adobe Launch by Insights Feed Abstract If you have a text-heavy site, have you wondered whether your site visitors could easily see and read your content across various device types? If so, you may want to track zoom events to determine if visitors are zooming in on text content, which may indicate you need to increase your font sizes, or maybe you want to see if users are zooming out to see all images in a gallery view, or perhaps you are just curious. Zoom event data may help you design your mobile layout to help users better consume your content. There is no out-of-the-box method to detect browser zoom in/zoom out events with Adobe Launch. Thankfully, it’s easy to implement with a bit of custom code that utilizes screen-sized data and session storage. Device Pixel Ratio To track the zoom in/out event, we will monitor the value of window.devicePixelRatio. Based on this value and changes to it, we will determine if the window has been zoomed in or z

Adobe Analytics introduces mobile app by Adobe Blog Abstract There is a common problem that exists in all organizations; Whether it is a large global brand, a specialty retailer, or a government agency, teams are struggling to equip senior leaders with useful data. With limited analyst resources, ad hoc requests cannot be fulfilled in a timely fashion, and teams rely instead on static dashboards with outdated or incomplete data. The lack of actionable insights is more problematic than ever, as organizations deal with a rapidly changing environment that requires fast decision-making. Adobe is introducing a mobile app for Adobe Analytics, to provide a new way for senior leaders to experience the product. Interactive insights, customized to individual needs, are accessible within just a few taps. Users are provided a real-time pulse on what is happening in their business, with an ability to self-service. For analysts, they curate a set of metrics one time and can significantly reduce th

Elastic Search as a Service - Swiftype by AEM Queries & Solutions Abstract Before starting with the setup of the Elastic search as a service we should have our account setup in https://app.swiftype.com/home. We can use Google id or can create with any other email id as well after email confirmation. Advantage of using Elastic Search as Service is that it provides the dashboard to handle all kind of requests and uses most of the latest features on swiftype. To start with, it provides the data indexing using API call and Crawler. Let’s try to understand each of these one by one: 1. API Approach Once the account is created on swiftype, go to the create engine option and select index data using API and create a engine. Engine Name : bookstore (It’s the engine name) DocumentType Name : book (This can be treated as different tabs or columns) We can create the Engine and DocumentType using the POST requests from Postman with following commands as well: curl -XPOST 'https://api.swif

Hi there,  i'm trying to implement a new SAML configuration into our environment. Here you have the situation: 1. There are already 4 sites using SAML authentication working perfectly2. They are using the same service (ADFS)3. A new site needs to be securised and users need to login by using ADFS 4. SAML configuration for 5 sites are using exactly the same cert (trustore), and key store set to the authentication-service. 5. Node protected in new site has been modified to be granite:AuthenticationRequired6. ADFS is showing ok by the saml Authentication Service and users are able to type their credentials An error is shown in browser  Part of SAML response is the next one:  <samlp:Response ID="_74b90e0f-c87e" Version="2.0" IssueInstant="2020-08-11T17:22:10.886Z" Destination="https://new.site.com/saml_login" Consent="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:consent:unspecified" xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol"> <Issuer xmlns=

Restrict Allowed Component Group in Template Policy by AEM Lab - Arun Patidar Abstract In Dynamic/Editable Template, The Component level policy allows to configure various properties. One of the properties for responsivegrid or container or any other container component is to allowe child components inside parsys/responsivegrid, which template author can define. To Allow Components , Template author has to create policy and select components from the Allowed Components list. But Template Author can see all the components group to select and sometimes you just want to enable few components to be allowed, for example, a card container can only have card components. But you cannot restrict template Author to choose from. How to Restrict Groups in the Allowed Components list Unfortunately, there is no OOTB configuration/solution to achieve this. If you want to restrict allowed components then you have to write a custom solution. I am going to explain one of the custom solutions here.

We want to allow our users (non admins) to download expired assets. There is an OOTB assetdownloadserviceImpl (java) that prevents them from doing so since it checks if an asset is expired or not. I have changed this behavior and implemented custom assetdownloadservice. Now the problem is there are two service implementations for the same service and the OOTB service implementation is getting priority over the custom one. I tried to set the service.ranking property to Integer=10000 for the custom implementation to see if that would help, but no luck. If I manually disable the OOTB service component through OSGI system console, my custom implementation gets called. So my question is, is it possible to give priority to custom implementation in any other way than the service.ranking, if not, is it possible to disable the OOTB implementation using configuration or programmatically? Thanks for any help and pointers in advance!!-SKM

Day 12 - AEM Workflows Part I by Red Quark Abstract What’s up fellow AEM devs 👋! After learning OSGi configurations, now is the time to dive into another very important concept in AEM - the good ol’ WORKFLOWS. A workflow is nothing but a way to automate AEM activities by executing some steps in a specific order to achieve the desired results. Each step performs an individual activity such as publishing a page, creating a version of the page, sending an email message etc. For example, the most common activity in AEM is publishing the page from the author instance to the publish instance. But sometimes we want the approval of the changes by some reviewers before publishing. This can be easily achieved by implementing workflows in AEM. There are many workflows provided out of the box in AEM. Apart from those, if we want, we can also define our custom workflows for our specific activities. Workflow Console The workflow console is the centralized location for workflow manageme

Create System User using Runmode with ACS Commons in AEM by AEM Solutions Abstract In order to create a system user using runmode (sling:OsgiConfig) with acs-commons, create a config as below. 1. Create a sling:OsgiConfig under /apps/project-name/config/com.adobe.acs.commons.users.impl.EnsureServiceUser-customServiceUser.xml 2. Add the below code in config file. Once you deploy the code , you can see the system user created in your useradmin with the name you specified in the config file. Note: You can make modifications as needed. Read Full Blog Create System User using Runmode with ACS Commons in AEM Q&A Please use this thread to ask the related questions.

AEM Sling Query : Comprehensive Guide by aemcq5tutorials Abstract Sling Query is basically a Sling resource tree traversal tool created by Apache inspired by the jQuery JavaScript API. Sling Query is very effective when we need to traverse through content tree in AEM. In this tutorial i will try to cover below topic:- 1. Introduction to Sling Query 2. When to Use Sling Query 3. Sling Query vs JCR Query 4. How to include Sling Query in AEM 5. Sling Query Examples Introduction to Sling Query:- As mentioned above AEM Sling Query is a resource traversal tool. In AEM for searching a content it is always recommended to go for traversal using listChildren() or getChildren() or Resource API instead of writing JCR Queries because performing query is always a costly operation as compared with traversal, depending upon the requirement. Sling Query is not an alternative for JCR Queries that we will see below when to use JCR queries and when we should use Sling Query. When to Use Sling Query We

Many times we face problem where some unwanted imports get added in the our program file. It is very annoying and time consuming task to remove those unused imports one by one, to make our code clear and readable.But we do have a shortcut for this, just in a millisecond our Eclipse IDE done this job for us. Eclipse provide a shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + O, this shortcut command will remove all those unused imports from your code file.  To do so, click anywhere in your java file and press CTRL+SHIFT+O. After using this shortcut command Eclipse will remove all the unused import from your java file. Below are the screenshots:Before: After:

We have a requirement in our application where we are building an utility which will only run on AEM author environment. This will search for users by his/her email ID on both author and publish servers. For this we have to connect to publish servers from author environment. I am trying to do it by using the following piece of code on author environment,final String repoUrl = "http://localhost:4503/crx/server"; final javax.jcr.Repository repository = JcrUtils.getRepository(repoUrl); final Session session = repository.login(new javax.jcr.SimpleCredentials("admin", "admin".toCharArray()), "crx.default"); But I am getting error while doing JcrUtils.getRepository(repoUrl) as below,Unable to access a repository with the following settings: org.apache.jackrabbit.repository.uri: http://localhost:4503/crx/server The following RepositoryFactory classes were consulted: Perhaps the repository you are trying to access is not available at the moment..Any help is highly appreciated

Environment: AEM 6.5, SP 6.5.4, MacOs, Chrome 84.0 (On Firefox it showed once, but did not after that).While editing an experience fragment, the controls on the RTE do not show. While in expanded view they do.. what may be the issue?    

[Thread Edited By Adobe] /*Don’t forget to meet and greet your fellow peers virtually by telling them about yourself here.  Go ahead and to it now: https://adobe.ly/3eDnB4v */   Actual Post: Hi, I have a question regarding multivalued property of type granite/ui/components/foundation/form/multifield in AEM.My understanding is that it will always be stored in AEM with String[] Multi Array type for a given node's property, no matter if user provides 1 or greater than 1 property values. But I have observed that some values are getting stored with Single String data type if I provide one value And stored as String[] multi value type in crxde, if I enter more than 1 values. Why AEM does not store all values in unique way? i.e. By setting data type as; String[] multi value, if it's sling:resourceType is defined as multifield. Is it a defect? Thanks.

Dispatcher Caching based on Resource Types by Preeti Bhaya  AbstractCache management in any web content management implementation has been one of the most important aspects driving performance and response times of a website. In this article, my efforts will be to present a rather unconventional approach to control caching and the rationale behind it. Read Full BlogDispatcher Caching based on Resource Types Q&APlease use this thread to ask the related questions.

AEM tips and techniques for building UX/UI — The right way! by Sandeep Pulikallu AbstractDesigners have a distinct role to play in creating UX/UI for AEM projects. Understanding the core capabilities and features of AEM would help in creating designs that can maximize productivity and make the best use of in-built features. How does this article help you? ***Requirements — Establish a common understanding between Functional/AEM/FE/QA ***Productivity — Maximize productivity by avoiding duplication of efforts and making the best use of core capabilities and features ***Cost — Reduced costs, invest time and effort on customizations ***Authoring experience — Offer simplified authoring experience ***Quality — Improve the UI quality of the applicationRead Full Blog AEM tips and techniques for building UX/UI — The right way! Q&APlease use this thread to ask the related questions. 

Sling Feature Flags for continuous integration in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)| Feature Toggles… by Stories by Albin Issac on Medium Abstract Monitoring your AEM instances is the first step in creating a path to continuous service delivery optimization. With the right monitoring toolset and strategy, your team is able to identify trends within your AEM ecosystem and proactively act before they become critical issues. Especially with the use of dashboards, this will provide your team that quick snapshot as well as that 360 view of the overall health of all your AEM instances. Video: https://youtu.be/LYFDQByzmX8 Read Full Blog Sling Feature Flags for continuous integration in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)| Feature Toggles… Q&A Please use this thread to ask the related questions.

Dispatcher Caching based on Resource Types by Preeti Bhaya Abstract Cache management in any web content management implementation has been one of the most important aspects driving performance and response times of a website. In this article, my efforts will be to present a rather unconventional approach to control caching and the rationale behind it. What is dispatcher? Dispatcher is very diverse in itself, in a textbook style definition of dispatcher in context of AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) would be, Dispatcher is Adobe Experience Manager’s caching and/or load balancing tool. It is an HTTP server on top of AEM Publisher (or author), which helps in handling the content rendering more elegantly. Some important functionality it provides are mentioned below - 1. storing (or “caching”) as much of the site content as is possible, 2. load-balancing for better fail-safe coverage, 3. accessing the publisher server as little as possible, 4. adds a layer of security on the server to pre

Setup local dispatcher server | AEM as cloud service by rashid jorvee blog Abstract In this article we are going to learn how to setup AEM cloud service dispatcher server on local machine. Prerequisite: 1. Download the docker from Docker official site for our operating system. >> https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop and install the docker. Note: We need administrator privileged to run this installer, since this docker installer will change some BIOS settings in operating system. 2. Download latest AEM-SDK from Adobe software distribution library. https://experience.adobe.com/#/downloads/content/software-distribution/en/aemcloud.html Read Full Blog Setup local dispatcher server | AEM as cloud service Q&A Please use this thread to ask the related questions.