Adobe Experience Manager Guides

Registration is now open for Adobe Experience Manager Guides User Conference 2025, now a part of Adobe SUMMIT! Join us in Las Vegas March 16 – 17 to discover how digital-first businesses deliver exceptional experiences with technical documentation and knowledge content.Adobe Experience Manager Guides User Conference                                                                            March 16-17, 2025 | The Venetian Resort, Las VegasHere are the top three reasons why you should attend:Meet your tribe: Connect with the Adobe Experience Manager Guides user community, share your experiences, and hear their success stories.Exclusive preview of innovation: Get a first look at the latest innovations brewing in our labs.Unmatched networking and hospitality: Forge valuable connections with indust

I am able to create a review task for a topic in AEM Guides, cloud. No email is sent to the reviewer that is listed in the project.No email is sent to the owner of the review task. How do I enable this in AEM Cloud?

What are the out-of-the-box audit trail features or capabilities available in AEM Guides and Assets? Specifically, in the context of an audit, what tools or features does Guides or Assets provide to track actions like authoring, editing, publishing and timestamps?  I'm aware that by opening an individual map or topic, I can view the version history to find this information. However, I'm looking for a way to generate a report or  use a feature that consolidates this data without having to open each file individually. Is there an out-of-the-box solution for this in AEM?  Additional context: I'm seeking info on features or capabilities to showcase AEM's out-of-the-box audit capabilities for demonstrating transparency to auditors. Specifically, I want to highlight how AEM can provide detailed info about content changes and user actions for compliance and control purposes. Thank you!

Hey fellas, I am exploring at a project which involves migration from Madcap Flare which is the current documentation platform to AEM Guides.I have not worked on a DITA based migration project before so would appreciate your inputs as to the pitfalls and things to consider. Also, has anyone worked on a migration project for technical documentation to AEM Guides from other CCMS solutions?Any blog reference, link would be highly appreciated! @divrajsingh, @prashantpa, @sschnelbach 

Hi,I have previously posted this question in another community subsection https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/aem-guides-assets-ui-has-nonfunctional-navigation-arrows/m-p/703254#M174024 , but have been advised to post here instead. When viewing a preview for a file in the Assets UI, there are backwards/forwards arrows at the top of the preview that used to allow for browsing through previews of files in a folder. This worked in our on-prem AEM instance but after migrating to cloud, we have noticed the arrows do not do anything in our cloud instances. Have tried it in multiple instances with multiple browsers.Does anyone know how to enable these or whether this is a known bug?We do not have custom code for changing the alignment.Thanks,Robin 

I have an image in the resources folder in AEM called 'warning_triangle.png'.I want to include this using JavaScript.In the temporary files folder, the image is exported to:publish\templates\dita-templates\pdf\PRESET_NAME\warning_triangle.pngThe JavaScript runs on ‘mergedHTML.htm’ which exists at the same level as the publish folder,The only way I can access the image is to give the path to it but this will change dependent on the preset name.If I use:var hazardImage = 'warning_triangle.png';the image is not displayed in the resultant PDF. However if I use:var hazardImage = 'publish\templates\dita-templates\pdf\PRESET_NAME\warning_triangle.png';Is there a more standard way of accessing files in the resource folder without having to specify a path that includes the preset name and will vary?Alternatively, is there a way to access the preset name in the JavaScript so I can dynamically alter the publish path to include the current preset name?

Hello,The AEM publish server is not accessible after the we adding the URL Mappings in the org.apache.sling.jcr.resource.internal.JcrResourceResolverFactoryImpl OSGi configuration. Also the server itself unresponsive after the configuration changes. Verified all the bundles are active.Please suggest.Log statement is below.* [CM Event Dispatcher (Fire ConfigurationEvent: pid=org.apache.sling.jcr.resource.internal.JcrResourceResolverFactoryImpl)] org.apache.sling.servlets.post Service [Apache Sling POST Servlet Operation move,257012, [org.apache.sling.servlets.post.PostOperation]] ServiceEvent REGISTERED 

The "Open in FrameMaker" option in our AEM Guides instance is showing up fine -- and it used to work for me. But lately (I think since upgrading versions of Guides and FrameMaker (to 2020), when I click "OPen in FrameMaker" to open either a .dita file or .ditamap file in FrameMaker, the screen just sort of blinks and then nothing happens. This happens to one of my coworkers as well, but is working properly for a handful of my other coworkers. I've checked that .dita and .ditamap files are set to open in Adobe FrameMaker 2020 by default on my system. I tried to allow pop-ups for our aem production instance. Any other ideas on why the OPen in FrameMaker option is not working for me and how to fix it? Thank you!

Hi All, Can someone provide a link to documentation for modifying PDF output in AEM. I see a lot of answers reference changes to CSS, but I am not sure where and how this all takes place in AEM. I am an AEM newbie. Thanks in advance. -Rick

For the standard note types the language variable text is set successfully so it appears in the prefix-content: <div class="note note" data-attr-type="note"><span class="prefix-content">Note: </span>This is a note of type 'note'</div> But for @14236791=other  @othertype I get: <div class="other note" data-attr-othertype="respiratory-warning" data-attr-type="other"><span class="prefix-content">Other: </span>This is a note of type 'other' with othertype set to respiratory-warning</div> The prefix-content is related to @14236791=other and not @othertype. Is there a way to set the language variable text for each @14236791=other @othertype combination?

Hi everybody,I'm an AEM (Sites and Guides, cloud version) user with a group of companies, with a long history, developing and supporting decades worth of consumer products. I've taken on the responsibility of coming up with a way of classifying all our products, assets, and deliverables throughout history for these companies. The products in particular can be classified according to the parent-child relationships you might find in a DAM's folder structure, such as:BrandFamilyGroupModel...but there's one other aspect I'm having trouble with: these products can vary over their lifespans. For example, a product with the same name might have a modification or internal design improvement that affects its technical documentation, and the service manuals etc. for such products would all need to be available on Sites, whether new or old, so that servicers can search for a product based on its serial number, and get the appropriate documentation, for any vintage of product. In the pas

Problem Statement You are using XML Documentation to author XML/DITA content and one of the publish output is AEM Sites.You want to use an existing AEM Sites template in order to use the pre-designed header/footer (branding, styles etc.) used on your marketing or end user portal (instead of out-of-the-box templates that comes with XML Documentation)For reference, lets take an example of we-retail website (AEM sample site) that has an already defined design. The left picture is an out-of-the-box template from XML Documentation, the right one is same content but using AEM's we-retail editable template.   This article will give details on how you can make use of existing AEM Sites templates to publish DITA/XML content   Some understanding towards the solution In this article: We will demonstrate use of we-retail template - an editable template (see additional resources for more details), so its assumed that your existing template is an editable template or you are aware o

I want to keep the page numbers in the TOC except for what is in Backmatter.I do want the Headings in Backmatter to appear in TOC... but again, not the "...... " and not the page number. How to accomplish this? Something to go into CSS like this? .toc-level-1.back-matter { ?????????}

Hi there! I'm trying to suppress some topics in a map from making it to the Native PDF output. For these topics, I'm using the attribute of print=no. Is there something that I need to set up in a stylesheet to prevent these topics showing up in the PDF? Is conditionalizing the only way to currently accomplish this? Can I utilize deliverytarget for this somehow?I have a similar question with the toc=no attribute. We had previously used this to suppress ToCs in our old system. Is there another method for making this work? Is another Native PDF template without the ToC the way to go? Thanks for your help!Josh

Open in FrameMaker" option exists when a a dita asset is check marked. We don't want that option to be enabled, so we have unchecked this option in configMgr. I have also tried cycling the setting on my instance but it has no impact on the behavior. Do we have any other workaround to get this option disable while marked on dita assets. Including that AEM Guides version has also been updated to 4.6.0.  Thanks in advance! Below are the screengrabs for your reference:  

Using JavaScript I would like to find out what the 'lang' attribute variable is set to. I have used:document.getAttribute('lang').value;document.head.parentNode.getAttribute('lang').value;document.body.parentNode.getAttribute('lang').value;document.querySelector('html').getAttribute('lang').value;without success. Is it possible and if so, how do I get the value? Thanks in advance Tony

Where PDFs will be printed there is a requirement to generate output PDFs with a page count which is a multiple of 4. Is there a way to count and add pages, if required? I know we can run a JavaScript script post pagination  - does this give us access to the page information which would allow us to expand the number of pages, if required?  

My 2 appendices are <topicref>'s in backmatter. <backmatter>     <topicref href="A.dita" type="topic"></topicref>     <topicref href="B.dita" type="topic"></topicref></backmatter> Appendix A      I want the page numbering to show in the footer "A-1, A-2, A-3..." for appendix AAppendix B      and "B-1, B-2, B-3..." for Appendix B. I have page numbers working fine but cannot seem to find a way to add the A or the B as a prefix.Secondly, I will need to restart the page numbering in Appendix B. How to accomplish this?

Hello,I have received an error message for a file. It is AEM cloud, Guides version 2406.Failure message:Process implementation not found: com.adobe.fmdita.postprocess.PostProcessJobInitiatorStep:DXML Asset Post ProcessingFailure Stack:com.adobe.granite.workflow.WorkflowException: Process implementation not found: com.adobe.fmdita.postprocess.PostProcessJobInitiatorat com.adobe.granite.workflow.core.job.HandlerBase.executeProcess(HandlerBase.java:207)at com.adobe.granite.workflow.core.job.JobHandler.process(JobHandler.java:300)at org.apache.sling.event.impl.jobs.JobConsumerManager$JobConsumerWrapper.process(JobConsumerManager.java:543)at org.apache.sling.event.impl.jobs.queues.JobQueueImpl.startJob(JobQueueImpl.java:351)at org.apache.sling.event.impl.jobs.queues.JobQueueImpl.access$100(JobQueueImpl.java:60)at org.apache.sling.event.impl.jobs.queues.JobQueueImpl$1.run(JobQueueImpl.java:287)at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)at java

With existing custom profile configuration,  types are not resolved, which were working fine before. Please share the steps to resolve this issue. 

Hi folks, We are exploring the use cases of AEM Guides - I know we talk about content management via Component Content Management System but can anyone explain how it produces an edge over traditional AEM Sites. Is there any simulation project similar to We Retail or WKND for AEM Guides? thanks,

I do not have mac/linux machine, however I would like to add a custom DITA OT plugin to AEM guides and then generate output using the same.Please let me know the process

After creating a workflow and setting up the deadline for its completing, is there a way to edit the properties of this workflow? We use a custom workflow for approving PDF files that brings up a form wherein we fill in the details and set the due date for its completion. We have a business case where the authors would want to modify the due date after creating and assigning this workflow to the approvers.

This issue pertains to Email / AEM Inbox notifications configurations. Typically, when a review task is created and assigned to a reviewer, the system automatically triggers both Email and AEM Inbox notifications to the reviewers concerned. However, when a review task deadline is approaching near, the system should send the reminder notifications (3, 2,1 weeks before and then 3,2,1 days before) to the review task assignees.  How can we make this happen? Any thoughts? Thanks,K

Hi,I have added the CQ-Action-Scope: ResourceOnly Header to the Dispatcher flush agent to invalidate particular resource. Still all the stat files from root folder are getting touched if I publish any page and the other pages also invalidated as the .stat file is modified. Please find below dispatcher logs. \[Tue May 07 09:54:09 2024] [W] [pid 3682189:tid 139985975879424] No farm matches host 'flush', selected last farm 'publishfarm'[Tue May 07 09:54:09 2024] [I] [pid 3682189:tid 139985975879424] Activation detected: action=Activate [/content/project/techdocs/us/en/testrhcategory/testrhproduct/testrhpage][Tue May 07 09:54:09 2024] [I] [pid 3682189:tid 139985975879424] Touched /mnt/var/www/html/.stat[Tue May 07 09:54:09 2024] [I] [pid 3682189:tid 139985975879424] Touched /mnt/var/www/html/content/.stat[Tue May 07 09:54:09 2024] [I] [pid 3682189:tid 139985975879424] Touched /mnt/var/www/html/content/project/.stat[Tue May 07 09:54:09 2024] [I] [pid 3682189:tid 13998597