Custom column in the AEMaaCS search list view

Question

I have a requirement to add a custom column to the list view along with the other OOTB fields in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Cloud instance. Could anyone guide me on how to achieve this?

I want to add a column with header Content-Type that will fetch the value from jcr:content/metadata/content-type.

I could achieve this with the reorder.jsp file pointed here: https://experience-aem.blogspot.com/2019/10/aem-6520-aem-assets-add-custom-metadata-columns-in-assets-console-list-view.html but this does not work in AEM Cloud.

Again, this URL also explains in another way : https://experience-aem.blogspot.com/2019/08/aem-6510-adding-custom-metadata-columns-in-list-view-of-assets-search-console.html but again this conflicts with OOTB behavior and breaks the search functionality in AEMaaCS.

Any concrete solution that works on cloud?

avesh_narang · Answer

AEM Assets list view columns are controlled by:

/libs/dam/gui/content/commons/availablecolumns

To add your own column:

Overlay the node into /apps
Define a new column configuration
Bind it to the metadata property path

Here is the Step by Step Implementation :

Overlay the available columns node , and reate the following structure in your project:

/apps/dam/gui/content/commons/availablecolumns

Copy the node structure and paste as is in Step 1 location
```
/libs/dam/gui/content/commons/availablecolumns
```

Create a new node under availablecolumns, for example content-type

Add Properties to the node “content-type”


<content-type
    jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
    jcr:title="Content-Type"
    value="jcr:content/metadata/content-type"
    sortable="{Boolean}true"
    default="{Boolean}false"/>

5. After deploymemnt , changes should reflect .

Hope this helps , Thanks

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