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Running AEM 6.5 with JDK 11? by Asutosh Jena Abstract While running AEM 6.5 with Java 11 we ran into several issues especially with environment stability. This post outlines some of the items we all need to be aware of and address when using Java 11 with AEM 6.5 The Java Common Annotations module was removed from Java 11, so you need to add javax.annotation-api as a dependency. javax.annotation javax.annotation-api 1.3.2 provided If you are seeing blank pages after deploying or bundle install on AEM it’s possible it’s happening due to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-6184 You can resolve this by editing to /crx-quickstart/conf/sling.properties and update sling.bootdelegation.sun=sun.*,com.sun.*,jdk.internal.reflect,jdk.internal.reflect.* Since Java 9 Modules to make reflection work you need to allow it explicitly with --add-opens JVM option. Without it you may get errors like following: Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InaccessibleObjectException: Unable to make Clas

Adobe partners with governments in all 50 states to accelerate digital modernization by Jonathan Benett Abstract Digital modernization in government has been picking up steam over the last decade. In normal years, government agencies would often grapple with shifting technology priorities and budgets. This has led to some uneven improvements in the past. However, the need for agencies to quickly support the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic was a driving force and intensified the focus on delivering digital services. This dedication and commitment to expanding digital government has led to the most significant digital modernization effort across all levels of government in our history. The accelerated adoption of new technologies to improve digital customer experience (CX), ensure government mission continuity and support the government’s workforce, was made possible due to dedicated public servants and strong public-private partnerships. At Adobe, partnering across industries to

Walgreens online portal built on Adobe Experience Manager. by Stephen Frieder Abstract In Summer of 2020, Walgreens Boots Alliance announced a strategic partnership with Adobe and Microsoft. The technology partners would play an important role as Walgreens and Boots (UK) worked to enhance shopping and wellness experiences, while driving a mass personalization effort. In the U.S., that meant activating a loyalty program with over 100 million members. The partnership with Adobe Experience Cloud brought a set of tools that produced deeper customer insights, while delivering more relevant customer experiences that were integrated across channels like the website, mobile app, and in-person retail. In the months since the partnership was unveiled, Walgreens Boots Alliance has made great progress, demonstrating what it means to drive meaningful digital transformation on the behalf of customers. Most recently, Walgreens in the U.S. launched an online portal for Covid-19 vaccines. The experi

AEM - Core Components 2.16.0 by Adobe Abstract Enhancements 1. Improve the accessibility of a variety of components (e.g. Title, Carousel, Search...) 2. Add the new Link Handler processing to existing components Bugfixes: For a list containing all the fixed issues in this release, see 2.16.0 milestone Read Full Blog AEM - Core Components 2.16.0 Q&A Please use this thread to ask the related questions.

Project App Builder by Pedromonjo Abstract Last year, Adobe released a framework (not exactly a new product), called Project App Builder. I barely noticed it when it was announced. However, one of my customers requested me a very specific feature, for which App Builder was the perfect tool. Although it has been ages since I last did any serious development, it was a good opportunity to learn this new tool. This is an introduction to this tool and, in future posts, I will get into more details. Background Have you ever thought “I wish this functionality was added to that tool”? Maybe you have even suggested it in the forums or asked your Adobe representative about it. I have definitely been in these conversations. As usual, the problem is that, if a feature is asked by only one person or does not align with the product’s roadmap, it will never be implemented. This is especially the case for the SaaS tools: Analytics, Target, Audience Manager and Campaign Standard. If your tool of

Custom Oak Indexes : AEM Part-4 (Autosuggestion) by Bimmisoi Abstract As of now we have implemented Stop Words, Synonyms Words, Custom Index Creation. let's implement auto suggestion for search. Autosuggestion : Autosuggestion/Autocomplete/Predictive search is a search feature where the search engine predicts the user’s query and provides suggestions as the user types. The user can select any of the autocomplete suggestions and be taken to results without having to manually type every character. We can follow below steps to implement this. Create indexRules node : type - nt:unstructured Create cq:PageContent node : type - nt:unstructured Create properties node : type - nt:unstructured Create jcrTitle node : type - nt:unstructured Add below property in those properties which you want to be fetched in auto search drop down. Properties : useInSuggest : true [Boolean] After reindex changes will start reflecting. Hope this helps!! Happy Coding 🙏 If you like my post and find

Custom Oak Indexes : AEM Part-5 ( Porter Stemming & Lower Case ) by Bimmisoi Abstract As of now we have implemented Autosuggestion, Stop Words, Synonyms Words, Custom Index Creation. let's implement Porter Stemming & Lower Case for search. Porter Stemming : In this implementation search will reduce any of the forms of a word such as "talks, talking, talked" or "read, reading" to their elemental roots "talk" and "read".And it will only consider root words for search. We can follow below steps to implement this. Create analyzers node : type - nt:unstructured Create default node : type - nt:unstructured Create filters node : type - nt:unstructured Create PorterStem node : type - nt:unstructured Lower Case : It converts any uppercase letters in a token to the equivalent lowercase token. All other characters are left unchanged. Example : In: "Down With CamelCase" Tokenizer to Filter: "Down", "With", "CamelCase" Out: "down", "with", "camelcase" We can follow below steps to

Custom Oak Indexes : AEM Part-3 (Stop Words) by Bimmisoi Abstract As of now we have implemented Synonyms Words, Custom Index Creation. let's implement stop words for search. Stopwords : Stop words are commonly used words such as articles, pronouns and prepositions. stop words should be indexed for precise result listing . If a phrase contains stop words, the stop words will not be searched, but the searchable words will be searched in the order as entered. Example : "from AEM blog" phrase will exclude "from" as searchable word and search rest of the phrase. We can follow below steps to implement this. Create analyzers node : type - nt:unstructured Create default node : type - nt:unstructured Create filters node : type - nt:unstructured Create Stop node : type - nt:unstructured Properties words : stop.txt [String] Create stop.txt file : type - nt:file After reindex changes will start reflecting. Read Full Blog Custom Oak Indexes : AEM Part-3 (Stop Words) Q&A Please use this

Custom Oak Indexes : AEM Part-2 (Synonyms Words) by Bimmisoi Abstract As of now we have created custom Index. let's implement synonyms words for search. synonyms : In most of the search implementation search should work for synonym words. Example : If a user is searching for Mumbai or Bombay or BOM , results should be same. Or We can follow below steps to implement this. Create analyzers node : type - nt:unstructured Create default node : type - nt:unstructured Create filters node : type - nt:unstructured Create Synonym node : type - nt:unstructured Properties synonyms : synonyms.txt [String] Create synonyms.txt file : type - nt:file After reindex changes will start reflecting. Read Full Blog Custom Oak Indexes : AEM Part-2 (Synonyms Words) Q&A Please use this thread to ask the related questions.

Custom Oak Indexes : AEM Part-1 (Custom Index Creation) by Bimmisoi Abstract With latest version of AEM, Oak does not index content by default, Custom indexes need to be created as per the requirement.If there is no index for a specific query, possibly many nodes will be traversed. The query may still work but probably be very slow. So let's quickly create a custom Index. We will explore below search features. Synonyms Words Stop Words Autosuggestion PorterStem & Lower Case For Creating Lucene custom Index step please follow below steps Open CRXDE and navigate to http://localhost:4502/crx/de/index.jsp Navigate to /oak:index Create node with jcr:primaryType = oak:QueryIndexDefinition Index must have below properties while creating it must be of type oak:QueryIndexDefinition must have the type property set to lucene must contain the async property set to the value async, this is what sends the index update process to a background thread Click save all and save your changes. Bel

Sling models: the story behind @Inject by Reyn van de Craats Abstract This blog post is based on an issue encountered on a project I’ve worked on. I’ve been working with AEM for a while and in that time I wrote my share of Sling models and unit tests for them. Reading through lots of references on the internet explaining which annotations you can use and how they work. Also using some third-party custom annotations and even adding a custom annotation myself to be used in Sling models. Yet all this time, the way Sling models work their magic stayed magical somehow... Especially the mysterious @Inject annotation. However, I never encountered really weird behaviour that couldn’t be accounted for one way or another. Until recently. Before presenting the issue I want to indicate what DOES work. In an OOTB AEM instance, the Sling model based on the SlingHttpServletRequest works and injects the current page fine, however, the one based on the Resource does not work! This makes a lot of sen

AEMasCS REST API calls from POSTMAN or any external application by Myaemlearnings Abstract This post details the steps to invoke REST API hosted in AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMasCS) instance from POSTMAN or any external application. As we all know AEM is REST based Web application and contents of Repository can be accessed via GET call to respective path (Eg say, ".json" extension or content path with ".html" extension) and updates to Repository is possible via respective HTTP method type + API endpoint as exposed (Eg. Assets HTTP API Create Folder POST request), provided we have Authentication and Authorization to the accessing endpoints. Authentication is achieved using the credentials that we use to access our instance. Eg. In our local AEM author instance, we login using admin/admin or any username as created/available in the respective instance Authorization refers to the permissions to the path we are accessing Eg: If we are to make GET request on /content/we-retail.html, we n

Hi guys,is there a way in AEM to get a value from AEM runmodes in client-side JS?I have a key value that is changing depending on the environment, it needs to be on client-side JS since it is calling a widget integration.Thanks before!

Hi - i want to implement a member portal using AEM with SPA Editor.  Members will need to be authenticated based on external identity provider like Okta. To elaborate the case a bit,1. user will login via a landing page.  This page will be a pre-login page, where it'll just show some about the company details.  This we know we can implement in AEM with an SPA editor mode as well.2. when user clicks login, he/she will be redirected to an external IdP (Okta), to authenticate, upon successful authentication, an OAuth token will be returned.3. user will land on a "my profile" page, where it will say "Hello, member name" which will be based on the returned token's info. few questions:1. any special setup i need to do when setting up the IA in AEM?  do i need to set the "my profile" page as an authenticated page? 2. for example the "my profile" page, will SPA Editor still work in the post login case? are we able to allow the authors edit the

I have created a dialog with a multifield where the first item is a dropdown selection on selection of the value the next items are populated. The dropdown options are DM video/ Youtue video. If the selection is DM video it will populate title, video path filed and image path filld. If its a YT Video the next items title, youtube link and the image path filed populates. For the first time I have authored they are correctly storing at the node level and in dialog too, But when I open the dialog for the second time the author values are mixing with not rightly selected dropdown. The YT fileds are set to DM or viceversa The below attached is the dialog xml, pls suggest. <jcr:root xmlns:sling="http://sling.apache.org/jcr/sling/1.0" xmlns:granite="http://www.adobe.com/jcr/granite/1.0" xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0" xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" xmlns:nt="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/nt/1.0"    jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"    jcr:title="Videos"&n

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I created a new launch in AEM and i see it when I go to Tools > Sites > Launches. When I select the launch I'm expecting to see the button "Manage content" (as per the tutorial and documentation) to start adding pages to the launch, but I don't have that button. I'm logged in as admin. I can access the launch pages from the source page but I want to see the launch in a view similar to site admin.

Hi Members,I have created one package of experience fragment content and deployed it in another environment, when I try to create some more experience fragment in the deployed package in another environment, on click on the OPEN button after creation, it gives sometime 404 error. But when click on DONE button then open it for editing it works fine.If anyone can share some idea what may be causing the issue?Both of the environment is having AEM 6.4 with service pack 6.4.6.ThanksUmesh Thakur

MSM/Live Copy : Rewrite Reference Links Inside Experience Fragments or Template Structure Content by Sreenivas B Abstract The problem Have you ever experienced this problem? Whenever you create a live copy/roll-out a master page, all the reference links inside a page get updated to the live copy equivalent links automatically; however, this is applicable only for the links which are stored inside a component property or page property in a page. If there are links referenced in editable template structure content or inside an experience fragment, which is used in a master page, it won’t be updated to the live copy equivalent link on roll-out. This is because these are shared or global content, which will be stored in one location (“/conf” or “/content/experience-fragments”). The solution Here is the solution: Use a custom “Link Transformer” to rewrite master links into live copy equivalent links. The steps to implement a custom Link Transformer Create a Transformer Factory package c

Hey, I'm a web developer and I want to learn about AEM. To do so, I'm trying to install it on my local machine. I want to download the jar file(AEM standalone executable) and according to this link I need to download it from "Adobe Licensing Website".And when I go there I need to login again. I login but I face "Adobe does not recognize you as an authorized user of this web site. Please contact Adobe for assistance".I think there is something wrong with my profile settings.In my profile settings, I checked developer and administrator as my role. anyway when I try to visit "Adobe Experience Cloud" I get "It seems that your Adobe ID is not linked with your Adobe Experience Cloud solution accounts. Please get in touch with your Org Administrator or Adobe Enterprise Support.". I didn't sign up as a business company or anything commercial. My intention was to register as a "educational purposes" user but there was no field about it.what should I do?

I am creating a custom dialog for a workflow component. I am using the variablePropertyComponent which has a"type" property which I can set to "java.lang.Long" and the drop down will filter all Long process variables.However, I would like to NOT filter any variables by type. I have tried these things:Remove type propertyAdd * as the type.All these break it. Anybody know how to do this?  Is it possible?

Hi, Found out an issue with translated page contained a link to XF. If source page referred to a XF, translated page refers to a launch of XF.For example, source page /content/we-retail/language-masters/en/page has a XF component with link to /content/experience-fragments/we.retail/en/test-XF. The page is sent for translation to `fr` and there are two launches: for page and XF. /content/LAUNCH/content/we-retail/language-masters/fr/page refers to /content/LAUNCH/content/experience-fragments/we.retail/fr/test-XF. After translation flow is completed, all launches are promoted translated page /content/we-retail/language-masters/fr/page still refers /content/LAUNCH/content/experience-fragments/we.retail/fr/test-XF. Did I missed a config for XF? Is it a known issue? How can I cause AEM to fix link to XF after translation? Thank you!

Hi, I am using the AEM 6.1 jar file i have clicked the jar file after extracting it redirect to login screen I have used user Name as adminPassword is  adminbut showing like invalid password now i need to change the user name and password while installing any way we can change that password  RegardsManikantha R

Hi everyone, I'm having a little issue in the Set Variable, what I need to do is get a value, a number, from the PDF and check if it's lower than the value in stock. We are doing it with the XPath for the XML and with an expression, I'll attach a photo of the path we are using.  

Hello! I'm encountered an issue with translation of XF within a page. AEM resets back translated `fr` XFs to original `en` language.Let me explain with reproduce steps. We can do it with We.Retail example:1. Create XF1 /content/experience-fragments/we.retail/en/XF1 and put text component on it. Type some text2. Create XF2 /content/experience-fragments/we.retail/en/XF2and put text component on it. Type some text3. Translate both XFs to `fr` locale: /content/experience-fragments/we.retail/fr/XF1 and /content/experience-fragments/we.retail/fr/XF2 are created.4. Create We.Retail content page /content/we-retail/language-masters/en/page and put text component on it. Type some text5. Add XF component to a page and put a link to /content/experience-fragments/we.retail/en/XF1/master6. Add second XF component to the page and put a link to /content/experience-fragments/we.retail/en/XF2/master7. Translate the page to `fr` locale: /content/we-retail/language-