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bjoern__koth
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
March 13, 2026

AEP and connected tools - Add Documentation section to auto-document (client-)setups

  • March 13, 2026
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Background:

Working with AEP and connected tools like CJA and AJO for a while now, one thing has become painfully obvious lately: the lack of a useful documentation of the client setup

There may be great yet unofficial community tools out there, but let's be honest, in many cases people using the system may not have the required setup like programming languages (Python or NodeJS) to generate the documentation for themselves, so might require a developer to support them.

 

What I am trying to say is:

The Adobe tools are powerful and highly complex to set up, and creating and maintaining client-specific documentation on that is cannot possibly be a manual task. This is surely not sustainable.

 

What I would like to pitch is:

We need a Documentation section built into the UI AEP and connected tools, that lets you generate an ad-hoc, standardized documentation as downloadable Excel workbook.

This you can then either keep in AEP to be accessible for everyone with access, or decide to download and archive in your company's sharepoint/confluence, whereever

 

Ideas include (just the tip of the iceberg):

  • AEP XDM Schema documenter
    • gives people the chance to download a whole schema documentation (give them a UI to choose the schemas from), including all fields (also DULE labels!) into an excel
  • CJA
    • SDR creation (Brian Au's library is amazing, but as mentioned, not available to be produced by everyone)
    • Markteting channel (derived field) simulator that - through a simple UI - let's you enter referrer URLs, current URL and tells you where it will end up
    • the list goes on

 

I think I am speaking for everyone that this is definitely a missing piece that should definitely be added to the tools.

 

Cheers from Switzerland