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Happy July everyone!   First off this month, thank you to all of you who voted on a name of our new monthly newsletter. I’m excited to share that the winning name is Workfront @ Work! There is so much I want to share with you this month! Just a couple of weeks ago, we had our annual Leap conference virtually. Read on to learn all about it. We also have a big product release coming your way in August. Let me start with a quick teaser for our 20.3 release. Because almost everything about how you work has and continues to change, we’re excited to announce Workfront Align and Workfront Scenario Planner to support strategic goal setting and execution, and dynamic planning and prioritizing of people, budgets, and work. Moving on to Leap. Our Leap conference always represents the best time of the year for me. It’s a time to get to see so many of you, listen to your experiences, and capture feedback to use in our continual efforts to enhance your experience with Workfront.&

Workfront reports don’t just have to be a simple list with standard views, filters and groupings — they can be dynamic visuals used to tell a story, compare data, paint a clear picture of how work is getting done across the organization and keep the targeted audience engaged. There are six different types of charts in Workfront — bar, column, line, pie, bubble and gauge. Learn how to apply a chart to a reportIn order to apply a chart to your Workfront report, you must first add a grouping. For a quick refresher on report groupings, click here. Once a grouping has been applied, you can begin to create and customize basic or 3D charts to highlight data trends or patterns in an attractive and easily digestible way. And if you want to have the colors match your company’s style guide - no problem - enter in the appropriate RGB code. To learn more about adding charts, review the article, Add a chart to a report, and watch the short, 6-minute video, Create charts with reports, on Workfro

Have you ever received a Workfront email notification for a work item you aren’t assigned to, or seemingly even directly tied to? Or on the opposite spectrum, get assigned work and not know about it until you log in? Did you know that Workfront has over 90 system-level email notifications available within the global Setup menu that can be activated?  System administrators can globally activate email notifications within Setup > Email > Notifications by selecting the checkbox to the left of the notification name and then clicking the Activate button. Upon clicking the Activate button, a checkmark will automatically appear in the Active column to let you know it has been turned on for all users within your instance.  Likewise, if an administrator would like to deactivate a notification for all users, select the checkbox to the left of the notification name and then click the Deactivate button. You will notice that the checkmark i

Report prompts are open filters that can be customized and applied differently each time you run a report. Prompts give flexibility to reports, allowing you to tweak certain criteria without having to create a whole new report. Many report writers use prompts that relate to completion dates, status, and users. For example, you have a report that looks at all of the active projects in the Marketing portfolio with planned completion dates of this quarter. This is a report you use frequently. You’re showing this report in a meeting, and one of the executives wants to know how many of these projects are running late. The director of the project manager wants to know how many of the projects belong to members of his team. You’re in the middle of a meeting! You can’t write brand new reports right now! That’s when built-in prompts come in, as they allow you to run the same report with just a few added criteria. Report prompts act on top of the filters that are already built into

Did you know? You can change ID numbers to names in reports. Have you ever created a report only to find that one of the columns is displaying what appears to be nonsense information instead of the data you expected? Perhaps, as you look at your project report, you realize that it’s displaying the ID number instead of the names for the project owner and the project owner’s manager. Just a few edits will get both of those columns switched so they display names instead. This week's Workfront Wednesday walks you through these steps, in the context of a project report. Let's walk through this together in a Project Report: Starting from the report itself, go to Report Actions and select Edit.Click the Columns (Views) tab.Start with the project owner’s column in the bottom of the window. You see that the report is using Owner ID. This is why the ID number is displaying in the report instead of the name. Click the column in the preview area to select it. This displays the

One of the most important aspects of successfully using software is the maintenance of it. One step further is the inevitable cleanup that must occur when the system has gone through challenging times—this is especially critical when your Workfront system administrators change and too many objects are created without reviewing what already exists with colleagues. This week’s blog focuses on how to review your Workfront instance to find old or outdated items, recommended actions to help keep the system organized, and tips for preventing clutter moving forward.  IMPORTANT AREAS FOR CLEANUP If you’re not sure where to start when it comes to cleanup, consider the major areas in Workfront that tend to be the most cluttered—custom forms, templates, projects, and users. Below are some recommendations to help with system organization in each area. Custom Forms— Custom forms are one of the most highly used features in Workfront, as organizations use these to capture specific metrics. If

Have you ever wanted to try a new process, custom form, access level, template—or anything else—without making changes to your production environment?  Did you know that Workfront provides all customers with a test environment so you can safely experiment with new ideas? This test environment is known as the Preview Sandbox. The Preview Sandbox contains your actual production data. It refreshes every weekend, so data can be up to one week behind what’s in your production environment.  To access this test environment, system administrators can click into Setup > System > Preferences > Preview Sandbox. For all other users, simply navigate to https://domain.preview.workfront.com and you should be prompted with a login screen. If you are unsure of what your domain is, look at your Workfront URL—the text prior to .my.workfront.com is your domain. In the screenshot below, the domain is nicholevargas. Below are a few common questions regardi

Workfront is at the heart of what we do every day. Everything we do in professional services, both internal and customer facing, runs through Workfront. Our project managers and consultants use robust templates that direct more than 100,000 hours of consulting effort each year.When a new customer buys Workfront, Fusion, DAM, or any Workfront product requiring services, a Fusion “Salesforce-to-Hub(Workfront)” integration immediately spins up and populates all the information gathered by our sales team into the implementation project and automatically assigns the project manager as the owner of the project. Between the Fusion integration and templates, we save hundreds of hours of project setup each year. Professional services is a major source of revenue for Workfront, contributing to our overall success and profitability. Using Fusion, we’ve integrated Workfront with Netsuite to ensure that our forecasting and revenue recognition is timely and accurate, and that everyone that need

A responsibility assignment matrix (also known as a RACI matrix) is a common tool for communicating roles and responsibilities on a project. The intention of using a RACI matrix is to clearly communicate who is responsible, who is accountable, who should be consulted, and who should be informed throughout the life of a project.This article discusses what to consider when building a RACI matrix in Workfront as well as some of the trade-offs that come with different approaches.Where to Build Your RACI MatrixThe first consideration to make is where in Workfront should your RACI information live. I have generally seen two approaches to RACI matrices while working with Workfront clients.RACI fields added as custom data to projects. This approach makes sense for projects with shorter schedules or projects planned at a lower level of granularity. As a general rule I recommend planning projects at a milestone level when getting started in Workfront. Less project tasks means less overhead for u

Importing content from a URL during message preparation enables you to retrieve the latest HTML content each time the email is prepared. This way, the content of recurring emails is always up-to-date at the time of their sending.    We have improved the retry mechanism for deliveries including content imported from a URL. Read here for more details: Retrieving content from a URL automatically at preparation time   Please feel free to reach out through the below comment section in case you have any questions.

When I create a new page the Published date and Published by is coming same for all pages. Even though its never published. Due to this not be able to find which pages are not published. When unpublished and published the page it looks good.Any inputs on this or where can i look into to fix this? Thanks.  

AEM 6.5.10 - Start Workflow on Site Pages in Omni Search Results by Sreekanth Choudry Nalabotu Abstract 1) Create a clientlib /apps/eaem-omni-search-create-workflow with categories=cq.gui.common.admin.searchpanel and below code to add the workflow button in search action bar... (function ($, $document) { const FOUNDATION_CONTENT_LOADED = "foundation-contentloaded", GRANITE_OMNI_SEARCH_CONTENT = ".granite-omnisearch-content", SITES_EDIT_ACTIVATOR = "cq-siteadmin-admin-actions-edit-activator", START_WF_URL = "/mnt/override/libs/wcm/core/content/common/startbulkworkflows.html", CREATE_WF_BUT_URL = "/apps/eaem-omni-search-create-workflow/create-wf-but.html"; let init = false; $document.on(FOUNDATION_CONTENT_LOADED, GRANITE_OMNI_SEARCH_CONTENT, function(event){ $.ajax(CREATE_WF_BUT_URL).done(function(html){ init = addCreateButton(html); }); }); function addCreateButton(html){ html = html || ""; if(!html.trim()){ return; } const $eActivator = $("." + SITES_EDIT_ACTIVATOR); if ($eActi

Set up Local Instance of SonarQube using Docker Image | AEM by Bimmi Soi Abstract You can evaluate SonarQube using a traditional installation with the zip file or you can spin up a Docker container using one of the Docker images. Steps to install Docker : Set Up Docker Steps to setup Local Instance of SonarQube using Docker Image: Start your server by running below command. docker run -d --name sonarqube -e SONAR_ES_BOOTSTRAP_CHECKS_DISABLE=true -p 9000:9000 sonarqube:latest Once your instance is up go to http://localhost:9000/ using below credentials Login: admin Password: admin Under How do you want to create your Project ? Click on Manually. Under Create a project, enter Project display name and Project key and then click on Set up. Note: Project display name and Project key can be any name of your choice. Under How do you want to analyze your Repository ? Click on Locally. Under Provide a token, select Generate a token. Give your token a name, click the Generate button. Y

AEM Unit Testing With Groovy & Spock by Juan Ayala Abstract In my last post, I explored three different ways to use Groovy in our AEM projects. Using Groovy to build OSGi components, servlets and models seemed the most promising. Now I bring you a fourth one that I find as promising. Unit testing with Groovy & Spock. There are a lot of topics here. TDD vs. BDD. JUnit vs. Spock. Groovy vs. Java. My goal here is not to give you a complete analysis. That's up to you based on your team composition and client. I am going to give you some context. Then I will show you is how to set it up in an AEM project and show you a few examples. TDD vs. BDD You can spend some time researching Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development. To put it simply TDD is for a small technical audience, such as developers. To test small pieces of code. In AEM this could be a Java Sling model or OSGi service. BDD is for a wider audience outside of the development team. Developers, QA test

AEM 6.5.10.0 - Select Experience Fragments in RTE (Rich Text Editor) Link Plugin by Sreekanth Choudry Nalabotu Abstract In the Path Field picker of RTE Link Plugin, Experience Fragments are NOT shown by default. This extension is to adjust /libs/cq/gui/content/linkpathfield/picker/views/column/datasource configuration synthetically during runtime and set exclude attribute to none so XFs can be selected and linked... Create a filter apps.experienceaem.sites.core.filters.LinkPathFieldFilter to adjust the exclude configuration during request... package apps.experienceaem.sites.core.filters; import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletRequest; import org.apache.sling.api.resource.Resource; import org.osgi.framework.Constants; import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Component; import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; import javax.jcr.Node; import javax.servlet.*; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Map; @Component( service = Filter.class, immediate = tru

AEM Proxy Component Pattern and Component Versioning by Suryakand Abstract Most organization want to keep content and user experience flexible so that they can innovate and deliver new experiences/features faster. Flexibility allows organizations to reuse what has been built already and keep adding new features and functionalities on top of it. One of the key characteristics of flexibility is backward compatibility and non-breaking changes. This flexibility comes with a clear definition of a strategy for content creation and user experience. In this article we are going to look at 2 very simple but powerful component development strategies that organization (specifically technical teams) can adopt to win the flexibility game and stay ahead in competition of delivering rich user experience. Let’s start with a scenario/problem statement. Assume that a large banking organization has business in multiple countries. The organization is using AEM and MSM (Multi Site Manager) to manage

What is Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service? by Initialyze Abstract Adobe Experience Manager is now accessible as a cloud-based service as well. It’s the latest version of Adobe’s experience management platform that has been built and developed for cloud use. AEM as a Cloud Service is Adobe’s next-generation platform for creating and serving experiences. AEM as a Cloud Service provides the most up-to-date features from Adobe to marketers who use the platform. AEM as a Cloud Service is a next-generation software-as-a-service that is built to take advantage of cloud computing to develop and host AEM solutions. It has excellent CMS and digital asset management (DAM) features for brand communication and marketing teams. How will your business benefit from Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service? With the release of AEM as a Cloud Service, businesses now can build and deploy more campaigns, digital assets, and experiences than ever before. The Cloud Service is designed to hel

Enabling the Front-End Pipeline by Adobe Docs Abstract Learn how you can enable the front-end pipeline for existing sites to leverage site themes to more quickly customize your site. Overview The front-end pipeline is a mechanism that can quickly deploy just the front-end code of your websites based on site themes and site templates. Instead of deploying the full-stack, only front-end code is handled by this pipeline making the process faster and also allows front-end developers to easily and quickly customize your site without knowledge of AEM. Sites based on site templates can leverage the front-end pipeline by default. This document describes how you can adapt your existing sites to take advantage of the front-end pipeline. TIP If you are not familiar with the front-end pipeline and how to quickly deploy sites using it and site templates, please review the Quick Site Creation journey for an introduction. If you have not created your existing site based on site templates and th

Extending Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service using Adobe Developer App Builder by Adobe Docs Abstract What is App Builder for AEM as a Cloud Service The new Adobe Developer App Builder provides an extensibility framework for a developer to easily extend AEM as a Cloud Service functionalities. App Builder provides a unified third-party extensibility framework for integrating and creating custom experiences that extend Adobe Experience Manager. With this complete extensibility framework, built on Adobe’s infrastructure, developers can build custom microservices, extend, and integrate Adobe Experience Manager across Adobe solutions and the rest of the IT stack. App Builder provides a way for customers to easily extend Adobe Experience Manager in various use cases: Middleware Extensibility - Connect external systems with Adobe applications building custom connectors or leverage a suite of pre-built integrations. Core Services Extensibility - Extend core application capabilitie

trying to check if user/initiator who run a request for activation workflow, had enough permission to activate the page. depending on the user access, I am trying to update the workflow model under OR split. used below code to get the user privileges  Session session = resourceResolver.adaptTo(Session.class);AccessControlManager acm = session.getAccessControlManager();Privilege p[] = UIHelper.getAllPermission(acm, resource); Issue is session.getUserID() return the workflow user, Need a way to get the session adaptTo initiator userID(). Please let me know, if any suggestions to achieve it or suggest if any alternate approach to check user has permission to replicate the page.Thanks!  

Hi Community,  I'm currently creating a Unit Test that uses the Object Content Element, coming from the content fragment.getElements(). I'm currently using Junit5 to create my Unit Tests and the io.wcm.testing framework.  I was checking the mocked class for the ContentElement that is inside that package, and I found that this method getValue() is always throwing this exception:class MockContentFragment_ContentElement_Structured extends MockContentFragment_Versionable implements ContentElement { public FragmentData getValue() { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }}So, when I try to do the following behaviour, I always get this exception: while(contentElement.hasNext()) { ContentElement contentElementObject = contentElement.next(); FragmentData value = contentElementObject.getValue(); <---- Exception (So test failed) String fieldName = contentElementObject.getName(); String fieldValue = getValueFromBranch(fullBranch, f

Create AEM Content Package using cURL by Rashid jorvee Abstract Use case Create an AEM content package using cURL cURL to create a package Below is the syntax and a sample command to create an AEM content package using cURL. curl -u : -X POST http://localhost:4502/crx/packmgr/service/.json/etc/packages/mycontent.zip?cmd=create -d packageName= -d groupName= e.g. curl -u admin:admin -X POST http://localhost:4502/crx/packmgr/service/.json/etc/packages/mycontent.zip?cmd=create -d packageName=sample-test-package -d groupName=my_packages After the successful execution of cURL, you will see a successful message. {"success":true,"msg":"Package created","path":"/etc/packages/my_packages/sample-test-package.zip"} Read Full Blog Create AEM Content Package using cURL Q&A Please use this thread to ask the related questions.

Hi, I created a AEM React SPA using the latest archetype.Now, I am trying to replace Javascript with Typescript.Could you please let me know if it is compatible with AEM.please share me any steps available to do the same?Also, share is it possible to provide typescript as an input while creating AEM React SPA using Archetype mvn command?Thanks,Priyanka 

Are there any jmx statistics exposes for the the number HTTP requests made,  as well as potentially broken out by status code response? Looking at /system/console/jmx - I didn't see anything out of the box that seemed to handle this.

I'm using AEM 6.5.8and what I want is to do something like below<select jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/select" fieldLabel="select" name="./select"> <items jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"> <option1 jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" selected="{Boolean}true" text="option1" value="option1"/> <option2 jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" text="option2" value="option2"/> </items> <datasource jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" sling:resourceType="/test/run/url"/></link>