Assets (Digital Assets Management) Customizations

[AEM_Forum]

Hi all,

Generally only AEM is customized and the Assets being the back end will undergo customization accordingly.

But only with respect to AEM Assets what kind of customizations to expect?

I understand some aspects like Asset Link, Smart Crop, Smart Tagging, etc, but I personally do not consider these as customizations.

Of course Assets Migration may be involved, but again this is not customization.

Appreciate all your responses.

Thanks,

Rama.

[aanchal-sikka]

Hello @AEM_Forum 

The requirements can be many areas:

1. Governance: 
   • Setting up Project structure
   • Metadata schemas
   • Search Filters
   • Approval workflows
   • User set up
2. Integrations:
   1. Dynamic Media ( Smart Tag, Smart Image, custom image modified etc)
   2. Brand portal
   3. Desktop App
3. Asset processing: updates to DAM Update asset workflow, watermarking, custom renditions etc.
4. performance tuning: Asset processing is resource intensive
5. Use with Sites:
   1. Translation of metadata, reference updates in pages,
   2. Using the appropriate image renditions in pages (responsive behavior)
   3. Asset share commons set up
6. Dispatcher: Caching. 

Its a basic list and frequently used scenarios. There are definitely more complex scenarios and requirement around assets

[AEM_Forum]

Hi Aanchal,

Dispatcher: Caching is to do with the overall site correct?

Is there any activity here for Assets specifically?

Thanks,

Rama.

[aanchal-sikka · Accepted solution]

Hello @AEM_Forum ,

Check this tweet regarding caching of Assets.

https://twitter.com/keepthebyte/status/1547102275151179776

[AEM_Forum]

Hi, Could you share the links for these activities for me to dig deeper please?

This is a very informative and educative exercise for me.

I highly appreciate all your support.

Thanks,

Rama.

[aanchal-sikka]

@AEM_Forum : This video series should give you a good start https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-learn/assets/overview.html 

Happy learning !

[digarg]

Couple of more examples :-

Customization on 'asset console' interface to ease business user day to day operations:-

a) customizing it as per brand guidelines, adding logo , custom links , displaying custom metadata in list /card view.

b) Hiding tools icon for user groups having basic read rights . By default , this shows up even for contributors.

c) Custom search filters based on metadata and adding oak indexes

c)Custom Review workflow with custom email templates and email server configuration.

d) SSO Integration/ Ecommerce/Rest API integration

e) Any other asset post-processing / pre-processing workflow

[AEM_Forum]

Hi,

SSO Integration/ Ecommerce/Rest API integration is to do with the overall site correct?

Is there any activity here for Assets specifically?

Also, Could you share the links for these activities for me to dig deeper please?

Thanks,

Rama.

[digarg]

At times - the metadata properties would get the values from an external service API e.g. product website etc and would need to be updated at scheduled intervals or on push basis. Example quantity/price/store location 

Also , check out ng-upload https://github.com/adobe/aem-upload utility - another example of customization for assets. This allows you to upload assets and update asset metadata via custom logic on AEM Cloud.This is useful when client wants to update and upload assets programmatically in batches or at scheduled times or in bulk  as via asset interface you can't upload folders . For AMS/on premise we have to build something similar.