Customize Assets Console

[mmouraam]

I'm working on a demand that needs a column to be added in the assets console of AEM as a Cloud Service.

This column needs to present the data of a specific field of the content fragments in folder. (jcr:content/data/master/my_field)

I got it by doing an overlay of availablecolumns and reorder.jsp in my local SDK.

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

- /apps/dam/gui/coral/components/admin/contentrenderer/row/common/reorder.jsp

but working with jsp is no longer recommended and maybe not even supported.

There is another way to achieve this goal?

Maybe using clientlibs or PageInfoProviders. And how? Someone has an example?

[lukasz-m · Accepted solution]

Hi @mmouraam,

The approach you have described is correct and is aligned with Adobe recommendations. Overlay and/or PageInfoProvider is the way to go:

• https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/developing/extending-aem/customizing-c... - this is AEM 6.5 documentation because this aspect has not been documented for AEM as a Cloud Service yet, so you can follow 6.5 guidelines in that case.
• https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/implementing/develo... - sling merger usage in AEM as a Cloud Service
• https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/implementing/develo... - overlays in AEM as a Cloud Service

In terms of jsp usage, you are right it is not recommended. However this rule is not valid in case of overlay of existing functionalities. In that case it is correct to use jsp in that scenario, assuming original functionality that you are overlaying is using jsp - it will not be possible to implement proper overlay other ways. There are lot of OOTB functionalities written that is using jsp, I do not think support of jsp will be discontinued soon.

Regarding PageInfoProvider examples, here are some:

• https://aem4beginner.blogspot.com/add-custom-metadata-to-page-information
• https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/developing/components/pageinfo.html?la...