Universal Editor in AEM: Simplifying Content Creation Across Platforms

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Universal Editor in AEM: Simplifying Content Creation Across Platforms by Chitra Madan

Overview

The Universal Editor is a visual editor that is part of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Sites. It enables authors to perform what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editing for both headless and headful experiences, providing an efficient and intuitive in-context authoring experience. It empowers marketers, authors, and developers to collaborate seamlessly in creating engaging digital experiences.

Ideal Use Cases

Enterprise-Level Content Management

For organisations managing extensive digital properties, the Universal Editor provides scalability and efficiency.

Collaboration-Intensive Teams

Marketing teams and agencies requiring real-time collaboration benefit greatly from its features.

Headless CMS Implementations

Businesses leveraging headless CMS approaches can use the Universal Editor to maintain a consistent authoring experience across decoupled front-end frameworks.

Key Features and Advantages

Adaptable for Any Scenario

The Universal Editor can be instrumented for any implementation, content, or aspect of the content, making it highly versatile.

Integration with Modern Development Practices

The Universal Editor aligns with modern development trends, supporting headless CMS architectures and enabling seamless integration with APIs. Developers can instrument remote applications using standardized attributes, reducing the need for custom implementations.

Architecture Overview

https://youtu.be/YNDwDYyBkx0

Full Article

https://medium.com/@madanchitra13/universal-editor-in-aem-simplifying-content-creation-across-platfo...

Q&A

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Thanks for sharing this, @ChitraMadan ! The Universal Editor sounds like a great tool for content management. I’m curious, can the Universal Editor be used effectively in multi-channel marketing scenarios where content needs to be repurposed across different platforms? Also, are there any limitations when using it for headless CMS implementations?

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Hi @AmitVishwakarma ,

Universal Editor, is to help you in faster/in-context editing of your content. How you re-purpose your content for multi-channel depends on how you model the content and expose it. Limitation in my experience, in using Universal editor in a headless implementation has been the learning curve for FE engineers and if you have multiple distributed FE teams without prior understanding of AEM, it could become difficult and might slow down the development initially. So, it really depends on your organisation set up and priorities.

Thanks,

Chitra