AEMaaCS: Is there a way to get usergenerated content from Publish to Author?

[Dinesh_A]

Hi All,

We are in the process of migrating from on Prem AEM 6.5 to AEMaaCS. We use AEM core component forms (we did customize them for our needs) and the form submission data is stored under /usergenerated. 

We would like to move usergenerated content from Publish to Author, does "Apache Sling Reverse distribution" work to get content from Publish to Author in AEMaaCS? (I have searched for this and there are posts that say its possible and other mentioning it can not be used) 
Or storing the user generated data outside the AEM is the only option?

Would appreciate if someone could provide more details on how they solved moving content from Publish to Author or solved Form users submission storage when moving from AEM 6.5 to AEMaaCS.

Thank you
Dinesh.

[TarunKumar]

Hi @Dinesh_A ,

Reverse Replication is not available on AEM as a Cloud Service to send content/data from the Publish Service to the Author Service. However, you can configure an Adaptive Forms running on Publish to submit data to a Workflow on an Author (Workflows can only be run on the Author). This is helpful in approval use-cases.

You can follow below link for more details on it

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/forms/forms-over...

Hope it helps!

-Tarun

[narendiran_ravi]

In AEMaaCS , it is recommended to use a custom solution for handling UGC. In cloud sling reverse distribution is not supported.

[konstantyn_diachenko]

Hi @Dinesh_A,

In my experience, we built bunch of new microservices with API Gateway and implemented bidirectional communication between AEM and UGC microservice.

Best regards,

Kostiantyn Diachenko.

[daniel-strmecki]

Agreed, please see the previous post on the same topic: https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/what-is-the-idea-way-to-br...

Good luck,

Daniel

[Dinesh_A]

Thank you @konstantyn_diachenko for the details.

[Dinesh_A · Accepted solution]

Thank you for all the replies.

We have heard back from Adobe as well. There is no out of box way to get the data from Publish to Author. Reverse replication is not supported and Apache sling reverse distribution is not supported as well.

I have seen multiple forum where other have mentioned that it was recommended to implement a custom solution for UGC. That led us to wonder if there is an out of box way to move data from Publish to Author but its just not recommended.   

I think the Notable changes to AEMaaCS document has to be updated to state that you have to use external implementation/ solution to move data from Publish to Author. Currently it states --> it "might" impact AEM projects using reverse replication to bring content from Publish to Author. (and at the same location it also provides link to Sling content distribution document which has Reverse distribution examples provided which also led us to believe, Reverse distribution is supported)