Creating none standard assets In the DAM

[Sutty100]

In AEM we want to manage all of our recipes, they will be used across a number of websites therefore we don't want to create them in a specific sites structure. What I want to do is allow a user to go into the DAM eg the assets tab and click create and in that dropdown there would be an option for Recipe which would then open a scaffold and allow them to enter the recipe data. This would then be stored in the DAM not at a site level and any components that want to display elements of a recipe would reference the  recipe asset so changes can be made to a recipe in one place and all components would simply update. 

Is this possible? Can I add an asset to the DAM that isn't an image/video etc?

[Sutty100]

Also in 6.2 is scaffolding not yet able to use the TouchUI?

[Abhinav_m]

Your use case seem to be a fit case for using content fragments. They are created in dam and can be surfaced across multiple websites as needed.

[kautuk_sahni · Accepted solution]

Hi 

In AEM 6.2, you can use content fragments that let you create original content in AEM, enabling copy writers to create editorial content before it is being authored in a page, and to further allow curating such content by creating channel specific variations and by associating collections with relevant media content. As a result, web producers receive content that is prepared and "ready to go”, enabling them to focus on assembling content across channels, globally and on a local level.

We have Helpx article created to tell how to use it :- https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/content-fragments.html

Documentation :- https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-2/author/page-authoring/content-fragments.html

I hope this will help you.

Thanks and Regards

Kautuk Sahni

[Sutty100]

Sounds good thanks!