Enabling newly created Component Group in AEM 6.4 .

[puneetk1507950]

Hi Everyone ,

   I am novice to AEM 6.4 and came to know that there are numerous changes are incorporated so facing initial hiccups to adaptTo() .

   Coming back to the question , how to enable the newly created Component Group (Generated a AEM 6.4 maven archetype 13 project--- to Extend the core         components) in AEM 6.4 to drap and drop the components on a page ?

   Any leads would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Puneet

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

When you work with AEM 6.4 - the recommended way to set components (from a given category) is by defining the policy of an editable template.

You are no longer using Design mode. The reason is pages based on Editable Templates do not have Design Mode. A Maven 13 generated project has pages based on an editable template. Therefore Design mode does not exist in those pages.

To add a component group, you need to select from components from the component group by using the editable templates Policy.

See this HELPX artilce to learn more about editable templates and how to set policies to allow components (within a specific component group).

Adobe Experience Manager Help | Creating an Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 website using Editable Temp...

You can also watch -- Scott's Digital Community: Guided Journey for Experience Manager on Editable Templates

So to use a given component in a page based on an editable template - you must allow that component in a policy - as discussed in the article and shown in the series of videos.

Hope this helps....

[smacdonald2008]

If you want to know about Core Components and how to extend them -- see this:

Extending Adobe Experience Manager Core Components

We cover extending them in this series of videos too (plus other information regarding core components) -- Scott's Digital Community: Guided Journey for Using Adobe Experience Manager Core Components

[smacdonald2008]

As you are new to AEM - i highly recommend that you go through this 6 part AEM tutorial - it will teach you a lot of useful information --

Getting Started with AEM Sites - WKND Tutorial

[Lokesh_Shivalingaiah]

Puneet,

smacdonald2008​ has given all the right references.

we will be using the policies to control the components/component group to be allowed at the template level or at the layout level.