Link widget does not allow us to link to the media gallery

[jenniferg277302]

I am curious if there is a way to help our backend development team (in China) understand that the link widget does allow us to link to assets in our media gallery on AEM and how they can fix that.

They have told me that they cannot fix it (it is what it is) but we need to link to documents that are held in our media area.

My thought is there must be a way.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[smacdonald2008]

You can always build a custom AEM component that can link to assets and display them. That is the benefit of AEM, if the out of the box component does not meet your needs, you can build your own components and use Java and front end logic - like JQuery - to build a component to meet your needs. 

[kautuk_sahni]

As stated by Scott, you can create a Custom component.

This component would use JCR APIs. and can get any of the assets which could be then linked to. 

We can also fetch all the assets from doing query using query builder APIs.

I hope this will help you.

~kautuk