Category: Adobe CQ
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Seeing is believing: Explore the AEM installation directory
Now, we have installed AEM and started it. Before we log into AEM, let us see what exactly it created in your system. Move to the installation directory – that’s the directory to where you copied the QuickStart jar file and the license file. You will notice that it created a folder, crx-quickstart. Whenever you start AEM for…
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Let us start Adobe Experience Manager
Let us see how you install and start AEM. You first need to get an AEM installation file, which is fondly called as the QuickStart file. Adobe doesn’t provide you a trail version of the same. One of the ways to get an installation file is to attend Adobe Training Services class room session. Adobe distributes the…
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Why do you need Adobe Experience Manager?
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) manages the user experience of your website (content) across various channels. In a globalized world, you need to manage content across multiple websites in various languages. Your content is consumed using various devices – hand-held devices, such as mobile phones and tablets, PCs, and so on. This results in a scenario that you have…
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Adobe Lightroom for Android
Adobe Lightroom for Android is available today. For more details, see the official blog.
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AEM Sightly Brackets Extension
You can install this extension on Brackets if you plan to use Sightly as the markup. The extension provides you with features such as syntax highlighting and code completion. Brackets extension provides front-end developers an AEM templating tool with which they are familiar. The idea is to bring more front-end developers to AEM template designing.…
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While creating templates for Touch-Optimized GUI
In AEM 6.0, most of the functionalities are accessible through Touch-Optimized UI. When you create a template using Sightly or JSP, before extending the page component, the Classic UI displays the content in a page created based on the template. Of course, the page is displayed without the sidekick and other functionalities. This behavior,…
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Slightly, some Sightly
AEM 6.0 introduces Sightly – a new templating language. Sightly replaces JSP as the most preferred templating language for AEM. Sightly helps you to separate your design from your code. The intention is to bring more front-developers to AEM component development. By providing a demarcation between the design and the development departments, Adobe expects to…
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Integrating Search&Promote with AEM
Search&Promote allows you to create an index of your site by crawling your site in a regular interval. It helps you to implement powerful search functionalities in your website. In AEM 5.6.1, there are some out-of-the-box Search&Promote components that make integration easy. Some of these components use hardcoded values that you may need to change…
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Using the Target component in AEM 5.6.1
The Target component in AEM 5.6.1 allows you to create an MBox in your page and then create various experiences. It works like the Targeting feature provided with the context menu. You would have noticed that after you drag and drop the Target component to a page, the component becomes invisible. To make the Target component…
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