Category: Learn AEM
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Create a custom workflow
In this post, we will see how to implement a workflow using AEM. As the name suggests, a workflow represents a step-by-step process to accomplish a common task. For example, author creates the content. Then, the content goes to an editor for approval. After the approval, the content can be published. As usual, we will see a…
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Create a custom JCR event
In this session, we will see how to create a custom event and manage it. A custom event helps you to manage a specific activity happened on an AEM instance. For example, you want to send an e-mail to an editor as soon as an AEM page is created by a content creator; so that the editor…
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Search in AEM repository
In the last session, we have seen how to add a property to a JCR node. We primarily created a resourceResolver object and created a resource using the path to the node where we wanted to set the property. Converted the resource into a Node using the adptTo() method. And, then used the setProperty() method to set the…
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Convert an AEM Maven project to an Eclipse-based project
In the previous session, we created an AEM project based on an archetype. We explored the project, deployed it into the Felix console, and then accessed the service it exposed. In this session, we will convert the project into an Eclipse project. So that we can import the project into Eclipse. And, later use Eclipse as an IDE for…
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Access client-side scripts (ClientLib) in AEM
In this post, I will cover an important concept – Client Libraries. Client Libraries are primarily JavaScript libraries that you may need to use while developing components and templates. This is an important concept that we didn’t cover in the first part of the training. [As usual, the sample package is available in my GitHub account.]…
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A quick start to Adobe Experience Manager development
With this post, I am concluding the first learning series on Adobe Experience Manager. The idea is to provide you with a head start if you are new to AEM. I hope it will also help you with the basic concepts if you plan to appear for Adobe Certified Exam (ACE) on AEM component development. There…
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Get data from a dialog using Sightly (Get a custom URL for the YouTube component)
In this session, you will see how to update the YouTube component to capture the URL entered by an author in the dialog. (I have uploaded the sample code in GitHub.) We have accomplished the following so far. Created a YouTube component that will add a specific YouTube video to the page. Created a dialog…
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Summary: Your first Sightly template
This post provides a summary of what you learnt in the previous posts. Before going to the next step, creating components, let us first take a quick recap of all that we learned so far. AEM users generally belong to one of the following roles: Authors: create web pages. They use templates which provides the layout…
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Apply a design to the AEM Sightly template
In this session, you will learn about adding a design to the template. You will use Sightly, because it’s HTML5 and very easy to use. This is in continuation of my previous blog posts. As usual, I have provided the video and transcripts below. Video can be watched in the Full screen mode. The sample design and…
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