AEM concepts, snippets and implementation
Asset binaries occupy much larger storage space compared to metadata and tags. Therefore, if translating metadata and tags only serves your purpose, omit to translate the binaries. File Data Store and Amazon S3 Data Store provide a storage infrastructure that is best suited for these scenarios. These storage repositories store a single copy of asset … Continue reading Avoid Binary Duplication – Multilingual Assets
Sling supports filter processing by applying filter chains to the requests before actually dispatching to the servlet or script for processing. They can be used to call a servlet, to redirect to another page, to authenticate request, preprocessing, post-processing of mark up, logging, measuring, decoration or adding/removing request parameters. Filters to be used in such … Continue reading DS Annotations – Sling Filter
We often have to tighten the link access in AEM to limit user access to only few links, like only Sites, Experience fragments. For AEM 6.3 touch UI, if you wish to revoke access on a link in Global Navigation Panel, you will have to follow 2 steps: Revoke access on the icon that … Continue reading Restrict access to links in Global navigation panel
OOTB checkbox is not available in AEM 6.3 metadata schema editor. But, it can be enabled and used with steps as described below. Step 1: Overlay builditems.jsp to Enable checkbox Create an /apps overlay for "/libs/dam/gui/coral/components/admin/schemaforms/formbuilder/builditems.jsp" In "/apps/dam/gui/coral/components/admin/schemaforms/formbuilder/builditems.jsp", uncomment the following snippet. It would be available between line 90-98 https://gist.github.com/aanchalsikka/ca96a8e6edba1e6cbac39171bfb6cba1 At this point, browse to a metadata … Continue reading Enable checkbox for Metadata schema editor
Adding new action to an AEM Assets Toolbar consists of 2 steps: Configure the new action for the toolbar Add a client library to execute some operation on clicking the action. In the following example, we are adding ability to publish and unpublish assets from the Collection view. Step 1: Resolving the location of toolbar … Continue reading Customizing AEM Toolbar
cURL is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported protocols (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNETand TFTP). The command is designed to work without user interaction. With AEM, you can use cURL commands to modify repository, download json, access OSGi information etc. Snippet to download a json … Continue reading cURL execution from Java program
The best way to allow communication between two AEM instance is by: Exposing a service from the AEM instance which acts a source of information (say Source-AEM) Consuming the exported service in the required remote AEM (Consumer-AEM). In case, you have a use-case where: A Service cannot be exposed via source AEM A utility … Continue reading Connecting AEM from remote AEM instance (via JCR API)
