Author: Aanchal Sikka

Certified AEM Architect and Developer

DS Annotations – dependency updates


With AEM 6.2, we can use the new Declarative Service annotations. These are improvements over Felix annotations. Adding the recommendation excerpt from Apache Felix website: While the Apache Felix Maven SCR Plugin is a great tool (see below), for developing OSGi components using Declarative Services you should use the official annotations from the OSGi R6 … Continue reading DS Annotations – dependency updates →

DS Annotations – Component, property and configurations


@Component Annotation An component is a piece of code that is managed by OSGi container. The container would be responsible for its instantiation and management. Attributes of a component:  The above table have been noted from: https://www.knopflerfish.org/releases/5.2.0/docs/javadoc/org/osgi/service/component/annotations/Component.html configurationPolicy: The attribute can hold following values of ConfigurationPolicy IGNORE: Always allow the component configuration to be satisfied and do … Continue reading DS Annotations – Component, property and configurations →

Toggle Field visibility based on dropdown’s value – Coral 3


AEM's dropdown comes with a simple and useful feature, to toggle visibility of other Dialog fields based on its selection. An OOTB implementation is available for component "/apps/core/wcm/components/list/v1/list" Let's quickly check how to configure it (verified on AEM 6.3 with Coral-3 dropdown): Step 1: Register dropdown that is supposed to show/hide other dialog fields. Achieved … Continue reading Toggle Field visibility based on dropdown’s value – Coral 3 →

AEM Template Editor – Design configuration via policies


In template editors, policies are used to configure component design. Example: component's design configurations,  allowed components for a container, mapping asset into components etc. Configuring a template-editor's policy is similar to a Static template's design dialog. Following are the steps to define and access a new policy: Step 1: Create policy configuration dialog A component's policy dialog … Continue reading AEM Template Editor – Design configuration via policies →