Integrating SOLR with Adobe Experience Manager 6.4

You can integrate SOLR with Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 to use searching. Solr is the popular, blazing-fast, open source enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene. Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated fail-over and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. For more information, see Solr.

The following illustration video shows integration between AEM and SOLR.

NOTE: This article uses OSGi R6 Annotations. 

The previous video shows We Retail pages indexed with SOLR. To read this development article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/aem_solr64.html. 

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Working with Experience Fragments and the Experience Manager ContextHub

When working with Adobe Experience Manager 6.3/6.4 ContextHub and Personalization use cases, you can use Experience fragments to change the content that is displayed. Experience Fragments is a new feature introduced in AEM. It allows content authors to reuse content across channels including Sites pages and 3rd party systems. For more information, see Using AEM Experience Fragments.

Using Experience Fragments, you can display content based on the audiences. For example, some users may see this content:

While others may see this content. 

This development article walks you through how to use experience fragments when using the ContextHub, 

The following video shows this use case in action. 

To read this development article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/contexthub_personal_exfragments.html.

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Creating an Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 custom workflow step that uses the Externalizer API

You can develop a custom Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 workflow step that retrieves the absolute URL of the payload by using the Externalizer API. A custom workflow step is implemented as an OSGi bundle that you can build using Maven and the AEM Workflow APIs that belong to the com.adobe.granite.workflow.exec package. For information, see Package com.adobe.granite.workflow.exec.


The following video shows the Externalizer API being used in an Experience Manager workflow. 

To read this development article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/externalizer_api_64.html.

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Creating an Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 custom workflow step that uses the MessageGatewayService API

You can develop a custom Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 workflow step that sends email messages to users. A custom workflow step is implemented as an OSGi bundle that you can build using Maven and the AEM Workflow API that belong to the com.adobe.granite.workflow.exec package. For information, see Package com.adobe.granite.workflow.exec.

The following video shows the workflow developed in this article successfully sending an email using the MessageGatewayService API.

To read this development article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/message_service_gateway_api_64.html. 

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Developing HTL Components that search for Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 Content Tags

You can create a custom Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 (AEM) HTL component that searches for AEM content tags. Tags are a quick and easy method of classifying content within your website. In technical terms, a tag is a piece of metadata assigned to a content node within AEM (usually a page). Within the OSGi component, the AEM Tag Manager is used to search for the content tags. For information about this API, see AEM TagManager.

The following video shows this HTL component displaying tags.

To read this article, click   https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/tagmanager-api-htl64.html.

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Learn how to use an AEM Experience Fragment in a page based on an editable template

The following video shows how to use an AEM  Experience Fragment within a page based on an editable template. We had some questions on how to do this......enjoy!

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Replicating Experience Manager Content using the Replication API

When working with Adobe Experience Manager content, such as pages and digital assets, you can use workflows to replicate the content. Furthermore, you can use the AEM Replication API to build a custom step that replicates content from the Author instance to the Publisher instance.  For more information, see Replication API.

For example, consider a business requirement when a digital asset has to be replicated using a workflow. However, each time you replicate the asset, you have an additional business requirment. For example, you have to track the path (and other information) of the Asset that is replicated in a database.  Using a custom step, you can track the information to address your business requirement and replicate the asset.

NOTE - This Article has been updated to SHOW USE of a CUSTOM REP Agent. (See code at the end of the article)

The following illustration show the workflow model that replicates a digital asset to the Publish instance.

The following video shows the use case - replicating content using the Replication API.

To read this development article, click   https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/aem64_replication_api.html. 

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