We are getting ready to launch the new Digital Marketing support community in mid-July 2013 (only a few weeks away). The new community will feature new CQ-based forums and new Digital Marketing help pages that contain resources such as a 'Spot Light' section, articles, videos, FAQs, Twitter feeds, and so on. The new forums will be monitored by a growing pool of Digital Marketing experts ready to help you out and answer your questions.
Likewise, if you are an Adobe CQ or other Digital Marketing software user and would like to help other Digital Marketing customers, we encourage you to join our community. As we draw closer to the launch date, additional details will be posted.
The next AEM 'How To' article will be posted to this Blog later in July after we launch the new support community.
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I (Scott Macdonald) am a Senior Digital Marketing Community Manager at Adobe Systems with 20 years in the high tech industry. I am also a programmer with knowledge in Java, JavaScript, C#,C++, HTML, XML and ActionScript. If you would like to see more CQ or other Adobe Digital Marketing end to end articles like this, then leave a comment and let me know what content you would like to see.
You can create an Adobe Experience Manager application that lets a user enter data into a web page and post data to a custom Sling Servlet. The posted data is processed by a custom Sling Servlet. In this development article, the Sling Servlet is created by using Maven.
An end user filling in a CQ form and posting the data to a Sling Servlet
The Sling Servlet that is created encodes the submitted form data into JSON formatted data and returns the data to the web client where it is displayed.
A web application displaying JSON formatted data returned by a Sling Servlet
A custom Sling Servlet is an OSGi bundle. However, a difference between an OSGi bundle that contains a service and an OSGi bundle that contains a Sling Servlet is the former requires that you create an instance of the service. For example, assume that an OSGi bundle contains a service based on a Java class named com.adobe.cq.CustomerService. To get data from the client web page to this OSGi service, you have to create an instance of com.adobe.cq.CustomerService, as shown in this example.
In contrast, when working with an OSGi bundle that contains a Sling Servlet, you post data to the Sling Servlet's doPost method. That is, you can use a JQuery AJAX request to post data to the Sling Servlet, as shown in the following example.
//Use JQuery AJAX request to post data to a Sling Servlet $.ajax({ type: 'POST', url:'/bin/mySearchServlet', data:'id='+ claimId+'&firstName='+ myFirst+'&lastName='+ myLast+'&address='+ address+'&cat='+ cat+'&state='+ state+'&details='+ details+'&date='+ date+'&city='+ city, success: function(msg){ alert(msg); //display the data returned by the servlet } });
This article discusses how to use Maven to develop the Sling Servlet, how to deploy it, and then how to post data to it from a client web page.
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You can create a .NET client application that can modify Adobe CQ JCR nodes and properties by using a Restful Sling request. The .NET application can create a node, modify an existing node, and delete a node. For example, assume that you responsible for building an application for an insurance company interested in persisting claim data in the Adobe CQ JCR. When an end user fills in the form and clicks the submit button, the .NET application data is submitted to Adobe CQ. A new node is created and the data is stored as node properties.
A .NET client application that is able to submit data to the Adobe CQ JCR
When the user fills in this .NET application and clicks the 'Submit Claim to JCR', the data is submitted to the CQ JCR.
Claim data submitted from the .NET client application
Because Adobe CQ accepts Restful requests, you are not limited to the type of client technology to use to submit data. That is, you can use any client technology that supports Restful requests. This development article walks you through how to build this .NET client application that can submit data to the Adobe CQ JCR. To read this entire development article, click http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/using-net-client-application.html
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I (Scott Macdonald) am a Senior Digital Marketing Community Manager at Adobe Systems with 20 years in the high tech industry. I am also a programmer with knowledge in Java, JavaScript, C#,C++, HTML, XML and ActionScript. If you would like to see more CQ or other Adobe Digital Marketing end to end articles like this, then leave a comment and let me know what content you would like to see.
