Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Using Granite DataSource objects to populate AEM Touch UI objects

You can create an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6 Touch UI component that contains drop-down controls that can be used within the AEM Touch UI view. A drop-down control can be populated by using a com.adobe.granite.ui.components.ds.DataSourceobject. For information, see DataSource
Once you create a DataSource object, its data can be used to dynamically populate a drop-down control, as shown in this illustration. 


This article modifies the Hero Touch UI component that was created by following this AEM community article:
Before you read this article, its is strongly recommended that you create the Hero Touch UI component by following the article listed here. 
To read this article, click http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/creating-granite-datasource.html

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