Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Creating a custom Experience Manager sling:resourceType for Touch UI

You can create a custom sling resource type that can be used in an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Touch UI component by using a JQuery plug-in. That is, if you want to define a field in a Touch UI component dialog that is not available with the available Granite API, you can define your own custom type. This is similiar to how you can define a custom xtype when working in the Classic UI. For information, see Creating your first Adobe Experience Manager custom xtype.

As an AEM developer working in the Touch UI, it is important to understand how to create a custom sling resource type to be able to define custom fields.  In the AEM community, there has been requests on how to develop a full color spectrum field for a Touch UI component dialog, as shown in this illustration.


To successfully get this color picker in an AEM Touch UI dialog, specify a path that references the JQuery plugin as a value of the sling:resourceType property in CRXDE Lite, as shown here.  


To read this article, click Creating a custom Experience Manager sling:resourceType for Touch UI.


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I (Scott Macdonald) am a Senior Experience League 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 AEM or other end to end articles like this, then leave a comment and let me know what content you would like to see.


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