Building Experience Manager Component using Granite/Coral Resource Types

When creating components for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.3/6.4, you use Granite/Coral resource types. These resource types are used in the component’s dialog. That is, the UI that makes up the dialog fields and lets an author enter information used by the AEM component.

Many AEM Developers are familiar with Classic UI xtypes based widgets such as text fields, path fields, drop-down fields, and so on. However, when it comes to working with the Touch UI, xtypes are not used. Instead resource types are used to build Touch UI component dialogs. This article helps you become familiar working with Granite/Coral resource types that can be applied in your day to day component development work.

This article teaches you how to build Experience Manager 6.4 components by using Granite/Coral data types such as:

• granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/textfield
• granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/textarea
• granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/checkbox
• granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/select
• granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/radiogroup
• granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/multifield

In addition, this article teaches you how to read the values that an author enters in a dialog using HTL, Java WCMUsePojo and Sling Models. Click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/aem64_coral_resourcetypes.html.

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Integrating SAML with Adobe Experience Manager

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is a standard technology to provide authorization information between an IdP (identity provider) and SP (service Provider). SAML is a key technology to achieve SSO (Single Sign On) as multiple SPs can validate the authentication token provided by a single IdP.

In Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.x, a SAML authentication handler is provided by default. So, you do not have to write a handler for authentication. This handler provides support for the SAML 2.0 Authentication Request Protocol (Web-SSO profile) using the HTTP POST binding.

To configure the SAML Authentication Handler, you need to perform these tasks:

• IdP Post URL (On which the user is redirected to for one-time authentication)
• SP ID (Your AEM instance is SP in this case).

A single IdP can have multiple SP entities and every SP entity can have a different redirect URL after successful authentication, hence it is recommended to have a SP ID. (This would be provided by the IdP entity).

To read this development article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/aem63_saml.html.

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Creating a custom Adobe Experience Manager 6.3 Dynamic Participant step

You can develop a custom Adobe Experience Manager 6.3 (AEM) Dynamic Participant workflow step. A Dynamic Participant Step component is similar to Participant Step except the participant to which the workflow item is assigned is dynamically determined at run time. You create a Dynamic Participant workflow step by implementing ParticipantStepChooser.

When creating a Dynamic Participant Step, you can use application logic to determine to whom the workflow item is assigned. For example, your participant chooser can select the user that has the fewest work items. This article walks you through how to create a custom Dynamic Participant Step by using the AEM Workflow API and use it in an AEM workflow.

In this workflow example, content is reviewed using a custom Dynamic Participant Step.

To read this Experience Manager 6.3 article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/dynamic-steps-aem63.html.

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Ask the AEM Community Experts for March 2018: AEM Content as a Service: What, Why, and How?

Session Details

Join Praveen and Mahendra , two of our own Technical Consultants, top Adobe Experience Manager Community members who are also certified AEM developers, for a discussion about Introduction to AEM Content as a Service (CaaS).

Learn how to use OOTB exporters, create a custom exporter for the component and technique to consume the data in the custom apps. By joining this session, you will gain a better understanding of how to apply these techniques to your own Experience Manager projects for making content available when and where you need it for personalized experience, while maintaining brand consistency.

Playback - https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kt/eseminars/ask-the-expert/aem-content-services.html

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Creating a Custom Watched Folder Service for Adobe Experience Manager 6.3

When working with Adobe Experience Manager 6.3 (AEM), sometimes you need to perform use cases that are not available by default. For example, assume that you want place an XML file into a local folder on your Desktop and have AEM read that file and place it within the AEM repository. Furthermore, you want this to occur at specific time intervals.

To achieve this functionality within AEM, you need to implement two services:

• A custom service that reads XML files in a local directory and places the file into a JCR location. 
• An AEM Scheduler service that invokes the custom service at specific time intervals. 

The following illustration shows this use case.

This development article walks you through how to implement this use case by implementing a custom AEM service and a Scheduler service.  To read this development article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/aem63_watche_folder_scheduler.html.

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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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