January 2018 session of Ask the AEM Community Experts

For the January 2018 session of Ask the AEM Community Experts, we are doing a session on Multi-Site Management with AEM. However - we are trying a different format for this session. We are collecting MSM questions from the community and then these questions (we will attempt all - however it depends on how many we get) will be answered during the session.

To watch this session - click http://bit.ly/ATACE118

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Creating an Experience Manager 6.3 Page using the Page Manager API

You can create an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.3 service that uses the Page Manager API to dynamically create pages. To create a page using the Experience Manager Java API, you use the Page Manager API. For information, see Page Manager API in the Experienced Manager JavaDocs.

The following illustration shows the page that is created by following this development article.

To read this development article, click      https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/aem63_createPage.html.

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Injecting Images into Granite/Coral Select Fields

When developing Adobe Experience Manager components, you often use a Granite/Coral Select field in your component dialog. A Select field lets an Experience Manager author choose from a list of values. For example, assume an author can select a country from a list of countries. To improve the appearance of the Granite/Coral Select field, you can add images to the Select field, as shown in the following illustration.

This development article walks your though how to add images to a Granite/Coral Select field. To read this article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/aem63_image_select.html.

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Reading OSGi Configuration Values for Adobe Experience Manager 6.3

Summary

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager OSGi bundle that reads configuration values. This article uses Declarative Services Annotations. 

You can define OSGi configuration values by using CRXDE lite and dynamically read these values from within an OSGi service. By defining configuration values, you can define values used by an OSGi service and use these values while the service is running. Unlike hard-coding values in an AEM OSGi service, defining values in the AEM configuration user interface (http://localhost:4502/system/console/configMgr) lets you change values without re-compiling the bundle.

To read this article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/osgi_config63.html. 

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Creating a HTL Repeating Data Set 6.3 Component that uses Sling Models

You can create an Adobe Experience Manager 6.3 HTL component that displays repeating information that can be set by an AEM author during design time. For example, consider a typical on-line section of a sports site. Each section of the HTL component can list a story includes:

• a digital asset (located in the Experience Manager DAM)
• a heading
• text

The following illustration shows an Experience Manager HTL component listing various sport stories about a youth football club.

The multi-field in this article has the following fields based on Granite/Coral data types:

• A text field based on granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/textfield.
• A path field based on granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/pathfield.
• A textarea picker based on granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/textarea.

This development article steps you through how to build an AEM 6.3 HTL component by using an AEM Maven Archetype 11 project and a Sling Model. 

To read this development article, click   https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/aem63_htl_repeat_slingmodel.html. 

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Congratulations Ratna Kumar Kotla - our 2017 AEM Community Member of the year

I want to extend my congratulations to Ratna Kumar Kotla - our 2017 AEM Community Member of the year winner. Ratna is a very involved AEM Community member and has helped countless AEM Developers. He has contributed code used for use in HELPX articles, answered many AEM Forum questions, and has tested most of our 2017 HELPX articles to make sure they work.

This year, we are very pleased to award Ratna with a laptop computer.

From all of the Adobe Experience Cloud Community team - we want to congratulate you!

Read Ratna's Journey of becoming a top  community member here. 

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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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Creating a Granite/Coral Multi field HTL component for Adobe Experience Manager

You can create an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.3 Touch UI component that uses a Granite/Coral multi-field. That is, you can use a Granite/Coral multi-field data type to build a dialog that lets an author enter information into a multi-field control in the component's dialog, as shown in this illustration.

A Granite multi-field is based on granite/ui/components/foundation/form/multifield.  To learn how to work with a Granite multi-field, see http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2017/08/creating-aem-html-template-language-63.html. 

A Granite/Coral multi-field is based on  granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/multifield. There are several advantages to working with  Granite/Coral multi-field. For one thing, you do not need to write a JS script or use the ACS-Commons package.

However, there are also some differences too. One important difference to understand is how the data is stored in the JCR. By default, Granite/Coral multi-field data is stored as child nodes, as shown in the illustration. Notice that each multi-field is a separate node, as shown here. 

This changes the way you read the multi-field data when using Java business logic. In this example, item0 represents the first multi-field and item1 represents the second field. The properties of these nodes represents the values that the author entered into the dialog. 

You can develop Java business logic in a WCMUsePojo class to read the dialog values and then display the data in the HTL component. This is covered in this development article. 

To read this development article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/multifield_coral_aem63.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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