One of the most common content structures in Content Management is articles. Articles are self-contained pieces of content relating to a single subject. This can range from blog posts to knowledge base articles, to news articles. Articles pose a challenge in Content Management as they don’t follow the content structure of the rest of the […]
Experience Management
Should Your Content Authoring Team All Be Sitecore Admins?
Having established roles and workflows in Sitecore makes for good governance and ensures your authoring team is supporting your content strategy. While this seems like an organizational no-brainer for larger content teams, you may wonder if smaller teams need the same level of oversight. Don’t all these formal rules and processes just get in the […]
AEM Development Quick Tip: Component Unique ID
Often times, you need a unique ID for the AEM component. You either need to trigger custom action with JS or make a backend server side call. A hard-coded field ID is not unique if the component is dragged and dropped multiple times in the page. This post will give you a quick tip to […]
5 Reminders for Your Website Redesign
Change is all around us, and the driving forces of change seem to have hit the accelerator in the last couple of years. Whether it’s rising customer expectations, continual connectedness, organizational velocity, or the proliferation of data, one thing is very clear. Today, it’s a customer-driven world, and those customers are in the driver’s seat. […]
You WILL get to personalization, I promise!
Remember PURLs or Personalized URLs? I certainly do, as it was my job to build PURL microsites for hundreds of forward-reaching direct mail marketers over the course of several years. Tie that together with variable printing and POW! – your customers’ names are not only on their mail but on a website too. Dazzling! Yes, […]
Upcoming Webinar: Easy Access to Critical Information: Content Reports in AEM
🕙 It’s almost time! In just under a week, on April 24th, I will be presenting at the next Ask the Community Expert session about AEM Content Reports. I previously covered AEM Content Reports in my post New From Perficient Digital: Content Reports in AEM. This webinar will go deeper and show you […]
Highlight of Adobe Summit Day 2: DAM 2.0
In day 2 of Adobe Summit, I saw some great innovations and new features in the AEM Assets platform which together solve the most difficult challenges of Digital Asset Management. Bringing AI to DAM Today’s general session highlighted a new capability which I believe is as much of a revelationary step forward in […]
New Features in Adobe Experience Manager Assets
It is fun to see the new features of a well used product. The team of Elliot Sedegah and Joshua Ramirez did the classic “dog & pony” show featuring what is new in the Adobe Experience Manager Assets. In this 2018 Adobe Summit session, the Adobe product team highlighted the 10 feature areas that ensure […]
Non-AEM relative links in RTE and Path Browser in Touch UI
In AEM 6.0, 6.1 & 6.2 the Touch UI RTE link plugin and path browser adds a content keyword automatically. This begins as soon as the author starts typing/. It can be difficult for authors to enter non-AEM relative links in the content, and some environments require both AEMand non-AEM links in the same domain. A […]
Single Page Application Approaches in AEM
With all the buzz around Single Page Applications (SPA), there are many unanswered architectural questions. What happens to traditional Web Content Management systems? Who will own the glass? What is the right approach? The answer is more nuanced than a blanket response. The right approach for your experience will depend based on the type of […]
Approach Overview: Compiling and Authoring React Applications in AEM
The Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) platform allows for a great level of customizability – there can be endless unique implementations. This level of customization will continue to increase given Adobe’s frequent updates in integrations and emerging technologies. With the surge in single-page application (SPA) designs, JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, and Handlebars are now some […]
FYI: Seismic Changes Coming in AEM 6.4
I recently had the opportunity to attend the AEM Gems webinar previewing the latest release of Adobe Experience Manager, AEM 6.4. This new release comes with many new features and enhancements including significantly enhanced capabilities in Content Intelligence, template editing, and multi-channel publication. It’s one of Adobe’s more technical changes, however, that will have a […]