Content Authoring

Sitecore Content Hub is a world-class platform for centralizing and managing content across various channels. It helps businesses organize and streamline often chaotic, messy content operations. It does this by providing an architecture or schema for content and its interconnections. A schema defines how different types of assets are structured, organized, related to each other. […]

Adobe Experience Manager is a powerful CMS tool used by organizations or individuals to deliver personalized digital experiences. One of its highlighted features is the editable template, which allows end users for creation and management of templates that can be customized by authors. This blog provides an overview of creating and utilizing editable templates in […]

Dynamic Media is one of the versatile tools provided by Adobe. Previously, it was known as Scene7. It has strong Asset editing and authoring tools capabilities. It is based on a Cache delivery network, which loads the contents to improve page load time and renders the right image renditions correctly resized and optimized. Dynamic Media allows […]

Let’s go through the basics of AEM. AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) is a CMS that provides digital asset and content management solutions. It is used to create and deploy websites. AEM structure includes instances that vary from environment to environment like Author Instance, Publish Instance, Dispatcher, and Load Balancer. To build any AEM application, it […]

When planning a new website, a web development team must identify the essential components required for completion. These pieces are often called components. Assuming the site is being built using a Content Management System (CMS), most, if not all of these platforms will have their own set of “out of the box” components. Out of […]

I have found myself talking about taxonomy a lot recently. Taxonomy is a big job in a website project, but it’s something stakeholders may not consider early enough in an implementation project. I refer to taxonomy as a big job not only because it can be a lot of work, but also because it is […]

Optimizely CMS comes with a package called Episerver.Forms that enables you to incorporate easy to build forms within a CMS website. There is a built in form container that supports standard built in form elements like input fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, select lists, buttons etc. And just like any other feature, Episerver Forms also come […]

If you’ve worked with Optimizely CMS, you might be pretty familiar with TinyMCE. Its the amazing rich text editor that works seamlessly with Optimizely CMS. And some of you may have worked with some or other form of customization with it in projects, be it adding additional styles, work with different plugins, format the toolbar […]

Perficient’s dedication to excellence and innovation has again been recognized at the 2023 Acquia Engage Awards. Out of 50 finalists from various industries and regions across the globe, we’ve been selected as a winner in the Excellence in Governance category. This category recognizes brands that have used technology to support regulatory compliance and/or information security […]

What about Rendering Parameters? I recently did a POC using rendering parameters in a component in XM Cloud. In this blog i will describe my approach, issues faced and how i overcame them. Adding a rendering to a component, is relatively straight forward in Sitecore development, i.e.(https://doc.sitecore.com/xmc/en/developers/xm-cloud/walkthrough–building-a-simple-rendering.html). However, there are some circumstances where things are […]

In today’s digital landscape, captivating visuals play a pivotal role in engaging online audiences. Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), a robust content management system, offers a wide array of powerful features to streamline content creation and delivery. Among these features, Smart Crop functionality is a valuable tool for optimizing and automating image cropping to fit various […]

Recently, a client approached us with a requirement to update content fragment elements data, Assets metadata, and Folder metadata via an Azure-based API. Our initial solution was to implement a JMX script, which could be started by an admin user group with valid parameters. However, this was a rather limiting solution, as normal AEM authors […]