Posts Tagged ‘AEM’

If you are like me, you hate setting up a dispatcher (and revel in the benefits of having someone else do that). One of the common problems I see is SELinux stopping the dispatcher from doing dispatcher things. I’m going to share two easy fixes I’ve found for the two most common ways SELinux becomes […]

You’ve probably seen the curl command shown below in many articles online. curl -u admin:admin -F file=@”name of zip file” -F name=”name of package” -F force=true -F install=true http://localhost:4505/crx/packmgr/service.jsp It allows you to upload and install a package to an AEM server, and can also be used in builds within Jenkins to deploy a package […]

Documentation Documentation Documentation. I believe documentation is one of the most important aspects of delivering a product, or in this case, an AEM component. If you aren’t already, you should use the Granite UI widget fieldDescription property to add helpful tooltips to your dialog fields. You can also use the Granite Alert Widget for quick […]

It seems like dark mode is taking over everything from IDE’s, to various apps and services (including the new MacOs Mojave). Use Case The use case is pretty simple. In some dialogs, you have RTE’s and want to author text in white color. But that text becomes invisible against the default, white background of dialog […]

Since the release of AEM 6.4, Adobe has changed the way Dynamic Media is integrated with AEM.  Configuring the integration is now a little different than what customers are used to in 6.3 and below. Adobe has provided an architecture diagram of Dynamic Media – Scene7 mode, which describes how it works. In this post, […]

In AEM 6.3, the responsive Layout feature was introduced, and the Adobe documentation will show you exactly how it works. Though some customizations and how to achieve them are not super clear, this feature works out of the box. It is certainly a great addition that enables authors to create custom grid layouts that were […]

If you have not read my post explaining how to show/hide page properties based on a template in AEM 6.4  you may want to stop and read that before this one. Especially the “Granite Render Condition” section as it is the basis for this post. Now onto the good stuff! Banner Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash The Use Case […]

In AEM 6.3+, there is a feature that allows content authors to “Request Publication” or “Request Unpublication.” The option becomes available when the content author does not have replication permission crx:replicate on the page they are currently authoring. See image below: Banner Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash   The Publish/Unpublish Page Wizard Once the author clicks on “Request Publication,” the […]

Users expect an engaging and quality experience on your site. If little things aren’t working correctly, they are likely to get frustrated and leave. Link Checker is a useful tool within AEM that validates all external and internal links on content pages. It shows all invalid, expired, and pre-dated links broken in the authoring environment, […]

AEM Developers, raise your hand if you’ve never broken a local AEM instance. If you did raise your hand, you just might be the most diligent AEM developer out there! Full disclosure, I break my local AEM instances more times than I can count, and usually, I have to redo my local AEM setup. My […]

If you’ve ever written a proxy servlet in AEM, chances are you’ve used Apache’s HttpComponents library. While a great library, there are not many resources online for how to test it when used inside your code. If you have not seen my post, The Ultimate Code Quality Setup for your AEM project  , you should check it […]

While working on a project recently, I needed to include a service user within the Adobe Experience Manager package I was deploying. By doing this, administrators wouldn’t have to create the service users manually During this process, I ran into a few exceptions and wanted to share. A few things to note: The banner photo is […]