Posts Tagged ‘AEM’

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 […]

I’ve recently had the need to validate that a multifield does not exceed a specific number of items, this post is a short code snippet that will show you how I did that.   This solution simple enough, it takes a few minutes to adapt it to a min validation or validating for a specific […]

We all run into instances where it is necessary to make some dialog fields mandatory. A myriad of cases come to mind, but one of the most popular scenarios is to require Alt text for images. In a previous post, one of my Perficient Digital colleagues shared best practices on how to validate authoring fields. In […]

Out of the box logging configuration in AEM not cutting it for you? Check out what you can achieve with SLF4j’s MDC patterns.

You probably already know that Adobe added support for composite multifield in 6.3. Adobe also added support for nested multifield and nested composite multifield in AEM 6.4.   Nested? Composite? Huh? Take a look at the AEM 6.4 docs for multifield Let’s define them   Multifiled: Allows authors the ability to add a list of items, each […]

If you’re a developer or come from a development background, you’ve seen a lot of bad code in your career. It’s just part of the learning experience… we all wrote bad code at some point in time and learned from it. src: xkcd comics I can’t cure bad code. That’s something to be fixed through a […]

You’ve probably seen this curl command in many articles online: [1]  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 an package to an AEM server. This is can also be used in Jenkins builds to deploy a package after […]

If you’ve never heard of draw.io, now you have! it’s a fantastic tool for creating free, high quality diagrams. You can use use it to do quick diagrams and sometimes quick and dirty UI mockups (nothing fancy). Recently, we encountered the need to mockup AEM dialogs. Now, you can do this with draw’s provided elements. […]