In this session, attendees will learn about the newly released AEM 6.5 including new features and improvements.

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INTRO TO AEM 6.5
Benjie Wheeler
Adobe
August 6, 2019

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AGENDA
• UI UPDATES
• SITES
• ASSETS
• CONTENT SERVICES
• TECHNICAL / MISC.

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UI UPDATES
List View has column
for workflow status
List View + open
Sidebar Content Tree
= same info as
Classic UI Site Admin
ColumnView - Lazy Loading
– Loads only entries that are visible on the screen
– Loads more only when the user is starting to scroll

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SELECT ALL
The Select All action attempts to perform the action to all pages/assets, not
just what has been loaded.
Note: A warning dialog will be shown if the action has not been upgraded to handle Bulk Actions.

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REFERENCE RAIL – INTERNAL REFERENCES

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PAGE THUMBNAIL

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AEM SITES
• PERMISSIONS
• CONFIGURATION BROWSER
• PROJECTS

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ASSIGNING CONTENT PERMISSIONS – PAGE PROPERTIES >
PERMISSIONS Roughly equivalent
to CRUD
Permissions
Page Properties tab accessible to Application Administrators with
permission to edit ACLs in specified path

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ASSIGNING PERMISSIONS - TOOLS > SECURITY >
PERMISSIONS
JCR Actions and
Permissions

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CONFIGURATION BROWSER
Application Administrators can now perform configuration tasks that used
to require developers or administrators
 Access to CRXDE no longer necessary to modify context-sensitive
configurations

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MASTER PROJECT
Groups and Roles are
reused when Projects
are created from the
Master Project

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TRANSLATION ENHANCEMENTS
• Simplify creation of Translation Projects by using Project Masters
• Simplify executing Translation Projects by setting translation jobs to
approved status by default
• Update translated pages with changes in 3rd-party Translation Memory
• Export translation jobs in JSON format
• Update Microsoft Translation integration to use V3 API

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AEM ASSETS

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ASSET LINK
• Search across AEM
Assets and Creative
Cloud Assets
• Enable new assets to be
uploaded to AEM Assets
• Easily access through
Single Sign On (SSO)
with Creative Cloud
account credentials Check-out/in content stored in AEM Assets to prevent duplicate work by team
members and maintain a single source of truth
 Keep work-in-progress assets and final production assets in separate
locations

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ADOBE STOCK INTEGRATION
Preview Adobe Stock
image
from AEM Assets
Search and filter licensed
Adobe Stock images
using AEM Assets

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CASCADING METADATA
• Metadata Schema tool is used to
define cascading metadata rules
– Define chains of
dependencies and value
mappings between metadata
fields
– Define context in which
metadata form fields are
displayed/hidden
• Display only relevant
fields, depending on
values in other fields

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CONNECTED ASSETS
Targeted at larger deployments
with a number of distributed AEM
Sites instance deployments
– Leverage assets from a
central AEM Assets DAM
– Improve assets
governance for centrally
managed assets
– Enable efficient delivery of
assets to the various Sites
deployments
Drag and drop from
a remote DAM

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COMPOUND ASSETS / DYNAMIC ASSET
REFERENCES
• AEM Assets can identify if an uploaded file contains
references to assets that already exist in the repository
• AEM Assets supports bidirectional referencing
• AEM Assets used in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and
Photoshop files are dynamic
– References based on path to asset
– References update automatically if the referenced
assets moves in the JCR hierarchy

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COMPOUND ASSETS - DEPENDENCIES
Other AEM
Assets that
this file is
DEPENDENT
on

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COMPOUND ASSETS – REFERENCED BY
Pages,
assets, files
that
REFERENCE
this asset

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‘SMART’ ASSET ENHANCEMENTS
• Visual Search
– powered by Adobe Sensei, helps marketers using AEM Assets find similar
images to a specific asset in a matter of seconds
• Smart Tags
– extends to video, using Adobe Sensei to automate the process of video
discovery with intelligent tags that correspond to actions, attributes, and
objects in videos
• Smart Crop for video
– powered by Adobe Sensei, automatically identifies and crops the most
important parts of a video in AEM Assets to ensure a great video
experience for users no matter which direction they hold their phones

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AEM CONTENT SERVICES
• CONTENT FRAGMENTS
• EXPERIENCE FRAGMENTS

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AEM CONTENT SERVICES
• AEM Content Services generalize the description and delivery of
content in/from AEM beyond a focus on webpages. (Enhanced in 6.5)
– For example, headless CMS
• Standardized delivery methods that can be consumed by any client
– JSON Format
– Channels can include:
• Single Page Applications (SPAs)
• Native Mobile Applications
• Other channels and touchpoints external to AEM

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CONTENT SERVICES
• AEM stores content in a media-neutral
way
• Export AEM content to alternate
destinations
– In chunks smaller than a page
– In multiple formats
• For example: HTML and JSON
AEM Page
Page content
exported as
JSON

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CONTENT FRAGMENTS (CF)
• Reusable, page-independent
content
• Pure content, stored as Asset
in AEM
– No layout or design beyond
rich text formats
• Variations optimized for editorial or channel purposes
• Requires Content Fragment Component for JSON export

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CF ENHANCEMENTS, 6.5
• Comments and Annotations
– New comment rail in Content Fragment Editor to make general comments and
see comments made within the text (also show up in Timeline rail)
– Add comment/annotations by selecting text in the RTE (full-screen view)
• Set the default content type of a multiline text element in a content
fragment model to simple text, rich text or markdown
• Compare versions of a Content Fragment side-by-side via Reference rail
• Assets Download Report now shows Content Fragments

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CF ENHANCEMENTS, 6.5
• Content Fragment support in Assets HTTP API via /api.json.
– APIs for create, update, read and delete of Content Fragments.
• Use Adobe Sensei’s natural language processing technology to summarize
text automatically for smaller screens, so you can easily create text once
and reuse it within your cross-channel experiences.

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CONTENT FRAGMENTS & SERVICES -
TECHNOLOGY
Built from a ’Content
Fragment Model’ CF template
Built from ’Simple
Fragment’ CF
template

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EXPERIENCE FRAGMENTS (XF)
Content +
Layout that
forms an
experience.
Makes sense
on its own
Variations for
specific use-
cases
Reuse across channels –
whether owned or 3rd party.

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EXPERIENCE FRAGMENTS VS. CONTENT
FRAGMENTS• While Content Fragments must be wrapped in a component on a Page or
wrapped in an Experience Fragment in order to be exported in JSON
format…
… Experience Fragments can
be exported directly into JSON
format using the Sling Model
Exporter

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XF ENHANCEMENTS, 6.5
• Send Experience Fragments to Adobe Target to create offers
– Export to Target option now allows to send the Experience Fragment as
JSON (default is HTML), or both
• Faceted search improvements
– Published/not published
– Exported
• Improved the indexing of Experience Fragments, so their content is found in
search for pages where they are being used

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TECHNICAL / MISC.

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ADOBE JAVA SUPPORT
Oracle Java support
• Java 11 is the recommended version for AEM 6.5
– Java 8 is supported, but Adobe recommends that the latest supported
Java version be used
– Java 11 results in performance enhancements, as compared to Java 8
• Java 8 is the recommended version for AEM 6.4, 6.3, and 6.2
• Java 9 and 10 are not supported for AEM, because they are non-Long-
Term Support (LTS) releases by Oracle
• Check for latest download on http://java.sun.com (will redirect to
oracle.com).

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CLASSIC UI - DEPRECATED
• Deprecated starting with 6.4
• Shipped as part of AEM in versions 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4,
and 6.5
• Supported for versions 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5
Recommendation: Customers should upgrade to the
newest available AEM version first, and then make the
switch away from the Classic UI.
**Direct in-place upgrade to AEM 6.5 is supported for customers running AEM 6.2,
6.3 and 6.4.

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CLASSIC UI – DEPRECATED PATHS
• /libs/cq/core/content/welcome.html
• /siteadmin
• /damadmin
• /miscadmin
• /useradmin
• /mcmadmin
• /inbox
• /tagging
• /cf# (Page Editor)
• /libs/launches/content/admin.html
• /libs/cq/workflow/content/console.html

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FOUNDATION COMPONENTS - DEPRECATED
Adobe does not plan to make further
enhancements to the “Foundation
Components”
The following foundation components are
NOT deprecated:
– Basic Page
– Layout Container, (Inherited) Paragraph
System, and Column Control
– Experience Fragments
Recommendation: Customers are advised
to use the Core Components for future
projects.

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REPOSITORY RESTRUCTURE - EASIER UPGRADE
• AEM 6.3 and earlier versions a good deal of ambiguity existed over the ownership of
/etc and it sometimes resulted in this:
AEM 6.4/6.5
• Moves content, specifically configuration content, out of /etc
• Provides guidelines on who owns what and how to extend the OOTB
features

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REPOSITORY RESTRUCTURE – WHAT GOES
WHERE
• Starting with AEM 6.4, content is being restructured out of /etc to
other folders
• Rules:
– AEM product code will always be placed in /libs
– Customer application should be placed in /apps (code and clientlibs),
/content (content), /conf (configuration information)
Note: In most cases, backwards compatibility to the old locations is
maintained after upgrade to AEM 6.4/6.5. Customers are encouraged
to remove old locations, so content in the new locations is used.

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REPOSITORY CONTENT CLASSIFICATION
Public (granite:PublicArea mixin)
– Can be
• Overlaid
• Inherited (sling:resourceSuperType)
• Used directly (sling:resourceType)
– Nodes marked as Public under /libs
will be upgrade-safe
– Customer apps should only leverage
nodes marked as Public
Final (granite:FinalArea mixin)
– Cannot be overlaid or inherited
– Can use directly (sling:resourceType)
– Children of Final nodes are
considered Internal by default

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REPOSITORY CLASSIFICATION (CONT.)
Abstract (granite:AbstractArea mixin)
– Can be overlaid or inherited
– Must not be used directly
Internal (granite:InternalArea mixin)
– Cannot be overlaid, inherited, or used
directly
– Internal functionality of AEM
No annotation
– Inherit classification base on the tree
hierarchy
– Notes with parent classified as
Internal or Final are treated as Internal

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AEM SINGLE PAGE APPLICATION (SPA) EDITOR
• Developers build sites using SPA frameworks
• Authors seamlessly edit content within AEM for a site built using such
frameworks AEM instance and React/Angular
Development Server render the
same content
AEM instance and React/Angular
Development Server render the same
content

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SPA IS AEM-AGNOSTIC
React JS Component
mapped to an AEM
component
React JS Component
mapped to an AEM
component

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HTL ENHANCEMENTS
Current release: HTL version 1.4
 “in” operator for strings, arrays and
objects:
${'a' in 'abc’}
${100 in myArray}
${‘a’ in myObject}
‘in’ operator
 Variable declarations with data-sly-set
element :
<sly data-sly-
set.title="${currentPage.title}"/>${title}
variable declarationvariable declaration

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HTL ENHANCEMENTS
• List and repeat control parameters: begin, step, end:
<h2 data-sly-list="${currentPage.listChildren @ begin = 0, step=3,
end=9}">${item.title}</h2>
<h2 data-sly-repeat="${currentPage.listChildren @ begin = 1,
end=7}">${item.title}</h2>
Iteration begins
at item at index 0
Process every third
item
End at item 9

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HTL ENHANCEMENTS
• Identifiers for data-sly-unwrap:
<div data-sly-unwrap.isUnwrapped="${myCondition || myOtherCondition}">
text <span data-sly-test="${isUnwrapped}>is unwrapped</span>
</div>
• Support for negative numbers
Assign identifier to
access the result of
the test
1,000.00
(3.14)
-3.14
-.314E01

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CORE COMPONENTS
New version 2.X Components:
• Carousel
• Tabs
• Separator
• Teaser

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CORE COMPONENT LIBRARY INSTALLED W/
SAMPLE CONTENT

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THANK YOU!