What is Workflow in AEM? Workflows enable you to automate Experience Manager activities. Workflows consist of a series of steps that are executed in a specific order. Each step performs a distinct activity such as activating a page or sending an email message. Workflows can interact with assets in the repository, user accounts, and Experience … Continued
Cloud is exciting!! We knew it; Our Clients knew it. The only thing we didn’t predict is how fast the wildfire will be. We had initially gone in for a small cloud engagement with one of the US’s largest Energy Companies. By the time we realized, we were engaging with multiple teams (sometimes multiple projects … Continued
Continued from Part 1… Application Setup and Deploy: The Player exclusion spring-boot microservices will run on Docker container-based Linux instances. It will use Azure DevOps toolchain (Azure Boards, Repos, Pipelines & Artifacts) for its software development & delivery lifecycle. Azure DevOps will handle Application deployments in an automated manner to provide a streamlined error-free development lifecycle. The Application Code will be hosted in Azure Repos. … Continued
Last year, a government lottery agency that conducts and manages gaming facilities, province-wide lottery games, internet gaming, bingo, and other electronic gaming products at Charitable Gaming Centers came to us with an interesting problem. They wanted the digital arm of our Consulting firm to build an online Player Exclusion system. It will be used for managing the ineligibility of the players for the agency’s digital business. … Continued
Understanding customer behavior plays a vital role in the modern digital marketing world to ensure success in any digital initiative. There is no other proven source or tool to understand customers than a Unified Customer View that provides a 360-degree view of the customer including demography, buying behaviour, activity history, product preferences, etc. The problem … Continued
In preparation for Adobe Summit week, I sat down (well socially-distanced, unfortunately!) with two colleagues at ICF Next to discuss the future of AEM in the cloud. We give some context for folks to inform their decision-making process on whether or not it’s a good time to move their marketing workloads to AEM as a … Continued
ICF Next maintains several open source libraries for the Adobe Experience Manager platform. In anticipation of the release of AEM version 6.5, we’ve updated our libraries (detailed below) to provide preliminary support for the upcoming 6.5 release in addition to backward compatibility with AEM versions 6.3 and 6.4. Historically, these libraries have been coupled to … Continued
As an Adobe Experience Manager user or developer you will probably find yourself switching frequently between Author and Preview modes while testing new page content. The preview mode is great but the most accurate representation of a published AEM page is when the WCMMode is completely disabled. While the WCMMode can be manually controlled via … Continued
Since learning how to use Sling Context-Aware Configurations (CA-Config) was a rabbit hole of information, I wanted to provide one source for learning how to use CA-Configs in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.2+. I have ordered these in the way that I think it’s easiest to understand the possibilities of where and when you would … Continued
TL;DR If you know where to look you can step through pretty much every line of code that runs on an AEM instance. This article contains details on where to look and how to look there. Figuring out how stuff works is hard. When you’re working on AEM customizations, sometimes you need to know how … Continued
