As an AEM Developer, we always wanted a faster deployment process enabled in AEM as Cloud Service Environments. There is a good news for all of us! Why we need faster deployments? Being a curious developer, one of the newly developed feature we wanted to test quickly but we know usually a deployment takes an average of 40 minutes in AEM cloud service. The average time for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) cloud deployment can vary depending on several factors, such as the complexity of the implementation, the size of the content repository, the number of customizations required, and the chosen ..read more

GraphQL is a query language for APIs that was developed by Facebook. It provides a flexible and powerful way to fetch and manipulate data from AEM, making it easier for developers to build applications on top of the AEM platform. In this blog post, we will explore the basics of working with GraphQL in AEM. What is GraphQL? First, let's look at what GraphQL is and how it differs from other API technologies. Unlike REST, which uses a fixed structure for requesting and returning data, GraphQL allows developers to specify exactly what data they want to fetch or manipulate in a single query. This ..read more

In this blog, we will see the major difference between InDesign, Framemaker and AEM Guides InDesign Framemaker AEM Guides/XML Doc Adobe InDesign is an industry-leading layout and page design software for print and digital media. Adobe FrameMaker is a document processor designed for writing and editing large or complex documents, including structured documents AEM Guides is a best-in-class multichannel publishing of DITA content used for product documentation, policies and procedures, long-form marketing content managed through a component content management system. Adobe Experience Manage ..read more

 There are cases where we might need to manage content beyond the capability of a CMS Solution. Component Content Management System (CCMS) lets you manage content at a component level by providing capability of managing content at granular levels. Here content is created in the form of components. What is a component in CCMS? A component is a piece of structured & self-contained content. It can contain a single word, a series of paragraphs, an image, table, or a video. The components are written in a modular manner without any style dependency. Component manages the relationships an ..read more

Evolution of AEM from on-prem/AMS to AEM As Cloud service has reduced the security concerns to a certain limit. But there are areas an AEM architect should be concerned about, when the code moves to production. Role of Application Security Testing (AST) The application security is a major consideration when new design techniques are adopted and DevSecOps are in demand. Application Security Testing (AST) tools available as On-Premise,Cloud or as a SaaS offering. The current tech-market comprises of Application Security Testing (AST) tools offering core testing capabilities — which can be of t ..read more

What is Adobe WorkFront? Workfront is a Work management application, which helps organizations to organize entire work in single location.   Workfront helps manage projects, assign tasks, manage resources, documents, allocate finance, generate various reports, analytics reports etc. The tool basically helps standardize process and establish governance within any organization. Using this tool, a Project Manager can create projects and related tasks, assign tasks to team, set end dates etc. Project status section captures all status of a project (based on details which are manually update ..read more

Below given step by step tutorial on Uses & Features of Brand Portal, integrating AEM with Brand Portal and how to work on Brand Portal. Introduction to Adobe Brand Portal - Video 1 Difference between Brand Portal Dynamic Media and Asset share commons - Video 2 Brand Portal User Interface Walk-through - Video 3 Integrate AEM with Brand Portal - Video 4 Asset Sourcing in Brand Portal - Video 5 Search and filtering in Brand Portal - Video 6 Report Generation in Brand Portal -Video 7 ..read more

There are cases where we need to generate reports for a users last log-in in AEM.  I have seen many help blogs but none of them worked for me. Below given an approach which worked for me. Approach Utilising 'AuthenticationInfoPostProcessor' service in combination with ACS commons, its going to be easy to generate such reports. This is tested on AEM 6.5 version. Step1: Deploy below Java code which will capture lastLogin information.      Java class which captures the users last login and update the user node Note: Modify the conditions as per your project requirement.  ..read more

By default, AEM supports Assets that are smaller than 2 GB because of a file size limit. However, you can overwrite this limit by going into CRXDE Lite and creating a node under the /apps directory detailed in URL. Refer URL : RAW Assets Size More info:  https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/assets/managing/managing-video-assets.html?lang=en#configuration-to-upload-assets-that-are-larger-than-gb Is there any limit to upload an asset? It can be configured to 30 GB also. AEM doesnt define a size limit. What we need to ensure while changing the default behavior ..read more

 Recently I got an email from my AEM Admin about the indexing issue. The email had some content as shown below. "WARN* [qtp1832135175-163] org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.Cursors$TraversingCursor Traversed 10,000 nodes with filter Filter(query=select * from [nt:base] where foo = 'bar', path=*, property=[foo=[bar]]); consider creating an index " Some times while working on AEM, we may face traversal warnings. The latest AEM doesn't index the nodes by default. So to ensure our content gets indexed well within AEM, we will have to create indexing nodes and get them indexed. Below given ..read more