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Bulk file transfers with WebDAV

Bulk asset transfers to a JCR are sometimes tedious especially when using AEM's Assets Manager or Site Admin. Adobe does have tutorials on how to upload to the DAM and accessing AEM via WebDAV. This tutorial will make the accessing AEM via WebDAV more clear for Windows and Mac, and...

May 11, 2016 By Erik Johnsen AEM, WebDAV, JCR 0 Comments Read more...

Adding to the Create Page Wizard in Touch UI

In this blog post, I will describe how you can add a new property to the Page dialog and make it available in the Create Page wizard and Touch UI Dialog in AEM 6.1. It is common to add new properties to dialogs whenever you need to give authors additional...

May 4, 2016 By Ryan Durbin dialog, page properties, AEM 6.1 0 Comments Read more...

The JCR Installer Pause Issue

On a recent client we found ourselves battling what became known as JCR installer hell. No, it wasn't quite as bad as whatever hell you might imagine. Yes, it was quite the inconvenience. If you've experienced yourself, you'll immediately start nodding your head. Let me know if you've heard this...

April 6, 2016 By Josh Boyle Sling, JCR, pause 0 Comments Read more...

Granite UI: Empowering the Select Field

There have been vast improvements to the new touch ui interface since its inception back with version 5.6. Some of the authoring form fields however are still catching up to their extjs predecessors. One such field that lacks some helpful functionality is the select field(or /libs/granite/ui/components/foundation/form/select). Let's take a look...

March 20, 2016 By Chris Wolf AEM 6.1, Granite UI, Authoring 0 Comments Read more...

AEM With Freemarker Templating Language

Not every developer in the AEM space is overwhelmed by enthusiasm when choosing between sightly or jsp. While the masses argue about the advantages of one over the other, everyone can agree neither is perfect. Whether turned off by the adolescence of Sightly or the rampant use of scriptlet that...

February 13, 2016 By Chris Wolf Scripting Engine, AEM 6.1, Freemarker 0 Comments Read more...

Vaulting to AEM

Image Credit: "DK Vault" By Dinoenthusiastguy Licensed under CC BY-SA via Wikia Using the CRX (Content Repository eXtreme) via CRXDE can be cumbersome especially for testing, the following are easier ways to interact with the CRX via common IDEs. The basic concept is similar to git where as to pull...

January 20, 2016 By Erik Johnsen AEM, CRX, Content Repository eXtreme 0 Comments Read more...

Installing AEM 6.1 Hotfixes

This post details a technique and a proper sequence for installing hotfixes on top of AEM 6.1 General Availability (GA) which is version 6.1.0.20150507. Until the Service Pack 1 for AEM 6.1 drops, with a target of Q1 2016, this is a good method for quickly deploying all relevant hotfixes...

January 8, 2016 By Center of Excellence AEM 6, AEM 6.1, Ops 0 Comments Read more...

Resizing Touch UI component dialogs

In this blog post I lay out a technique that I've recently put together to have more control over component dialog "windows" or modals in AEM 6.1's Touch UI interface. This user-interface is set to replace Classic UI. It's thus a good idea to get acquainted with the way it...

January 7, 2016 By Center of Excellence AEM 6, AEM 6.1, Touch UI 0 Comments Read more...

Introduction to Apache Camel

In a recent AEM project I was introduced to Apache Camel, a solution for migrating content from one endpoint/platform to another. As it applies to an AEM migration, a Camel implementation may be vital to saving time and resources, particularly in cases where the amount of content to migrate is...

December 3, 2015 By Victoria Pershick AEM 6, AEM 6.1, Apache 0 Comments Read more...

AEM 6.1 - Filter RequestDispatcher Forward breaks i18n

I just noticed that on AEM 6, in my Filter, when I call RequestDispatcher forward, i.e. request.getRequestDispatcher(...).forward(req, res);, it cause i18n to break. Here's a snippet of my codes: ... boolean filtered = false; SlingHttpServletRequest request = req instanceof SlingHttpServletRequest ? (SlingHttpServletRequest) req : null; SlingHttpServletResponse response = res instanceof SlingHttpServletResponse ? (SlingHttpServletResponse) res : null; if (request != null && response != null) { // block of codes to resolve the request uri and get the new...

September 21, 2015 By Center of Excellence AEM 6, i18n, Localization 0 Comments Read more...

Decompile AEM: How to get a jar from AEM

AEM development is sometimes difficult to get started due to limited documentation. By having some code examples or a clearer understanding of what is under the hood, this could be the difference from good code to great code. Having the ability to decompile a jar can be very helpful in...

September 16, 2015 By Center of Excellence AEM6, AEM 5.6, jar 0 Comments Read more...

Apache Felix SCR Plugin Compatibility Chart

One of the issues I've run into during the past when setting up AEM / CQ5 projects is incompatibility between the various versions of the Apache Felix SCR Annotations and the Apache Felix Maven SCR Plugin. Usually, when this occurs, you will see an error like this when building the...

September 14, 2015 By Center of Excellence Apache Felix, SCR, Apache Maven 0 Comments Read more...

Chrome Console Magic

Chrome has many timesaving and neat tools built into it, many of these tools are not necessarily obvious on the surface. This post is a deeper dive into what is available. If you are not familiar with Chrome Dev Tools at all, this post is probably not for you. $...

September 8, 2015 By Erik Johnsen Chrome, Console, Front-end 0 Comments Read more...

Breaking Through

Approximately 4 years ago, a senior developer at the company I was working for responded to a feedback request for my annual review. While the phrasing of this particular piece of feedback made it immediately apparent who authored it, I'll forgo sharing his name. The feedback itself left an immediate...

September 7, 2015 By Josh Boyle growth, development, employee development 0 Comments Read more...

CQ 5.6 Tipping Point

Image Credit: "Woodwards building Vancouver demolition 1" by Tannoy at English Wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Recently, I spent a bit of time running performance tests against various versions of CQ5/AEM to understand the performance characteristics of the different versions. One of the interesting outcomes of...

September 2, 2015 By Center of Excellence AEM6, DevOps 0 Comments Read more...