Tools Consoles

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The Tools consoles provide access to a number of specialized tools that help you administer your websites, digital assets and other aspects of your content repository. There are currently two flavors of the Tools console dependent on the UI you are using:

Tools - Classic UI
Tools - Touch-Optimized UI

Tools - Classic UI

Page or Folder		Purpose
MSM Control Center		Centralized point for managing your multiple sites.
Client Context Configurations		The Client Context represents a dynamically assembled collection of user data. The default and marketing cloud configurations are held here.
Cloud Services Configurations		Holds configurations related to Integrating with the Adobe Marketing Cloud.
Commerce		Provides access to importers and various product data.
DAM - Digital Rights Management		Provides access to digital rights information and licences.
DAM - Health Checker		Compares `/var/dam` and `/content/dam` and checks for any inconsistencies. Any files/folders listed can then be synchronized or deleted. Node types for folder comparison are configurable in the web console.
DAM - Adobe Indesign		Scripts for use in conjunction with Adobe Indesign.
DAM - Video Profiles		Configurable profiles for ffmpeg transcodings.
Dashboards		Allows you to create reporting dashboards; these provide a customizable way to define pages that display consolidated data.
Designs		Holds the list of designs defined, including the graphics and css files to be used.
Custom Documentation		Used when extending the documentation and online help.
Form Submissions		Holds the list of form submissions received.
Importers - Bulk Editor		Lets you search for items and edit them in bulk. You can also export and import content (in bulk) into the repository.
Importer - Feed Importer		The feed importer is a framework to repeatedly import content from external sources into your repository. The idea of the feed importer is to poll a remote resource at a specified interval, to parse it, and to create nodes in the content repository that represent the content of the remote resource.
External Linkchecker		Scans all content pages within your AEM instance and checks any external links. A list of valid and invalid links displays.
Mobile		Helps you create websites designed for mobile devices.
MSM		Handles multilingual and multinational content, helping you balance centralized branding with localized content.
Notification		Notification templates.
Packages		An alternative link to the Package Manager that shows the packages that have been loaded for AEM WCM. Similar to the information shown in CRX's Package Manager.
Replication - Replication Agents		Used to replicate data from author to publish when publishing pages, or with reverse replication to return user comments from the publish environment to author.
Importers - Activate Tree		From the Websites tab you can activate the individual pages. When you have entered, or updated, a considerable number of content pages - all of which are resident under the same root page - it can be easier to activate the entire tree in one action. You can also perform a Dry Run to emulate an activation and highlight which pages would be activated.
Reports		AEM provides a range of customized reports, allows you to create customized reports and/or develop your own.
Default Page Scaffolding		With scaffolding you can create a form (a scaffold) with fields that reflect the structure you want for your pages and then use this form to easily create pages based on this structure.
Security - Self-Service Configuration		Lets you configure the emails that users automatically receive when they create an account or reset a password and to confirm a password that has been reset.
Segmentation		Site visitors have different interests and objectives when they come to a site. Understanding these goals and fulfilling the expectations is an important success factor for online marketing. Segmentation helps to achieve this by analyzing and characterizing a visitor's details.
socialconfig		Default SRP configuration. See Storage Configuration console.
taskmanagement		No active functionality related to this entry.
tenants		No active functionality related to this entry.
Versioning - Purge Versions		Allows you to purge page versions as required.
Virtual Repositories		You can set up a Virtual Repository using the workspace mount feature to provide JCR-enabled content applications with simplified access to JCR content infrastructure based on CRX and the JCR Connectors.
watchwords		Deprecated. See Moderating Community Content
Workflow		Workflows control a series of actions on pages or digital assets that support any editorial process.

Tools - Touch-Optimized UI

Section	Option	Purpose
Authoring
	Campaigns	Manage your marketing campaigns.
	Launches	Manage your marketing launches.
Tasks
	Inbox	Manage your Inbox items.
Operations
	Users and Groups	Manage your users and groups.
	Tag Management	Organize your tags and their namespaces.
	Cloud Services	Connect to Adobe Marketing Cloud.
	Workflows	Model and manage workflows.
	Replication	Create and manager multiple website.
	Reports	Create and monitor custom reports.
	Testing	Run tests defined for your application.
Granite Operations
	CRXDE Lite	Develop applications with a web-based IDE.
	Packages	Package and share applications.
	Package Share	Download applications from Adobe and the community.
	Topology Browser	View the instances topology.
	Offloading Browser	Manage offloading.
	Backup	Carry out backup tasks.
	Web Console	Configure and manage the application platform.
	Web Console Configuration Dump	Download the configuration status from the web console.
	Users	Manage your users.
	Groups	Manage your groups.
External Resources
	Documentation	View the Web Experience Management documentation.
	Developer Resources	Developer resources and downloads.