- Authoring User Guide overview
- Essential tasks, tools and concepts for AEM Authoring
- Authoring
- Authoring Environment and Tools
- Annotations when Editing a Page
- Creating and Organizing Pages
- Editing Page Content
- Using the Rich Text Editor to Author Content
- Editing Page Properties
- Publishing Pages
- Page Authoring with Content Fragments
- Experience Fragments
- Export to CSV
- Components
- Authoring a Page for Mobile Devices
- Troubleshooting AEM when Authoring
- Keyboard Shortcuts when Editing Pages
- Best Practices
- Site and Page Features
- Projects
- Launches
- Workflows
- Page Performance
- Personalization
- Personalization
- Previewing Pages Using ContextHub Data
- Authoring Targeted Content Using Targeting Mode
- Working with Targeted Content in Multisites
- How Multisite Management for Targeted Content is Structured
- Managing Activities
- Managing Audiences
- Creating and Managing Offers
- Understanding Segmentation
- AEM and Adobe Campaign
Configuring your account environment
AEM 6.4 has reached the end of extended support and this documentation is no longer updated. For further details, see our technical support periods. Find the supported versions here.
AEM provides you with the capability to configure your account and certain aspects of the author environment.
Using the User option in the header and the associated My Preferences dialog, you can modify your user options.
User Settings
The User settings dialog gives you access to:
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Impersonate as
- With the Impersonate as functionality a user can work on behalf of another user.
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Profile
- Offers a convenient link to your user settings)
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- Specify various preference settings unique to your user
My Preferences
The My Preferences dialog is access via the User option in the header.
Each user can set certain properties for himself or herself.
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Language
This defines the language to use for the UI of the authoring environment. Select the required language from the available list.
This configuration is also used for the classic UI.
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Window Management
This defines the behavior or opening windows. Select either:
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Multiple Windows (Default)
- Pages will be opened in a new window.
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Single Window
- Pages will be opened in the current window.
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Show desktop actions for Assets
This option requires AEM desktop app to use.
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Annotation Color
This defines the default color used when making annotations.
- Click the color block to open the swatch selector to select a color.
- Alternatively, enter the hex code for the desire color in the field.
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Relative Date Presentation
To improve readability, AEM will render dates within the last seven days as relative dates (e.g. Three days ago) and older dates as exact dates (e.g. 20 March 2017).
This option defines how dates in the system are displayed. The following options are available:
- Always show exact date: The exact date is always displayed (never a relative date).
- 1 Day: The relative date is shown for dates within one day, otherwise an exact date is shown.
- 7 Days (default): The relative date is shown for dates within seven days, otherwise an exact date is shown.
- 1 Month: The relative date is shown for dates within one month, otherwise an exact date is shown.
- 1 Year: The relative date is shown for dates within one year, otherwise an exact date is shown.
- Always show relative date: Exact dates are never shown and only relative dates are shown.
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Enable Shortcuts
AEM supports a number of keyboard shortcuts that make authoring more efficient.
This option enables keyboard shortcuts. By default they are enabled, but can be disabled for example if a user has certain accessibility requirements.
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Use Classic Authoring Experience
This option enables classic UI-based page authoring. By default the standard UI is used.
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Enable Assets Home Page
This option will only be available if your system administrator has enabled Assets Home Page experience for the entire organization.
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