This section describes how to create and manage pages with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) so that you can then create content on those pages.
Your account needs the appropriate access rights and permissions to take action on pages, for example, create, copy, move, edit, delete.
If you encounter any problems we suggest you contact your system administrator.
As an author you will need to organize your website within AEM. This involves creating and naming your content pages so that:
You can also use folders to help organize your content.
The structure of a website can be thought of as a tree structure that holds your content pages. The names of these content pages are used to form the URLs, whereas the title is shown when the page content is viewed.
The following shows an extract from the Geometrixx site; where, for example, the Triangle
page will be accessed:
Author environment
http://localhost:4502/cf#/content/geometrixx/en/products/triangle.html
Publish environment
http://localhost:4503/content/geometrixx/en/products/triangle.html
Depending on the configuration of your instance, use of /content
might be optional on the publish environment.
/content
/geometrixx
/en
/toolbar...
/products
/triangle
/overview
/features
/square...
/circle...
/...
/...
/fr...
/de...
/es...
/...
/...
This structure can be viewed from the Websites console, which you can use to navigate through the tree structure.
When creating a new page there are two keys fields:
Name:
When creating a new page, AEM will validate the page name according to the conventions imposed by AEM and JCR.
Implementation and the list of characters allowed differs slightly according to UI (it is more extensive for the touch-enabled UI), but the minimum allowed is:
-
(hyphen/minus)Use just these characters if you want to be sure of them being accepted/used (if you need full details of all characters allowed, see the naming conventions).
If you supply only a page Title when creating a new page, AEM will derive the page Name from this string and validate the name according to the conventions imposed by AEM and JCR. In both UIs a Title field containing invalid characters will be accepted, but the name derived will have the invalid characters subsituted. For example:
Title | Derived Name |
---|---|
Schön | schoen.html |
SC%&*ç+ | sc—c-.html |
If you supply a page Name when creating a new page, AEM will validate the name according to the conventions imposed by AEM and JCR.
In the Classic UI you cannot enter invalid characters in the Name field.
In the touch-enabled UI you cannot submit invalid characters in the Name field. When AEM detects invalid characters the field will be highlighted and an explanatory message shown to indicate the characters that need removing/replacing.
You should avoid using a two-letter code as defined by ISO-639-1, unless it is a language root.
See Preparing Content for Translation for more information.
In AEM, a template specifies a specialized type of page. A template will be used as the basis for any new page being created.
The template defines the structure of a page; including a thumbnail image and other properties. For example, you may have separate templates for product pages, sitemaps, and contact information. Templates are comprised of components.
AEM comes with several templates provided out-of-the-box. The templates proffered depend on the individual website and the information that needs to be supplied (when creating the new page) depends on the UI being used. The key fields are:
Title
The title displayed on the resulting web-page.
Name
Used when naming the page.
Template
A list of templates available for use when generating the new page.
Components are the elements provided by AEM so that you can add specific types of content. AEM comes with a range of out-of-the-box components that provide comprehensive functionality; these include:
Once you have created and opened a page you can add content using the components, available from the sidekick.
Unless all pages have been created for you in advance, before you can start creating content, you must create a page:
From the Websites console, select the level at which you want to create a new page.
In the following example, you are creating a page under the level Products - shown in the left pane; the right pane shows pages that already exist at the level under Products.
In the New… menu (click the arrow next to New…), select New Page…. The Create Page window opens.
Clicking New… itself also acts as a shortcut to the New Page… option.
The Create Page dialog allows you to:
Provide a Title; this is displayed to the user.
Provide a Name; this is used to generate the URI. If not specified, the name will be derived from the title.
Click the template you want to use to create the new page.
The template is used as the basis for the new page; for example, to determine the basic layout of a content page.
The minimum information required to create a new page is the Title and the template required.
If you would like to use unicode characters in the URLs, set the Alias ( sling:alias
) property (page properties).
Click Create to create the page. You return to the Websites console where you can see an entry for the new page.
The console provides information about the page (for example when it was last edited and by whom) which is updated as necessary.
You can also create a page when you are editing an existing page. Using **Create Child Page **from the Page tab of the sidekick, will create a new page directly under the page being edited.
You can open the page to be edited by one of several methods:
From Websites console, you can double-click the page entry to open it for editing.
From Websites console, you can right-click (context menu) the page item, then select Open from the menu.
After you have opened a page, you can navigate to other pages within the site (to edit them) by clicking hyperlinks.
When copying, you can copy either:
From the Websites console, select the page you want to copy.
At this stage, it is irrelevant whether you want to copy a single page or the underlying subpages.
Click Copy.
Navigate to the new location and click:
The page(s) are pasted at the new location.
The page name might be automatically adjusted if an existing page already has the same name.
You can also use Copy Page from the Page tab of the sidekick. This will open a dialog where you can specify the destination, etc.
Renaming a page is also subject to the Page Naming Conventions when specifying the new page name.
The procedure to move or rename a page is the same. With the same action you can:
AEM offers you the functionality to update internal links to the page being renamed or moved. This can be done on a page-by-page basis to provide full flexibility.
To move or rename a page:
There are various methods of triggering a move:
The Move window opens; here you can either specify a new location, a new name for the page, or both.
The page also lists any pages that reference the page being moved. Depending on the status of the referencing page, you may be able to adjust those links on and/or republish the pages.
Fill in the following fields, as appropriate:
Destination
Use the sitemap (available via the drop-down selector) to select the location where the page should be moved to.
If you are only renaming the page, ignore this field.
Move
Specify the page to be moved - this is usually filled in by default, depending on how and where you started the move action.
Rename to
The current page label displays by default. Specify the new page label, if required.
Adjust
Update the links on the page listed that point to the moved page: for example, if page A has links to page B, AEM adjusts the links in page A in case you move page B.
This can be selected/deselected for each individual referencing page.
Republish
Republish the referencing page; again this can be selected for each individual page.
If the page was already activated, moving the page will automatically deactivate it. By default, it will be reactivated when the move is complete, but this can changed by unchecking the Republish field for the page in the Move window.
Click Move. Confirmation will be required. Click OK to confirm.
The page title will not be updated.
You can delete a page from various locations:
After you have selected to delete a page you must confirm the request - as the action cannot be undone.
After deletion, if the page has been published you can restore the latest (or a specific) version, but this may not have exactly the same content as your last version if further modifications had been made. See How To Restore Pages for further details.
If a page is already activated, it will automatically be deactivated before deletion.
You can lock/unlock a page from either a console or when editing an individual page. Information about whether a page is locked is also shown in both locations.
Folders are also subject to the Page Naming Conventions when specifying the new folder name.
Open the Websites console and navigate to the required location.
In the New… menu (click the arrow next to New…), select New Folder….
The Create Folder dialog will open. Here you can enter the Name and Title:
Select Create to create the folder.