- Communities Guide
- Introduction to AEM Communities
- Communities Sites
- AEM Communities Overview
- AEM Communities Release Notes
- Getting Started with AEM Communities
- Getting Started with AEM Communities for Enablement
- Initial Setup
- Author a New Community Site
- Experience the Published Site
- Authoring Nested Groups
- Initial Setup for Enablement
- Author a New Community Site for Enablement
- Create and Assign Enablement Resources
- Experience the Published Enablement Site
- Deploying
- Administering
- User and UGC Management Service in AEM Communities
- Communities Sites
- Communities Consoles
- Analytics Configuration for Communities Features
- Configuring Enablement Features
- Configuring Messaging
- Moderating Community Content
- Configuring Email
- Communities Notifications
- Communities Subscriptions
- Communities Scoring and Badges
- Managing Users and User Groups
- Community Groups Console
- Social Login with Facebook and Twitter
- SRP - Community Content Storage
- Communities Sites Console
- Members & Groups Management Consoles
- Moderation Console
- Communities Tools
- Site Templates
- Group Templates
- Community Functions
- Storage Configuration
- Badges Console
- Enablement Resources Console
- Reports Console
- MySQL Configuration for Enablement Features
- FFmpeg for Communities
- In-Context Moderation
- Advanced Scoring and Badges
- ASRP - Adobe Storage Resource Provider
- MSRP - MongoDB Storage Resource Provider
- How to Setup MongoDB for Demo
- DSRP - Relational Database Storage Resource Provider
- MySQL Configuration for DSRP
- JSRP - JCR Storage Resource Provider
- Solr Configuration for SRP
- Tagging Enablement Resources
- Tagging User Generated Content
- Translating User Generated Content
- Communities User Synchronization
- Member Contribution Limits
- Developing
- Developing Communities
- Social Component Framework
- Community Components Guide
- Component, Function and Feature Essentials
- Tutorials
- Troubleshooting
- Coding Guidelines
- Server-side Customization
- Client-side Customization
- SCF Handlebars Helpers
- Storage Resource Provider Overview
- Community Site Essentials
- Activity Stream Essentials
- Assignments Essentials
- Blog Essentials
- Calendar Essentials
- Catalog Essentials
- Clientlibs for Communities Components
- Comments Essentials
- OSGi Events for Communities Components
- Featured Content Essentials
- File Library Essentials
- Forum Essentials
- Community Group Essentials
- Ideation Essentials
- Leaderboard Essentials
- Liking Essentials
- Messaging Essentials
- QnA Essentials
- Rating Essentials
- Reviews Essentials
- Rich Text Editor Essentials
- Scoring and Badges Essentials
- Search Essentials
- Component Sideloading
- Social Graph Essentials
- SRP and UGC Essentials
- Tag Essentials
- Tally Essentials
- Voting Essentials
- Setup Website Structure
- Create an SCF Sandbox
- Initial Sandbox Application
- Initial Sandbox Content
- Develop Sandbox Application
- Develop Sandbox Content
- Add Clientlibs
- Overlay Comments Component
- Create Comments Page
- Create Nodes
- Alter the Appearance
- Create the Components
- Add Comment to Sample Page
- Extend Comments Component
- Alter the Appearance (HBS)
- Create a Sample Page
- Accessing UGC with SRP
- Using Maven for Communities
- Naming Conventions
- SocialUtils Refactoring
- Authoring
- Communities Components
- Communities Components Basics
- Activity Streams Feature
- Assignments Feature
- Blog Feature
- Calendar Feature
- Catalog Feature
- Using Comments
- Featured Content Feature
- File Library Feature
- Forum Feature
- Community Groups
- Ideation Feature
- Leaderboard Feature
- Using Liking
- Messaging Feature
- Q&A Forum Feature
- Using Ratings
- Using Reviews and Reviews Summary (Display)
- Search Feature
- Using Social Graph
- Activity Trends
- Using Social Tag Cloud
- Using Voting
- Create a Sample Page
ASRP - Adobe Storage Resource Provider
About ASRP
When AEM Communities is configured to use ASRP as its common store, user generated content (UGC) is accessible from all author and publish instances without the need for synchronization nor replication.
See also Characteristics of SRP Options and Recommended Topologies.
Requirements
An additional license is required for the use of ASRP.
To configure your AEM Communities site to use ASRP for UGC, contact your account representative for:
- Data Center URL (address of the ASRP endpoint)
- Consumer Key
- Secret Key
- Report Suite ID(s)
The consumer and secret keys are shared across all report suites for a company. There is one report suite per tenant.
Configuration
Select ASRP
The Storage Configuration console allows for the selection of the default storage configuration, which identifies which implementation of SRP to use.
On AEM Author instance:
- From global navigation, navigate to Tools > Communities > Storage Configuration and select Adobe Storage Resource Provider (ASRP).
The following information comes from the provisioning process:
- Data Center URL: Pull-down to select the production data center identified by your account representative.
- Default Report Suite: Enter the name of the default report suite.
- Consumer Key: Enter the consumer key.
- Secret: Enter the secret.
- Select Submit.
Prepare the publish instances:
After submitting the configuration, test the connection:
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Select Test Config.
For each author and publish instance, test the connection to the data center from the Storage Configuration console.
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Ensure that the site URLs for profile data are routable from the Data Center by externalizing links.
Replicate the Crypto Key
The Consumer Key and Secret Key are encrypted. In order for the keys to be encrypted/decrypted properly, the primary Granite Crypto key must be the same on all AEM instances.
Follow the instructions at Replicate the Crypto Key.
Externalize Links
For correct profile and profile image links, be sure to properly Configure the Link Externalizer.
Be sure to set the domains to be URLs that are routable from the Data Center URL (ASRP endpoint).
Time Synchronization
In order for authentication with the ASRP endpoint to succeed, the machines running your hosted AEM Communities must be time synchronized, such as with the Network Time Protocol (NTP).
Publishing the Configuration
ASRP must be identified as the common store on all author and publish instances.
To make the identical configuration available in the publish environment:
On AEM Author instance:
- Navigate from main menu to Tools > Operations > Replication
- Select Activate Tree
- Start Path: browse to
/conf/global/settings/communities/srpc/ - Deselect Only Modified
- Select Activate
Upgrading from AEM 6.0
If you enable ASRP on a published community site, any UGC already stored in JCR is no longer visible, as there is no synchronization of data between on-premise storage and cloud storage.
AEM Communities Extension was previously introduced in AEM 6.0 social communities as a cloud service. As of AEM 6.1 Communities, no cloud configuration is necessary, simply select ASRP from the storage configuration console.
Due to the new storage structure, it is necessary to follow the upgrade instructions when upgrading from social communities to Communities.
Managing User Data
For information regarding users, user profiles and user groups, often entered in the publish environment, visit
Troubleshooting
UGC Disappears after Upgrade
If upgrading from an existing AEM 6.0 social community site, be sure to follow the upgrade instructions, else UGC appears to be lost.
Authentication Errors
If receiving authentication errors against the Data Center URL, and the AEM error.log contains messages about stale timestamps, then verify that time synchronization is happening.
Use a tool such as the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to time synchronize all AEM author and publish servers.
New Content Does Not Appear in Searches
The Adobe cloud storage infrastructure uses eventual consistency to achieve its scaling and performance goals. For this reason, new content is not instantly available and it takes several seconds for it to appear in search results.
While the interval affecting eventual consistency is monitored, contact your account representative if it takes longer than a few seconds for new content to appear in searches.
UGC Not Visible in ASRP
Make sure that the ASRP has been configured to be the default provider by checking the configuration of the storage option. By default, the storage resource provider is JSRP, not ASRP.
On all author and publish AEM instances, revisit the Storage Configuration console, or check the AEM repository.
In JCR, if /conf/global/settings/communities:
- Does not contain an srpc node, it means that the storage provider is JSRP.
- If the srpc node exists and contains defaultconfiguration node, the defaultconfiguration’s properties define ASRP to be the default provider.
Resources
Adobe Account
