A user with administrator access in Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service installs the enhanced connector. Before you install, review the platform support and other prerequisites for the connector.
Adobe requires deployment and configuration of the Adobe Workfront for Experience Manager enhanced connector only via certified partners or Adobe Professional Services. If deployed and configured without a certified partner or Adobe Professional Services, it is not supported by Adobe.
Adobe may release updates to Adobe Workfront and Adobe Experience Manager that make this connector redundant; if this occurs, customers may be required to transition from the use of this connector.
Adobe supports enhanced connector versions 1.7.4 and higher. Previous prerelease and custom versions are not supported. To check the enhanced connector version, see step 5(a) of enhanced connector installation instructions.
See Partner certification exam for Workfront for Experience Manager Assets enhanced connector. For information about the exam, see Exam Guide.
Before you install the connector, follow these pre-installation steps:
Configure the firewall. To know the IP cluster in Workfront, navigate to Setup > System > Customer Info.
On the dispatcher, allow HTTP headers named authorization
, username
, and apikey
. Allow GET
, POST
, and PUT
requests to /bin/workfront-tools
.
Ensure that the following paths do not exist in Experience Manager repository:
/apps/dam/gui/coral/components/admin/schemaforms/formbuilder
/apps/dam/gui/coral/components/admin/folderschemaforms/formbuilder
/apps/dam/gui/content/foldermetadataschemaeditor
/apps/dam/cfm/models/editor/components/datatypeproperties
/apps/settings/dam/cfm/models/formbuilderconfig
/apps/dam/gui/content/assets/jcr:content/actions/secondary/create/items/fileupload
This installation requires the knowledge to set a Maven project in Experience Manager as a Cloud Service. Use the following resources to understand how to include a third-party package in your Maven project:
To install the add-on in Experience Manager as a Cloud Service, follow these steps:
Download the enhanced connector from Adobe Software Distribution.
Access and clone your AEM as a Cloud Service repository from Cloud Manager.
Open the cloned AEM as a Cloud Service repository using an IDE of your choice.
Place the enhanced connector zip file downloaded in Step 1 at the following path:
/ui.apps/src/main/resources/<zip file>
If the resources
folder does not exist, create the folder.
Add pom.xml
dependencies:
Add a dependency in parent pom.xml
.
<dependency>
<groupId>digital.hoodoo</groupId>
<artifactId>workfront-tools.ui.apps</artifactId>
<type>zip</type>
<version>enhanced connector version number</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${project.basedir}/ui.apps/src/main/resources/workfront-tools.ui.apps.zip</systemPath>
</dependency>
Ensure to update the enhanced connector version number before copying the dependency to the parent pom.xml
.
Add a dependency in all module pom.xml
.
<dependency>
<groupId>digital.hoodoo</groupId>
<artifactId>workfront-tools.ui.apps</artifactId>
<type>zip</type>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${project.basedir}/../ui.apps/src/main/resources/workfront-tools.ui.apps.zip</systemPath>
</dependency>
Add pom.xml
embeds. Add the Workfront for Experience Manager enhanced connector packages to embeddeds
section of the pom.xml
of all your subproject. Needs it embedded in the all module pom.xml
.
<!-- Workfront Tools -->
<embedded>
<groupId>digital.hoodoo</groupId>
<artifactId>workfront-tools.ui.apps</artifactId>
<type>zip</type>
<target>/apps/<path-to-project-install-folder>/install</target>
</embedded>
The target of the embedded section is set to /apps/<path-to-project-install-folder>/install
. This JCR path /apps/<path-to-project-install-folder>
must be included in the filter rules in the all/src/main/content/META-INF/vault/filter.xml
file. The filter rules for the repository are usually derived from the program name. Use the name of the folder as the target in the existing rules.
Push the changes to the repository.
Run the pipeline to deploy the changes to Cloud Manager.
To create a system user configuration, create wf-workfront-users
in Experience Manager User Group and assign the permission jcr:all
to /content/dam
. A system user workfront-tools
is automatically created and the required permissions are managed automatically. All users from Workfront who use the enhanced connector are automatically added as a part of this group.
For information to update the Workfront for Experience Manager enhanced connector from a previous version to the latest version, click here.
To create a connection with Workfront, follow these steps:
In Experience Manager, select Tools > Cloud Services > Workfront Tools Configuration.
Select workfront-tools
in the left panel and select Create option in the upper-right area of the page.
In the Workfront Connection dialog, provide the required details of your Workfront deployment, and select Connect to Workfront option. Once successfully connected, the Workfront document custom integration is auto-created in the Workfront environment.
Navigate to the Advanced tab and select the option Is the Server AEM as a Cloud Service.