Configuring OSGi Settings for the Preview Tier

AEM offers a Sites preview service that lets developers and content authors preview a website’s final experience before it reaches the publish environment and is available publicly.

It facilitates previewing a range of experiences that would not be otherwise visible from the author environment. For example, page transitions, experience fragments, and other publish side only content.

The preview tier’s OSGi property values are inherited from the publish tier. However the preview tier’s values can be distinct from the publish tier by setting the service parameter to the value preview.

NOTE

For more details about the preview environments, see Manage Environments.

Configuring the OSGi Settings for the Preview Tier

The following example of an OSGi property determines the URL of an integration endpoint.

[
{
"name":"INTEGRATION_URL",
"type":"string",
"value":"http://s2.integrationvendor.com",
"service": "preview"
}
]

For more information, see this section of the OSGi configuration documentation.

Debugging Preview Using the Developer Console

Follow these steps so you can debug the preview tier using the Developer Console:

  • In the Developer Console, select either – All Preview – or a production environment that includes prev in its name
  • Generate the relevant information for the preview instance
    See Managing Environments for more information on how to get the URLs for your environments.

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